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Whose decision is it anyway? Defendants’ prior experience shapes prosecutorial case dismissal

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Studies of early case processing outcomes in the United States typically assume that decisions are made unilaterally by the prosecutor, such that prior contact with the legal system is universally associated with harsher outcomes for defendants.
R. R. Dunlea, Miranda A. Galvin
wiley   +1 more source

Formulaic language : The case of How about you? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper investigates the formulaic English expression How about you? (and its variants And you? and What about you?) in the context of Japanese learners of English as a foreign language. These expressions are very familiar to Japanese EFL students and
JOHN, Campbell-Larsen
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Behind Closed Doors: Interaction Rituals and the Building of Social Ties in Private Company‐Investor Meetings À huis clos : rituels d'interaction et construction de liens sociaux lors des réunions privées entre sociétés et investisseurs

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines private meetings between company managers and institutional investors as part of the broader financial reporting environment. Using direct observations of 39 such meetings across four large, listed companies—complemented with the study of preparatory work and internal documents—the paper investigates how these meetings help
Per Ahblom   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Formulas, regular languages and boolean circuits

open access: yesTheoretical Computer Science, 1992
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openaire   +1 more source

Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
wiley   +1 more source

Formulaicity of German Controlled Language as a Translation Challenge for Neural Machine Translation

open access: yesНаучный диалог
This paper examines the formulaicity of the German, considering both its perceived and actual challenges for neural machine translation (NMT) into Russian.
K. V. Manerova
doaj   +1 more source

Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

‘We're not going to start lifting stones now…’: Stakeholder perspectives on the role of psychometric methods in outcome measurement

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives Psychological outcome measures guide research and clinical decision‐making, yet many widely used tools were developed with limited psychometric rigour. Although advanced methods (e.g., item response theory, structural equation modelling) are now widely available, their added value in applied research remains uncertain and applied ...
David Byrne   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multidimensional unipolar IRT and applications to the measurement of print exposure

open access: yesBritish Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Item response theory (IRT) has been a prominent modelling framework in educational and psychological measurement. Traditional IRT models are bipolar, commonly assuming symmetric measurement link functions and symmetric trait distributions over a latent continuum unbounded at both ends. However, many measured constructs, such as print exposure,
Qi (Helen) Huang, Daniel M. Bolt
wiley   +1 more source

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