We carried out a masked priming lexical decision experiment to study whether visual letter similarity plays a role during the initial phases of word processing in young readers of Arabic (fifth graders). Arabic is ideally suited to test these effects because most Arabic letters share their basic shape with at least one other letter and differ only in the number/position of diacritical points (e...

ةـصلاخلا : جا تحت زجت ة قيرط س كعلا ىفص نلا نو لل ثحبلا لود ج ة ئ ي طعتو ل قأ باسح تاوطخ ى لإ ي ةد يج جئا تن . دحاو ثحب لودج ة قيرطلا مدختستو اً يُ َّ زخ نُ ، طقف ةءار قلل ةر آاذ ىف و نو للا فيفختل مي ق ى لع لودجلا ىو تحي باسحلا ةقباس ) ىدامرلا ىوتسملا ( ىسكعلا ىفصنلا نوللا تايلمعل . ة يزاوتم باسح ة قيرط حر تقي ثحبلا اذ هو لإ زاجن ىفصنلا نوللا سكعلا ي ، جتب كلذو ىلإ درفنملا ثحبلا لودج ةئز نم ددع...

Both the law and culture distinguish between acts of commission that overturn the status quo and acts of omission that uphold it. This distinction is of central importance when it comes to reciprocal actions. A stylized fact of everyday life is that acts of commission elicit stronger reciprocal responses than do acts of omission. We report experiments that directly test whether this stylized fa...

0377-2217/$ see front matter Published by Elsevier doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2008.08.025 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 413 546 2749. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (A. Ste edu (J.M. Smith). 1 Tel.: +1 413 545 4542. In this paper, the optimal design and analysis of evacuation routes in transportation networks is examined. An methodology for optimal egress route assignment is suggested. An ...

This paper presents a simple modification to the standard IS curve used, at least implicitly, by policymakers that allows capital flight to have a contractionary effect in emerging market economies. In the standard model, capital flight leads to an expansionary shift in the IS curve through an increase in net exports. However, in the presence of liability dollarization for domestic firms, a cur...

We used a social learning explanation to explain the diffusion of an enterprise application (EA) within an organization. We viewed the implementation of EA as a pattern of key users’ behaviors to examine the effect of self-generated and external sources of influence. Such behavior is progressively developed over time. Our study was based on investigating two business areas in a single company. ...

Pmel17 is the major component of functional amyloid fibrils that have an important role during pigment deposition. Pmel17 polymerization is promoted within the mildly acidic conditions of melanosomes, organelles located in pigment-specific cells. A repeat domain (RPT domain) of Pmel17, rich in glutamic acid residues has been extensively associated with the formation of the fibrous matrix. Here,...

BLIND SEPARATION OF DELAYED SOURCES BASED ON INFORMATION MAXIMIZATION Kari Torkkola Motorola, Inc., Phoenix Corporate Research Laboratories, 2100 E. Elliot Rd, MD EL508, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA tel: (602)413-4129, fax: (602)413-5934, email: [email protected] ABSTRACT Recently, Bell and Sejnowski have presented an approach to blind source separation based on the information maximization principl...

Evidence supporting the positive effects of capital account liberalization on growth is mixed at best. Even after conditioning on the quality of domestic financial institutions, a significant number of studies still find no effect. One possible explanation is reverse causation. If low growth countries liberalize in order to spur growth, the observed correlation between growth and liberalization...