This study investigated the effects of different output-based task repetition conditions on EFL learners’ speech act production. Three intact classes of English-major students constituted three instructional groups: (1) the explicit task-repetition (ETR) group, (2) the implicit task-repetition (ITR) group, and (3) the no-input task repetition (NTR) group. All the three groups engaged in t...

We have participated on the monolingual and bilingual CLEF Ad-Hoc Retrieval Tasks, using a novel extension of the by now well-known Explicit Semantic Analysis (ESA) approach. We call this extension Cross-Language Explicit Semantic Analysis (CL-ESA) as it allows to apply ESA in a cross-lingual information retrieval setting. In essence, ESA represents documents as vectors in the space of Wikipedi...

This study explores the utilization of information accidentally accessible in the environment when solving a problem. It contrasts the spontaneous use with the prompted use of such information, i.e. it investigates the relationship between the degree of a priori confidence in the relevance of the information and its efficient use. Three degrees are consideredclose pragmatic distance (explicit h...

Economies with asymmetric information are encompassed by an extension of the model of general competitive equilibrium that does not require an explicit modeling of private information. Sellers have discretion over deliveries on contracts; this is in common with economies with default, incomplete contracts or price rigidities. Competitive equilibria exist and anonymousmarkets are viable. But, fo...

Explicit modeling of business processes and their enactment in work ̄ow systems have proved to be valuable in increasing the ef®ciency of work in organizations. We argue that enacted business processes Ð i.e. work ̄ow management systems Ð form a solid basis for adequate information support in complex and knowledge-intensive business processes. To support this claim we demonstrate results from two...

Explicit Semantic Analysis (ESA) has been recently proposed as an approach to computing semantic relatedness between words (and indirectly also between texts) and has thus a natural application in information retrieval, showing the potential to alleviate the vocabulary mismatch problem inherent in standard Bag-of-Word models. The ESA model has been also recently extended to cross-lingual retrie...

In a previous paper, we introduced a heterotic standard model and discussed its basic properties. This vacuum has the spectrum of the MSSM with one additional pair of Higgs-Higgs conjugate fields and a small number of uncharged moduli. In this paper, the requisite vector bundles are formulated; specifically, stable, holomorphic bundles with structure group SU(N) on smooth Calabi-Yau threefolds ...

Recent work has established a route towards the semiclassical validity of Page curve, and so provided evidence that information escapes an evaporating black hole. However, protocol to explicitly recover make practical use in classical limit not yet been given. In this paper, we describe such protocol, showing observer may reconstruct phase space hole interior by measuring Uhlmann Hawking radiat...