New Kind of Statistical Methods

on the comparison of keyword and semantic-context methods of learning new vocabulary meaning

the rationale behind the present study is that particular learning strategies produce more effective results when applied together. the present study tried to investigate the efficiency of the semantic-context strategy alone with a technique called, keyword method. to clarify the point, the current study seeked to find answer to the following question: are the keyword and semantic-context metho...

New Statistical Methods for Phrase Break Prediction

A New Kind of Science

237 I now prefer to bounce around from concept to concept. Such "tornado learning" can be thrillingly effective, touching down on important concepts and leaving only dog-eared pages in its wake. Though the Web has revolutionized research in many areas-science being no exception-it is still useful to have a single, curated, carefully crafted starting point, a place where concepts can be grasped,...

A new kind of complexity

A new class of functions is presented. The structure of the algorithm, particularly the selection criteria (branching), is used to define the fundamental property of the new class. The most interesting property of the new functions is that instances are easy to compute but if input to the function is vague the description of a function is exponentially complex. This property puts a new light on...

A new kind of likeness

Britain's National Portrait Gallery, which has recently acquired a striking new wing, has this autumn also obtained a very new kind of portrait. Artist Marc Quinn has created a 'genomic portrait' of Sir John Sulston, former director of the Wellcome Trust's Sanger Centre near Cambridge, who led the UK arm of the human genome project which announced completion of the first draft last year. As the...