How do people reason about complex bodies of legal evidence? The story model of juror decision-making posits that people construct stories to determine guilt. But the story model does not model how evidence items relate to elements within the story, how the credibility and reliability of the evidence (e.g., witness testimony) is assessed, or how this affects story evaluation. Recent empirical w...

The vast majority of computer and communication systems use passwords in order to identify users. Unfortunately, in ubiquitous alpha-numeric password schemes, users tend to choose passwords with predictable characteristics, related to how easy they are to remember. To overcome the vulnerabilities of textual passwords, a lot of alternative techniques have been proposed such as visual or graphica...

An emergent approach to story generation by computer is characterized by a lack of predetermined plot and a focus on character interaction forming the material for stories. A potential problem is that no interesting story emerges. However, improvisational theater shows that – at least for human actors – a predetermined plot is not necessary for creating a compelling story. There are some princi...

In this article I discuss an excerpt from a group discussion between five 15year-old boys who, in the presence of an adult moderator, engaged in the act of ‘slut bashing’ while telling a minimal story about an incident of female promiscuity. The analysis proceeds microanalytically in a three-step procedure that details the positions taken by the young participants during the interaction. First,...

Von der Informationstechnologie (IT) wird auch bei Non-Profit-Organisationen (NPOs) zunehmend verlangt, dass diese flexibel, direkt und messbar zum geschäftlichen Erfolg beiträgt. Entsprechend wichtiger wird für eine NPO im Rahmen der IT Governance (ITG) die strategische Ausrichtung der IT. Val-IT bietet hierzu Leitlinien, Prozesse und unterstützende Praktiken für das Top Management. Eine Auswa...

Für den E-Learning-Anteil einer Weiterbildung wird ein browserbasiertes Lernspiel entwickelt, welches die Weiterbildungsteilnehmer im Selbststudium nutzen sollen. Die vorliegende Ausarbeitung stellt die Evaluation des Lernspiels durch ein interdisziplinäres Expertenteam dar. Durch die Methode des lauten Denkens konnten 108 Probleme des Lernspiels aufgedeckt werden. 1 Hintergrund und Problemstel...

Traditional story completion methods used to examine attachment representations in childhood draw heavily on socially significant content and clinical judgment. Using these methods with 37-month-olds, Bretherton, Ridgeway, and Cassidy (1990) found that attachment security scored from story completions were related to a wide range of secure base, personality, intellectual, and family variables. ...

Relevante Daten aus der gesamten Produktionskette von Brokkoli wurden mithilfe einer relationalen Datenbank verknüpft. Innerhalb der Wachstumsphase wurden Klimadaten und Informationen über vielfältige Kulturmaßnahmen eingebunden. Für die Qualitätsbewertung von Brokkoliköpfen kamen Chlorophyllfluoreszenzanalyse, Farbmessungen und Reflexions-spektroskopie zum Einsatz. Erste Ergebnisse zeigen, das...

abstract potato virus a (pva) is one of the members of genus potyvirus. pva particles are straight to slightly flexuous rods and contain of single stranded rna. in the spring and summer of 2005, sampling accomplished to determine potato virus a from potato fields in northern and razavi khorasan provinces. samples with mosaic, shining and rolling of leaves carried in ice chamber to laboratory fo...