The purpose of the following study is to explore the psychological practice and racing experience of competitive distance runners. It is proposed that a new mindset called DARE state be used to describe the mental experience of athletes when they are engaged in training that encompasses a “love of challenge,” deliberate practice and flow state in the same workout or race. The presence of both d...

Studies on the role of 'given' and 'new' information in speech communication normally concentrate mainly on prosadie aspects like duration and fundamental frequency. Except for one study, no significant differences between 'given' and 'new' words are found. ln our study we included, unlike the other studies, spectral measurements tagether with duration and FO for vowels occurring in (the same) ...

The development of an industry is seen as the outcome of a differential game in which market shares flow in response to price differences. It is hypothesized that while all consumers eventually react to price differences, some are slower than others. If scale advantages have some influence on marginal costs around average market share, then, under reasonable conditions, only st'ewed size distri...

Anaphora resolution is a central topic in dialogue and discourse processing that deals with finding the referents of pronouns. There are no studies, to the best of our knowledge, that focus on anaphora resolution in the context of tutorial dialogues. In this paper, we present the first version of DARE (Deep Anaphora Resolution Engine), an anaphora resolution engine for dialogue-based Intelligen...

Research has demonstrated girls to outperform boys on conventional literacy tests. The present studies concern gender differences on computerised educational tests. Seventy-one children were tested using LASS Secondary and a set of seven conventional measures. No significant gender differences were found on any of the LASS Secondary modules, although females did outperform males on a convention...

Savremeni društveni tokovi neretko iziskuju međunarodnu komunikaciju različitih društvenih grupa, te podučavanje interkulturne kompetencije treba započeti od najranijeg životnog doba. Udžbenik kao primarno nastavno sredstvo za stranog jezika biti strukturiran tako da kod obučavane populacije, osim jezičke kompetencije, razvija i interkulturnu sposobnost. Primenom Braunovog (2000) sociolingvisti...