Creating a new Ontology: a Modular Approach

Creating a new Ontology: a Modular ApproachComment: in Adrian Paschke, Albert Burger, Andrea Splendiani, M. Scott Marshall, Paolo Romano: Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences, Berlin,Germany, December 8-10, 201

Types of Comparative Studies in Cross-Cultural Psychology

From a methodological perspective cross-cultural studies in psychology differ in three dimensions. First, cross-cultural psychological studies can be exploratory or test specific hypotheses. Second, some cross-cultural studies compare countries or ethnic groups while other cross-cultural studies relate specific characteristics of a country or ethnicity (e.g., socialization patterns or religiosity) to psychological variables. Third, studies can compare either constructs (e.g., do Chinese and Kenyans mean the same when they say that a person is intelligent?) or score levels (e.g., are Americans more extravert than Italians?). A classification of cross-cultural psychological studies, based on the three dimensions, is presented and examples are given

Construction of correlation networks with explicit time-slices using time-lagged, variable interval standard and partial correlation coefficients

The construction of gene regulatory models from microarray time-series data has received much attention. Here we propose a method that extends standard correlation networks to incorporate explicit time-slices. The method is applied to a time-series dataset of a study on gene expression in the developmental phase of zebrafish. Results show that the method is able to distinguish real relations between genes from the data. These relations are explicitly placed in time, allowing for a better understanding of gene regulation. The method and data normalisation procedure have been implemented using the R statistical language and are available from http://zebrafish.liacs.nl/supplements.html

National and European Identities of Bulgarian and Dutch Students

The present study explored the adoption of national and European identities and the perceptions of own nation and Europe in Bulgarian and Dutch students. A questionnaire developed by Georgas et al. (2004) was administered to 256 students in Bulgaria and 190 students in the Netherlands. The majority of participants in both countries (88% in Bulgaria and 85% in the Netherlands) endorsed both national and European identity; European identity was secondary to national identity. There were marked cross-national differences in the way own country and Europe were perceived. Bulgarian students perceived larger differences between the two identities than did Dutch students. Results are in accordance with theories regarding national and supranational identities as compatible and suggest a stronger role of instrumental elements for European identification in Bulgarian students as compared to Dutch students

Specificity Enhancement in microRNA Target Prediction through Knowledge Discovery

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