The Development of Language Learning Strategies

This article discusses the strategy repertoires and strategy development of six English children who learned foreign languages at primary school. My study differs from mainstream research in that it focuses on young children and on the development of their strategies, draws on sociocultural theory and uses ethnographic methods. My findings show that the six children developed a range of strategies over the course of a calendar year in spite of receiving no direct strategy instruction. The primary classroom encouraged learner autonomy and stimulated children to reflect on their learning which, in turn, enabled them to refine their strategies

A Statistical Learning Perspective of Genetic Programming

This paper proposes a theoretical analysis of Genetic Programming (GP) from the perspective of statistical learning theory, a well grounded mathematical toolbox for machine learning. By computing the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension of the family of programs that can be inferred by a specific setting of GP, it is proved that a parsimonious fitness ensures universal consistency. This means that the empirical error minimization allows convergence to the best possible error when the number of test cases goes to infinity. However, it is also proved that the standard method consisting in putting a hard limit on the program size still results in programs of infinitely increasing size in function of their accuracy. It is also shown that cross-validation or hold-out for choosing the complexity level that optimizes the error rate in generalization also leads to bloat. So a more complicated modification of the fitness is proposed in order to avoid unnecessary bloat while nevertheless preserving universal consistency

Influência de fatores anátomo-fisiológicos na medida indireta da pressão arterial: identificação do conhecimento dos enfermeiros Influencia de los rasgos anátomo-fisiológicos en la mensuración inversa de la presión arterial: identificación del conocimiento de los enfermeros Influence of the anatomical and physiological factors in the indirect measurement of blood pressure: identification of nursing knowledge

O estudo foi realizado com enfermeiros de hospitais de cardiologia e teve como objetivo caracterizar o conhecimento sobre os aspectos conceituais e fatores anátomo-fisiológicos que influenciam a medida indireta da pressão arterial.<br>El estudo fué realizado con enfermeros de hospitales de cardiología y el objetivo fue caracterizar el conocimiento respecto a los rasgos conceptuales y anatomo-fisiológicos que influyen en la mensuración de la presión arterial.<br>The study was developed by clinical nurses specialized in cardiology and had the purpose to characterize the kwowledge about the conceptual aspects and the anatomical and physiological factors that interfere in the marks of blood pressure