To appear in AIEDAM, Artificial Intelligence, Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 21:2 (2007), pp. 123-136. Linguistic Support for Concept Selection Decisions J. Delin*, S. Sharoff, S. Lillford^, C. Barnes^ *Enterprise IG 11-33 St John St, London, EC1M 4PJ Centre for Translation Studies School of Modern Languages and Cultures University of Leeds Leeds, LS2 9JT ^School Of Mechanical Engineering ...

Testing the idea that the process of forgiveness is intrinsically different across diverse relationships, this study examined the role of forgiveness in different family relationships. In 2 laboratory sessions 1 year apart, 114 families (each including 2 parents and 1 child) completed a new measure of family forgiveness and many individual-level, relationship-level, and family-level variables t...

A significant amount of research has been undertaken exploring individuals’ images of a future. What often remains uninterrogated are the ways in which others’ respond to these images of a future, as they are articulated through narrative discourses. This paper, then, seeks to address this void through the presentation of research which considers the ways that teachers’ perceptions of "the futu...

The here presented and ongoing study addresses L2 fluency and hesitation phenomena in the context of speech effects in intercultural communication. It investigates the impact of fluency and hesitation phenomena on the perception of non-native speakers by native listeners of German. The first results underline the importance and salience of hesitation phenomena and fluency for speech effects and...

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The purpose of this study was to examine if digital divide exists between elementary school aged children with learning disabilities (LD) and their nondisabled peers in Taiwan. A self-reported questionnaire regarding information and communication technology (ICT) access and ICT competency, Scale of Digital Participation of Elementary School Students, designed by the authors, was used to collect...

BACKGROUND Street children are an increasing problem in Latin America. It is however difficult to estimate the number of children in the street as this is a highly mobile population. AIMS To estimate the number of street children in Aracaju, northeast Brazil, and describe the characteristics of this population. METHODS Three independent lists of street children were constructed from a non-g...