The existing research on the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) indicated that there were problems with some of the subscales and individual items. This study was designed to improve the instrument by following the standards of construct hierarchy. Through previous research and the analyses in this study, the subscales were found to contain some items that were homogeneous and others that were more ...

In this paper, the authors consider argument mining as the task of building a formal representation for an argumentative piece of text. Their goal is to provide a critical survey of the literature on both the resulting representations (i.e., argument diagramming techniques) and on the various aspects of the automatic analysis process. For representation, the authors also provide a synthesized p...

The Cochrane review by Rivara and the Thompsons found evidence that if you bang your head the consequences will be less severe if you are wearing a protective helmet. Based on this review they recommend that cyclists should be “encouraged” to wear helmets. The form of encouragement that they favour is compulsion. We accept the principal finding of their review—that protective helmets protect in...

In Zac Thompsons Graphic Novel Relay (2018) sendet das scheinbar aufgeklärte galaktische Imperium der Menschheit Angebot, sich durch die Einpflanzung eines gigantischen Monolithen, homogenisierend auf Kulturen einwirkt, an neu entdeckte Planeten anzuschließen. Planeten, ablehnen, werden zerstört. Die Konformität, dieses System erzeugt, schafft oberflächlich betrachtet eine stabile Welt für die,...