This research examined the effects of past creative experience and attitude toward risk-taking on creativity before and after training. College students enrolled in a creativity course participated in the study. Creativity was assessed by independent experts and self-assessed by the participants. Based on the results, an inverted Ushape relationship was proposed between (a) past creative experi...

In this paper, we propose a common phrase index as an efficient index structure to support phrase queries in a very large text database. Our structure is an extension of previous index structures for phrases and achieves better query efficiency with negligible extra storage cost. In our experimental evaluation, a common phrase index has 5% and 20% improvement in query time for the overall and l...

Edwards curves have attracted great interest for several reasons. When curve parameters are chosen properly, the addition formulas use only 10M+1S. The formulas are strongly unified, i.e., work without change for doublings; even better, they are complete, i.e., work without change for all inputs. Dedicated doubling formulas use only 3M + 4S, and dedicated tripling formulas use only 9M + 4S. Thi...

To investigate the histopathological characteristics of inverted papillomas of the urinary bladder, including the possibility of malignant transformation, we studied the indicators of cellular proliferation activity in 7 inverted papillomas of the bladder including two cases of malignant inverted papilloma of the bladder. PCNA expression rates in two cases of malignant inverted papilloma were h...

Searches for phrases and word sets in large text arrays by means of additional indexes are considered. Their use may reduce the query-processing time by an order of magnitude in comparison with standard inverted files.