The goal of this study was to examine relations between different forms of social withdrawal (shyness, unsociability) and indexes of adjustment in Chinese and Canadian children. Participants were fourthto eighth-grade students in urban China (n = 787) and Canada (n = 1,033). Data on social withdrawal and adjustment were obtained from multiple sources, including peer nominations, child self-repo...

This article is about the family relations of patients with anorexia nervosa. Patients’ evaluation of the functioning of the family as a whole and their separate relations with each parent were analysed. Taking Murray Bowen’s family systems theory as his point of departure, the present author assumed that patients would evaluate the functioning of their family negatively, but at the same time w...

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We deal with the statistical matching problem and in particular we study the problem related to the managing of inconsistencies. In fact, when logical relations among the variables are present incoherence can arise in the probability evaluations. The aim of this paper is to remove such incoherences by using different methods. Specific precise distances minimization or least committal imprecise ...

We discuss an approach to collaborative data management based on uncertain databases. Note that, in a collaborative data management system, users may have contradicting opinions about the correct values of data items. In our approach, we propose to store all conflicting data versions in parallel and to resolve conflicts based on user ratings. We show that such a collaborative data management sy...

The varieties of marriage described by Manu and accepted by Vatsyayana are mentioned. The qualities of the bride and bridegroom for an ideal marriage are enumerated by Vatsyayana. The Shastraic view of the same along with the valid conditions of a Hindu Marriage under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 are contrasted. The role of the virtuous wife in house-keeping and looking after the husband, accor...

OBJECTIVE In a study conducted over 3 large symposia on intensive review of internal medicine, we previously assessed the features that were most important to course participants in evaluating the quality of a lecture. In this study, we attempt to validate these observations by assessing prospectively the extent to which ratings of specific lecture features would predict the overall evaluation ...