Research suggests that smoking cessation messages are most persuasive when framed in terms of the benefits achieved from quitting (i.e. gain-framed) than when framed in terms of the costs of not quitting (i.e. loss-framed). It is unknown, however, if these findings about optimal message frames have been translated into public health practice. The current study examined message framing in teleph...

We present work in progress in the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology to the analysis of textual transcriptions of psychotherapy sessions in the Spanish Language. We are developing a set of NLP tools as well as adapting an existing dictionary for the analysis of interviews framed on a psychoanalytic theory. We investigate the application of NLP techniques, including dic...

Progressive collapse is a situation where local failure of a primary structural component leads to the collapse of adjoining members which, in turn, leads to additional collapse. Hence, the total damage is disproportionate to the original cause. The most common local failure in framed structure is assumed to be column failure. In this paper, a new approach for dynamic column removal in framed s...

Components are rarely reused “as are”. Most often, we must adapt components’ functions, interfaces and other properties to make them fit into a specific reuse context. Therefore, reusable components must be flexible. This paper is a case study in applying frame technology to inject flexibility into components. During reuse, we can engineer anticipated variant requirements into components by cus...

Natural disasters are often described as having antagonistic qualities (e.g., wildfires ravage). The information deficit model presumes that when people assess the risk of weather hazards, they ignore irrelevant metaphoric descriptors. However, frames affect reasoning. current research assessed whether antagonist metaphors for natural perceptions pose. Three studies ( N = 1,936) demonstrated pa...

In this study, we consider framed curves as regular or singular space with an adapted frame in Euclidean 3-space. We define natural mates of a curve that are tangent to the generalized principal normal curve. Subsequently, present relationships between and its mates. particular, establish some necessary sufficient conditions for specific curves, such spherical helices, slant rectifying curves. ...

Judgment aggregation problems are language dependent in that they may be framed in different yet equivalent ways. We formalize this dependence via the notion of translation invariance, adopted from the philosophy of science, and we argue for its normative desirability. We show that in the canonical judgment aggregation model, no reasonable judgment aggregation functions are translation invarian...

One of the striking aspects of the Atkins decision is that the constitutional prohibition appears to be framed in the language of a clinical diagnosis—“mental retardation”—and not in terms of a traditional legal concept, such as competence or responsibility. For this reason, state legislators can be expected to seek the guidance of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals in the draf...