OBJECTIVES Our goals were (1) to ascertain the range of functional impairment attributable to social phobia in a community sample, and (2) to verify the existence of social phobia subtypes in the community, and report on their relative prevalence, severity, and levels of impairment. METHODS Community surveys were conducted contemporaneously in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and in Alberta, with a total ...

Despite consensus in focus on form (FOF) instruction over the facilitative role of noticing, controversy has not quelled over ways of directing EFL learners’ attention towards formal features via implicit techniques like input-enhancement or explicit metacognitive feedback and interactive peer-editing on the output they produce. This quasi-experimental study investigated the impact of input enh...

The aim of the research was to determine efficiency investing in companies that report on their corporate social responsibility (CSR) developing markets. Companies won Asia Sustainability Reporting Awards 2020 were chosen for study. We evaluate correlation utilizing data from 36 firms year observations 2018 2020, using modified OLS estimation and regression analysis with panel heteroskedasticit...

In this paper the authors experiment and test a new biomimetic approach based on social spiders to solve a combinatorial problem ie the automatic classification of texts because a very large data stream flows and particularly on the web. Representation of textual data was performed by a method independent of the language ie n-gram characters and words because there is currently no method of lea...

In the background where there are many factors affecting Japanese families such as decrease of children, change family structures, gender concept, etc., "family'' has become a noticeable issue attracting much attention nowadays. The type traditional named "IE'' was officially regulated in law during Meiji period. After war, legal status eliminated; however, reality, still remains popular. fact,...

In this paper, we describe our approach taken in the MSM2013 IE Challenge, which was aimed at concept extraction from microposts. The goal of the approach was to combine several existing NER tools which use different classification methods and benefit from their combination. Several NER tools have been chosen and individually evaluated on the challenge training set. We observed that some of the...