Knowledge Gambles: Academic Casinos and Paradigmatic Roulettes

Informing the Public Debate: Academic Research on Crime and Casinos

the effects of previewing and providing background knowledge on iranian university efl learners’ comprehension of literary and academic texts

abstract poor reading comprehension can result in failure in using references, benefiting from professional gatherings and resources, keeping up with the growing body of knowledge in the virtual world of the internet, and failing to achieve in efl programs. the purpose of the present quasi-experimental study was to explore the effects of background knowledge and previewing narrative and expos...

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CASINOS Do Casinos Cause Economic Growth ?

Casino gambling is a popular form of entertainment and is purported to have positive effects on host economies. The industry surely affects local labor markets and tax revenues. However, there has been little evidence on the effects of casino gambling on state economic growth. This paper examines that relationship using Grangercausality analysis modified for use with panel data. Our results ind...

Roads and Wheels, Roulettes and Pedals

We revisit the idea of road-wheel pairs, first introduced 50 years ago by Gerson Robison and later popularized by Stan Wagon and his square-wheeled tricycle. We show how to generate such pairs geometrically: the road as a roulette curve and the wheel as a pedal curve. Along the way we gain geometric insight into two theorems proved by Jakob Steiner relating the area and arc length of a roulette...

Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Relations in Knowledge Organization Systems

Most methods used in knowledge organization systems (KOS) organize knowledge in form of concepts and the relations between them, though the level of differentiating relations varies. Major knowledge representation methods make some of the relations explicit, but they use only a small number of paradigmatic semantic relations so far. This approach is somewhat contrary to the detailed and highly-...