Marco Ramoni: an appreciation of academic achievement

From Academic to Journalistic Texts: A Qualitative Analysis of the Evaluative Language of Science

This study examined academic articles and journalistic reports in 5 disciplinary areas to explore how similar contents might attitudinally be realized in two different genres. To this end, 25 research articles and 210 news reports were carefully selected and underwent detailed discourse semantic and grammatical analyses with the purpose of identifying the evaluative linguistic patterns....

Learning Conditional Probabilities from Incomplete Data: An Experimental Comparison

This paper compares three methods | em algorithm, Gibbs sampling, and Bound and Collapse (bc) | to estimate conditional probabilities from incomplete databases in a controlled experiment. Results show a substantial equivalence of the estimates provided by the three methods and a dramatic gain in e ciency using bc. Reprinted from: Proceedings of Uncertainty 99: Seventh International Workshop on ...

Learning conditional probabilities from incomplete databases - An experimental comparison

Basic Science in Medical Reasoning : An Arti cial Intelligence

An Investigation into the Relationship between Teachers’ Creativity and Students’ Academic Achievement: A Case Study of Iran EFL Context

The present study is an investigation into the relationship between Iranian EFL teachers’ degree of creativity and language learners’ academic achievement. To this end, six female English teachers and 81 male and female advanced English learners from a private language institute were asked to take part in the study. Data were collected through Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) and stude...