In a recent Public Opinion Quarterly article “Is the Academy a Liberal Hegemony?,” John Zipp and Rudy Fenwick pit themselves against “right-wing activists and scholars,” citing our scholarship (Klein and Stern in Academic Questions 18(1): 40–52, 2005a; Klein and Western in Academic Questions 18(1): 53–65, 2005). Here, we analyze Zipp and Fenwick’s characterization of our research and find it fa...

In this paper the preliminary study we are conducting on the Million Songs Dataset (MSD) challenge is described. The task of the competition is to suggest a set of songs to a user given half of its listening history and complete listening history of other 1 million people. We focus on memory-based collaborative filtering approaches since they are able to deal with large datasets in an efficient...

The growing popularity of e-books, e-book readers and tablet devices is forcing a reappraisal of the various functions of ‘the book’ in education. Furthermore, e-books are becoming a more salient element in the ecology of mobile learning, as new devices make reading a more comfortable and sociable experience. We report on the results of an 18-month project (2010-12) undertaken as part of The Op...

Jenny Meis Language and Learning Gender Issues in Children’s Literature Issues Paper Everything we read constructs us, makes us who we are, by presenting our image of ourselves as girls and women, as boys and men (Mem Fox, 1993). Children’s books play an important part in developing children’s language skills, but it also plays an important part in transmitting a culture to the child. It is a f...

Harnad (1994) identifies the symbol grounding problem as central to his distinction between cognition and computation. To Harnad computation is merely the systematically interpretable manipulation of symbols, while cognition requires that these symbols have intrinsic meaning that is acquired through transducers that mediate between a cogitator and the environment. We present a careful analysis ...

We combine three methods which significantly improve the OCR accuracy of OCR models trained on early printed books: (1) The pretraining method utilizes the information stored in already existing models trained on a variety of typesets (mixed models) instead of starting the training from scratch. (2) Performing cross fold training on a single set of ground truth data (line images and their trans...

pupose: to use non-text books in the programmed educational systems is important to deep and stabilized the content of the textbooks in students. therefore, it is essential to identify books that have the characteristics of a suitable book. the main purpose of this study is to provide a list of suitable non-textbooks compatible with the content of the primary school social science and science t...

abstract the present  research seeks to pinpoint the deficiencies of compiling and writing textbooks, and also provide the needed standards for writing printed and electronic books in payame noor university. to achieve the said objectives, printed and electronic textbooks were studied and the problems regarding the principles of compiling and writing books have been recognized. the research is ...

We measure the dollar risk exposure of U.S. industries by regressing stock portfolio returns on each industry against the returns on a broadly defined dollar index. The exposure estimates vary widely across different industries in both magnitudes and directions. We trace this large cross-sectional variation in dollar exposure to the industry’s average import and export activities. We find that ...