Intimate partner violence is a public health problem with increasing prevalence and harmful influence to both individuals society. Automated screening for intimate still an unsolved in academic research practical applications. Current detection methods use self-reporting scales in-person interviews, which are laborious, expensive, often lack precision sensitivity, making it essential develop ne...

Organisms typically “discount the future” in their decision making, but the extent to which they do so varies across species, sexes, age classes, and circumstances. This variability has been studied by biologists, economists, psychologists, and criminologists. We argue that the conceptual framework required for an interdisciplinary synthesis of knowledge in this area is the evolutionary adaptat...

This article examines Philip Reeve’s novel for children, Mortal Engines, and M.T. Anderson’s young adult novel, Feed, by assessing these dystopias as prototypical texts of what Ulrich Beck calls risk society. Through their visions of a fictional future, the two narratives explore the hazards created by contemporary techno-economic progress, predatory global politics and capitalist excesses of c...

In this paper we present a simple application of Description Logics in order to improve the semantic search engine of a multimedia e-Learning tool. CHESt (Computer History Expert System) allows students to enter a freely formulated question about computer history. The system returns a very short commented list of multimedia clips in which the user finds the answer to his question. Finding the s...

The work of Thomas McKeown has spawned a decades-long controversy about the sources of the long-term reduction in mortality, beginning sometime in the 18th century, that, in his view, was undeniably the impetus for the modern rise of population. On one side of the debate, McKeown argues that a changing economic environment, specifically increases in food production resulting in better nutrition...

User queries submitted to web search engines are not always informative enough for retrieving the related pages to the user intention. The main problem is that users may not know the best query items they should enter to get the most related web pages to their intentions. They may not be familiar with the specific keywords in that domain knowledge. A user may remember only a part of the phrase ...