Meara’s new volume primarily focuses on how word association data can be used in second language vocabulary acquisition research, particularly in the areas of the development of vocabulary depth, productive vocabulary skills and lexical organization in second language (L2) speakers. His book also serves as a concise summation of research to date involving word associations and second language v...

This article is co-authored by the mother of a child with obesity and insulin resistance, who gives her perspective. It is also co-authored by the treating Obesity Medicine clinician and an investigator in obesity clinical research (both certified in Obesity Medicine), who give their perspectives. The discussion focuses upon the potential clinical use of metformin in managing young patients wit...

Old Age Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Medical University. His primary clinical and research interests focus on memory impairments, early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia disorders, neuropsychological diagnosis, functional imaging, biological markers, cerebrovascular diseases and cognitive rehabilitation. Dr Riepe is board certified in n...

In the early part of the 1970’s, Edsger W. Dijkstra identified an important property of some distributed systems. He called this property Self-Stabilization. A distributed system is self-stabilizing iff starting in any illegitimate state, the system is guaranteed to converge to a legitimate state in a finite, and hopefully small, number of steps. Moreover, once the system is in a legitimate sta...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the growth and development of periodical literature on Web 2.0 technologies and their other fields. Design/methodology/approach – Bibliographic data of the articles published in the 13 leading peer-reviewed journals are obtained from the Emerald database (www.emeraldinsight.com) directly using such keywords as “Web 2.0”, “blogs”, “wikis”, “RSS”,...

This paper examines aspects of journal articles published from 1967 to 2008, located in eight databases, and authored or co-authored by academics serving for at least two years in Australian LIS programs from 1959 to 2008. These aspects are: inclusion of publications in databases, publications in journals, authorship characteristics of publications, productivity, and subject content of publicat...

In this paper we present the design details of the visual perception system in Aware Home. This paper is intend to (a) detail our design details; (b) provide insights on how different parts of the tracking system are inter-related to solve complex perception tasks; (c) document ideas and potential research directions; (d) provide performance evaluation. This work will primarily focus on algorit...

When we generate writings and drawings in creative knowledge work, such as in producing a company report, writing a paper, making presentation slides, or in developing programs, we often go back to what we have previously authored. This paper presents our history-centric approach to support such types of authoring. The approach first saves all editing actions in an editor in its history databas...

This paper analyzes the patterns of health biotechnology publications in six Latin American countries from 2001 to 2015. The countries studied were Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba and Mexico. Before our study, there were no data available on HBT development in half of the Latin-American countries we studied, i.e., Argentina, Colombia and Chile. To include these countries in a scientome...