Effects of closed head injury (CHI) severity, focal brain lesions, and age at injury on word fluency (WF) were studied longitudinally in 122 children (78 severe, 44 mild); 112 CHI patients (68 severe, 44 mild CHI) and 104 uninjured normal controls participated in a cross-sectional study. WF was measured by asking the child to generate as many words as possible beginning with a designated letter...

This paper presents a conceptual study of collaborative discourse in computer conferencing for adult education. The purpose of the study is to examine the dynamics of text based asynchronous discussion, the role of online leadership, and the relationship between them. Based on the syntheses of existing literature on collaborative inquiry in computer conferencing and the roles of online teachers...

In order to improve Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) systems, it is essential to discover exactly how our current systems are underperforming. The major intellectual tool for solving this problem is error analysis: careful investigation of just which factors are contributing to errors in the recognizers. This paper presents our observations of the effects that discourse (i...

The field of Art Music is based on sufficiently different values than those of popular music. According to the author, a (classical) contemporary music composer, the idea of intellectual ownership in Art Music is inextricably connected with the concepts of originality and structure as opposed to surface elements such as strings of notes or specifically recognizable timbres which frequently form...