PURPOSE This study evaluates the extent to which bilingual children produce the same or overlapping responses on tasks assessing semantic skills in each of their languages and whether classification analysis based on monolingual or conceptual scoring can accurately classify the semantic development of typically developing (TD) bilingual children. METHOD In Study 1, 55 TD children (ages 4;0 [y...

This paper analyzes the impact of biased beliefs on the structure of informational equilibria in classical self-selection models. Using the intuitive insurance market example of Rothschild-Stiglitz (1976) I show that biases of high-risk individuals have fundamentally different effects on equilibrium contracts than biases of low-risk individuals. Whereas equilibrium contracts of both groups are ...

INTRODUCTION Suicide is one of the most prominent problems in health care system in current Iran. It could be impacted by various factors such as social, economic, individual and so on. Researchers show that socio-economic factors and suicide has significantly related. The people in low social class may more engage with social problems than higher social class. They may confront to problems suc...

Through joined two sensitive methods solvation and cloud point extraction separated and determined micro amount of Ce(III) from aqueous solutions by using organic reagent 2,4-Dimethyl pentan-3-one (2,4-DMP) as extractant and non-ionic surfactant 1% TritonX-100 , the experimental study shows the solvation species of Ce+3 extracted into cloud point layer (CPL) have a wavelength for maximum absorb...

presentations Zammarchi F. et al. Redirection of STAT3 alternative splicing: a novel anti-tumoral approach. 3nd annual postdoctoral research symposium, Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, U.S.A. (2009). Zammarchi F. et al. Modulation of STAT3 alternative splicing as a tool to dissect its antitumorigenic potential. RNA Society’s 2010 Annual Meeting, Seattle, (2010). Zammarchi F. et...

. Nappo F, Esposito K, Cioffi M, et al. Postprandial endothelial tion in healthy subjects and in type 2 diabetic patients: role of carbohydrate meals. J Am Coll Cardiol 2002;39:1145–50. . Ferreira AC, Peter AA, Mendez AJ, et al. Postprandial hypertrig idemia increases circulating levels of endothelial cell micropart Circulation 2004;110:3599 – 603. . Esposito K, Nappo F, Giugliano F, et al. Eff...

BACKGROUND We examined the uptake and sorption of aluminium (Al) and fluoride (F) by green algae under conditions similar to those found in the effluents of the aluminium industry. We took into account the speciation of Al in the medium since Al can form stable complexes with F and these complexes may play a role in the uptake and sorption of Al. We compared the capacity of four species of gree...

Optical absorption measurements are combined with electronic structure calculations to explore photochemistry of an α-Al₂O₃-PETN interface formed by a nitroester (pentaerythritol tetranitrate, PETN, C₅H₈N₄O12) and a wide band gap aluminum oxide (α-Al₂O₃) substrate. The first principles modeling is used to deconstruct and interpret the α-Al₂O₃-PETN absorption spectrum that has distinct peaks att...

Acid- and aluminum (Al)-tolerant microorganisms were isolated from tea fields, from which six strains were selected and identified as Cryptococcus humicola, Rhodotorula glutinis, Aspergillus flavus Link, Penicillium sp., Penicillium janthinellum Biourge and Trichoderma asperellum. They were tolerant to Al up to 100-200 mM and could grow at low pH, 2.5-2.2. In a glucose medium (pH 3.5) the pH of...

This document describes Stanford University’s first entry into a NIST Arabic-English MT evaluation. We describe two main improvements over a previous Chinese-English submission (Galley et al., 2008): a hierarchical lexicalized reordering model (Galley and Manning, 2008) and a technique for performing minimum error rate training (Cer et al., 2008) that outperforms the standard Powell method. 1 S...