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Development of Quantitative and Temporal Scalar Implicatures in a Felicity Judgment Task
Experimental investigations into children’s interpretation of scalar terms show that children have difficulties with scalar implicatures in tasks. In contrast with adults, they are for instance not able to derive the pragmatic interpretation that “some ...
Walter Schaeken +2 more
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Critical Thinking Dispositions: Their Nature and Assessability
Assuming that critical thinking dispositions are at least as important as critical thinking abilities, Ennis examines the concept of critical thinking disposition and suggests some criteria for judging sets of them.
Robert H. Ennis
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An alternative to alternative medicine [PDF]
![][1] Few things are more infuriating than watching an argument where both protagonists are wrong. This is how I feel watching debates about complementary medicine. Both sides have misunderstood something fundamental. The argument, in a much shortened version, goes a little like this: > Scientist:‘ We’ve tested your alternative medicines in high ...
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The construction of a post-academic university: Opportunity or status quo?
Background: Over the last two decades it has become increasingly urgent to rethink current hurdles and opportunities for higher education, not just in the Global North, but in the effects of Northern policies globally.
Ida H.J. Sabelis
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Una discusión reciente en México es la posesión territorial. Este artículo comprende cuatro apartados que discuten tal fenómeno. El primero refiere al despojo como proceso histórico que se da por la disputa de recursos naturales, se ejemplifican dos ...
Efrén Orozco López
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Presupposition Accommodation of the German Additive Particle auch (= “too”)
Presupposition triggers differ with respect to whether their presupposition is easily accommodatable. The presupposition of focus-sensitive additive particles like also or too is often classified as hard to accommodate, i.e., these triggers are ...
Mira Grubic, Marta Wierzba
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Three experiments were conducted to evaluate paddy rice as an alternative energy feedstuff in low-protein diets for pigs. In Experiment 1, a total of 400 growing pigs (20.68 ± 0.29 kg initial bodyweight), were randomly allocated four dietary treatments ...
Zijuan Wu +3 more
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Multi-objective decision-making for road design [PDF]
Multi-objective analysis is a popular tool to solve many economic, managerial and construction problems. The objective of this research is to develop and implement a methodology for multi-objective optimization of multi-alternative decisions in road ...
W. K. M. Brauers +3 more
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Are millennial students better equipped to overcome choice bias?
Although choosing between several alternatives is the basic and most common process of decision-making, it has been well established that when having to decide, people are prone to various biases and seldom elect an alternative rationally.
Ran Etgar, Emanuel Tamir
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Significant hydrocarbon raw material potential in the Arctic territories and complex technological solutions for its development dictate the need to solve extraordinary organizational, managerial and technical tasks of strategic nature.
A. G. Kazanin
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