the present meta-analysis was conducted to provide a quantitative measure of the overall effects of task complexity on chinese efl learners’ language production. based on the strict inclusion criteria, 12 primary studies were synthesized according to key features. eleven of them were meta-analyzed to investigate effects of raising the resource-directing task complexity. results revealed that ...

smoking has become more prevalent in turkey than it has in those of western countries during the past decade. this study was conducted to make parameter estimations on gender related smoking habits with the minimum of variance. of the ninety-two researches related to smoking habits conducted from 1981 to 2003 in turkey, 60 were deemed appropriate for the application of meta analysis and meta re...

We describe our efforts to apply the Penn Discourse Treebank guidelines on a Tamil corpus to create an annotated corpus of discourse relations in Tamil. After conducting a preliminary exploratory study on Tamil discourse connectives, we show our observations and results of a pilot experiment that we conducted by annotating a small portion of our corpus. Our ultimate goal is to develop a Tamil D...

There are two conceivable readings for (1). Either (a) it refers to the party or (b) Peter only disliked the food. Discourse grammars like Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) offer an explanation for this phenomenon. SDRT an extension ofDRT (Kamp and Reyle, 1993) describes a complex propositional structure of Discourse Representation Structures (DRSs) connected via discourse relati...

We are looking at how new forms of document interface can be used to support new forms of scholarly discourse, and ultimately, new models of scholarly publishing. Towards this end, we have been using specially designed computer-meditated conferencing technology to realize an innovative peer review model within an academic e-journal – The Journal of Interactive Media in Education. In essence, th...

i-star (i*) modeling uses the actor concept to ground the intentions of a given Universe of Discourse. Our work contributes to the understanding of the actor concept as used in i*. We have used a collaborative approach to better understand the actor concept. The authors met 9 times to discuss the topic. The goal was to discuss i* meta-models, which was later specialized to discuss actor modelin...

The media have a key role in communicating advances in medicine to the general public, yet the accuracy of medical journalism is an under-researched area. This project adapted an established monitoring instrument to analyse all identified news reports (n = 312) on a single medical research paper: a meta-analysis published in the British Journal of Cancer which showed a modest link between proce...

This paper assesses the congruence between the initiatives for regulatory reform known as ‘better regulation’ and the recently re-formulated ‘growth and jobs’ Lisbon agenda of the European Union. To do that, better regulation is re-conceptualised as metaregulation sets of rules on the process of rule-formulation, adoption, implementation, and evaluation. Meta-regulation has both structural and ...

We are looking at how new forms of document interface can be used to support new forms of scholarly discourse, and ultimately, new models of scholarly publishing. Towards this end, we have been using specially designed computer-mediated conferencing technology to realize an innovative peer review model within an academic e-journal the Journal of Interactive Media in Education. In essence, throu...