If It Were Only That Easy: The Use of Meta-Analytic Research by Organizational Scholars

Population strategies for prevention? If only it were that simple!

It Was Easy, when Apples and Blackberries Were only Fruits

Ambiguities in company names are omnipresent. This is not accidental, companies deliberately chose ambiguous brand names, as part of their marketing and branding strategy. This procedure leads to new challenges, when it comes to finding information about the company on the Web. This paper is concerned with the task of classifying Twitter messages, whether they are related to a given company: fo...

A Negative Conjunctive Query is Easy if and only if it is Beta-Acyclic

It is known that the data complexity of a Conjunctive Query (CQ) is determined only by the way its variables are shared between atoms, reflected by its hypergraph. In particular, Yannakakis [18, 3] proved that a CQ is decidable in linear time when it is α-acyclic, i.e. its hypergraph is α-acyclic; Bagan et al. [2] even state: Any CQ is decidable in linear time iff it is α-acyclic. (under certai...

a genre analytic study of research papers written by bilingual writers and their beliefs: a case of persian-english writers

تحقیق حاضر گزارشی است از تحلیل بخش مقدمه دو دسته از مقالات که عبارتند از: 11 مقاله از دو نویسنده دوزبانه فارسی زبان, که شامل مقدمه 4 مقاله به زبان انگلیسی و چاپ شده در مجلات بین المللی, مقدمه 3 مقاله به زبان انگلیسی و 4 مقاله به زبان فارسی چاپ شده در مجلات داخلی می شود؛ و 12 مقاله از محققان خارجی که در مجله applied linguistics به چاپ رسیده است. مبنای تئوری این تحلیل ها نظریه سوئلز (1990) یا هما...

What if feedback only counted if the learner used it?

Most teachers give written feedback because it is a required deliverable, like a checkout assistant handing every customer the printed receipt, even though few use them. However there is no point in giving feedback unless the learner uses it: modifies or actively reappraises something specific as a result. This paper explores the theoretical and practical implications of taking this as the star...