This research examined four-month-old infants’ use of featural information (shape or color and pattern) to segregate a display into two adjacent pieces. The infants were shown displays consisting of two objects that were the same or different in shape and that were decorated with either similar or different surface markings such that featural information could suggest that the two portions were...

One of the main empirical conclusions of the political business cycle literature is that economic growth and employment in the United States tend to fall after the election of a Republican administration, and increase following Democratic victory. Because Republican administrations also exhibit lower interest rates and inflation than Democrats, it has been argued that their constituents favor l...

Starting with a novel definition of divided differences, this essay derives and discusses the basic properties of, and facts about, (univariate) divided differences. “It belongs to the most beautiful I have been able to do.”[Newton 1676]

The advantages of portfolios come from observing the student learning process and recording feedback. Students utilized their own learning portfolios to do learning assessment and self-correction. The research that has been done in Taiwan has shown that using a portfolio is effective in improving English speaking performances (ESP). The purpose of this study is to apply the portfolios to assess...

The study explores first language (L1) influences on the mechanisms of spelling in English as a foreign language (EFL). We hypothesized that the transparency of L1 orthography influences (a) the amount of hesitation associated with spelling irregular English words, and (b) the size of units EFL spellers operate. Participants were adult speakers of three languages differing by the degree of tran...

Spelling check identifies incorrect writing words in documents. For the reason of input methods, Chinese spelling check is much different from English and it is still a challenging work. For the past decade years, most of the methods in detecting errors in documents are lexicon-based or probability-based, and much progress are made. In this paper, we propose a new method in Chinese spelling che...

1.0 Introduction Every literate culture has ways of saying how the written words of their main language are made up of units of writing. In English, this is called spelling. This paper looks at spelling in Tibetan, where it is called sBYor.k)og. sbyor klog (pronounced a little like “jaw lock”). However, it adopts the special perspective, in keeping with the theme for this volume of “sound in tr...

30 Computer The Evitability of Software Patents A n Australian patent examiner more than 40 years ago, I’ve maintained a sporadic interest in the law of intellectual property and been disturbed by the developing saga of software patents. Although the intellectual property laws of any two countries—such as Australia and the US, for example—exhibit significant differences, my disquiet goes far be...

This paper presents phase one of the study. It is aimed at investigating how and why secondary school students use computer tools, such as spelling and grammar checkers, to aid them in their English writing. The community in this context is a multicultural secondary school where students come from diverse socio-economic background and family structures. The study was prompted through close obse...