An exemplar model should be able to explain all syntactic priming phenomena : a commentary on Ambridge (2020)

The authors argue that Ambridge’s radical exemplar account of language cannot clearly explain all syntactic priming evidence, such as inverse preference effects (greater priming for less frequent structures), and the contrast between short-lived lexical boost and long-lived abstract priming. Moreover, without recourse to a level of abstract syntactic structure, Ambridge’s account cannot explain abstract priming in amnesia patients or cross-linguistic priming. Instead, the authors argue that abstract representations remain the more parsimonious account for the wide variety of syntactic priming phenomena

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and asthma : a study on the impact of RSV infection on allergic airway inflammation in a mouse model

For many years animal studies are performed to investigate the immunity induced by an RSV infection and the immune regulatory role of RSV infections on the development and exacerbation of respiratory allergies. Since different strategies of allergen sensitisation and challenge, moments of virus infection during allergen-sensitisation and -challenge, and timing of analysis after challenge are chosen, the precise role of RSV infection in allergic inflammation is still not clear. The aim of this thesis is to investigate whether RSV infection modulates respiratory allergy. In addition, the immune mechanisms which determine the influence of RSV infection on respiratory allergy are investigated. The research questions addressed in this thesis are: • What is the influence of RSV infection on the parame

Catalog of infrared observations. Part 1: Data

The Catalog of Infrared Observations (CIO) is a compilation of infrared astronomical observational data obtained from an extensive literature search of astronomical journals and major astronomical catalogs and surveys. The literature searches are complete for 1965 through 1986 in this Second Edition. The Catalog is published in two parts, with the observational data (roughly 200,000 observations of 20,000 individual sources) listed in Part I, and supporting appendices in Part II. The expanded Second Edition contains a new feature: complete IRAS 4-band data for all CIO sources detected, listed with the main Catalog observations, as well as in complete detail in the Appendix. The appendices include an atlas of infrared source positions, two bibliographies of infrared literature upon which the search was based, and, keyed to the main Catalog listings (organized alphabetically by author and then chronologically), an atlas of infrared spectral ranges, and IRAS data from the CIO sources. The complete CIO database is available to qualified users in printed microfiche and magnetic tape formats

Catalog of infrared observations. Part 2: Appendixes

The Catalog of Infrared Observations (CIO) is a compilation of infrared astronomical observational data obtained from an extensive literature search of astronomical journals and major astronomical catalogs and surveys. The literature searches are complete for years 1965 to 1986. Supporting appendixes are published in this part. The appendices include an atlas of infrared source positions, two bibliographies of infrared literature upon which the search was based, and, keyed to the main Catalog listings (organized alphabetically by first author, and by date), an atlas of infrared spectral ranges, and IRAS data for the CIO sources. The complete CIO database is available to qualified users in printed microfiche and magnetic tape formats

Far infrared supplement: Catalog of infrared observations, second edition

The Far Infrared Supplement: Catalog of Infrared Observations summarizes all infrared astronomical observations at far infrared wavelengths (5 to 1000 microns) published in the scientific literature from 1965 through 1986. The Supplement list contain 25 percent of the observations in the full Catalog of Infrared Observations (CIO), and essentially eliminates most visible stars from the listings. The Supplement is thus more compact than the main catalog, and is intended for easy reference during astronomical observations. The Far Infrared Supplement (2nd Edition) includes the Index of Infrared Source Positions and the Bibliography of Infrared Astronomy for the subset of far infrared observations listed

Evaluation of exercises taken from the Druker thesis of first grade reading materials of high interest level.

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Word processing as an instructional tool in the revision/editing stages of the writing process

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of word processing on students\u27 composition when used as a tool in the revision/editing stages of the writing process. Procedure: Two experimental groups were established; Group A Computer, Group B No Computer. For each group, the generic method of teaching writing remained the same. Group A, however, was able to use the microcomputer in editing their work; Group B was not. Final essays were scored by independent raters and the data were analyzed by the use of the independent 1-test. A Pearson product -moment correlation coefficient was computed to assess interrater reliability. Conclusion: This study suggests there is a significant positive difference in student writings when the microcomputer is used as a word processor in the revision/editing stages of writing

Coping Strategies of Part-Time MBA Students: The Role of Boundary Management

Using the framework of boundary theory as applied to the work-life-school construct, the study focused on part-time MBA students who worked full-time, their tendency to segment or integrate their numerous roles, and the coping tactics they utilized in redistributing their efforts as they added graduate school to these roles. The research population consisted of a convenience sample of all first and second year Managerial MBA students enrolled at the University of Arkansas. A quasi-experimental research design was used to analyze the sample. The results of the research indicated that the part-time graduate student who was employed full time faced specific work-home-school challenges that forced revision in work-life balance overall. The addition of a part-time MBA program to the life of a full-time employee created a tremendous amount of stress as boundaries were renegotiated. The addition of school as a third domain to the work-life construct appeared to force students toward an integration of boundaries in an attempt to complete added responsibilities. A high percentage of students were classified as integrators based on responses related to the segmentation-integration continuum. Students tending toward segmentation on the continuum were more likely to actively set expectations regarding their boundaries and confront violators of those boundaries than were integrators. Responses to the open response question suggested that, despite the high proportion of integrators in the study, students often voiced a preference for segmentation and experienced stress based on the forced integration caused by ongoing demands at work, home and school

Touch Monkeys: Nonsense Strategies For Reading Twentieth-century Poetry

Literary nonsense is often relegated to the nursery. I suggest that much can be gained from considering the genre of nonsense (called Nonsense herein) and linguistic nonsense as challenges to sense which do not result in a continual deferral of stable meaning. Such a view of Nonsense facilitates the reading of avant-garde and experimental poetry.;Chapter one provides a taxonomy of Nonsense criticism, and attempts to sort out the various, often conflicting, critical definitions of literary nonsense. Chapter two adapts and extends Julia Kristeva\u27s theory of poetic language to make possible a substantially different reading of nonsense language, and provides sample readings of both poetry and Nonsense.;My third chapter tackles the relationship, rarely considered in criticism, between Nonsense and the body; it responds to Gilles Deleuze\u27s suggestion that Nonsense has no direct link to the body. I note the distinction between a nonsense of the senses (perception), as in the writings of Zukofsky and Olson, and the metaphorical writing of the body of ecriture feminine, and consider how Nonsense relates to notions of a primal, phonic body imagined by writers like Ted Hughes.;Chapter four examines the reliance of Nonsense upon sound. After a brief consideration of Derrida\u27s grammatological re-writing of language, I discuss how, by playing with sound, Nonsense demonstrates the musicalization of language, and argue that Nonsense is characterized by its imposition of another (in this case musical) way of making meaning within a verbal system. A range of poets and poetics are considered here, including Sitwell, Zukofsky and Sound Poetry.;My final chapter attempts to apply some of the principles of Nonsense to works and ideas of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry movement. Their approaches to materiality and reference are compared, and Nonsense\u27s re-configuration of the sign into a palimpsest is posited.;Six practical applications of the principles elaborated in each chapter are given in inter-chapters which come between the theoretical chapters. These demonstrate the usefulness of Nonsense\u27s balancing of reference and materiality, meaning and meaninglessness, in reading many types of poetry