this study aimed at investigating differential item functioning (dif) on the special english test of the iranian national university entrance exam (inuee). the effect of gender and subject area was taken into account. the study utilized one-parameter irt model with a sample of 36000 students who sat for the inuee special english test in 2004 and/or 2005. the findings confirmed the presence of d...

The aim of this paper is to develop a representation of control that does not require a PRO-subject. I first analyse obligatory control using a de-compositional analysis of u-roles, according to which u-roles are divided into two selectional requirements. The resulting theory makes the same predictions as one based on PRO, yet avoids dependence on this ill-defined empty category. I then concent...

This paper presents the first-ever processing experiment on relativization in Avar, an ergative language with prenominal relatives. The results show no processing difference between the ergative subject gap and the absolutive object gap. The absolutive subject gap, however, is processedmuch faster. We propose a principled explanation for this result. On the one hand, Avar has a subject preferen...

We implement and extend existing methods to detect salient objects and generate a segmentation map which is used to artistically desaturate the background. We evaluate the performance using a Jaccard similarity metric against the ground truth

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Preeclampsia is a common pregnancy specific syndrome that is more often associated with trophoblast dysfunction during the first trimester of pregnancy. Trophoblast plays a central role in determining fetal growth and the development of pregnancy complications as wells as in programming of cardiovascular and metabolic disease in the developing fetus. Infection specific inflammation is a primary...

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