OBJECTIVE To understand the scope of semantic impairment in semantic dementia. DESIGN Case study. SETTING Academic medical center. PATIENT A man with semantic dementia, as demonstrated by clinical, neuropsychological, and imaging studies. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Music performance and magnetic resonance imaging results. RESULTS Despite profoundly impaired semantic memory for words and ob...

Currently there is an increase in the occurrence of plagiarism in varied types of academic texts. Therefore, in agreement with the Brazilian Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) policies, Brazilian higher education institutions should establish guidelines for the detection and inhibition of academic plagiarism. However, the notion of plagiarism is extremely complex,...

This paper introduces empirical studies of visualizing Taiwan’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) knowledge maps and assessing academic performance. Social network analysis is applied to visualize ITS knowledge maps to quantify the strength of the connections between individuals or universities. The results from the empirical study show that the development of ITS research is very promis...

In this paper I argue for a kind of intellectual inquiry which has, as its basic aim, to help all of us to resolve rationally the most important problems that we encounter in our lives, problems that arise as we seek to discover and achieve that which is of value in life. Rational problem-solving involves articulating our problems, proposing and criticizing possible solutions. It also involves ...

144 Words) Students with exceptional academic potential who come from low-income families are frequently not identified for and consequently are underrepresented in gifted and talented programs. Because of this, new means of identifying such children must be developed. This paper presents the findings of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses conducted on the HOPE Scale, a 13-item teacher...

University students used a set of existing and purpose-built on-line tools for vocabulary learning in an experimental ESL course. The resources included concordance, dictionary, cloze-builder, hypertext, and a database with interactive self-quizzing feature (all freely available at www.lextutor.ca). The vocabulary targeted for learning consisted of (a) Coxhead's (2000) Academic Word List, a lis...

General academic words are those which typically learned through exposure to school texts and occur across disciplines. We examined vocabulary assessment data from a group of English-speaking middle students (N = 1,747). tested how word frequency, complexity, proximity, polysemy, diversity related students’ knowledge target ability levels. Our results affirm the strong relation between reading ...

In addition to ordinary words and names, real text contains non-standard “words” (NSWs), including numbers, abbreviations, dates, currency amounts and acronyms. Typically, one cannot find NSWs in a dictionary, nor can one find their pronunciation by an application of ordinary “letter-to-sound” rules. Non-standard words also have a greater propensity than ordinary words to be ambiguous with resp...

Vocabulary learning is central to reading ability and academic achievement. Vocabulary researchers and educators have viewed its essence as a process of associating the pronunciations and meanings of words in memory, and they have paid little attention to the contribution that spellings might make to vocabulary learning. We review theory and evidence showing that this is a serious oversight. On...