Sensational interests, i.e. a curiosity for the violent and macabre, are reputedly common in mentally disordered offenders. However, ostensibly well-adjusted individuals are also interested in these topics. We tested the hypothesis that individual differences in sensational interests may partially reflect intrasexual competition for status and have an underlying evolutionary function. Several p...

Whose interests should count and how should various interests be balanced at the pediatric patient's bedside? The interests of the child patient clearly count. Recently, however, many authors have argued that the family's interests also count. But how should we think about the interests of others? What does it mean to talk about "the family" in this context? Does it really just mean the interes...

An apparent limitation of existing Web pages is their inability to accommodate differences in the interests and needs of individual users. The present paper describes an approach that dynamically customises the content of public Web-based information via an interceding ’enhancement server’. The design and operation of this system is described with examples drawn from two current versions. Indic...

t the time that Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), the party’s monopoly position in the political sphere, and its rationale for playing the dominant role in economic and social arrangements, centered on a single thesis—one that had been prominently stated and emphatically endorsed since Lenin’s time. The party so fully represented the people’s ...

ance directors have sought to tap interests, but few have determined accurately the degree to which any fundamental interest is possessed. They have not, with any degree of satisfaction, been able to tap accurately the interests of those who are not conscious, in the sense of being fully aware, of a vocational interest. The major proportion of college undergraduates are without vocational infor...

Personalized web search incorporates an individual user's interests when deciding relevant results to return. While, most web search engines are usually designed to serve all users, without considering the interests of individual users. We propose a method to (re)rank the results from a search engine using a learned user profile, called a user interest hierarchy (UIH), from web pages that are o...

Web search engines are usually designed to serve all users, without considering the interests of individual users. Personalized web search incorporates an individual user's interests when deciding relevant results to return. We propose to learn a user profile, called a user interest hierarchy (UIH), from web pages that are of interest to the user. The user’s interest in web pages will be determ...