Advanced L2 written production assessment is difficult to quantify as are learning goals established for this competence in the same level. Correction not enough. Quality writing expected translate into lexical precision and richness, well sentence complexity. In order measure these characteristics of sophisticated writing, Idea Density Grammatical Complexity proposed parameters they were explo...

L’oxetu d’esti trabayu ye la descripción y análisis de traducción fecha al asturianu en 1985 por Alejandro Rodríguez Alonso del llibru Retorno a Tagen Ata (1971) Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín que se describe na contraportada como «una parábola política: nun país maxináu (que Galicia), enfréntense les postures cada vegada más moderaes culturalistes vieyu nacionalismu, col nueu nacionalismu radical». S...

This paper begins a series studying D-modules on the Feigin-Frenkel semi-infinite flag variety from the perspective of the Beilinson-Drinfeld factorization (or chiral) theory. Here we calculate Whittaker-twisted cohomology groups of Zastava spaces, which are certain finite-dimensional subvarieties of the affine Grassmannian. We show that such cohomology groups realize the nilradical of a Borel ...

Es besteht ein Zusammenhang zwischen der Gicht und verschiedenen Begleiterkrankungen (z. B. Adipositas, Hypertonie, Diabetes, Nierenerkrankungen) sowie Lebensstilfaktoren Alkoholkonsum, Rauchen, Ernährung). Schwedische Wissenschaftler identifizierten nun 5 verschiedene, durch unterschiedliche Konstellationen von Komorbiditäten charakterisierte Phänotypen prüften deren Langzeit-Gichtrisiko.

Mary Francis Cusack (1829–1899) was a prolific writer, historian and publisher, producing over forty books during her life-time. She vocal supporter of the Land League, an advocate for female education early believer in Marian apparitions at Knock. also, much career, enclosed nun. Her religious identity essential to literary persona which she cultivated throughout career. Through press, relied ...

Applying Zeilberger’s algorithm of creative telescoping to a family of certain very-well-poised hypergeometric series involving linear forms in Catalan’s constant with rational coefficients, we obtain a second-order difference equation for these forms and their coefficients. As a consequence we obtain a new way of fast calculation of Catalan’s constant as well as a new continued-fraction expans...

Findings from the Nun Study indicate that low linguistic ability in early life has a strong association with dementia and premature death in late life. In the present study, we investigated the relationship of linguistic ability in early life to the neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease and cerebrovascular disease. The analyses were done on a subset of 74 participants in the Nun Study for whom ...

Individuals with antemortem preservation of cognition who show autopsy evidence of at least moderate Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology suggest the possibility of brain reserve, that is, functional resistance to structural brain damage. This reserve would, however, only be relevant if the pathologic markers correlate well with dementia. Using data from the Nun Study (n = 498) and the Adult Change...

Null arguments and topics have been studied as two distinct phenomena, which are separately attributed to the discourse-oriented parameter and topic-prominent typology, respectively. As argued in Huang (1984), null arguments are allowed in languages like Korean, because they are discourse-recoverable, carrying old information. On the other hand, topics occur in the sentence-initial position in ...

The dependence of the rates of intramolecular electron transfer (ET) of mixed-valence complexes of the type {[Ru3O(OAc)6(CO)(L)]2-BL}-1, where L is the pyridyl ligand and BL is the pyrazine on solvent type and temperature is described. Complexes were reduced chemically to obtain the mixed-valence anions in acetonitrile (CH3CN) and methylene chloride (CH2Cl2). Rate constants for intramolecular E...