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Cognitive And Linguistic Effects Of Working Memory Training In Children With Corresponding Deficits, Laura J. Pauls, Lisa M.D. Archibald

Paediatrics Publications

Working memory training has been found to result in improvements on tasks similar to those involved in the training (near transfer) but show limited impact on everyday skills such as language or academic abilities (far transfer). Previous research has largely focused on those with a broad range of skills, and examined group level responses. This study uses a single subject design to examine the effect of working memory training on both working memory and related domains in children with working memory impairment. Seven children (8–11 years old) with a working memory impairment completed 20 sessions of computerized working memory intervention. …

January 28, 2022 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

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Él Code-Switches More Than Tú Y Yo: New Data For The Subject Pronoun-Verb Switch Constraint, Kate Bellamy, Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez, M. Carmen Parafita Couto

Faculty Publications

In early studies, code-switches between a subject pronoun and a finite verb were considered highly dispreferred or even impossible. However, naturalistic data from several language pairs has since highlighted that such switches are possible, although their grammaticality is constrained by the typology of the pronouns involved. In this study, we test the switching constraints postulated for subject pronouns-verbs among P’urhepecha-Spanish bilinguals (n = 12) from Michoacán, western Mexico. Using a two-alternative forced-choice acceptability judgement task (2AFC), we found that, contrary to expectations, switches between a third person singular pronoun and a verb were considered the most acceptable, followed by …

Performance Study On Extractive Text Summarization Using Bert Models, Shehab Abdel-Salam, Ahmed Rafea

Faculty Journal Articles

The task of summarization can be categorized into two methods, extractive and abstractive. Extractive summarization selects the salient sentences from the original document to form a summary while abstractive summarization interprets the original document and generates the summary in its own words. The task of generating a summary, whether extractive or abstractive, has been studied with different approaches in the literature, including statistical-, graph-, and deep learning-based approaches. Deep learning has achieved promising performances in comparison to the classical approaches, and with the advancement of different neural architectures such as the attention network (commonly known as the transformer), there are …

Peer Review Analyze: A Novel Benchmark Resource For Computational Analysis Of Peer Reviews, Tirthankar Ghosal, Sandeep Kumar, Prabhat Kumar Bharti, Asif Ekbal

Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.

Peer Review is at the heart of scholarly communications and the cornerstone of scientific publishing. However, academia often criticizes the peer review system as non-transparent, biased, arbitrary, a flawed process at the heart of science, leading to researchers arguing with its reliability and quality. These problems could also be due to the lack of studies with the peer-review texts for various proprietary and confidentiality clauses. Peer review texts could serve as a rich source of Natural Language Processing (NLP) research on understanding the scholarly communication landscape, and thereby build systems towards mitigating those pertinent problems. In this work, we present …

An Interventional Pilot Of Customized Adherence Enhancement Combined With Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotic Medication (Cae-L) For Poorly Adherent Patients With Chronic Psychotic Disorder In Tanzania, Christopher J. Burant, Carol E. Blixen, Kristin A. Cassidy, Jennifer B. Levin, Martha Sajatovic

Faculty Scholarship

Background: Chronic psychotic disorders (CPD) impose a particularly significant burden in resource-limited settings. Combining long-acting antipsychotic medication (LAI) with a customized adherence enhancement intervention (CAE-L) has potential to advance care. Methods: Nineteen adults ≥ age 18 with CPD who self-reported missing ≥20% of antipsychotic medication within the last month were stabilized on oral haloperidol prior to transitioning to monthly haloperidol decanote for 25 weeks. Outcome evaluations were conducted at baseline and Week 25. Primary outcomes were oral medication adherence assessed via the Tablet Routines Questionnaire (TRQ) and LAI injection frequency. Secondary outcomes included CPD symptoms measured by the Brief Psychiatric …

The Montclarion, January 27, 2022, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State University

One Click Liability: Section 230 And The Online Marketplace, Christopher Boyd

DePaul Law Review

No abstract provided.

January 26, 2022 Greenmail, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

GreenMail (student newsletter through 2024)

No abstract provided.

Arabic Professor Named Um Humanities Teacher Of The Year, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Allen Clark to discuss intersection of language and music for March 7 campus lecture

Georgia Southern University Fact Book, Georgia Southern University

Georgia Southern Fact Books (1976-2022)

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Managing Anger Among Student-Librarians Using Aggression Replacement Training And Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emmanuel Chidiadi Onwubiko

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The destruction of facilities in higher institutions by rampaging angry students during crisis has remained a re-occurring decimal and library schools have had their fair share. This study therefore was aimed at establishing the effectiveness of the application of aggression replacement training and cognitive behavioral therapy in the management of anger among student-librarians. The study was guided by two research questions as well as two hypotheses. The study applied the pre-test, post-test control group quasi experimental design. The target population of this study include, all student-librarians in federal universities running library and information science programmes in Nigeria but the sampled …

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (January 25, 2022), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

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Collaborative Language Planning Project: Report 06: Winter 2022, Richard Littlebear, Mizuki Miyashita, Susan Penfield, Madeleine Shek

Collaborative Language Planning Project: Reports and Newsletters

Collaborative Language Planning Project report of activities, July 2021 - December 2022.

The Marks Of A Diaconal Church, Maylanne Maybee

Consensus

No abstract provided.

Points Of Pride, Georgia Southern University

Points of Pride (2013-2023)

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Preparing English Teachers To Teach Global Englishes Language Teaching In Thailand: My Personal And Professional Journey, Denchai Prabjandee

Journal of Educational Research and Innovation

The global spread of English has implications for English language teaching (ELT), in which teachers need to prepare learners to use English with culturally diverse English users outside of the classrooms. This requires teachers to change how they conceptualize the kind of English they teach and how English should be taught. An emerging ELT paradigm of Global Englishes Language Teaching (GELT) was developed to respond this change. Based on a teacher educator’s experiences to equip English teachers in Thailand with GELT knowledge and skills to implement it in the classroom, this article explores his personal journey of learning about GELT …

Qualitative Findings From The Practice Of Outsourcing By The Aviation Technical Services Industry In Northern Europe: Comparison With Literature, Jukka Holkeri

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

The outsourcing of maintenance and other technical services is a trend in both military and civil aviation. This article uses input from real outsourcing cases in Northern Europe to verify previous literature findings and to introduce new viewpoints to fill an identified research gap.

Interviews of deeply involved individuals from six cases were selected and analyzed using the Delphi method. The findings were synthesized using a framework that articulates contexts, observed outcomes, and generative mechanisms.

Many of the key literature findings were verified by this case analysis, but there were also some contradictions and new observations that had not been …

Subtle Speech And Use Of Pronouns In Tolkien's Novels And Old English Poetry, Chiara Marchetti

Journal of Tolkien Research

In human conversations, verbal exchanges follow rules. Applicable both to Old English poetry and Tolkien's fiction, rules governing speech set the right quantity and quality of information to be transmitted and provide strategies to avoid conflicts. What is too redundant or scanty in a speech might indicate more layers of meaning, which are implied or suggested.

Language can create or resolve conflicts; the careful use of words and even pronouns can make a difference between self-assertion and cooperation, unity and separation. Such refined linguistic technique is visible in Old English poetry, where dialectal ability is as important as valour, where …

A Necessary Shift? A Qualitative Exploration Of Black Women’S Experiences With Altering Self-Presentation For Job Attainment, Dorothy Rachael Kemp

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore how Black women describe their experiences with shifting for job attainment, including their perception of identity, and how they interpret and negotiate any outcomes of shifting. The study was guided by the following research questions: (1) How do Black women describe their experiences with shifting for job attainment? (2) How do Black women interpret and negotiate any outcomes of shifting? (3) How do Black women perceive their identity in terms of their experiences with shifting?

Ten participants shared their personal experiences shifting throughout their job attainment process. Each participant self-identified as Black …

Improving Interpreters’ Normative Ethics Discourse By Imparting Principled-Reasoning Through Case Analysis, Robyn K. Dean, Robert Q. Pollard Jr.

Articles

The vocabulary available to community interpreters regarding professional ethics is typically limited to a set of prohibitions—what interpreters should not do. These prohibitions are disproportionately more prevalent in ethical documents and discourse than guidance on what interpreters should do. Both types of guidance are examples of normative ethical messages. However, when interpreters are asked to justify decisions which lead to them taking action rather than refraining from action, they are left with insufficient vocabulary to do so. Without a broader normative vocabulary allowing conversation regarding action-taking, interpreters tend to rely on unhelpful, non-normative language such as metaphors which fail to …

Qualitative Coding As A Pedagogy For Fostering Professional Dispositions And Reflexivity, Kristina M. Valtierra, Lesley N. Siegel

The Qualitative Report

Many fields require practitioners to develop the dispositions, reflection, and reflexivity skills to navigate complex professional demands. Yet, there are limited methods for fostering these skills. Given that the act of qualitative coding is both iterative and reflexive, this paper shares an innovative approach to teaching students how to apply coding to their own reflective writing. We feature our process of teaching preservice teachers our self-coding method and lessons learned along the way from engaging 100 teacher candidates in the practice. Over four years, across three different higher education settings, graduate and undergraduate teacher candidates alike demonstrated insightful reflections about …

Elgin's "Native Tongue": A "Me Too" Universe?, Amir Barati

Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies

Suzette Haden Elgin’s novel Native Tongue (1984) provides a fascinating critique of the ideologies inscribed into patriarchal language and evokes an extremely valuable linguistic and political awareness. This article will examine the liability of the ways the novel revolts against the patriarchal society via the introduction of a gynocentric linguistic intervention. I claim, Elgin’s novel showcases an invaluable instance of how it is possible for women to revolt against the pillars of patriarchy through manipulations at the gestalt and schematic level of language and most specifically, the bodily metaphoric quality of the English. This proposed transformation of the schematic and …

Writing Desire On The Lesbian Body: Baudelaire’S Fantasies And Vivien’S Realities, Emily Wieder

Tête à Tête: Journal of Francophone Studies

In The Flowers of Evil [Les Fleurs du Mal (1857)], French poet Charles Baudelaire paints three female bodies: the mistress, the prostitute, and the lesbian. The latter appears in three of one-hundred poems but so captivated Baudelaire that he almost titled the collection The Lesbians. Censors nevertheless condemned the anthology and suppressed two of the lesbian poems. The remaining lesbian poem compares the “damned women” to “thoughtful cattle.” A rare representation of lesbian bodies, this metaphor problematically depicts them as savage.

Yet this “Other” exemplifies the baudelairean poetic ideal. By crafting Beauty, the Poet immortalizes his corpus. As the …

January 21, 2022 Ereporter, University Of Alabama At Birmingham

eReporter (campus newsletter)

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Structural And Semantic Analysis Of Copulative Compound Words In The Pashto Language, O'G'Iljon Shuxrat Qizi Abduvaliyeva

The Light of Islam

The question of word formation, particularly the studying the ways of copulative compound words’ formation based on modern methods, remains contemporary linguistics’ one of the urgent problems. The relevance of this issue is increasing, especially for less-studied languages such as the Pashto language, since the language’s vocabulary is constantly enriching under modern requirements. Since the lexical fund of language is dynamic, it is always essential to study the processes synchronously. English, Russian, Afghan and Uzbek linguists have carried out several works on the grammar of the Pashto language on various topics. But it is hard to find a place where …

Exemplary Practices Which Support Achievement Gaps In Reading And Writing For Hispanic Ell Learners In Title I Twenty-First Century Elementary Schools, Melinda Gonzalez

Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to identify and describe strategies used by public school 3rd, 4th, and 5th-grade teachers to support English language learners in Title I public schools.

Methodology: This phenomenological study identified and described 14 teachers' 3rd, 4th, and 5th-grade perceptions on effective strategies to support English language learners in reading and writing. Respondents were purposively chosen based on specific criteria and recommendations of an expert panel of experts and data was coded using NVIVO.

Findings: The expert panel members identified multiple strategies to support English language learners. Strategies include (a) Question higher level of …

Want To Study Food In Sicily In May? Attend An Info Session, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Cross-Generational Dialect Familiarity And Use In Oman: The Case Of Al-Hamra Cross-Generational Dialect Familiarity And Use In Oman: The Case Of Al-Hamra, Shorooq Rashid Al-Abri, Ghada Said Al-Harthi, C.J. Denman, Rahma Al-Mahrooqi

Journal of Arts and Social Sciences

Although a number of researchers have focused on describing the unique linguistic features of various Omani dialects, relatively little attention has been paid to their cross-generational familiarity and use. The current study investigated this issue by exploring the abilities of 95 young (20 years or younger) Al-Hamra residents to provide the meanings and correct usage of 20 words identified as being characteristic of the traditional Al-Hamra dialect. Sixty-one elderly residents (60 years or older) were also asked to perform the same task for vocabulary representing the speech of younger residents. Results indicate a limited understanding of, and ability to use, …

التكامل الدلالي بين الرسم العثماني والتفسير القرآني, محمد نورالدين المنجد

Journal of Arts and Social Sciences

الرسم العثماني، الرسم والمعنى، تاريخ القرآن، المصاحف، السياق.