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Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society.
- The British Journal of Sociology
, 2000
"... ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi ed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in v ..."
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around the world, in the Information Age. Since a trend common to many of these transformations refers to the prevalence of information networking as the organizational form of dominant activities, I will then de ne information networks, and elaborate on the implications of networking in social
SPECIAL ISSUE: MULTIPLICITY AND COMMONALITY IN NARRATIVE INTERPRETATION A Divided Man, a Divided Narrative: An Integrative Sign-Oriented Linguistic and Socio- Psychological Discourse Analysis of Amos’s Text
"... This paper provides an interdisciplinary discourse analysis of Amos’s life story, utilizing a methodology combining sign-oriented linguistics with a socio-psychological narrative approach. Sign-oriented linguistic theory defines both language and text as supra-systems composed of sub-systems that fu ..."
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This paper provides an interdisciplinary discourse analysis of Amos’s life story, utilizing a methodology combining sign-oriented linguistics with a socio-psychological narrative approach. Sign-oriented linguistic theory defines both language and text as supra-systems composed of sub
Runtime Semantics of Use Case Stories
"... Abstract—Direct end-user participation in software system construction necessitates bringing general-purpose programming activities to the level understandable by “laymen”. This paper introduces a new software development approach where stories written in commonly understood structured natural langu ..."
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language gain runtime semantics. Stories are precisely linked to domain concepts and actions, thus forming the application logic of the system. These constructs are written at a high level of abstraction, very close to detailed software requirements specifications. In fact, they are structured
Cognitive integration of language and memory in bilinguals: Semantic representation
- Psychological Bulletin
, 1999
"... Understanding cognitive research on the integration of 2 languages in bilingual memory is difficult because of the different terminology, methodology, analysis, and interpretation strategies that scholars with different backgrounds bring to the research. These studies can be usefully categorized on ..."
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to communi-cate, is a tool that allows people with different languages to exchange information. A biblical account of the origin of the world's many languages is given in the Old Testament story of the Tower of Babel, where it is written that God divided the tower's builders by giving them
Remembering over the short-term: The case against the standard model.
- Annual Review of Psychology,
, 2002
"... s Abstract Psychologists often assume that short-term storage is synonymous with activation, a mnemonic property that keeps information in an immediately accessible form. Permanent knowledge is activated, as a result of on-line cognitive processing, and an activity trace is established "in&quo ..."
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over the short term? It is clearly adaptive to keep recent information available in some kind of accessible form. It would be difficult to comprehend spoken language, which occurs sequentially, or read any kind of text without remembering the early part of an utterance or the themes relevant to a
Abstract writing common mistakes
, 2008
"... This is a self-study guide written to help graduate students and researchers at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea, write for publication in English in biomedical and life sciences. Parts may be helpful to other non-native speaking scientists writing in English as well as other novice researchers. ..."
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number of language tips for writing abstracts in English. Comparison of Abstracts and Journal Articles The following chart shows similarities and differences between a journal article abstract and the main body of a journal article. Abstract Article Audience: People searching in the library. People doing
Assessment literacy for the language classroom.
- Language Assessment Quarterly,
, 2012
"... ABSTRACT Language testing has seen unprecedented expansion during the first part of the 21 st century. As a result there is an increasing need for the language testing profession to consider more precisely what it means by 'assessment literacy' and to articulate its role in the creation o ..."
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required qualification for language teachers who seek career progression; however, it does indicate that the respondents to the survey were largely from the more highly educated sub-population. Of those who held a doctorate, most taught languages at a university. 13.5% of respondents were from Australia
Language models for topic tracking: The importance of score normalization
- In (Croft and Lafferty, 2003), chapter 5
, 2003
"... Generative unigram language models have proven to be a simple though effective model for information retrieval tasks. In contrast to ad-hoc retrieval, topic tracking requires that matching scores are comparable across topics. Several ranking functions based on generative language models: straight li ..."
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Generative unigram language models have proven to be a simple though effective model for information retrieval tasks. In contrast to ad-hoc retrieval, topic tracking requires that matching scores are comparable across topics. Several ranking functions based on generative language models: straight
Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange",
, 2004
"... Abstract How much do cultural biases affect economic exchange? We try to answer this question by using the relative trust European citizens have for citizens of other countries. First, we document that this trust is affected not only by objective characteristics of the country being trusted, but al ..."
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for difference in information and another set that proxy for culture. As measures of information we use the geographical distance between the two countries, their proximity, and the commonality between the two languages. 3 We also collected the number of times a country name appears in the headlines
ASSESSING LANGUAGE DEVELOPM...
, 1995
"... Note: Every attempt has been made to maintain the integrity of the printed text. Due to the constraints of the electronic environment, some figures and tables may have been reconstructed or omitted. As more and more children enter early childhood education programs with limited proficiency in Engli ..."
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language. 3. The next stage occurs when the child is ready to go public with the new language. There are two characteristics to this speech-it is telegraphic and it involves the use of formulas. Telegraphic speech is common in early monolingual language development and involves the use of a few content
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