Unexpectedly occurring task-irrelevant stimuli have been shown to impair performance. They capture attention away from the main task leaving fewer resources for target processing. However, the actual distraction effect depends on various variables; for example, only target-informative distractors have been shown to cause costs of attentional orienting. Furthermore, recent studies have shown tha...

This article discusses an integrative model of gradual scaffolding curricular and pedagogical strategies, based on the theoretical framework a “caring global citizenship.” It provides concrete practices for internationalization general education that could be implemented in wide variety institutional settings. Such addresses ethnocentrism by expanding students' knowledge perspectives societies ...

What sort of people were the doctors in this country two hundred years ago and later ? How did they dress, speak and act, and how did their contemporaries regard them ? One way to answer these questions is to read the novels of the time : provided, of course, that we confine ourselves to those novels which attempt to portray contemporary life and manners, and which were accepted as such by the ...

The authors present a very good review of the event, participation and background literature to place Frankfurt Book Fair pre Covid-19 into proper perspective. I only regret that Editors Cambridge University Press did not invite an author or write Scientific, Technical, Medical Digital sector provide part 2 for more complete largest book event in world. Here is different non-traditional approac...

Eliza Haywood produced innovative, socially meritorious, and entertaining literature throughout her career. In particular, her novels often told stories about people who did not always make socially or morally correct choices; their missteps made them interesting and provided the basis for stories that examined what happened when people defied the status quo. Alexander Pettit observes that " [i...

Word segmentation is a necessary first step for automatic syntactic analysis of Chinese text. Chinese segmentation is highly accurate on news data, but the accuracies drop significantly on other domains, such as science and literature. For scientific domains, a significant portion of out-of-vocabulary words are domain-specific terms, and therefore lexicons can be used to improve segmentation si...

tenure of Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Board of Governors has been a steady increase in the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) willingness to talk openly about the policy decisions that it has made and those it is likely to make in the future. Before the 1990s, central banking was shrouded in mystery, at the Fed as elsewhere. The title of William Greider’s 1987 bestseller about the Fed...