Let's go back to Bled!: A contribution to considerations on praxis

iranian english learners’ perception and personality: a dual approach to investigating influential factors on willingness to communicate

abstract previous studies on willingness to communicate (wtc) have shown the influence of many individual or situational factors on students’ tendency to engage in classroom communication, in which wtc has been viewed either at the trait-level or situational level. however, due to the complexity of the notion of willingness to communicate, the present study suggests that these two strands are ...

It was time to go back.

I am a pediatric emergency physician in Calgary, Alta, and have been active in international health for more than 25 years. The last time I had been in Africa was in 1985 when I ran a district hospital in Lesotho in southern Africa. My husband and I had always wanted to return to the continent but career, children, and time got in the way. When those factors finally aligned, we were able to onc...

Time to Go Back to the Original Name

Almost 40 years ago, the first pathogenic human retrovirus was discovered and shown to cause a T-cell leukemia in humans (Poiesz et al., 1980a, 1981). Thus, a new paradigm was established showing that a virus can directly cause cancer in humans. At that time, the only other suspected case was the connection between the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) and Burkitt’s Lymphoma and later nasopharyngeal car...

Is it "time to go back to school"?

Demonstrating the Incremental Interaction Manager in an End-to-end “lets Go!” Dialogue System

The Incremental Interaction Manager supports the use of incremental speech recognition with conventional turn-based dialogue managers. We demonstrate its use in a complete statistical dialogue system in the “Lets Go” bus information domain. Our demonstration is two-fold. First, the user is able to call the system and have a complete dialogue. They are then able to inspect their own call using a...