the purpose of this paper was to measure the social capital of the medical students of mashhad medical sciences university in the place they lived (their neighborhood), and the factors affecting it. the statistical universe was the university with a total of 5383 students. the sample was 244. the sampling was done using the systematic classification method, the classes being the faculty and sex...

In this paper we analyze, mainly in a finitary setting, the consistency properties of fuzzy possibilities, interpreting them as instances of upper previsions and applying the basic notions of avoiding sure loss and coherence from the theory of imprecise probabilities. It ensues that fuzzy possibilities always avoid sure loss, but satisfy the stronger coherence condition only in a special case. ...

We develop a coherent framework for integrative simultaneous analysis of the explorationexploitation and model order selection tradeoffs. We improve over our preceding results on the same subject (Seldin et al., 2011) by combining PAC-Bayesian analysis with Bernstein-type inequality for martingales. Such a combination is also of independent interest for studies of multiple simultaneously evolvi...

Thepaperconsiders theroleof tradeunions in lifelong learning, their strategicapproachto lifelong learning, and the opportunities and limitations set by the current stage of globalized capitalist development. The paper has four sections, the first of which considers the relationship between ‘modernization’ as a trade union project and concepts such as reflexive modernity and risk society which h...

We propose a simple and effective metric for automatically evaluating discourse coherence of a text using the outputs of a coreference resolution model. According to the idea that a writer tends to appropriately utilise coreference relations when writing a coherent text, we introduce a metric of discourse coherence based on automatically identified coreference relations. We empirically evaluate...

Social Networks allow users to self-present by sharing personal contents with others which may add comments. Recent studies highlighted how the emotions expressed in a post affect others’ posts, eliciting a congruent emotion. So far, no studies have yet investigated the emotional coherence between wall posts and its comments. This research evaluated posts and comments mood of Facebook profiles,...

Coherence is an important aspect of language ability. In this study, we analyze and annotate child language samples of story retell sessions for coherence and presence of narrative structure and narrative quality constructs. We use these constructs as features and use existing Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to build models that automatically predict coherence and language impairme...

Objectives: Health refers to the condition of perfect physical, mental and social well-being. The appropriate social well-being is the opposite of loneliness and depression. Social well-being is a psychosocial concept that is affected by many factors. This study determined the relationship between social function and social well-being in older adults. Methods: This was a descriptive-analytical...