Psycholinguistic studies of metaphor processing must control their stimuli not just for word frequency but also for the frequency with which a term is used metaphorically. Thus, we consider the task of metaphor frequency estimation, which predicts how often target words will be used metaphorically. We develop metaphor classifiers which represent metaphorical domains through Latent Dirichlet All...

objective: ageing of the stored seed is a natural phenomenon and the seeds tend to lose viability even under ideal storage conditions. accelerated ageing has been recognized as a good predictor of the storability of seed lots. aged seeds show decreased vigor and produce weak seedlings that are unable to survive once reintroduced into a habitat. the characteristics of the chemical composition of...

In speech, words are often reduced rather than fully pronounced (e.g., (/ˈsʌmri/ for /ˈsʌməri/, summary). Non-native listeners may have problems in processing these reduced forms, because they have encountered them less often. This paper addresses the question whether this also holds for highly proficient non-natives and for words with similar forms and meanings in the non-natives' mother tongu...

highly cited papers are mostly authored in international collaboration. it is expected that   co-authored papers bring more citations. on the other hand, it is inevitable that a part of citations is self-citation. this study investigates 134 and 236 highly cited papers in iran and turkey, respectively, to determine the extent to which highly cited papers are affected by author self-citation. a ...

"This paper will investigate the issue of weighting for panel attrition in event-history models by comparing alternative treatments of sampling weights in a divorce model for members of the 1986 [U.S.] Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Three distinct weighting procedures are compared. These are based on (1) the initial selection probability weights; (2) the 1986 SIPP panel weig...

an important determinant of health system performance is contracting. providers often respond to financial incentives, despite the ethical underpinnings of medicine, and payers can craft contracts to influence performance. yet contracting is highly imperfect in both single-payer and multi-payer health systems. arguably, in a competitive, multi-payer environment, contractual innovation may occur...

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