Whether language/gesture correlations in early language development can be explained by parallelism or comprehension mediation was examined. Study 1, parental report data for 95 l-year-olds, suggested that word comprehension and production are dissociated in this age range and that the comprehension and production factors map onto distinct aspects of gesture. Study 2 tested 41 13-15month-olds i...

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN READING ABILITY AND SYNTACTICAL MEDIATION IN PAIRED-ASSOCIATE (PA) LEARNING WAS EXAMINED. SUBJECTS WERE 64 FOURTH AND SECOND GRADERS IN WISCONSIN WHO WERE GROUPED ACCORDING TO GRADE LEVEL, TWO READING LEVELS, TWO TYPES OF INSTRUCTION, AND SEX. THE INSTRUCTIONAL TYPES WERE MEDIATION AND NONMEDIATION: THE STIMULI WERE 16 PICTURES PAIRED TO MINIMIZE ASSOCIATION VALUE. THE ...

Ontologies are helpful in giving interoperable structures to sources of knowledge and information. This interoperability, however, is greatly hindered by the heterogeneity of independently developed ontologies which in turn increases the requirements for mediation systems to reconcile the differences. A core concepts ontology for a certain domain contained by a foundation ontology can be used t...

This article describes research into software that supports Family Law mediation. Most divorcing couples enter into mediation to resolve the decisions in who is allocated items from the common pool of assets. AssetDivider supports this task by asking parties to assign ratings to the items in question. The software takes this information and from it develops a list of allocations to each party. ...

Diagnosis of Heli-cobacter infection with a new non-invasive antigen-based assay. HpSA European study group. MIGLIORI et al. [1] have written a commendable editorial about the challenges to science presented by the emergence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) as a named entity. We wish to clarify the origin and development of the term ''XDR-TB''. As noted by MIGLIORI et al. [1]...

many health studies were interested to find the association between multiple predictors with a dependent variable. the popular method to analyze these studies was multiple regressions that assumed the predictors were independent. while in practice some predictors may depend on each other and they could not be presented in a regression model simultaneously, as a result the appropriate models suc...