Numerous studies have shown that the native language influences foreign word recognition and that this influence is modulated by the proficiency in the non-native language. Here we explored how the degree of reliance on cross-language similarity (as measured by the cognate facilitation effect) together with other domain-general cognitive factors contribute to reading comprehension achievement i...

This paper explores a model of bond prices where agents have diverse prior beliefs about domestic and foreign inflation. In the long run, the foreign exchange forward premium reflects expected differences in inflation, but in the short run, it depends upon the diversity of prior beliefs. If some people have diffuse priors about a country’s inflation process, then its currency commands a forward...

Two cats and 3 dogs were treated for an endotracheal tube tracheal foreign body (ETFB) during recovery from general anesthesia. Bronchoscopy was used to remove the ETFB. Animals were clinically normal at discharge. While rare, ETFB can occur upon recovery from anesthesia. Bronchoscopy is an effective way to remove ETFB.

In the data country portfolios are heavily biased toward domestic assets. Standard onegood international macro models predict that, due to the presence of non-diversifiable labor income risk, country portfolios should be heavily biased toward foreign assets; this discrepancy constitutes the international diversification puzzle (Baxter and Jermann, 1997). We show that a simple extension of one-g...

article 963 of the civil code considers the personal and financial relations of spouses who are not the nationals of the same government as subject to the concerned government of husband. in the first glance, primitive emergence of this article also includes an iranian woman who has married a foreign man and considers her as subject to the law of the concerned government of her foreign husband....

This study aims to investigate the effect of the Twin Deficits, i.e., deficit of government budget, and deficit in current account, on the foreign debt in Jordan during the period 1977 – 2004. A four variables cointegration analysis with the variables: outstanding foreign debt, budget deficit, current account balance proxied by its index, and gross fixed capital formation were exploited. Dicky-...

Anxiety, as an important affective variable, has been found to be a significant factor adversely affecting language learning (Aydin 2008). Many studies have explored sources and causes of anxiety among learners (Young, 1991; Tanveer, 2007; Aydin 2008; Williams& Andrade, 2008). However, to date little, if any, studies have examined levels and sources of anxiety and its relationship with fear of ...

This article focuses on the role of foresight technology in process updating educational programmes Republic Kazakhstan with an emphasis digital culture future teacher. The authors offer ways to introduce joint effective interaction stakeholders (students, teachers, employers, etc.) modernizing three aspects programme (on example program bachelor level “Foreign language: two foreign languages”)...