A Comment on Breakthrough

Breakthrough to Nursing: a past Breakthrough chairperson looks back.

Vodcast: A Breakthrough in Developing Incidental Vocabulary Learning

Incidental vocabulary learning is often seen as superior to direct instruction on many occasions. Meanwhile, upon the emergence of the World Wide Web, second language (SL) learners have been introduced to 'podcasts' (recorded audio and video online broadcasts) which could be authentic sources of vocabulary learning. The relatively recent phenomenon of video podcast (vodcast) might be considered...

Note on a Comment

In a recent paper Edward L. Wright (1994) has criticized both a paper of ours and the Monthly Notices which published it (Hoyle, et al. 1994) on the original grounds that neither we nor the journal took adequate notice of his views! He is concerned with Sections 3 and 4 of our second paper in the series in which we have developed the quasi-steady state cosmological model and have shown that it ...

Comment on a Paper

Before decoupling in the early universe, the tightly coupled photon/electron gas underwent acoustic oscillations. These oscillations should be visible today in the spectrum of anisotropies. Recently Fang, Huang, and Wu (1996) claimed that when random processes are accounted for, the phases of these oscillations are no longer coherent. In fact, they claim that the well-defined peaks will be comp...

A Comment on Argumentation

We use the theory of defaults and their meaning of [GS16] to develop (the outline of a) new theory of argumentation.