According to the American Diabetes Association [3] in November 2007, 20.8 million children and adults in the United States (approximately 7% of the population) were diagnosed with diabetes. Thus, the ability to diagnose diabetes early plays an important role for the patient’s treatment process. The World Health Organization [4] proposed the eight attributes, depicted in Table 1, of physiologica...

Abstract By discussing a large number of different examples, this paper argues that the class so-called generic statements is much more heterogeneous usually recognized in contemporary debate. It claimed theoretical tendency towards overgeneralization or homogenization makes it impossible to adequately understand how function language and handle dangers involved generics express promote social ...

This study intends to present the readers of Turkish Poetry in English a translation criticism Eda: An Anthology Contemporary Poetry. The editor-translator, Murat Nemet-Nejat, positions mystic Sufistic essence literature, legacy Divan Poetry, core contemporary poetry paratextual material. claim is an overgeneralization because it underestimates other influences. Moreover, comparative analysis s...

this project investigates the relationship between lexical semantics and causative morphology in the acquisition of causative/inchoative-related verbs in english as a foreign language by iranian speakers. results of translation and picture judgment task show although l2 learners have largely acquired the correct lexico-syntactic classification of verbs in english, they were constrained by the m...

Much of the debate on rule-based vs. connectionist models in language acquisition has focussed on the English past tense. This paper investigates a new area, the acquisition of verb subcategorization. Verbs differ in how they express their arguments or subcategorize for them. For example, “She gave him a book.” is good, but “She donated him a book.” sounds odd. The paper describes a connectioni...

Connectionist modeling experiments tested anomalous-face and baby-face overgeneralization hypotheses proposed to explain consensual trait impressions of faces. Activation of a neural network unit trained to respond to anomalous faces predicted impressions of normal adult faces varying in attractiveness as well as several elderly stereotypes. Activation of a neural network unit trained to respon...

The sunk cost effect is a maladaptive economic behavior that is manifested in a greater tendency to continue an endeavor once an investment in money, effort, or time has been made. The Concorde fallacy is another name for the sunk cost effect, except that the former term has been applied strictly to lower animals, whereas the latter has been applied solely to humans. The authors contend that th...