cognitive flexibility and epistemic validation in learning from multiple texts

... out in the field of accounting and financial information In the late 1990s, the USA had taken the lead in transforming the international accounting standards (IAS) into the international financial ... international financial reporting standards (IFRS), thus from accounting into reporting for financial interests, through a body based in London, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), whose ... outcomes of removing financial assets and obligations from balance sheets and reporting lower ongoing risk and leverage From an investor’s viewpoint, this obfuscated important risks and obligations.56...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 18:33

... and 1.2; cognitive linguistics and cognitive semantics theory will be briefly discussed in 1.3, a review of major principles of cognitive linguistics in general and cognitive semantics in particular ... meeting „„chair‟‟, who, in declaring the meeting open, performs a specific speech act, thus facilitating the meeting process In opening/closing a dialogue, two (or more) interlocutors begin and ... Cognitive Linguistics, the majority of linguists working within this paradigm share the view that linguistic knowledge is part of general thinking and cognition 3.3.2 Major principles of cognitive linguistics...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:30

... different Accordingly, our findings are supposed to be worthwhile to those who are interested in the field of cognitive semantics in general and polysemy in particular Thank you for evaluating AnyBizSoft ... 2.2.1 Verbs in English 2.2.2 Verbs in Vietnamese 3.3 COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS 3.3.1 Definition of terms 3.3.2 Major principles of cognitive linguistics ... open/close and find out Vietnamese equivalents of these English verbs Although there appear to be some differences in the meanings and in the way in which these languages express meanings, especially...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:30

... diversity of texts has been a rewarding one It has helped me develop polysemy in my mind as a referent to apply to my own day-to-day practices and research in communication, teaching and learning SCOPE ... Chí Minh In English Barcelona, A 1997 Clarifying and Applying the Notions of Metaphor and Metonymy within Cognitive Linguistics Atlantis XIX.1: 21-48 Biber D et al (2007), Grammar of spoken and ... Evans, V and Green, M (2006), Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 13 Evans et al (2007), The Cognitive Linguistics Reader London: Equinox Publishing 14...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:50

... effectiveness of continua work, including charting on the adaptive contin' uum, constructing criteria continua, using two-dimensional charting of continua, and using a two-dimensional continuum graphs ... activated In cognitive psychology, the notion of cognitive schemas has played an important role in the understanding of learning and memory For clinical contexts, A T Beck (1967) described a cognitive ... issues in schema formation and maintenance Researchers and clinicians are also beginning to understand similarities and differences in women's and men's accounts of depression and how these apply to...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 15:20

... 1992 in China and find that the height difference between urban and rural children has been increasing since China’s Reform and Opening Policy in 1978 Furthermore, Luo et al (2009) examine the ... multistage, random cluster sampling procedure to draw the sample from nine provinces in China, including Guangxi, Guizhou, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Liaoning, and Shandong In the ... to 4.5 in 2006 This finding suggests the protein/fat rich foods have become cheaper relative to rice, which helps explain the decreasing intake of cereals and increasing intake of protein/fat...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... obtained in two clinical trials in which IvIg was administered to AD patients [22,23] and a multi-site phase trial is in progress In our ELISA studies we found that in addition to IvIg’s binding to ... pooled and purified plasma immunoglobulins (> 95% IgG) from thousands of clinically normal individuals These drugs are being evaluated as a possible treatment for AD; encouraging results were obtained ... or with an irrelevant protein, bovine serum albumin (BSA) We referred to this as nonspecific binding [20,21] and concluded that it should be subtracted from IvIg’s binding to Ab-coated wells to...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... will continue to increase in the coming decades The National Health Interview Survey reports that in the United States in 1994, 8.3 million individuals over 65 years of age were discharged from hospitals, ... patients in the study assessed history of substance abuse and psychiatric illness, by both obtaining information from the patient themselves and by reviewing patient charts We also included brief ... approximately 10 minutes to administer In the current study the caregiver was a member of the nursing staff caring for the patient during the first two days of hospitalization Mini-Mental State Examination...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (SXT) The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) and breakpoints were determined in accordance with guidelines established by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) [16,17] ... study and other work have identified a dominance of S flexneri STs and in isolates of Indian origin and cases of traveler’s diarrhea associated with the Indian subcontinent [23] One factor driving ... Aerobically; Approved Standard Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA: Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute;, 2006 17 Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute: Performance Standards for Antimicrobial...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... from to 28 A "productivity subscale" sums the scores from the items assessing work functioning and productivity (doing less work, doing poor quality work, and making more mistakes) Subjects and ... clinical tool to assess and monitor occupational functioning in patients with MDD Competing interests RWL has received honoraria for consulting/speaking from: Advanced Neuromodulation Systems Inc., ... [20,21] and with administrative work records [15] In addition, further studies are required to investigate the performance of the LEAPS in non-clinical samples of workers and in other clinical...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... predicted by the findings of Rodushkin and Axelsson [42,43] Figures and show this clearly In the results of the women we find individual variations in trends: four women have increasing levels of ... levels in Table apart from the Finland sample are from an apparently uncontaminated control population studied by Gonnen et al who measured Uranium in a population of 99 individuals living in Southern ... disease in Japan, but the types of congenital anomaly concern brain development and learning difficulty and not match those found in Fallujah, which are dominated by heart and circulatory system and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... scheme was effective in increasing fruit intake in all groups at these schools (including boys and pupils of lower SES) as the interactions between intervention effect and gender and SES were not ... shows an increase in SES disparity in FV intake among 10-12 year olds from 2001 to 2008, wherein low SES children had a steeper decline in FV intake than high SES children This increase in SES ... parts of the increasing SES disparities regarding changes in FV intake within the same age group from 2001 to 2008, wherein high SES children had a higher increase in accessibility and preferences...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... thoughts, learning and actions Besides, he must be capable of engaging in independent work, using appropriate learning strategies and to create personal learning contexts, both inside and outside ... autonomous in second language learning I.3 Overview of learning attitude and learning style I.3.1 Learning attitude I.3.2 Learning style I.4 Overview of textbook adaptation I.3.1 Reasons for adapting ... of the teaching and learning process, the teacher‟s initial and utmost important job is to keep a thorough understanding of the learner‟s factors such as learning attitude and learning styles...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 09:09

... difference) to induce brand switching Since forgetting is lowering down learning efficiency and impeding convergence of brand quality to its true value, forgetting increases brand switching Thus, ... Evidence In this section, we provide some model free evidence to show the data has both learning and forgetting effect Learning Effect: If there is indeed some learning about the brand, then ... retain various aspects of this information, and (c) upon instructions transmit specific retained information to other systems, including those responsible for translating it into behaviour and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:11

... Foale 2006) and bleaching was also observed in areas near Motupore and Madang and the Lihir Islands and Lak region near New Ireland (Srinivasan 2000) In 1999-2000 increasing bleaching with depth ... Expedition in the late 1920s (Coles and Brown 2003) Understanding of the processes and thresholds leading to coral bleaching was increased from work in the 1970s related to evaluating the impact ... Caribbean, Indian Ocean including Indonesia, and in the Pacific along the Great Barrier Reef and northwestern areas such as Okinawa and Palau (Figure 7) This was the sixth major bleaching event...

Ngày tải lên: 08/06/2016, 11:26

... degree in electronics science from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 1998, and his M.Eng degree in telecommunications engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, ... information theory Anders Høst-Madsen was born in Denmark in 1966 He received the M.S degree in electrical engineering in 1990 and the Ph.D degree in mathematics in 1993, both from the Technical ... (INFOCOM ’00), vol 2, pp 585–594, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 2000 [19] A Srinivas and E Modiano, “Minimum energy disjoint path routing in wireless ad hoc networks,” in Proceedings of the Annual International...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... gain and lose ground and also plan and use strategies If people find a position indefensible, they can abandon it and take a new line of attack Many of the things people when they are in fighting ... provides information about the principles that govern the research and the methods to be employed Chapter 4, Findings and Discussion, presents the findings obtained and sound discussions on those findings ... resemblance including allegory, hyperbole, and simile From cognitive point of view, as stated by Lakoff and Johnson, our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:32

... second language teaching and learning This thesis aims to analyze metaphorical sayings of Life and Death from the cognitive perspective, i.e to view the sayings of Life and Death from the perspective ... provides information about the principles that govern the research and the methods to be employed Chapter 4, Findings and Discussion, presents the findings obtained and sound discussions on those findings ... examine metaphors in both “ordinary and extraordinary” perspectives There are a number of researchers and linguists take metaphors in literature as favorite topic for their studying As Semino...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:51

... hardiness in learning, and learning motivation of business students in Vietnam A conceptual model is depicted in Fig In this model, psychological hardiness in learning has both direct and indirect ... performance standards with efforts to enhance QCL by offering training to enhance learning motivation and hardiness in learning, and by offering information on the functional value of business education ... hardiness in learning plays an important role in the learning process Students with high levels of psychological hardiness in learning will spend their time and effort in studying They feel and...

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