Diverse data challenge and undermine ihe central assumptions of the tradi tional trait approach to personality. The implications for conceptions of individual differences and situations in the study of personality are examined. The issues discussed include the nature of behavioral "specificity," the acquired meaning of stimuli, the uses and misuses of traits, and the construction of personality...

Tradi t ional object-oriented real-time sy s t ems are oft e n l imited in that t h e y provide only one approach t o real-time object support. Taking the increasing dem a n d for flexible and extensible object support environmen t s i n t o account, we discuss the design and imp lemen ta t ion of a smal l object-oriented real-time execut ive based o n a sub-framework which we call Roo. Roo is ...

In large human-computer networks, information brokers provide links among syntactically and semantically heterogeneous information sources with information users who are equally diverse in their interests and capabilities. After giving a brief overview of the eld, we compare three approaches to information brokering which share the idea of using domain-oriented meta models to focus the brokerin...

So swift has been the demise of naniwabushi i?^?ff?, the most popular form of mass entertainment in Japan throughout the first half of the twentieth century, that few Japanese under the age of fifty can even describe it, much less recall an actual performance, either live or recorded. Even by its current name of r?kyoku ??ft, a more elegant term introduced in the Taish? period but established i...

This paper describes our Chinese spelling check system submitted to SIGHAN Bake-off 2013 evaluation. The main idea is to exchange potential error character with its confusable ones and rescore the modified sentence using a conditional random field (CRF)-based word segmentation/part of speech (POS) tagger and a tri-gram language model (LM) to detect and correct possible spelling errors. Experime...

For some years an intense debate regarding the building costs has been ongoing in Sweden and reducing construction costs is highly prioritised among the construction companies. At the same time, passive houses have started to appear on the Swedish market and so far the construction costs for these have been higher compared to tradition1al houses. It is therefore important to investigate the con...

Certificateless Public Key Cryptography (CL-PKC) scheme is a new standard that combines Identity (ID)-based cryptography and tradi- tional PKC. It yields better security than the ID-based without requiring digital certificates. In CL-PKC scheme, as Generation Center (KGC) generates public key using partial secret key, need for authenticating by trusted third party avoided. Due to lack of authen...

cigs as a nico ne prod‐ uct that should be taxed for reasons of symmetry: if tobacco is heavily taxed, then other nico ne‐delivering items should be taxed like‐ wise. Poli cians of eve‐ ry stripe clearly wish to avoid being seen as en‐ couraging nico ne con‐ sump on. However, according to many spe‐ cialists, the poten al benefits of e‐cigs in the fight against smoking may be quite significant. ...

The article examines the features of initial stage historiography Great Patriotic War, tradi-tions which were laid down in 1930s and directly related to reformatting historical science into an ideologically charged instrument agitation propaganda. As a result reforms higher education 1920s repressions against scholars, continuity academicprinciples research was violat-ed, led split science. Tho...