Presenting GECO : an eyetracking corpus of monolingual and bilingual sentence reading

This paper introduces GECO, the Ghent Eye-tracking Corpus, a monolingual and bilingual corpus of eye-tracking data of participants reading a complete novel. English monolinguals and Dutch-English bilinguals read an entire novel, which was presented in paragraphs on the screen. The bilinguals read half of the novel in their first language, and the other half in their second language. In this paper we describe the distributions and descriptive statistics of the most important reading time measures for the two groups of participants. This large eye-tracking corpus is perfectly suited for both exploratory purposes as well as more directed hypothesis testing, and it can guide the formulation of ideas and theories about naturalistic reading processes in a meaningful context. Most importantly, this corpus has the potential to evaluate the generalizability of monolingual and bilingual language theories and models to reading of long texts and narratives

Non-Attendance as the Indicator of Student's Satisfaction With the Educational Process

The growth of non-attendance has raised a lot of questions among students that need to be answered. In case when during a school year, in one class consisting of twenty-five students one gets more than five thousands non-attendances, then it is no longer the issue of a single problem nor a few of them but a whole epidemic. Moreover, other classes have a similar problem, too. By conducting the survey among the students and by analyzing it one has noted a lack of motivation and responsibility towards school related duties. Consequentially there has been a growth of non-attendance among a majority of students. The existing system of sanctioning does not bring neither prevention nor positive results. Therefore, one needs to modernize the educational process in order to motivate both students and teachers and that will function in a way to reduce non-attendance. In order to succeed, one needs to involve every social partner, from parents to potential future employers.non-attendance, accomplishment, survey, measures and procedures

Reviewing Failure as Part of Reflection: A Potential Predictor of Health Sciences Students’ Successes

Purpose: The authors examined Health Sciences students’ willingness to reflect on an academic failure at the students’ point-of-entrance into university in order to gauge how students’ willingness to engage in reflective tasks might be predictive of their subsequent academic success and, ultimately, of their potential to become health professionals. Methods: Following Health Sciences students’ failure on an English diagnostic test, the authors determined the proportion of 568 Health Sciences students who voluntarily reviewed or did not review (SR and SNR respectively) their failed tests before sitting a second-chance test 60 days later. The authors then compared the improvements between SR and SNR on the second-chance test and determined three relationships: 1) whether SR or SNR showed greater improvement on the second-chance test; 2) whether SR or SNR had higher mean marks in their four requisite Health Sciences courses; 3) if SR were more likely to be subsequently placed in a health professional programme. Results: 42% (N=237) of students chose not to review their test after failing it and being advised that they could review the test. Those same students were already performing at a lower level on this first test for their Reading Comprehension (F(1,566)= 5.608, p=0.18) and Listening Comprehension (F(1,566)=4.117, p = 0.043). While SR improved more than did SNR when they sat the second test, reviewing the failed test did not significantly correlate with improved success on the second test. However, SR achieved higher mean marks across their four requisite Health Sciences courses than did SNR (Wald’s Z = 8.015, p Wald’s Z = 3.108, p = 0.002) and were more likely to be offered a place in a professional programme (Wald’s Z = 3.108, p = 0.002). Conclusions: Choosing to engage in a relatively simple reflective task following an initial failure predicts subsequent academic success for our Health Sciences students and their potential of becoming health professionals

Corbynizmin Yükselişi ve Çöküşü

In an era when the traditional centre-left parties have constantly lost ground to rising right-wing populist movements, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party was increasingly portrayed as a left-wing alternative to both pro-austerity incumbent parties that rule out redistributive policies and right-wing populism fuelled by the grievances of the masses targeting the traditional political elites. Corbyn managed to mobilize a vast section of the society by becoming Europe’s biggest left-wing party in terms of membership and increased its votes in the 2017 election, especially by gaining youth support. Nevertheless, the 2019 election constituted an immense fall. Regarding his political discourse both during the electoral campaigns and the serious challenges he faced, Corbyn could be identified as a left-wing populist. To be more specific, Corbyn is a democratic socialist who usually resorted to left-wing populist means within a social democratic party, and failed in his efforts to transform both the British mainstream politics and the Labour in the end.Geleneksel merkez sol partilerin yükselen sağ popülist hareketlere karşı sürekli zemin kaybettiği bir tarihsel evrede, Jeremy Corbyn'in İşçi Partisi, hem yeniden dağıtım politikalarını dışlayan kemer sıkma yanlısı iktidar partilerine, hem de kitlelerin siyasi elitlere yönelik memnuniyetsizliğinden güç alan sağ popülizme karşı bir sol alternatif olarak tasvir edildi. Britanya İşçi Partisi üye sayısı bakımından Avrupa'nın en büyük sol partisi haline gelerek toplumun geniş bir kesimini harekete geçirmeyi başardı ve 2017 seçimlerinde özellikle gençlerin desteğini alarak oylarını arttırdı. Buna karşılık 2019 seçimleri muazzam bir düşüşe sahne oldu. Corbyn, seçim kampanyaları sırasındaki siyasi söylemi ve karşılaştığı zorluklara verdiği yanıtlar bakımından bir sol popülist olarak tanımlanabilir. Daha açık ifade etmek gerekirse, Corbyn, sosyal demokrat bir parti içinde genellikle sol popülist araçlara başvuran ve sonunda hem İngiliz ana akım siyasetini hem de İşçi Partisi'ni dönüştürme çabalarında başarısız olmuş bir demokratik sosyalisttir

When Software Meets the Road: Responsibility for Defective Smart Cars in the MVP Era

This Article reveals and analyzes the rising dominance of the Minimal Viable Product (MVP) dynamic in the car industry and its legal and policy implications, especially given the growing automation trends in the driving experience. The MVP concept refers to releasing products as soon as possible and gathering feedback from early adopters to improve the product on the fly, based on users’ inputs. Many software-related products we use today were introduced at such an unripe stage and were developed into their current versions, given business trends originating from Silicon Valley. As the use of software in cars has grown, the MVP concept has migrated into the vehicle industry. The experimental nature of software development may require a different legal approach when dealing with vehicles, given the substantial negative impact of traffic accidents. While banning unripe products from the roads seems to be a trivial reaction, different reasons deem this to be an unpractical response. The domination of AI-based technologies prevents a thorough examination of user-computer responses until they hit the road. The shortage of current legal remedies to adequately solve the challenges of the MVP concept requires an immediate rethinking of the regulatory environment to address vehicles with various forms of automation while accounting for both deontological and utilitarian challenges. The Article starts by describing the software industry’s “Agile” methods and introduces the MVP concept, while providing examples of its success and failure. Next, it demonstrates and provides examples as to how this concept migrated into the car industry. Thereafter, it turns to address the deontological challenges involved with applying the MVP method and argues that not only does the use of technologies in such an early stage require meaningful consent, but also approval of an ethics board in an Institutional Review Board (IRB)-like process. Next, the Article focuses on a utilitarian analysis, after first establishing that the current measures to limit risky vehicles on the road are insufficient. To do so it addresses reliance on recalls, ex-ante supervision, and regulation of software distribution. It points to the complexities of the driving experience which might only be properly addressed through substantial usage and thus ex post regulation. It further indicates that resolving the noted regulatory tensions by relying on stricter ex post measures premised on the law as it stands today might fail to achieve an optimal outcome. This is due to information asymmetries which might substantially hinder effective litigation by plaintiffs. The Article concludes by providing some initial proposals to mitigate these latter concerns and enable ex post measures. At the end of the day, because MVP products are likely to stay, the Article concludes that some reforms to liability doctrines might be of the essence. These should include mandating manufacturers to record and report their cars’ behavior and rethinking evidentiary burdens

Experimental Investigation of a Heat Pump Tumble Dryer with a Zeotropic Refrigerant Blend

The restrictions on the use of hydrofluorocarbons with a high global warming potential (GWP) are increasing on a global scale. They can be cost-driven or politically enforced. In Europe, the EU regulation 517/2014 restricts the refrigerants currently used in household appliances, such as R-134a, so new systems and working fluids must be investigated as replacements. The trend in domestic appliances with heat pumps, such as tumble dryers, is towards using propane as a refrigerant. This paper presents an experimental comparison of different refrigerants in a heat pump tumble dryer test rig. The original working fluid is R-134a, and the tests performed investigate a zeotropic refrigerant blend. The retrofit of the system for each new refrigerant is minimized. Modifications made to the system focus on adapting the throttling device to create a stable operating point. The cycle performance is evaluated using various parameters such as refrigerant mass flow, compressor input power, energy consumption and the duration of a standard drying cycle

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The Effect of corporate reputation management as a competition tool on tourism businesses

Abstract The enterprises should be created differences such as; to be able to sustain their entity in the face of competitor, to have position in the sector, to present value in the products and services that have been offered for ensuring profit and to be reliability and honesty. The corporate reputation has been considered as a competition tool that can be revealed these differences. This study aims to put forth the effects of corporate reputation management in the hotel businesses. Managers\u27 idea, working in the hotel businesses in Turkey, about reputation management has been determined and asked them to make suggestions. In this research has been found suggestions in relation to using statue of reputation as a difference maker and competition tool, in the enterprises which own it. In addition corporate reputation, as a concrete element, regarding to determining of business’ situation in the market has been evaluated. In this study had been tried to reach to all hotel managers from middle and upper level in Turkey. It has been asked from managers to fill the questionnaire had been sent to their e-mail addresses which gained from different sources. Online questionnaire had been carried out in this paper. Corporate reputation was revealed as efficient value in the matter of; becoming as a more important phenomenon for enterprises, ensuring customer loyalty, increasing prolificacy and having qualified personnel. Enterprises which have corporate reputation will be one step ahead in the relation to the competitor. It is concerned different values for reputation formation. Especially in the tourism sector service quality is among the most effective values. The importance of human labor on ensuring customer satisfaction in this sector is an undeniable fact. Gaining and retaining of qualified personnel by the business will have been providing through a strong corporate reputation

Cross-lingual neighborhood effects in generalized lexical decision and natural reading

The present study assessed intra- and cross-lingual neighborhood effects, using both a generalized lexical decision task and an analysis of a large-scale bilingual eye-tracking corpus (Cop, Dirix, Drieghe & Duyck, in press). Using new neighborhood density and frequency measures, the general lexical decision task yielded an inhibitory cross-lingual neighborhood density effect on reading times of second language words, replicating van Heuven, Dijkstra and Grainger (1998). Reaction times for native language words were not influenced by neighborhood density or frequency but error rates showed cross-lingual neighborhood effects depending on target word frequency. The large-scale eye movement corpus confirmed effects of cross-lingual neighborhood on natural reading, even though participants were reading a novel in a unilingual context. Especially second language reading and to a lesser extent native language reading were influenced by lexical candidates from the non-target language, although these effects in natural reading were largely facilitatory. These results offer strong and direct support for bilingual word recognition models that assume language-independent lexical access