Personality factors such as behavioral inhibition (BI), a temperamental tendency for avoidance in the face of unfamiliar situations, have been identified as risk factors for anxiety disorders. Personality factors are generally identified through self-report inventories. However, this tendency to avoid may affect the accuracy of these self-report inventories. Previously, a computer based task wa...

This work contributes to the ongoing aiming at confirming benthic foraminifera as a biological quality element. In this study, from intertidal and transitional waters English Channel/European Atlantic coast Mediterranean Sea were assigned five ecological groups using weighted-averaging optimum with respect TOC of each species. It was however not possible assign typical salt marsh species due pr...

 Benthic invertebrates are a well-established target in environmental quality status evaluations. The AMBI (AZTI's Marine Biotic Index) was developed to determine the impacts and the quality status of soft-bottom marine benthic communities. The aim of this study was investigating multivariate pattern of benthic invertebrate community and application of AMBI (AZTI's Marine Biotic Index) for dete...

Facing great challenges in designing better assistive technology with ever more complex and pervasive IT systems we need a general change in our understanding of designing IT. Ways to improve the performance of IT without drowning in complexity are of prime importance. This paper presents bio-mimetic design of Ambient Intelligence as a candidate heuristic for the task. It is shown how better as...

Behavioral inhibition (BI) increases vulnerability to develop anxiety disorders and is typified by avoidance and withdrawal from novel objects, people, and situations. The present study considered the relationship between BI and temperamental risk factors, such as trait anxiety and acquisition rate of a classically conditioned eyeblink response. One-hundred seventy-four healthy undergraduate st...