The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies was established at Georgia State University with the objective of promoting excellence in the design, implementation, and evaluation of public policy. In addition to two academic departments (economics and public administration), the Andrew Young School houses seven leading research centers and policy programs, including the International Studies Progra...

This article considers the problem of how to bring foreign language students with a limited vocabulary knowledge, consisting mainly of high-frequency words, to the point where they are able to adequately comprehend authentic texts in a target domain or genre. It proposes bridging the vocabulary gap by first determining which word families account for 95% of the target domain's running words, an...

Computed Tomographic Screening for Lung Cancer: Current Practice Patterns at Leading Academic Medical Centers Following thepublicationof theNational LungScreeningTrial (NLST) results,1 several organizations have published clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for lung cancer screening.1-4 These guidelines emphasize the clinical aspects of computed tomographic (CT) screening, such as patient selec...

This paper analyzes the problem of research topics. The key words are extracted from the academic papers published in the key journals based on information processing technology, and these words have the cooccurrence relationship between clustered. Research topics in the academic field analysis applications, researchers can provide a clear outline; in the information retrieval process, you can ...

qfd is a mechanism for translating the voice of customer into product through various stages of product planning, engineering and manufacturing that widely implemented in modern enterprises throughout the world. in parallel with welcoming to qfd, a lot of academic efforts have gone into improving and completing this method. now traditional methods for determining relative importance of factors ...

this paper reports results from a corpus-based study that explored the frequency of words in the abstracts of applied linguistics journal articles. the abstracts of major articles in leading applied linguists journals, published since 2005 up to november 2001 were analyzed using software modules from the compleat lexical tutor. the output includes a list of the most frequent content words, list...

The limitations of traditional academic knowledge exchange systems such as conferences and peer-reviewed journals result in discipline-based scholarship that is feudal in nature and can only dissipate as cross-disciplinary research expands. The next evolutionary step is democratic online knowledge exchange, run by the academic many rather than the publishing-oligarchic few. Using sociotechnical...

Although epidural steroid injections (ESIs) are a common treatment for chronic pain conditions, it is not clear whether there is consensus on their technical aspects. The current literature suggests that variations in technical aspects may affect ESI outcomes. The goal of the survey was to help establish a standard frame of reference for the performance of ESIs. We analyzed survey results from ...

As academic and policy interest in climate geoengineering grows, the potential irreversibility of technological developments in this domain has been raised as a pressing concern. The literature on socio-technical lock-in and path dependence is illuminating in helping to situate current concerns about climate geoengineering and irreversibility in the context of academic understandings of histori...

This study addressed two research questions regarding academic words used in the Corpus of Pakistani English Newspaper Articles (COPENA).Firstly it asked about frequently corpus Newspaper, Secondly was asked, to what extent authors or editor use Academic newspaper as compared with Coxhead 570 (AWL). Total 414435 running taken from online Newspaper; E. dawn and The Nation. computer software ANTC...