The present eye-tracking study investigates the effect of gender typicality on the resolution of anaphoric personal pronouns in English. Participants read descriptions of a person performing a typically male, typically female or gender-neutral occupational activity. The description was followed by an anaphoric reference (he or she) which revealed the referent's gender. The first experiment pres...

The identity of the person talking is likely to constrain the things that they talk about. Adults can use talker acoustics to make on-line predictions about upcoming spoken material (Van Berkum et al., 2008). However, this cue to meaning may take time to learn. Do preschoolers consider who is talking when they are comprehending spoken sentences? I explored this question in two eye-tracked pictu...

Approaches to care that focus solely on biomedical needs are still rife in dementia; however, a person-centred approach is emerging that focuses on 'seeing the person'. This article explores the literature on person-centred dementia care to determine if it is an ideal rather than a reality. The background to the development of person-centred care is presented with reference to policies in place...

We consider the second-person or interactive approach to social understanding, conceived as an understanding of intentional relations. We identify five forms of second-person information - self-directedness, contingency, reciprocity, affective engagement, and shared intentions - that occur only in interactions. We assess the extent to which these forms of information are available to observers ...

Objectives. Previous research has shown that the acquisition of personal pronouns benefits from input with higher amounts stable reference. This paper aims to provide more evidence how is structured. The language under study Slovak, a pro-drop language, allowing extend verb marking. Participants and setting. longitudinal follows speech directed three children in two families age 1;9 3;0. Hypoth...

a little noted but notable thing in international law is the fact that states ever comply with its stipulations and strictures voluntarily, this denoting to the legitimacy of the international system and the existence of the international legal community. international obligations erga omnes, including those deriving from the principles and rules concerning the basic rights of the human person ...

OBJECTIVE To illustrate the effect of common mistakes when using 24-hour national dietary survey data to estimate the prevalence of inadequate nutrient intakes. DESIGN Raw data on nutrient intake from the Australian 1995 National Nutrition Survey were adjusted for within-person variance using standard techniques and corrected for underreporting using the criteria of Goldberg et al. The distri...

In the current work, different methods for optimization of turbine blade internal cooling are investigated, to achieve higher cyclic efficiency and output power for a typical gas turbine. A simple two-dimensional model of C3X blade is simulated and validated with available experimental data. The optimization process is performed on this model with two different methods. The first method is ...