Zilber proposes [62] to prove ‘canonicity results for pseudo-analytic’ structures. Informally, ‘canonical’ means ‘the theory of the structure in a suitable possibly infinitary language (see Section 2) has one model in each uncountable power’ while ‘pseudoanalytic’ means ‘the model of power 2א0 can be taken as a reduct of an expansion of the complex numbers by analytic functions’. This program i...

In this paper, I describe CitiTag, a research project aiming to explore the potential of spontaneous social behaviour and playful group interaction in public spaces through the use of mobile technologies. I discuss briefly the idea and motivating themes, the design of CitiTag, a wireless location based multiplayer game and findings from two user studies.

The context for this study is a multi-disciplinary collaboration of six faculty members using peer review in their respective disciplines with the goal of improved student writing. Faculty members developed their own assignments and methods for implementing peer review, but each followed the same guidelines. Students submitted drafts to peers who made comments and used a rubric to provide forma...

This paper explores three questions. 1) How active are academics in the op-ed pages of American newspapers and how do geographers compare on this front? 2) Are there patterns that emerge among those geographers who have published commentaries in American newspapers in terms of their rank and gender? 3) Are there common themes or perspectives which emerge in the opinion pieces penned by geograph...

The purpose of the study was to analyze nurse–client interaction processes in rural health facilities. This was an inductive, qualitative, grounded theory study. Constant comparative analysis of data was used to generate themes, concepts and theoretical statements. Six main concepts emerged from data: Willingness of mother to attend antenatal clinic, reciprocal exchange of information, nursing ...

This article describes the process by which one study utilized qualitative methods to create items for a multi dimensional scale to measure twelve step program affiliation. The process included interviewing fourteen addicted persons while in twelve step focused treatment about specific “pros” (things they like or would miss out on by not being involved in twelve-step programs) and “cons” (thing...

Although an increasingly digitised society offers a variety of options, it also implies challenges, risks and dilemmas for citizens, organisations and corporations. The purpose of this article is to critically analyse digital society from the perspective of dilemmatic space. The theoretical frame offers new ways of making sense of the digital society, and may provide new perspectives on how to ...

Conversation may be considered as a universal communication system which performs social and interactive cue of communication. Although it could appear casual, even chaotic and confused, due to its spontaneous nature, a deep and intrinsic organization, grounded on a shared social order, is involved in conversational stream which follows given cultural standards. In the present study a sequence ...

W. S. Spangler J. T. Kreulen J. F. Newswanger Data-mining techniques that detect trends and patterns in structured data are often illsuited for analysis of unstructured text. Information critical to business—and generated by groups such as employees, customers, and the public—appears in such forms as chats, electronic discussion forums, and blogs. This paper describes techniques developed to de...

Learner autonomy (LA) has always been a controversial issue among applied linguists. Several studies have been carried out to investigate the teachers' and learners' perceptions of learner autonomy as well as the feasibility of learner autonomy. Despite the importance of learner autonomy and the existence of several related studies, the challenges in promoting LA in Iranian institutes to the re...