Learners as Leaders

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NEWARK, N .J. [A.P.] — Got a cold? Dr. John T. Connell will pay you $30 to $50 a day to sit in his office and sneeze. Connell, a specialist in nose problems and allergies, is one of dozens of experts throughout the country who test cold remedies for drug companies trying to find out how well their products work. “ I’m an independent investi­ gator,” he said. “ They come to me. 1 design an exper...

Women as Leaders: Leadership Style Versus Leaders’ Values and Attitudes

Modeling Learners as Individuals and as Groups

Adaptive navigation support normally attempts to make selecting a relevant hyperlink as easy as possible. However, in educational applications, this may have negative learning effects since selecting a link is sometimes an important educational problem for the student to solve. To provide appropriate scaffolding to students, it is necessary to understand how they navigate in hypermedia sites. B...

Are Second Language Learners Just as Good at Verb Morphology as First Language Learners?

We addressed whether children learning French as a first (L1) and multilingual children (MUL, for whom French is a second or third language) are sensitive to sub-regular verb conjugation patterns (i.e., neither default, nor idiosyncratic) (e.g., Albright, 2002; Clahsen, 1999). Some argue that children with other first languages have more difficulty learning verb conjugation patterns due to thei...

Genes as leaders and followers in evolution.

A major question for the study of phenotypic evolution is whether intra- and interspecific diversity originates directly from genetic variation, or instead, as plastic responses to environmental influences initially, followed later by genetic change. In species with discrete alternative phenotypes, evolutionary sequences can be inferred from transitions between environmental and genetic phenoty...