The use of priorities among formulae is an important tool to appropriately revise inconsistent knowledge-bases. We present a four-valued semantical approach for recovering consistent data from prioritized knowledge-bases. This approach is nonmonotonic and paraconsistent in nature.

Social network graphs are often used to help inform judgments in a variety of domains, such as public health, law enforcement, and political science. Across two studies, we examined how graph features influenced probabilistic judgments in graph-based social network analysis and identified multiple heuristics that participants used to inform these judgments. Study 1 demonstrated that participant...

Recently, social work has been influenced by new forms of practice that hold promise for bringing practice and research together to strengthen the scientific knowledge base supporting social work intervention. The most recent new practice framework is evidence-based practice. However, although evidence-based practice has many qualities that might attract social workers to adopt it, use in pract...

Theory of mind (ToM), the ability to attribute and reason about the mental states of others, is a strong determinant of social functioning among individuals with schizophrenia. Identifying the neural bases of ToM and their relationship to social functioning may elucidate functionally relevant neurobiological targets for intervention. ToM ability may additionally account for other social phenome...

In the information era, social software recently emerges as an effective tool for knowledge workers to collaborate and share knowledge. This article presents an analytical model in which a social software strategy is applied to complement an extant knowledge base to improve an organizational culture fit and achieve maximal profit. Capturing the mutual effects among social software, knowledge ba...

Social democratic parties have experienced a profound electoral crisis in recent years. We study who still supports the centre-left by analysing two different ties to social democracy: vote choice and party identification. develop simple typology, which categorises voters into ‘core supporters’, ‘distant ‘demobilised supporters’ ‘non-supporters’. While demobilised supporters identify with but d...

the aim of this study is to investigate the role of security in social deviations among women of babol city. descriptive survey research method was used and the unit of analysis is 15-29 year old women that 284 women are selected on the basis of cochran formula and using multi-stage random cluster sampling. the results show that there is a weak significant relationship between the independent v...