In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of the zeros of a sequence of polynomials whose weighted norms have the same n th root behavior as the weighted norms for certain cxtrcmal polynomials. Our results include as special cases several of the previous results of ErdGs, Freud, Jentzsch, Szego and Blatt, Saff, and Simkani. Applications are given concerning the zeros of orthogonal polynom...

Min-independence has been proved to be a sufficient condition of a vector of fuzzy random variables to be a fuzzy random vector. The objective of this paper is to study further on the independence condition for fuzzy random vector based on continuous triangular norms. We first discuss measurability criteria for fuzzy random vector, and present two more new equivalent formulations of the measura...

the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization have made teaching it a challenging task for a large group of practitioners in academic setting. one such feature of academic writing susceptible to cultural mentalities is metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one of the important rhetorical aspects in the writing p...

The goal of postdoctoral training is production of scientists capable of successfully pursuing academic and research careers (Patterson & Hanson, 1995). The postdoctoral fellowship is a period of apprenticeship. It is a time when one is fully socialized into an academic and researcher role. Building a successful academic career is a complex process that requires an understanding of institutiona...

This paper analyzes changing higher education policies in Poland in the last two decades. It argues that top Polish public universities became divided, with different individual academic and institutional trajectories in the academic fields in which educational expansion occurred (social sciences) and in fields in which it was much less pronounced (natural sciences). Using the concepts drawn fr...

Clinical neuropsychology relies on the use of appropriate test norms. Normative studies frequently stratify based on age, education, sex, and race. None to date has reported norms based on literacy, despite the substantial evidence that literacy impacts cognitive functioning. Some researchers have suggested that literacy is a more accurate reflection of academic achievement and quality of educa...

The educational and occupational attainments of Hispanic women are tied to the norms of an Anglocentric and androcentric school system. In the past, research has indicated that young female students gain an advantage in the early years of school because of their conformity to certain behaviors including passivity, docility and neatness. Teacher norms for students are specified on three dimensio...

Much of the academic and policy literature on performance related pay focuses on its role as an incentive system. Its role as means for renegotiating performance norms has been largely neglected. The introduction of performance related pay, based mostly on appraisals by line managers, in the British public services in the 1990s can be considered as a large-scale social experiment in the change ...

Research on immigration, educational achievement, and ethnoraciality has followed the lead of racialization and assimilation theories by focusing empirical attention on the immigrantorigin population (immigrants and their children), while overlooking the effect of an immigrant presence on the third-plus generation (U.S.-born individuals of U.S.-born parents), especially its white members. We de...