Belmont in Europe: A Mostly Indirect Influence

Belmont Adolescent Unit

pitals?large enough to carry a full range of facilities yet small enough for a personal rather than an institutional atmosphere. It is easily accessible, on the edge of greater London. There was no school available, so we confined ourselves to patients over 15 years old. For the purpose of this article, I have confined myself to the 97 girls and 84 boys, up to the age of 18, admitted between 19...

Europe is mostly united but lacks a common support of young investigators.

E UROPE comprises 46 countries with at least part of their territory inside the geographical boundary of Europe (i.e., Russia, Turkey, Greenland, Kazakhstan). Twenty-seven of these countries, with a total population of approximately 500 million inhabitants, are members of the European Union (EU). According to the combined gross national product, the European Single Market is the biggest market ...

Modeling Indirect Influence on Twitter

Social influence in social networks has been extensively researched. Most studies have focused on direct influence, while another interesting question can be raised as whether indirect influence exists between two users who’re not directly connected in the network and what affects such influence. In addition, the theory of complex contagion tells us that more spreaders will enhance the indirect...

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critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...