“You are Irish—and as Irish as Me!”: Antiracism and National Identities in Ireland

Are You Still Following Me?

In this paper, the people tracking system of a mobile shopping assistant based on a SCITOS-G5 platform is explained in detail. The robot has two tasks, to find people requiring assistance and to guide a user to a target without losing contact. For that purpose, a probabilistic model and a Bayesian update scheme have been developed, where data of various sensory systems is merged asynchronously....

Are you calling me fat? An extreme case of cardiac lipomatosis masquerading as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Historical representations and conflicts about indigenous people as national identities

The relation between history learning processes, in and out of school, and the construction of national identities is nowadays an increasingly important topic, being studied through the appropriation of historical narratives, which are frequently based on the official history of any nation state. In this paper, college students’ historical representations of their nation’s origin are studied. W...

You Validate Me , You like Me , You ’ Re Fun , You

The proposition that similarity breeds attraction has received longstanding theoretical and empirical support. Still, the processes that guide this effect remain relatively unexamined. In this study, with a large sample of college students, we tested four variables proposed in prior literature to theoretically account for the similarity-liking link: consensual validation, certainty of being lik...

assessing metacognitive awareness and learning strategies as positive predictors in promoting l2 learners’ reading comprehension

the purpose of this thesis was to investigate how differently metacognitive, cognitive, and social/affective strategies affect l2 learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, the study employed a quasi-experimental design with a placement test as a proficiency test to find the homogeneity of groups. three classes were randomly selected as the experimental groups (n =90), and each class was tau...