Acquisitioning periodicals online is a new mode for libraries. It has five procedures, namely information retrieving by net, choosing and booking, document delivery, confirming orders, and electric payment. Comparing with traditional acquisition of periodicals, the online acquisition of periodicals

In this paper we describe the acquisition and content of a large multi-modal database intended for training and testing of multi-modal verification systems. The XM2VTSDB database offers synchronised video and speech data as well as image sequences allowing multiple views of the face. It consists

) and sold �rms in the highest decile of the index (weakest rights) would have earned abnormal returns of 8.5 percent per year during the sample period. We �nd that �rms with stronger shareholder rights had higher �rm value, higher pro�ts, higher sales growth, lower capital expenditures, and made fewer

, but that this ability will not be a significant predictor of success for childhood second language acquisition. A study with 57 adult Hungarian-speaking immigrants confirmed the hypothesis in the sense that very few adult immigrants scored within the range of child arrivals on a grammaticality judgment test

This paper discusses an unusual structure in the English of a trilingual child acquiring English, Italian and Scottish Gaelic. The child uses a structure where it appears that an object DP is “doubled” by a pronoun for an extended period of time (10 months):

We study shareholder returns for firms that acquired five or more public, private, and0or subsidiary targets within a short time period. Since the same bidder chooses different types of targets and methods of payment, any variation in returns must be due to the characteristics of the target

Clinical guidelines can be viewed as generic skeletal-plan schemata that represent clinical procedural knowledge and that are instantiated and refined dynamically by care providers over significant time periods. In the Asgaard project, we are investigating a set of tasks that support

This study reexamined the processes of acquisition and extinction under periodic reinforcement. During the first phase of the experiment, pigeons were exposed to a fixed-interval schedule either 40 or 80 s long. During the second phase, each session started with the fixed-interval schedule

The critical-period hypothesis for second-language acqui-sition was tested on data from the 1990 U.S. Census using responses from 2.3 million immigrants with Spanish or Chinese language back-grounds. The analyses tested a key prediction of the hypothesis, namely, that the line regressing second

Thoughts conveyed through gesture often differ from thoughts conveyed through speech. In this article, a model of the sources and consequences of such gesture-speech mismatches and their role during transitional periods in the acquisition of concepts is proposed. The model makes 2 major claims: (a