Book Review: Ellis, R., Skehan, P., Li, A., Shintani, N., & Lambert, C. (2020). Task-based language teaching: Theory and practice. Cambridge University Press.

Let (μα) be a net of Radon sub-probability measures on R, and (tα) be a net in ]0, 1] converging to 0. Assuming that the generalized log-moment generating function L(λ) exists for all λ in a nonempty open intervalG, we give conditions on the left or right derivatives of L|G, implying a vague (and thus narrow when 0 ∈ G) large deviation principle. The rate function (which can be nonconvex) is ob...

Let (μα) be a net of Radon sub-probability measures on R, and (tα) be a net in ]0,+∞[ converging to 0. Assuming that the generalized log-moment generating function L(λ) exists for all λ in a nonempty open interval G, we give conditions on the left or right derivatives of L|G, implying vague (and thus narrow when 0 ∈ G) large deviations. The rate function (which can be nonconvex) is obtained as ...

We give a new proof of the Frankl-Rödl theorem on forbidden intersections, via the probabilistic method of dependent random choice. Our method extends to codes with forbidden distances, where over large alphabets our bound is significantly better than that obtained by Frankl and Rödl. We also apply our bound to a question of Ellis on sets of permutations with forbidden distances, and to establi...

INTRODUCTION A modified Medical Resource Model to predict the medical resources required at mass gatherings based on the risk profile of events has been developed. This study was undertaken to validate this tool using data from events held in both a developed and a developing country. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted utilizing prospectively gathered data from individual events at O...

My heart tells me to do whatever I can to stop the horrific execution of persons with mental retardation in the United States. This urge comes, however, after watching law professor James Ellis spend better than 14 years of his life—giving great energy, enthusiasm, and intellect to this oft-ignored situation. Anything said here comes from sifting through the soil that Ellis plowed. My heart als...

We prove that many properties and invariants of definable groups in NIP theories, such as definable amenability, G/G00, etc., are preserved when passing to the theory of the Shelah expansion by externally definable sets, Mext, of a model M . In the light of these results we continue the study of the “definable topological dynamics” of groups in NIP theories. In particular we prove the Ellis gro...

Randall J. Nett, Jared L. Bartschi, Giovanina M. Ellis, David M. Hachey, Lisa M. Frenkel, J. Clay Roscoe, Kris K. Carter, and Christine G. Hahn Author affi liations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (R.J. Nett, K.K. Carter); Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Boise, Idaho, USA (R.J. Nett, J.L. Bartschi, J.C. Roscoe, K.K. Carter, C.G. Hahn); Seattle Children...

• Whitman and Ellis (2004) train a system to associate noun phrases and adjectives from reviews with audio. Based on (Whitman and Rifkin, 2002). • Turnbull et al. (2006) use naı̈ve Bayes classifier to annotate and retrieve music • Ellis et al. (2002) describe “Musicseer” game for collecting artist similarity data • The “ESP Game” (von Ahn and Dabbish, 2004) popularized the idea of allowing any r...