Leukoaraiosis (LA) describes diffuse white matter abnormalities apparent in computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance (MR) brain scans. Patients with LA generally show varying degrees of cognitive impairment, which can be classified as cognitively normal (CN), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and dementia. However, a consistent relationship between the degree of LA and the level of cogniti...

[1] The loss of relativistic electrons from the Earth’s radiation belts as a result of resonant interactions with electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves (EMIC) waves has yet to be fully quantified, in part, due to the lack of global measurements of the wave distribution during individual storm events. Recent work has focused on augmenting direct wave measurements with proxy wave indicators. Here w...

Our main contribution is to propose a novel model selection methodology, expectation minimization of information criterion (EMIC). EMIC makes a significant impact on the combinatorial scalability issue pertaining to the model selection for mixture models having types of components. A goal of such problems is to optimize types of components as well as the number of components. One key idea in EM...

Please cite this article in press as: Agar, M. M doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2010.05.001 The tension between ‘‘etic” and ‘‘emic,” between outsider and insider descriptions of language and culture, has been a leitmotif of anthropology since its beginning. This article revisits Goodenough’s original discussion of emic and etic as a bridge into translation studies, emphasizing recent anthropological and...

Electric conductivity of the molten zinc chloride-1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride phases has been measured by a computerized system using the d.c. four-probes method. The sequence of the conductivities for the different component melts is ZnCl2-EMIC > ZnCl2-EMIC-CoCl2 > ZnCl2EMIC-DyCl3 > ZnCl2-EMIC-CoCl2-DyCl3. The results may be explained in terms of the viscosity increase due to the comp...

The conductivities of the binary room-temperature molten salt (RTMS) systems ZnCl 2-N-nbutylpyridinium chloride (BPC), ZnCl2 -1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (EMIC) and ZnCl2 benzyltriethylammonium chloride (BTEAC) have been measured at different temperatures and compositions by a d.c. four-probes method. The conductivities of the three RTMS are in the order ZnCl2-EMIC > ZnCl2-BPC > ZnCl2-...

abstract one of the main concerns in educational settings has been the degree of the learners’ involvement in learning and the extent to which they actively participate in classroom talks and interactions. the present study is an emic-based ethnographic study aimed at providing insights about patterns of talk and different degrees of interaction in efl university classes with a specific focus o...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive chronic illness that leads to cognitive decline and dementia. Neuroimaging technologies, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), deep learning approaches offer promising avenues for AD classification. In this study, we investigate the use of fMRI-based connectivity (FC) measures, including Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC), maximal inf...

We review recent developments in the study of culture and personality measurement. Three approaches are described: an etic approach that focuses on establishing measurement equivalence in imported measures of personality, an emic (indigenous) approach that studies personality in specific cultures, and a combined emic-etic approach to personality. We propose the latter approach as a way of combi...