We present in this paper a proposal for representing temporality phenomena as expressed by specific free writing techniques, such as temporal discontinuities, transitions from one story to another, flashbacks and change of perspective, phenomena naturally understood by a casual human reader of the text. The long time intention is to develop a technique capable to reproduce on a machine the huma...

To investigate the effect of quiz frequency on the course performance of Iranian university students of English, the mean scores of five groups of subjects were compared using a balanced one-way ANOVA procedure. Analyses revealed that quizzes significantly improve course performance. With some exceptions, it was also found that the more frequently the subjects were quizzed, the better their cou...

This paper examines the relationship between course scheduling and student achievement, controlling for student and course characteristics. The literature in psychology recognizes that performance varies by time of day and that spacing learning out over time may foster greater long-term memory of items. We use student grades as a measure of performance and find a small, positive time of day eff...

In order to protect the integrity of horse racing in Illinois, a complex testing of urine and blood specimens collected post-race from winning and special designation horses is continuously conducted. The initial screening by immunoassays was followed by the confirmation on presumptive positive samples. Instrumental screening was also conducted. Perimortem and postmortem specimens and special e...

Muscle mechanical output such as force and power are governed by highly nonlinear intrinsic muscle properties associated with different muscle fiber types and are influenced by training and age. Many of the interactions between these properties pose trade-offs such that an individual's anthropometrics and muscle morphology may allow an athlete to excel in one sport but not in others. Advanced m...

This paper describes methodologies for NTCIR-5 CLIR involving Korean and Japanese, and reports the official result as well as retrieval results using NTCIR-3 and NTCIR-4 data. We participated in four tasks: K-K and J-J monolingual tracks and K-J and J-K cross-lingual tracks. Unlike English, in Asian languages such as Korean and Japanese term extraction is nontrivial because of segmentation ambi...

o ABSTRACT This paper focusses on the consequences for student opportunities and performances of grouping students in classrooms ,:grEl.des, tracks, etc. The organizational differentiation of students is shown to define a structure of flows in educational systems that structure educational opportunities, create ·different learning and social environments and present a set of signals about the c...