The literature on repetition processing reveals an intriguing paradox between the particular salience of repetitions, which makes them easy to learn, and a tendency to avoid them when generating sequences. The aim of this experiment was to study the extent to which children can learn to produce these avoided behaviours by means of an artificial grammar paradigm using generation tests with impli...

Although online focus groups are emerging as a worthwhile methodological approach for qualitative researchers, reporting has been constrained in several ways. The majority of studies report asynchronous groups, whereas others employ synchronous exchanges, the efficacy of which with young people has seldom been explored. Considering the popularity of the Internet as a communication tool for youn...

This paper describes the use of focus groups as a data-gathering tool, in both theoretical and practical terms. Calder's discussion of focus groups is presented as the basis of the theory, and the marketing study conducted by the Midcontinental Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine serves as the backdrop to highlight some of the practical aspects of using this qualitative data...

Although consumer opportunistic behavior has drawn attention from managers and scholars for a long time, a special context of two-sided market has been ignored. A multi-stage research program, comprising in depth interviews (Study 1) and three experimental studies (Studies 2, 3, 4), explored opportunistic claiming during service guarantee. The main characteristics of two-sided market (consumer,...

3 Groups 12 3.1 Basic Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.2 Subgroups, Cosets and Lagrange’s Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.3 Finitely Generated Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3.4 Permutation Groups and Group Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.5 The Oribit-Stabiliser Theorem . ....

ONSM is a rare tumour. It is usually separated into the primary ONSM (pONSM) (intraorbital or intracanalicular) and secondary (sONSM) (intra­ cranial). The tumour can also originate within the optic nerve sheath in the orbit or optic canal and may grow intracranially to involve various struc­ tures there. ONSM can also present in a bilateral form. pONSM represent approximately 96% of all intrao...

Forward Error Correction (FEC) is very efficient for off-line streaming with large buffering time, but real-time streaming puts hard restrictions on the buffer size making FEC inefficient for combating long link failures on single path routes. Multi-path routing, orthogonal to buffering, can however make FEC effective also for real-time streaming. For this purpose we introduce a capillary routi...

Initiation of Intercourse: Overall Influences At the follow-up interview, 28% of young men reported having initiated intercourse within a year of the first survey. In general, involvement in risky behaviors and precoital sexual activity increased the likelihood of first sex (odds ratios, 1.4 and 1.3, respectively—Table 3). The more approving that young men were of premarital sex, the more likel...

, 'N0W' in the early minutes of June 25, the flagraising ceremony proceeds, the vast crowd cheering as Samora Machel, briefly but eloquently, proclaims the country's independence. We're together, representatives of various western support groups, and we embrace one another enthusiastically. Embrace, too, Mozambicans, strangers and old friends. I greet Janet Mondlane, wife of Eduardo, FRELIMO's ...