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Animal fluency in people with Parkinson's disease: Item‐based performance before and after deep brain stimulation surgery

open access: yesJournal of Neuropsychology, EarlyView.
Abstract People with Parkinson disease (PD) after surgery for deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus (STN‐DBS) often decline in animal fluency due to impairments in executive functions and/or language. Item‐based measures of animal fluency may shed light on the specific nature of this decline, and into the strategies used when ...
Adrià Rofes   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhanced Integrated Scoring for Cleaning Dirty Texts

open access: yes, 2008
An increasing number of approaches for ontology engineering from text are gearing towards the use of online sources such as company intranet and the World Wide Web.
Bennamoun, Mohammed   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The Ambiguous Ecologies of Agri‐Alternatives: Exploring the Calculus of Social Reproduction in Rural India

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances scholarship on agri‐alternatives by probing the gap between romanticised narratives of how alternative farming transitions ought to be and the actual practices farmers enact in their fields. Focusing on moments when such alternatives encounter on‐the‐ground realities, we propose ambiguous ecologies as a lens to explore the ...
Arianna Tozzi, Enid Still
wiley   +1 more source

Counter‐Stigmatization in the Digital Age: The Case of the Sex Tech Award Incident

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholars have shown considerable interest in how organizations manage stigma when powerful actors discredit them and their products. However, research has paid less attention to how organizations might deflect stigma back onto their stigmatizers.
Neva Bojovic   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Machine Translation of Low-Resource Spoken Dialects: Strategies for Normalizing Swiss German

open access: yes, 2018
The goal of this work is to design a machine translation (MT) system for a low-resource family of dialects, collectively known as Swiss German, which are widely spoken in Switzerland but seldom written.
Baeriswyl, Michael   +3 more
core  

Dictionary skills in advanced learners’ coursebooks — Materials survey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Nowadays, almost 65 years after the publication of the first advanced learner’s dictionary, this particular consultation source is considered “a useful addition to any [language] course” (Sharma & Barret, 2007: 52).
Kiermasz, Zuzanna, Molenda, Marek
core  

Approaches to teaching writing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
About the book: Student academic writing is at the heart of teaching and learning in higher education. Students are assessed largely by what they write, and need to learn both general academic conventions as well as disciplinary writing requirements in ...
Curry, Mary Jane, Hewings, Ann
core  

Spontaneous Strategies Used During Novel Word Learning

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This online study examined spontaneous strategies of English‐speaking adults during associative word learning, the relationship of these strategies with learning outcomes and within‐task evolution of strategy use. Participants were to learn to name 14 object–pseudoword pairs across five successive encoding/recall blocks, followed by delayed ...
Matti Laine   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Primary reading exercises for use with the Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty [PDF]

open access: yes, 1955
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston ...
Barton, Doris H.   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Revisiting Blocking Effects in Second Language Learning: A Close Replication of Ellis and Sagarra (2010b)

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract We closely replicated Ellis and Sagarra (2010b), a seminal study that demonstrated clear effects of blocking in second language (L2) learning. In that study, English‐speaking learners completed different types of pretraining about Latin temporal expressions (adverbs, verbs, none) to investigate how knowledge about specific cues influenced L2 ...
Kevin McManus   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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