QUESTIONS OF DEGREE

the effects of cooperative versus individual directed reading thinking activities on students inferential and referential questions

two groups of students were assigned as experimental and control ones, and were given instruction on directed reading-thinking activities and after some treatment, they were post-tested. although the initial pre-test did not show any significant differences, the final post-test result revealed that the cooperative reading comprehension helped the experimental group. the cooperative students’...

Continued risk of SAH after negative screen in first-degree relatives--and persistent questions.

Intracranial aneurysms (IAs) typically develop throughout life, necessitating vigilance in those at high risk in order to avoid aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH), the deadly complication of IA. A family history of IA increases personal risk of IA development and rupture: the odds ratio (OR) of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in persons with one first-degree relative (FDR) is 2.15 while th...

An Interval-Based Semantics for Degree Questions: Negative Islands and Their Obviation

The goal of this paper is to argue for a new approach to the semantics of degree questions. According to the standard analysis (see, among others, Rullmann 1995 and Beck & Rullmann 1997), a degree question’s LF contains a variable that ranges over individual degrees and is bound by the degree-question operator how. In contrast with this, we will claim that the variable which is bound by the deg...

Coming Full Circle Using Research and Practice to Address 27 Questions About 360-Degree Feedback Programs

The research evidence addressing practical issues faced when implementing a 360-degree feedback system are reviewed. Notwithstanding the popularity and apparent utility of 360-degree feedback programs, there is a need for clearer translations of research-based knowledge into recommendations for practically applying such programs. This article uses the published research studies that have been c...

A Semantics for Degree Questions Based on Intervals: Negative Islands and Their Obviation