The article discusses how the increasing number of self-help books for single mothers is meeting demand positive narratives about their experiences, which are often stereotyped in media. The offer a powerful tool self-reflection, and critical discourse analysis reveals semantic strategies that authors use to construct, negotiate, reframe motherhood. aim challenge societal expectations re...

A survey of research on spoken language understanding is presented. It covers aspects of knowledge representation, automatic interpretation strategies, semantic grammars, conceptual language models, semantic event detection, shallow semantic parsing, semantic classification, semantic confidence, active learning

This article describes an in-class exercise that illustrates the advantage of semantic over nonsemantic study habits. The exercise includes a survey of students’ current study strategies, followed by the presentation of an abbreviated version of Craik and Tulving’s (1975) classic levels-ofprocessing experiment. We observed significant benefits of semantic processing over nonsemantic processing,...

The increasing role of software for developing products and services requires that organizations align their software-related activities with high-level business goals. In practice, this alignment is very difficult and only little systematic support is available. GQM+Strategies is a method that aims at aligning organizational goals, strategies, and measurements at all levels of an organization ...

Although several studies have linked Life History Strategy (LHS) variation with variation in the Five Factor Model personality dimensions, no published research has explored the relationship of LHS to the HEXACO personality dimensions. The theoretically expected relationship of the HEXACO Emotionality factor to LHS is unclear. The results of two studies (N = 641) demonstrated that LHS indicator...