A Final Word

A Final Word about Stories

I STARTED THIS series talking about stories—how we learn best from hearing what others like us have experienced. I often rail at our community for not encouraging a more scienti c approach to decisionmaking. A question I commonly ask is, “How many of you looked at the randomized, double-blind, controlled experiments that clearly show that is better than <whatever you were...

Microsoft Word - Final Knittle

Objectives: To determine whether the integrity of motivational interviewing (MI) delivery relates to short-term changes in physical activity (PA) and regulatory style within a sample of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and to examine whether therapist proficiency in MI improves over time. Methods: During a randomized controlled trial to promote PA, 27 patients received a motivational intervi...

Microsoft Word - 310610Tall-Final

Microsoft Word - Final paper.docx

 Abstract—This paper proposes a modulation strategy for multilevel multiphase diode-clamped dc-ac converters (also applicable to other functionally-equivalent topologies) able to keep the dc-link capacitor voltages balanced under passive front ends, low frequency modulation indices (i.e., low number of switching transitions per fundamental cycle), any value of the amplitude modulation index, a...

Word - final onsets *

A word-final consonant is standardly assumed to occupy a syllable coda. An alternative is to treat it as the onset of a syllable containing a phonetically unexpressed nucleus. The final-onset analysis is shown to out-perform the final-coda analysis on a range of phonological phenomena, including syllable typology, stress, vowel length, and consonant phonotactics. A constraint-based implementati...