This study examined authoritative and authoritarian parenting and specific parenting practices among Chinese mothers with preschoolers. The final sample consisted of 463 mothers with their 3 to 7 year-olds from 11 preschools, in Taiwan. Mothers completed a Chinese translation of the Parenting Behavior Questionnaire that assessed their parenting practices. Findings indicated that the subscales o...

The role of authoritative sources of information in a constructivist learning environment has always been ambiguous, especially in science learning where there is a bountiful of knowledge readily available in various sources. Taking a social semiotics perspective in this study, we take the view that authoritative sources are inscriptions of cultural artifacts and science learning involves meani...

In this paper, we present a methodology for finding authoritative researchers by analyzing academic Web sites. We show a case study in which we concentrate on a set of Czech computer science departments’ Web sites. We analyze the relations between them via hyperlinks and find the most important ones using several common ranking algorithms. We then examine the contents of the research papers pre...

Immunoassay interferences are diverse in scope (1–8) and are the subject of several recent large-scale studies (9, 10), opinions, and editorials (6, 11). Most interferences originate from components of the sample (e.g., human antianimal antibodies, lipid, bilirubin, drug metabolites) that interact with assay reagents or the detection system. The latest interference to rear its ugly head has bee...

The web resource is a rich collection of the dynamic information that are useful in various disciplines. There has also been much research work related to improving the quality of information searching in the web. However, most of the work is still inadequate to satisfy a diversified demand from users. In this paper, we exploit the hyperlinks in the web and propose a new approach called SFP in ...