Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages

1. The acquisition of syntax in Romance languages (by Torrens, Vincent) 2. The production of SE and SELF anaphors in Spanish and Dutch children (by Baauw, Sergio) 3. On the acquisition of ambiguous Valency-Marking Morphemes: Insights from the acquisition of French SE (by Barriere, Isabelle) 4. Definite and bare noun contrasts in child Catalan (by Gavarro, Anna) 5. Null arguments in monolingual children: A comparison of Italian and French (by Muller, Natascha) 6. Prenominal elements in French-Germanic bilingual first language acquisition: Evidence for cross-linguistic influence (by Pannemann, Maren) 7. A cross-sectional study on the use of "be" in early Italian (by Caprin, Claudia) 8. Patterns of copula omission in Italian child language (by Franchi, Elisa) 9. Looking for the universal core of the RI stage (by Salustri, Manola) 10. The acquisition of experiencers in Spanish L1 and the external argument requirement hypothesis (by Torrens, Vincent) 11. Early operators and late topic-drop/pro-drop (by Kampen, Jacqueline van) 12. The acquisition of A- and A'-bound pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese (by Grolla, Elaine) 13. Acquiring long-distance wh-questions in L1 Spanish: A longitudinal investigation (by Gutierrez Mangado, Maria Junkal) 14. Evidence from L1 acquisition for the syntax of wh-scope marking in French * (by Oiry, Magda) 15. Acquisition of focus marking in European Portuguese: Evidence for a unified approach to focus (by Costa, Joao) 16. Subject pronouns in bilinguals: Interference or maturation? (by Pinto, Manuela) 17. Is the semantics/syntax interface vulnerable in l2 acquisition? : Focus on mood distinctions clauses in L2 Spanish (by Borgonovo, Claudia) 18. The development of the syntax-information structure interface: Greek learners of Spanish (by Lozano, Cristobal) 19. Beyond the syntax of the Null Subject Parameter: A look at the discourse-pragmatic distribution of null and overt subjects by L2 learners of Spanish (by Montrul, Silvina A.) 20. Index
Towards Parameter-free Blocking for Scalable Record Linkage

linking or matching databases is becoming increasingly important in many data mining projects, as linked data can contain information that is not available otherwise, or that would be too expensive to collect. a main challenge when linking large databases is the complexity of the linkage process: potentially each record in one database has to be compared with all records in the other database. various techniques, collectively know as ‘blocking’, have been developed to deal with this quadratic complexity. most of these techniques require several parameters to be set by the user in order to achieve good results. in this paper we evaluate six blocking techniques within a common framework with regard to the number and quality of the candidate record pairs generated. we propose a modification to two existing techniques that reduces the variance in the quality of the blocking results over a range of parameter values, enabling more robust, practical record linkage without the need of time consuming manual parameter tuning.
Aspects of Video Movie English Teaching.

A discussion of the use of movies on videotape in the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classroom begins with a brief review of the history and emergence of videotape recordings as a popular technology. The advantages of video as a language teaching aid are then examined, including its instructional flexibility, exposure to paralinguistic features, interest and ability to capture the imagination, ability to activate passive knowledge, capacity to extend the range of language environments studied, and potential for cultural content. Literature on the use of video in ESL instruction is reviewed, addressing such topics as its instructional effectiveness, video selection, length of segment used, videos' educational vs. entertainment value, use of content for classroom discussion, video use for testing, and types of commercial and authentic materials available for classroom use. Contains 16 references. (MSE) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ******************************************************************************** Aspects of Video Movie English Teaching
Instruction for Information Literacy in Canadian Academic Libraries: A Longitudinal Analysis of Aims, Methods, and Success / L’enseignement visant les compétences informationnelles dans les bibliothèques universitaires canadiennes : Une analyse longitudinale des objectifs, des méthodes et du succès 

This study reports a survey of information literacy instruction practices in Canadian academic libraries. Results indicate that formal instruction is offered by 89% of respondents, a minority of which articulate formal instructional objectives or work in libraries with full-time instructional librarians. Evaluation is mostly informal. Teaching students to find information is the highest priority of instruction, and database instruction is given the strongest focus. Changes in information technology continue to influence instructional content and delivery. Instructional work receives less support than previously, and complex relationships with teaching faculty continue to challenge librarian instructors. Trends are consistent with national surveys conducted globally. Cet article fait état d’une enquête sur les pratiques d’enseignement visant l’acquisition de compétences informationnelles dans les bibliothèques universitaires canadiennes. Les résultats indiquent qu’un enseignement formel est offert par 89% des répondants, et qu’une minorité conjugue des objectifs pédagogiques formels ou du travail en bibliothèque avec la présence de bibliothécaires se consacrant à temps plein à cet enseignement. L’évaluation est essentiellement informelle. Enseigner aux étudiants à trouver de l’information est la première des priorités de l’enseignement, et c’est principalement sur l’enseignement de l’utilisation des bases de données que se concentre l’enseignement. L’évolution des TI continue d’influencer le contenu pédagogique et le mode d’enseignement. Le travail pédagogique reçoit moins de soutien qu’auparavant, et la complexité des relations avec le corps enseignant continue de poser des défis aux bibliothécaires instructeurs. Les tendances sont en accord avec les enquêtes nationales réalisées mondialement.
Key issues in radio interface design

This project aims at investigating key issues in radio interface design for practical frequency-selective fading channels. It is focused on the new opportunities and challenges that arise when considering broadband radio systems, with an emphasis on packet data transmission. The purpose of such a radio interface is to carry packets to or from wireless users. The destination of packets may be one single user but especially in the downlink it may also be several users (broadcasting). The most important aspects related to the radio interface are
Slicing Open the Black Box: Applying Occam's Razor to Strategic Human Resource Management Research

This paper examines a key issue affecting acceptance of Human Resource (HR) practitioners’ claims for a place at strategic level within organisations by investigating another consistent lament of HR researchers; lack of theory. By drawing on theory developed in other fields, the black box existing between mooted HR practices and desired organisational outcomes is opened for inspection. It is suggested that HR researchers can gain credibility by moving the direction of research away from global issues such as how best to measure organisational performance, and whether proposed HR practices are universal, contingent, or configurational in nature, towards a concentration on the processes whereby HR practices contribute to organisational performance. The argument is based on a pragmatic view of organisational performance; that essentially it is financial performance that matters, and that if HR practices are to affect this it must be by resolving performance and presence (tardiness, absenteeism and turnover) issues. Theory which suggests that job satisfaction and organisational commitment are key variables affecting presence and performance is reviewed, and links between antecedents of these variables and mooted HR Management (HRM) best practices are suggested. Future directions for Strategic HRM (SHRM) research are proposed. These research directions are intended to promote credibility for the field in the organisations likely to see value in, and thus fund, the research.
Cognitive load theory and programmed instruction

Programmed Instruction was a dominant force in educational research during the 1960’s and early 1970’s. During this period a new cognitively oriented psychology of education arose that eventually replaced the behaviorally driven research into programmed instruction. For some reason little work was done on integrating these two approaches. This study was designed to test a programmed instructional system based on the intrinsic programmed instructional technology of Crowder (1961) but incorporating design elements derived from cognitive load theory (Sweller, 1988). Specifically, this study tested a multimedia programmed instructional system (CLT-PI) based on work by Mayer (2001) against a text based system (TXT), a traditional linear programmed instructional system based on Skinner (1954, 1958)(LPI), and an intrinsic programmed instructional system based on the work of Crowder (1960, 1961)(IPI). Three hypotheses were tested; 1) Programmed instruction would produce higher long-term retention and transfer scores than TXT, 2) IPI would produced higher long-term retention and transfer scores than LPI, and 3) CLT-PI would produce higher long-term retention and transfer scores than LPI or IPI. 115 undergraduate university students were randomly assigned to one of four conditions where they studied a chapter on human sleep. Each condition was presented on a computer with a test following study. A long-term test was given 4 weeks later.
Partitioned methods for coupled fluid flow problems

Many flow problems in engineering and technology are coupled in their nature. Plenty of turbulent flows are solved by legacy codes or by ones written by a team of programmers with great complexity. As knowledge of turbulent flows expands and new models are introduced, implementation of modern approaches in legacy codes and increasing their accuracy are of great concern. On the other hand, industrial flow models normally involve multi-physical process or multi-domains. Given the different nature of the physical processes of each subproblem, they may require different meshes, time steps and methods. There is a natural desire to uncouple and solve such systems by solving each subphysics problem, to reduce the technical complexity and allow the use of optimized legacy sub-problems' codes. The objective of this work is the development, analysis and validation of new modular, uncoupling algorithms for some coupled flow models, addressing both of the above problems. Particularly, this thesis studies: i) explicitly uncoupling algorithm for implementation of variational multiscale approach in legacy turbulence codes, ii) partitioned time stepping methods for magnetohydrodynamics flows, and iii) partitioned time stepping methods for groundwater-surface water flows. For each direction, we give comprehensive analysis of stability and derive optimal error estimates of our proposed methods. We discuss the advantages and limitations of uncoupling methods compared with monolithic methods, where the globally coupled problems are assembled and solved in one step. Numerical experiments are performed to verify the theoretical results.
The Activity Circle: Visualizing the Coordination Aspects of User Resistance Toward Workflow Technology

—The paper proposes a novel approach for addressing issues that are related to organizational changes that are induced by the introduction of an Information System within an organization. Speciﬁcally, we focus on the effects of a Workﬂow Technology because its introduction affects typical work practices, its use is mandatory, and Workﬂow Technology often makes it necessary to accomplish work activities in a more rigid way. Similar to other Information Systems, the consequence is that changes brought about because of Workﬂow Technology can trigger the phenomenon of user resistance. The Information Systems literature reports different strategies to limit the degree of user resistance toward Information Systems. Some of these strategies are based on the direct involvement of the designers of the technology, while others involve the managers of the organizations in which the technology is used. In this paper, we propose the Workﬂow Evaluation Software , a tool that actively involves the end users to reduce the effects of user resistance. In fact, this tool allows to simulate the use of Workﬂow Technology at an early stage of its implementation by focusing on the coordination aspects of user resistance that are related to how people coordinate their activities. Based on the data collected, the tool implements the Activity Circle, which is a social visualization mechanism that distributes the information related to the coordination aspects of user resistance among the users. We claim that the sharing of this information gives voices to the users and could represent one of the most promising strategies for reducing frustration and anger about any organizational change.
Designing an XML Lexicon Architecture for Arabic Machine Translation Based on Role and Reference Grammar

Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) is a functional theory of grammar. The main features of Role and Reference Grammar are the use of lexical decomposition, based upon predicate semantics, an analysis of clause structure and the use of a set of thematic roles organized into a hierarchy in which the highest­ranking roles are Actor (for the most active participant) and Undergoer. The theory allows a sentence in a specific language to be described in terms of its logical structure and grammatical procedures. The lexicon in RRG takes the position that lexical entries for verbs should contain unique information only, with as much information as possible derived from general lexical rules. We use the RRG theory to motivate the architecture of the lexicon. The lexicon is designed to reflect the word categories in the Arabic language with as much information as possible derived from general lexical rules. The lexicon stores the Arabic words in categories; each category is stored in an XML format datasource file. In order to be able to analyse Arabic by computer we must first extract the lexical properties of the Arabic words. Our system (UniArab) uses the lexicon to construct a logical structure for Arabic input sentences, also represented in XML, which is then used for generating the target language translation. We show the structure of the UniArab lexicon, discuss how it is used in the system, and show the user interface used for adding to the lexicon. The lexicon is built from individual words at present.
Book Review: One-on-One Tutoring by Humans and Computers, by Martha Evens and Joel Michael

Tutorial dialogue is an unusual genre of natural language interaction in that one of the dialogue participants asks questions to which he or she already knows the answer. This book serves the dual purpose of introducing computational linguists to the unique character of tutorial dialogues and the challenges associated with building tutorial dialogue systems. Evens and Michael chronicle an ongoing 15-year effort that has succeeded in building a measurably effective tutorial dialogue system in the domain of cardiovascu-lar physiology. Although the techniques employed in the many versions of the system produced over the years may seem somewhat dated, there are two exciting things about this book and the system it describes. One is that students who used the system learned more than those who engaged in other learning activities. The second is the companion CD with the latest, in-use version of the system along with the source code. Given the many remaining challenges, which are outlined at the end of the book, the CIRCSIM-tutor system can serve as a test bed and allow any researcher just starting out in the area of tutorial dialogue to test new techniques and approaches while avoiding the high costs of building an effective tutorial dialogue system. However, the authors never explicitly express the latter as one of their goals. Instead they state that they wish us to come away with the knowledge that a useful tutorial dialogue system can be built using existing technology and an appreciation of the power of one-on-one tutoring and the importance of natural language dialogue in one-on-one tutoring. I think the book succeeds with these first two goals but is slightly less convincing with respect to the third because they do not devote much time to it. The book is divided into four parts. The first part, chapters 1 and 2, provide an introduction to the CIRCSIM-tutor project and the domain in which it tutors. Chapter 1 introduces one-on-one tutoring (since there are many forms of tutoring), the importance of natural language dialogue to tutoring, and background on how the CIRCSIM-tutor project arose. Chapter 2 is a brief, gentle introduction to the area of cardiovascular physiology that is the domain of instruction. Although I had previously read many of the corpus analysis papers from the CIRCSIM-tutor project, this introduction helped me better understand the many dialogue excerpts and the discussion, which are presented in part 2 of the book, …
The Traveling Salesman Problem: A Computational Study (Princeton Series in Applied Mathematics)

This book presents the latest findings on one of the most intensely investigated subjects in computational mathematics--the traveling salesman problem. It sounds simple enough: given a set of cities and the cost of travel between each pair of them, the problem challenges you to find the cheapest route by which to visit all the cities and return home to where you began. Though seemingly modest, this exercise has inspired studies by mathematicians, chemists, and physicists. Teachers use it in the classroom. It has practical applications in genetics, telecommunications, and neuroscience.The authors of this book are the same pioneers who for nearly two decades have led the investigation into the traveling salesman problem. They have derived solutions to almost eighty-six thousand cities, yet a general solution to the problem has yet to be discovered. Here they describe the method and computer code they used to solve a broad range of large-scale problems, and along the way they demonstrate the interplay of applied mathematics with increasingly powerful computing platforms. They also give the fascinating history of the problem--how it developed, and why it continues to intrigue us.
Functions and Statistics with Computers at the College Level.

An experimental college level course, Functions and Statistics with Computers, was designed using the textbook "Functions, Statistics, and Trigonometry with Computers" developed by the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project. Students in the experimental course were compared with students in the traditional course based on attitude toward and achievement in mathematics. Experimental course students showed a significant gain in confidence about learning and performing well in mathematics. Final grade distributions for the experimental and traditional courses were similar, although experimental course students entered the course with somewhat weaker mathematical backgrounds. On a course evaluation questionnaire, students in the experimental course reported that computer laboratory activities helped them understand course material. Based on an analysis of the attitude, achievement, and course evaluation data, the traditional course was modified to deemphasize algebraic manipulation, emphasize modeling and applications, and include computer laboratory activities. The questionnaire is appended. (Author/DB) **********t************************************1:********ft************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * ************************************************A******************* 1 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Olfice ot Educational Research and Imptovement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) o This document has been reproduced as received from the Person or organization originating il r) Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality Points ol view or opinions slated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy FUNCTIONS AND STATISTICS WITH COMPUTERS AT THE COLLEGE LEVEL Kathleen A. Hollowell Barbara J. Duch University of Delaware Mathematical Sciences Teaching & Learning Center A report prepared for the American Educhtional Research Association Annual Meeting April 3, 1991
Suspicious deaths: household composition, infant neglect, and child care in nineteenth-century Venice

Les chercheurs ont longuement debattu afin de determiner si, dans l’Europe ancienne, la mortalite infantile s’etait maintenue a un niveau eleve parce que les parents ne s’occupaient pas de leurs enfants de maniere correcte, adoptant des attitudes qui allaient de la negligence inconsciente au pur et simple infanticide. Tandis que les historiens furent enclins a penser que l’engagement parental et l’implication affective dans l’elevage des enfants etaient sujets a caution, de nombreux demographes ont fait remarquer que les arguments presentes pour etayer cette opinion restaient peu convaincants. Dans cet article, je presente de nouveaux elements demographiques qui renforcent l’hypothese d’une mauvaise qualite de la prise en charge des enfants. J’analyse la mortalite infantile au sein d’un large echantillon longitudinal extrait de la population venitienne du milieu du xixe siecle, afin de voir si le risque qu’avait un enfant de mourir dependait de la composition de son menage, et notamment de l’âge et du sexe de ses freres et sœurs, en partant du principe que ces elements auraient pu jouer sur le caractere desire d’un nouveau-ne comme sur les capacites a l’elever. Mon approche est comparable a celle qui a ete suivie dans les etudes portant sur les pays en voie de developpement, ou les preferences sexuees, la composition des fratries et les objectifs de descendance projetes par les familles, ont profondement influence l’attitude des parents vis-a-vis de leurs nouveau-nes, au point de peser sur leur chance de survie. Les resultats de mon etude indiquent que la situation demographique prevalant a Venise au milieu du xixe siecle, en particulier dans les couches les plus basses de la societe, etait remarquablement proche de celle observee dans des pays tels que l’Inde ou le Bangladesh.