Excessive entitlement – an exaggerated or unrealistic belief about what one deserves – has been associated with a variety of maladaptive behaviors, including a decline in motivation and effort. In the context of tertiary education, we reasoned that if students expend less effort to obtain positive outcomes to which they feel entitled, this should have negative implications for academic performa...

The training algorithm of Wavelet Neural Networks (WNN) is a bottleneck which impacts on the accuracy of the final WNN model. Several methods have been proposed for training the WNNs. From the perspective of our research, most of these algorithms are iterative and need to adjust all the parameters of WNN. This paper proposes a one-step learning method which changes the weights between hidden la...

In this paper we argue for the following properties of clause-bound scrambling, as they are manifested in German. First, scrambling presupposes head-final projections. Only selected constituents, notably arguments, scramble, the reason being that phrases selected by a head have a unique base order. Second, scrambling involves antecedent-gap dependencies with A-chain properties. Third, scramblin...

Yahoo Sports provides an online fantasy football league to its user base. End users create leagues and then those individuals construct a roster of real NFL players each week for head-to-head competition. NFL players are assigned “fantasy points” based on their achievements in each football game, and each head-to-head matchup produces a winner and loser based on the respective teams’ accumulate...

Kurzfassung. In dieser Arbeit wird erstmals das Konzept einer feldfreien Linie (FFL) in der neuen Bildgebungsmodalität Magnetic-ParticleImaging (MPI) anhand von Magnetfeldmessungen validiert. Aufgrund theoretischer Abschätzungen wird eine Sensitivitätssteigerung für MPI um einen Faktor zehn bei Verwendung einer FFL anstelle des konventionell verwendeten feldfreien Punktes (FFP) erwartet. Um sic...

Several researchers have studied trust in the electronic commerce context. Much of this work is aimed at establishing initial trust, with some recent research on maintaining on-going trust between consumer and vendor. This paper examines a related aspect of trust in the e-Commerce environment, namely trust violations and their subsequent repair. It draws upon research in professional trust rela...

Along the way, by way of illustration, I evaluate various players and teams with respect to baseadvance average. The evaluation of teams leads to further statistical comparisons. Here, the results are equally decisive in favor of base-advance average. For example, over the period 2000-2004, baseadvance average for-and-against predicts wins just as well as runs for-and-against. This is because, ...

Archived data from four courses taught with computer-aided personalized system of instruction (CAPSI) – an online, self-paced, instructional program – were used to explore the relationship between objectively rescored final exam grades, peer reviewing, and progress rate – i.e., the rate at which students completed unit tests. There was a strong positive correlation (r = .68, p < .01) between ra...

The process of spatial distribution of urban services in order to provide equitable access to opportunities and reduced regional disparities, and earning the highest citizen satisfaction are among the main challenges facing urban management. This requires knowledge of the current status of spatial distribution of public services in the city, followed by optimal resource allocation under varying...