Umwelt and Circumstance

Circumstance Elaboration Joint Joint Example Elaboration Elaboration Condition Circumstance

Researchers in discourse have long hypothesized that the nuclei of a rhetorical structure tree provide a good summary of the text for which that tree was built. In this paper, I discuss a psy-cholinguistic experiment that validates this hypothesis , but that also shows that the distinction between nuclei and satellites is not suucient if we want to build summaries of very high quality. I empiri...

Kinder - Umwelt - Survey

Der Umwelt-Survey ist eine repr3sentative Bev4lkerungsuntersuchung, die seit Mitte der 80er-Jahre in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland durchgef8hrt wurde. Der Kinder-Umwelt-Survey ist der erste Survey nur f8r Kinder. Er findet statt in enger Kooperation mit dem ersten Kinderund Jugendgesundheitssurvey an einer zuf3llig ausgew3hlten Unterstichprobe des Gesundheitssurveys von 1800 Kindern im Alter v...

The evolution of umwelt and communication

Existing educational practices focus on subject matter knowledge that is, through the act of teaching, brought into the heads of students. Materials, texts, or images qua aspects of the learning environment are treated as given in terms of fixed and unambiguous structures (ontologies). Drawing on examples from a large data base on learning physics through laboratory activities, I show that (a) ...

War Crimes of Circumstance and Convenience

Abortion and Family Formation: Circumstance or Culture?

Research using opinion surveys and abortion-patient censuses has found that opinion and practice on abortion often appear incongruent. This is generally attributed to circumstantial pressures that motivate women to make an atypical choice, conceived in terms of rational utility; but it may also be due to the fact that the socio-cultural values of women having abortions are not representative of...