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An Assessment Of The Effectiveness Of The Pow Plus Tree And Cops Writing Strategies, Deborah A. Mclaughlin May 2004

An Assessment Of The Effectiveness Of The Pow Plus Tree And Cops Writing Strategies, Deborah A. Mclaughlin

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of using the Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) approach to teach Plan, Organize your notes, and Write (POW) plus Topic Sentence, Reasons, Explain your reasons, and Ending (TREE) to write a well-written opinion essay. Also, the SRSD approach will be used to teach Capitalization, Organization, Punctuation, and Spelling (COPS), an editing strategy. Harris, Graham, and Mason (2002) note that writing is a highly complex, demanding process. The purpose of writing is to communicate a message. Writers need a strategy or plan to communicate ideas clearly. To be successful and productive …

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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, May 2, 2004, Barry Strassler May 2004

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, May 2, 2004, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2004

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Deafdigest: Blue Edition, May 2, 2004, Barry Strassler May 2004

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, May 2, 2004, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2004

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Time Course Of Perceptual Grouping In User Interface Displays, Melissa F. Schulz May 2004

Time Course Of Perceptual Grouping In User Interface Displays, Melissa F. Schulz

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Perceptual grouping describes the organization of small elements into larger objects. Research in user interface (UI) design has demonstrated effects of perceptual grouping on attention and navigation. However, grouping can be mediated by a variety of task factors. One such mediator is processing time. Recent discoveries in vision science suggest that elemental grouping can occur in more than one way, depending on how long elements are displayed. These findings have led to a new understanding of perceptual organization of elements in real-world spatial environments. However,these findings had not been explored within the context of UI environments. Time limits to UI …

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Caribbean Slave Narratives: Creole In Form And Genre, Nicole N. Aljoe May 2004

Caribbean Slave Narratives: Creole In Form And Genre, Nicole N. Aljoe

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

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Semantic Changes In Present-Day English (Pde), Marva A. Banks May 2004

Semantic Changes In Present-Day English (Pde), Marva A. Banks

McCabe Thesis Collection

Before the printing press was invented, there was no recognized Standard English. There was no need for an English standard because most important public writing was in either French or Latin. "English was used primarily for oral and informal purposes and varied quite a bit from place to place" (Barry 2002). Mechanized printing, introduced into England in the late fifteenth century, made standardization a necessity. Later, in the eighteenth century, a small group of influential people decided that there needed to be a fixed standard for the English language. The group was appalled at the chaos in English and believed …

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Indian Symbiosis And The Gringo Parasite, R. Ryan Brandys May 2004

Indian Symbiosis And The Gringo Parasite, R. Ryan Brandys

The Prairie Light Review

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Statistical Pronouncements Iii, Jmasm Editors May 2004

Statistical Pronouncements Iii, Jmasm Editors

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

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On-Line Algorithms For Computing Mean And Variance Of Interval Data, And Their Use In Intelligent Systems, Berlin Wu, Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich May 2004

On-Line Algorithms For Computing Mean And Variance Of Interval Data, And Their Use In Intelligent Systems, Berlin Wu, Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

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Synchronizing Keyframe Facial Animation To Multiple Text-To-Speech Engines And Natural Voice With Fast Response Time, William H. Pechter May 2004

Synchronizing Keyframe Facial Animation To Multiple Text-To-Speech Engines And Natural Voice With Fast Response Time, William H. Pechter

Dartmouth College Undergraduate Theses

This thesis aims to create an automated lip-synchronization system for real-time applications. Specifically, the system is required to be fast, consist of a limited number of keyframes with small memory requirements, and create fluid and believable animations that synchronize with text-to-speech engines as well as raw voice data. The algorithms utilize traditional keyframe animation and a novel method of keyframe selection. Additionally, phoneme-to-keyframe mapping, synchronization, and simple blending rules are employed. The algorithms provide blending between keyframe images, borrow information from neighboring phonemes, accentuate phonemes b, p and m, differentiate between keyframes for phonemes with allophonic variations, and provide prosodromic …

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Enhancing Expressiveness Of Speech Through Animated Avatars For Instant Messaging And Mobile Phones, Joseph E. Pechter May 2004

Enhancing Expressiveness Of Speech Through Animated Avatars For Instant Messaging And Mobile Phones, Joseph E. Pechter

Dartmouth College Undergraduate Theses

This thesis aims to create a chat program that allows users to communicate via an animated avatar that provides believable lip-synchronization and expressive emotion. Currently many avatars do not attempt to do lip-synchronization. Those that do are not well synchronized and have little or no emotional expression. Most avatars with lip synch use realistic looking 3D models or stylized rendering of complex models. This work utilizes images rendered in a cartoon style and lip-synchronization rules based on traditional animation. The cartoon style, as opposed to a more realistic look, makes the mouth motion more believable and the characters more appealing. …

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Shakespeare Anagrammed, Mike Keith May 2004

Shakespeare Anagrammed, Mike Keith

Word Ways

Shakespeare's Sonnet 117 can be anagrammed into the following poetic renditions of three famous plays.

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Colloquy May 2004

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

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Front Cover And Publication Information Volume 37 Issue 2 May 2004

Front Cover And Publication Information Volume 37 Issue 2

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

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Vowel Patterns In The Oed, Susan Thorpe May 2004

Vowel Patterns In The Oed, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

In most words, the arrangement of the five major vowels A, E, I, O, and U, irrespective of the consonants, does not follow any particular pattern. In some words, however, vowels do exhibit specific patterns.

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Hunting The Ten-Square, Rex Gooch May 2004

Hunting The Ten-Square, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

A ten-square consists of ten different 10-letter words written one under another, so that the first column reads the same as the first word, the second column the same as the second word, and so on.

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A Recipe For Complete Dummies May 2004

A Recipe For Complete Dummies

Word Ways

But even a dummy is an inadequate lover if it only has limbs, neck and hair. So I've worked out a recipe for a complete dummy. Take the following ingredients, scale up or down to size, mix and voila! Many need to be scaled up or down to fit metrically. Forget rhyme. All are nouns, but some are forced. A few are abstract, but dummies have feelings.

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State Name Overlaps, Darryl Francis May 2004

State Name Overlaps, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

In previous issues of Word Ways, attention has been drawn to US towns with names reflecting their position on the border between two states. Ed Wolpow's article "Names on the Border" in May 1984 provides a definitive list, including examples such as Florala (border of Florida Alabama) and Calneva (border of California and Nevada).

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States And Capitals In Combination, Darryl Francis May 2004

States And Capitals In Combination, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

In the November 2001 Word Ways I examined the transposability of the name of the capitals of the 50 US states. In the February and May 2002 issues, I extended the study to the longest transdeletion and the shortest transaddition of each capital name. For instance, for MONTGOMERY, the longest transdeletion was MOTORMEN, a deletion of two letters, and the shortest transaddition was MYRINGOTOME, an addition of one letter. To extend this research, I now combine the names of the capitals and the corresponding states, seeking the longest transdeletion. For example, the longest transdeletion for AUSTIN TEXAS appears to be …

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State Weights, Darryl Francis May 2004

State Weights, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Using the tried and tested process, let A=1, B=2, and so on, up to Z=26. Take each of the fifty US state names in turn and calculate the total value of the state name's constituent letters. These sums have been referred to as the weights of the corresponding words or names. The weights for the fifty state names, in increasing numerical order, are given in the first column in the table below. Now divide each of the weights by the number of letters in the corresponding state name. This gives an average weight per letter. Short these averages into increasing …

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Buried States, Darryl Francis May 2004

Buried States, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Recently, I noted that the state name Oregon is buried in the word 'foregone'; could I find other examples? I decided to concentrate on state names with six letters or fewer (Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Utah), ignoring words that were obviously derived from the state names concerned (such as Hawaiitic, meaning Hawaiian-like, and Oregonite, a mineral found in Oregon). Eventually I found examples from all but Hawaii.

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Tautonyms And Tens, Arthur F. Holt May 2004

Tautonyms And Tens, Arthur F. Holt

Word Ways

In 1921 Tunste {pseudonym of Paul Bryan, a National Puzzlers' League member} revealed to Puzzledom the famous formula for constructing a 10-square out of five different reduplication words - a clever idea, the practicality of which has since been fully demonstrated.

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State Letter Banks: The Long And Short Of It, Darryl Francis May 2004

State Letter Banks: The Long And Short Of It, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Take each of the 50 US state names in turn. For each state name, reduce the name to the list of different letters occurring in the state name, ignoring repeated occurrences of letters (for example, Alabama to ABLM). For each such sequence, what is the longest and the shortest word that can be made from all the different letters, allowing repeated use of any letter? (In the National Puzzlers' League, collections of such words, not merely the longest and shortest possible, are known as a Letter Bank.)

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Planet Packing In Two Dimensions, A. Ross Eckler May 2004

Planet Packing In Two Dimensions, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

"Planet Packing" in the May 2001 Word Ways demonstrated that it is possible to use the 26-letter string MNVESARCPJLUPITHOURYANUSER to spell out each of the nine planet names in order. (Many other 26-letter strings are possible, but no 25-letter one has been found.) This article shows how to pack the planets in two dimensions. The loosest pack is, of course, the standard crossword. In the November 1998 Kickshaws, Jim Puder packed the planets (plus SUN, MOON , and UNIVERSE) into a 9x12 rectangle. The planets alone can be contained in a 10x10 square, given below at the left, but one …

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State And Presidential Square Sets, Jim Puder May 2004

State And Presidential Square Sets, Jim Puder

Word Ways

With the 2004 election looming, perhaps it is time to take belated noticed of the fact that we presently live in a rare presidential square-set era. By a "square set," I mean a set of things, the letters of whose names add up to some square number. Such sets are chiefly interesting for the fact that they evenly fill square grids; when they do so in such a way that all of their words remain intact and unbent, they are said to "pack" their grids. There are two broad categories of square sets, number-name square sets and non-numerical square sets. …

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"The Whole Kettle Of Fish In A Nutshell": Mixed Metaphors Redux, Don Hauptman May 2004

"The Whole Kettle Of Fish In A Nutshell": Mixed Metaphors Redux, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

In our previous episode on the subject, "Ironing the Bugs Out: Mixed Metaphors" (Word Ways, August 2001), I recounted egregious and amusing real-life illustrations of this popular solecism.

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The Movie Star Behind The Presidents, Dave Morice, Monte J. Zerger May 2004

The Movie Star Behind The Presidents, Dave Morice, Monte J. Zerger

Word Ways

Harrison Ford is a movie star of the first magnitude. Whether he knows it or not, he's also a wordplay star. His name, his movies, and his life connect him, in one or more ways, to all the American presidents but one. Perhaps more than any other person in the history of the Republic, he is presidential, so much so that several websites promoted him for president in 2000.

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Straight Down The Middle, Susan Thorpe May 2004

Straight Down The Middle, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

So sang Bing Crosby. In the current context, however, it describes the chopping of a word into two halves, each half with the same number of letters. Hence only words with an even number of letters can be considered. The letters of the first half and second half, respectively, of a parent word are rearranged to make two new words, the offspring.

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Cheater's Selfish-Synonymy May 2004

Cheater's Selfish-Synonymy

Word Ways

The February issue (WW 04-45) gave the results of my systematic search for coincidental self-synonymy: pairs of words that are unrelated etymologically but via convergent evolution happen to be spelled the same and c. mean the same. I extended the coverage to near-synonymic pairs as well and to unrelated contronymic (self-opposite) pairs.

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Can All Words Be Expressed As Sumagrams?, Daniel Austin May 2004

Can All Words Be Expressed As Sumagrams?, Daniel Austin

Word Ways

At the place where mathematics and the world of anagrams overlap, many interesting phenomena arise, as regular readers of Word Ways are frequently reminded. Undoubtedly the most famous example is the anagram ELEVEN PLUS TWO = TWELVE PLUS ONE discovered by Melvin Wellman over half a century ago, with equality both mathematically and as an anagram. Two more of these appeared in Word Ways in 1992. They are Spanish examples by Lee Sallows: CATORCE + UNO = ONCE + CUATRO and DOCE + TRES = TRECE + DOS.

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