What makes Ran run?

Rapid automatized naming (RAN) and reading fluency: implications for understanding and treatment of reading disabilities.

Fluent reading depends on a complex set of cognitive processes that must work together in perfect concert. Rapid automatized naming (RAN) tasks provide insight into this system, acting as a microcosm of the processes involved in reading. In this review, we examine both RAN and reading fluency and how each has shaped our understanding of reading disabilities. We explore the research that led to ...

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

What we can learn about running from barefoot running: an evolutionary medical perspective.

Barefoot running, which was how people ran for millions of years, provides an opportunity to study how natural selection adapted the human body to run. Because humans evolved to run barefoot, a barefoot running style that minimizes impact peaks and provides increased proprioception and foot strength, is hypothesized to help avoid injury, regardless of whether one is wearing shoes.

Reflections on Jennifer Saul's View of Successful Communication and Conversational Implicature

Saul (2002) criticizes a view on the relationship between speaker meaning and conversational implicatures according to which speaker meaning is exhaustively comprised of what is said and what is implicated. In the course of making her points, she develops a couple of new notions which she calls “utterer-implicature” and “audience-implicature”. She then makes certain claims about the relationshi...

Design of Experiments for Ruggedness Testing: Case Study on Paraffin Therapy Bath

Design of experiments (DOE) has become an essential tool for validation of medical manufacturing processes. Kim and Kalb provided a good overview of the techniques. They say “the process should be challenged to discover how outputs change as variables fluctuate within allowable limits.” This article shows how we challenged our durable medical device – a paraffin heat-therapy bath. We first ran ...

What makes non-profit soccer teams run? A panel data approach using a sample of Braga teams