In this paper, we introduce and analyze a simple adaptive finite element method for second order elliptic partial differential equations. The marking strategy depends on whether the data oscillation is sufficiently small compared to the error estimator in the current mesh. If the oscillation is small compared to the error estimator, we mark as many edges such that their contributions to the loc...

Sex differences in academic achievement have often been observed but have usually been attributed to inherent differences between men and women students rather than to differential marking by examiners. The present study indicates that this may not be the case. Sex bias was shown to occur in the evaluation of students’ projects. These results cannot be attributed to actual differences in achiev...

The animacy distinction is deeply rooted in the language faculty. A key example is differential object marking, the phenomenon where animate sentential objects receive specific marking. We used event-related potentials to examine the neural processing consequences of case-marking violations on animate and inanimate direct objects in Spanish. Inanimate objects with incorrect prepositional case m...

OBJECTIVES This article examines how mentally ill people are perceived by psychology students. It was inspired by a study on stereotypical perception of mentally ill people carried out 10 years ago, which was published in Polish Psychiatry (2000). METHODS A modified version of the semantic differential, which was used 10 years ago, was applied. The version consisted of: subject selection of 3...

imized?" In a very brief introductory chapter, the author sketches the problems which have arisen within the last decade with regard to the marking of students in schools and colleges. "From the studies of J. M. Cattell (1905), W. S. Hall (190G), Max Meyer (1908), W. F. Dearborn (1910), A. G. Smith (1911), A. G. Steele (1911), W. T. Foster (1911), and others who have discussed various phases of...

In the current paper, we assess whether morphophonological information (consistent, inconsistent or ambiguous with the syntactic information) affects syntactic encoding. We report four experiments (one in Italian, one in French and two in Spanish) in which we elicited gender agreement errors between the subject of a sentence and a predicative adjective using the same methodology used by Viglioc...

English provides several distinct mechanisms by which verbs may be nominalized, as illustrated in (1-2). The form electing in (1a) is sometimes termed the “verbal” gerund, while the perfectly homophonous form in (1b) is termed the “nominal” gerund. Nominal gerunds in English are distinguished from verbal gerunds syntactically, by their inability to assign objective case to an object (hence the ...