In all the meetings of the EMSEducational Committee, updated reports are presented by the participants on the current situation related to mathematics education in their countries. Although these reports express the members’ personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect national institutional views, they address important issues that provide an initial comparative picture of mathematics educ...

Mode and genre transformations are main issues in the digital era, especially apparent when news interviews are adapted into written news reports. This paper investigates how interactions in a television news interview are excerpted and adapted into a written news text in newspapers. Through a text analysis of two political interviews in Taiwan on television, and five newspaper reports based on...

This paper studies the individual-level relationship between immigration and property crime in England and Wales using crime self-reports from the Crime and Justice Survey. Models that account for underreporting are used, since this is a major concern in crime self-reports. The results indicate that the reported crime is substantially underreported, but if anything, immigrants are less likely t...

In the week before the 2008 United States presidential election, 1,057 registered voters reported their choice between the principal contenders (John McCain and Barack Obama) and completed several measures that might predict their candidate preference, including two implicit and two self-report measures of racial preference for European Americans (Whites) relative to African Americans (Blacks) and

Photographs capture information on situations or circumstances that give some clue about peopleaa past activities. They remind people of not only their personal activities and experiences but also social events that take place at a certain time (e.g., news, fashion) and place (e.g., local festivals, sightings). We aim to use such information to help people recollect past events and to acquire n...

The increasing numbers of international students studying in UCSI University necessitates research into appropriate ways to support cultural diversity in teaching and providing learning tools for them. International students usually face problems in adapting to culturally different education system and this complicates the discipline specific skills that they have come to learn. In addition to ...

Controversy over auditor independence has raged in recent times, but little is known about what auditor independence means to the ultimate consumers of the auditors work. In New Zealand, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand (called ICANZ) has held an inquiry into the issue (ICANZ, 2002, 2003), the New Zealand Stock Exchange has made changes to its listing requirements (NZX 2004...

Very little known is about how speakers learn about and/or respond to speech experienced without the possibility for interaction. This paper reports an experiment which considers the effects of two kinds of exposure to speech (interactive or non-interactive mediated) on Scottish English speakers’ responses to another accent (Southern British English), for two processing tasks, phonological awar...

Maintaining synaptic integrity and function depends on the continuous removal and degradation of aged or damaged proteins. Synaptic protein degradation has received considerable attention in the context of synaptic plasticity and growing interest in relation to neurodegenerative and other disorders. Conversely, less attention has been given to constitutive, ongoing synaptic protein degradation ...