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First Monday , Volume 14 , Number 5 - 4 May 2009

A recent draft manuscript suggested that Facebook use might be related to lower academic achievement in college and graduate school (Karpinski, 2009). The report quickly became a media sensation and was picked up by hundreds of news outlets in a matter of days. However, the results were based on correlational data in a draft manuscript that had not been published, or even considered for publica...

Volume 5 Number 2

painting, which plays with color and form. It appears that criticism has learned very little in a century. Although we can accept, understand, and excuse the mother who disgustedly remarks that she has a 6-year-old daughter who can paint better than "that," it is depressing to find an intelligent, educated critic asking "what an abstract photograph is of" and arguing that "in photography the su...

Editorial Volume 5, Issue1

Applied Literature, however, does not have literature at its centre. Literature in this domain is a tool to solve problems and achieve goals. Using literature to teach and learn languages, the application of literature to language education, is a very handy example. Health Humanities (by Crawford, et al. and reviewed by A. Ramazani in our Journal's previous issue) comprises chapters on how lite...

Program Verification, Volume 47, Number 5

534 NOTICES OF THE AMS VOLUME 47, NUMBER 5 H ow can a computer program developer ensure that a program actually implements its intended purpose? This article describes a method for checking the correctness of certain types of computer programs. The method is used commercially in the development of programs implemented as integrated circuits and is applicable to the development of “control-inten...

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