Wetten, dass?: Indirect requests in a German game show I aim to show that German speakers, though seemingly more direct than English speakers, do in fact employ multiple indirect request strategies. I will look at which strategies German speakers utilize to do so. I draw data from the popular German game show entitled " Wetten, dass..? " (Wanna bet that..?), where participants are asked to do a...

AIMS To (1) evaluate the psychometric properties and (2) examine the ability to detect cases with anxiety disorder and depression in a population of employees absent from work because of mental health problems. METHODS Internal consistency, construct validity, and criterion validity of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) were assessed. Furthermore, the ability to identify anxiety diso...

We present a sketch-based modeling system suitable for detail editing, based on a multilevel representation for surfaces. The main advantage of this representation allowing for the control of local (details) and global changes of the model. We used an adaptive mesh (4-8 mesh) and developed a label theory to construct a manifold structure, which is responsible for controlling local editing of th...

OBJECTIVES To provide UK normative data for the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) and test its convergent, discriminant and construct validity. DESIGN Cross-sectional, correlational and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). METHODS The DASS was administered to a non-clinical sample, broadly representative of the general adult UK population (N = 1,771) in terms of demographic variable...

In Analytica Priora I.41 stellt Aristoteles eine bemerkenswerte Behauptung über unbestimmte Aussagen wie ‚A kommt B zu‘ auf. Die Behauptung impliziert, dass solche unbestimmten Aussagen nicht gleichwertig sind zu folgender Ekthesisbedingung: ‚es gibt ein C, so dass B allem C zukommt und A allem C zukommt‘. Anderseits wird oft angenommen, dass unbestimmte Aussagen gleichwertig sind zu partikulär...