The significance of ego development and object relations for adaptation and adjustment in middle childhood was examined in a study of 92 nine- to twelve-year-old children. Subjects completed the Sentence Completion Test (SCT) and the Blatt Object Relations Scale (BORS) in individual sessions. BORS ratings were factor analyzed and a predominant factor of parental nurturance emerged. This factor ...

Recommendation techniques are very important in the fields of E-commerce and other Web-based services. One of the main difficulties is dynamically providing high-quality recommendation on sparse data. In this paper, a novel dynamic personalized recommendation algorithm is proposed, in which information contained in both ratings and profile contents are utilized by exploring latent relations bet...

Background: The goal of this study was to evaluate current physician ratings websites (PRWs) to determine whichfactors correlated to higher physician scores and evaluate physician perspective of PRWs.Methods: This study evaluated two popular websites, Healthgrades.com and Vitals.com, to gather information onpracticing physician members of the American Shoulder and Elbow Society database. A surv...

Metadata vocabularies provide various semantic relations between concepts. For content-based recommender systems, these relations enable a wide range of concepts to be recommended. However, not all semantically related concepts are interesting for end users. In this paper, we identified a number of semantic relations, which are within one vocabulary (e.g. a concept has a broader/narrower concep...

BACKGROUND Visual presentation of food provides considerable information such as its potential for palatability and availability, both of which can impact eating behavior. METHODS We investigated the subjective ratings for food appeal and desire to eat when exposed to food pictures in a fed sample (n=129) using the computer paradigm ImageRate. Food appeal and desire to eat were analyzed for t...

Promoting of international trade is a priority for many countries. No one could imagine existence sovereign countries without beneficial external economic relations. International Organizations are constantly developing ratings to evaluate results achieved in various sectors. Based on such ratings, the investors taking decisions regarding development their business activities. Such reflect simp...

This study aimed to determine which services provided by airlines had an influence on recommendations. The authors collected passenger scores from the years between 2014 2019 concerning top 10 airline companies of website www.AirlineQuality.com, is site most commonly used passengers evaluate and airports worldwide. In total, we analyzed 5512 ratings. Binary logistic regression was applied test ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate associations of pain intensity in those with long-term back pain, with their partners' rating of key constructs of relationship quality: cohesion (activities together), consensus (affection, sexual relations), satisfaction (conflict, regrets). METHODS Self-report questionnaires on relationship quality (partner-rated), depression (partner-rated), relationship length, ...