Personality and female criminals in Bangladesh

A study is reported of female criminals at Dacca Jail, using the EPQ standardized in Bangladesh. The Ss of the present investigation were considered as a single group and also divided into groups according to the nature of the crime committed and their age. The major finding that clearly emerged from the study is that the female criminals returned very high P scores. They were also found to have elevated scores on N. It is suggested that the translated version of the EPQ be used with male criminal and psychiatrically-abnormal groups in future studies.     

Grading the ‘cultural literacy’ project

The essay examines the argument advanced by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., for instituting ‘cultural literacy’ as a fundamental priority of schools. A number of confusions and equivocations in Hirsch's reasoning are identified, and the propensity of his project to indoctrinate is exposed. Among the features of Hirsch's argument shown to be troubling are his shifting construal of ‘language’, his inconsistency about the requirements of cultural literacy, and his uncritical relation to traditional images of the American past and present. The upshot is to raise the question why Hirsch's project has elicited wide support and praise.     

Determinants of perceived role conflict among women in bangladesh

The purpose of the present study was to find important determinants of perceived role conflict (PRC) by building a regression model. The paper examined the joint linear influences of wife's age, her income, her time for household chores and outside job, her female role perception (FRP), husband's income, his time for household work and outside job, total number of children, child-density, age of youngest child, and age of oldest unmarried girl to the variance of PRC of women. It also examined relative contribution of each of the independent variables controlling the influences of other independent variables to the variance of the PRC. The subjects were 140 women (homemakers—63; working women—77) from Dhaka City. One demographic and work characteristics questionnaire, one FRP Scale (Ilyas & Zaman, 1988), and one PRC Scale (Begun & Tasneem, 1984) were administered by two female interviewers visiting the household of the subjects. Regression analysis indicated that 27.12% of the variance (R ² change = .2712) of PRC was explained by all the independent variables operating jointly. However, FRP alone explained 20.61% variance of the PRC. Standardized beta indicated that one standard deviation unit change in FRP introduced greatest change ( = -.512) in PRC and one unit change in husband's time for outside job, the least change ( = -.003). Part and partial correlation coefficient also indicated FRP is related negatively to PRC. Thus, FRP is the only independent variable contributing significantly to the variance of the PRC.     

Referenzsemantik in der Partnermodellierung

How can we explain that an assertion on something perceived can be understood in the same manner by somebody who cannot perceive that scene? This problem bases the interest in computational linguistics in how listener modeling could possibly be harmonized with reference semantics. Mental images substituting real perception appear as a way out. The architecture of the listener model has to be adapted to the creation and use of such pictorial data structures. Furthermore, the relation between the latter and a verbal (i. e., propositional) representation must be understood. The resulting architecture of a listener model with reference semantics can be employed to solve communicational problems from three general classes in a better way, as is demonstrated by an example implementation.