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Deaf and hearing children's picture naming Impact of age of acquisition and language modality on representational gesture
Stefanini, Bello, Caselli, Iverson, & Volterra (2009) reported that Italian 24-36 month old children use a high proportion of representational gestures to accompany their spoken responses when labelling pictures. The two studies reported here used the same naming task with (1) typically developing 24-46-month-old hearing children acquiring English and (2) 24-63-month-old deaf children of deaf and hearing parents acquiring British Sign Language (BSL) and spoken English. In Study 1 children scored within the range of correct spoken responses previously reported, but produced very few representational gestures. However, when they did gesture, they expressed the same action meanings as reported in previous research. The action bias was also observed in deaf children of hearing parents in Study 2, who labelled pictures with signs, spoken words and gestures. The deaf group with deaf parents used BSL almost exclusively with few additional gestures. The function of representational gestures in spoken and signed vocabulary development is considered in relation to differences between native and non-native sign language acquisition
Alternating groups and moduli space lifting Invariants
Main Theorem: Spaces of r-branch point 3-cycle covers, degree n or Galois of
degree n!/2 have one (resp. two) component(s) if r=n-1 (resp. r\ge n). Improves
Fried-Serre on deciding when sphere covers with odd-order branching lift to
unramified Spin covers. We produce Hurwitz-Torelli automorphic functions on
Hurwitz spaces, and draw Inverse Galois conclusions. Example: Absolute spaces
of 3-cycle covers with +1 (resp. -1) lift invariant carry canonical even (resp.
odd) theta functions when r is even (resp. odd). For inner spaces the result is
independent of r. Another use appears in,
http://www.math.uci.edu/~mfried/paplist-mt/twoorbit.html, "Connectedness of
families of sphere covers of A_n-Type." This shows the M(odular) T(ower)s for
the prime p=2 lying over Hurwitz spaces first studied by,
http://www.math.uci.edu/~mfried/othlist-cov/hurwitzLiu-Oss.pdf, Liu and
Osserman have 2-cusps. That is sufficient to establish the Main Conjecture: (*)
High tower levels are general-type varieties and have no rational points.For
infinitely many of those MTs, the tree of cusps contains a subtree -- a spire
-- isomorphic to the tree of cusps on a modular curve tower. This makes
plausible a version of Serre's O(pen) I(mage) T(heorem) on such MTs.
Establishing these modular curve-like properties opens, to MTs, modular
curve-like thinking where modular curves have never gone before. A fuller html
description of this paper is at
http://www.math.uci.edu/~mfried/paplist-cov/hf-can0611591.html .Comment: To appear in the Israel Journal as of 1/5/09; v4 is corrected from
proof sheets, but does include some proof simplification in \S
Developing transferable management skills through Action Learning
There has been increasing criticism of the relevance of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) in developing skills and competencies. Action learning, devised to address problem-solving in the workplace, offers a potential response to such criticism. This paper offers an insight into one university’s attempt to integrate action learning into the curriculum. Sixty-five part-time students were questioned at two points in their final year about their action learning experience and the enhancement of relevant skills and competencies. Results showed a mixed picture. Strong confirmation of the importance of selected skills and competencies contrasted with weaker agreement about the extent to which these were developed by action learning. There was, nonetheless, a firm belief in the positive impact on the learning process. The paper concludes that action learning is not a panacea but has an important role in a repertoire of educational approaches to develop relevant skills and competencies
Do it Right or Not at All: A Longitudinal Evaluation of a Conflict Managment System Implementation
We analyzed an eight-year multi-source longitudinal data set that followed a healthcare system in the Eastern United States as it implemented a major conflict management initiative to encourage line managers to consistently perform Personal Management Interviews (or PMIs) with their employees. PMIs are interviews held between two individuals, designed to prevent or quickly resolve interpersonal problems before they escalate to formal grievances. This initiative provided us a unique opportunity to empirically test key predictions of Integrated Conflict Management System (or ICMS) theory. Analyzing survey and personnel file data from 5,449 individuals from 2003 to 2010, we found that employees whose managers provided high-quality interviews perceived significantly higher participative work climates and had lower turnover rates. However, retention was worse when managers provided poor-quality interviews than when they conducted no interviews at all. Together these findings highlight the critical role that line mangers play in the success of conflict management systems
Statistical Analysis of Small Ellerman Bomb Events
The properties of Ellerman bombs (EBs), small-scale brightenings in the
H-alpha line wings, have proved difficult to establish due to their size being
close to the spatial resolution of even the most advanced telescopes. Here, we
aim to infer the size and lifetime of EBs using high-resolution data of an
emerging active region collected using the Interferometric BIdimensional
Spectrometer (IBIS) and Rapid Oscillations of the Solar Atmosphere (ROSA)
instruments as well as the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) onboard the
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). We develop an algorithm to track EBs through
their evolution, finding that EBs can often be much smaller (around 0.3") and
shorter lived (less than 1 minute) than previous estimates. A correlation
between G-band magnetic bright points and EBs is also found. Combining SDO/HMI
and G-band data gives a good proxy of the polarity for the vertical magnetic
field. It is found that EBs often occur both over regions of opposite polarity
flux and strong unipolar fields, possibly hinting at magnetic reconnection as a
driver of these events.The energetics of EB events is found to follow a
power-law distribution in the range of "nano-flare" (10^{22-25} ergs).Comment: 19 pages. 7 Figure
Development of probabilistic models for quantitative pathway analysis of plant pest introduction for the EU territory
This report demonstrates a probabilistic quantitative pathway analysis model that can be used in risk assessment for plant pest introduction into EU territory on a range of edible commodities (apples, oranges, stone fruits and wheat). Two types of model were developed: a general commodity model that simulates distribution of an imported infested/infected commodity to and within the EU from source countries by month; and a consignment model that simulates the movement and distribution of individual consignments from source countries to destinations in the EU. The general pathway model has two modules. Module 1 is a trade pathway model, with a Eurostat database of five years of monthly trade volumes for each specific commodity into the EU28 from all source countries and territories. Infestation levels based on interception records, commercial quality standards or other information determine volume of infested commodity entering and transhipped within the EU. Module 2 allocates commodity volumes to processing, retail use and waste streams and overlays the distribution onto EU NUTS2 regions based on population densities and processing unit locations. Transfer potential to domestic host crops is a function of distribution of imported infested product and area of domestic production in NUTS2 regions, pest dispersal potential, and phenology of susceptibility in domestic crops. The consignment model covers the several routes on supply chains for processing and retail use. The output of the general pathway model is a distribution of estimated volumes of infested produce by NUTS2 region across the EU28, by month or annually; this is then related to the accessible susceptible domestic crop. Risk is expressed as a potential volume of infested fruit in potential contact with an area of susceptible domestic host crop. The output of the consignment model is a volume of infested produce retained at each stage along the specific consignment trade chain
The Bethe ansatz in a periodic box-ball system and the ultradiscrete Riemann theta function
Vertex models with quantum group symmetry give rise to integrable cellular
automata at q=0. We study a prototype example known as the periodic box-ball
system. The initial value problem is solved in terms of an ultradiscrete
analogue of the Riemann theta function whose period matrix originates in the
Bethe ansatz at q=0.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figur
General relativistic gravitational field of a rigidly rotating disk of dust: Solution in terms of ultraelliptic functions
In a recent paper we presented analytic expressions for the axis potential,
the disk metric, and the surface mass density of the global solution to
Einstein's field equations describing a rigidly rotating disk of dust. Here we
add the complete solution in terms of ultraelliptic functions and quadratures.Comment: 5 pages, published in 1995 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 75 (1995) 3046
Toroidal Crystals
Crystalline assemblages of identical sub-units packed together and
elastically bent in the form of a torus have been found in the past ten years
in a variety of systems of surprisingly different nature, such as viral
capsids, self-assembled monolayers and carbon nanomaterials. In this Letter we
analyze the structural properties of toroidal crystals and we provide a unified
description based on the elastic theory of defects in curved geometries. We
find ground states characterized by the presence of 5-fold disclinations on the
exterior of the torus and 7-fold disclinations in the interior. The number of
excess disclinations is controlled primarily by the aspect ratio of the torus,
suggesting a novel mechanism for creating toroidal templates with precisely
controlled valency via functionalization of the defect sites.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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