We describe the submission of the Sofia University team for the Author Profiling Task, part of the PAN 2015 Challenge. Given a set of writing samples by the same person, the task asks to predict some demographical information such as age and gender, as well as the personality type of that person. We experimented with SVM classifiers using variety of features extracted from publicly available re...

A study is conducted to identify the impact of technology on library professionals employed in engineering colleges of Anna University, Tamilnadu. A questionnaire was distributed to the library professionals which consists of demographic details, physical effects, physical and psychological symptoms of technology on library professionals. It is found that 46.70% of the respondents are in the ag...

Methods One psychiatric setting in Denmark, three in Finland, one in Iceland, four in Norway and three in Sweden participated in this part of the Nordic study on the use of coercion in the mental health care system. Data from medical records and related documents were registered for about 5,500 admissions of committed and voluntarily admitted patients in the years 1996–1999. A registration form...

Driven by the ongoing demographical, structural, and social changes in all modern, industrialized countries, there is a huge interest in IT-based equipment and services these days that enable independent living of people with specific needs. Despite of promising concepts, approaches and technology, those systems are still rather a vision than reality. In order to pave the way towards a common u...