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Preparing to talk : Interaction between a linguistically enabled agent and a human teacher
(AAAI, 2010)As a precursor to learning to use language an infant has to acquire preliminary linguistic skills, including the ability to recognize and produce word forms without meaning. This develops out of babbling, through vocal ... -
Nineteenth Century American Literature : Texts, Contexts, Connections
(Longman, 2011)This text explores the culture and literature of nineteenth-century America, examining several genres including the early American novel, realist fiction and historical romance, short stories and poetry. It goes on to ... -
A localist implementation of the Primacy model of immediate serial recall
(Springer Nature Link, 1997)We present a localist, connectionist implementation of the Primacy model of immediate serial recall. We demonstrate a connectionist ordering mechanism which is localist and activation-based rather than based on association ... -
Supporting Children with Autism in Mainstream Schools
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Partnerships for better mental health worldwide : WPA recommendations on best practices in working with service users and family carers
(2011-10)WPA President M. Maj established the Task Force on Best Practice in Working with Service Users and Carers in 2008, chaired by H. Herrman. The Task Force had the remit to create recommendations for the international mental ... -
Impacts of horizontal and vertical foreign investment in business services : The experience of Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic
(2011-10)This article examines the impact of foreign direct investment in business services on the economies of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia and their place in the European division of labour. A distinction is drawn ... -
Developing Fault-Prediction Models : What the research can show industry
(2011)A systematic review of the research literature on fault-prediction models from 2000 through 2010 identified 36 studies that sufficiently defined their models and development context and methodology. The authors quantitatively ... -
The role of health professionals in promoting the uptake of fall prevention interventions : A qualitative study of older people's views
(2011-11)Objective: to explore older people's perceptions of the facilitators and barriers to participation in fall prevention interventions in the UK. Methods: we undertook a qualitative study with older people who had taken part ... -
Evaluation of Logarithmic integrals in two dimensional boundary element computation
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The Laplace transform dual reciprocity boundary element method for electromagnetic heating problems
(EC Ltd, 2005)There are many situations in applied science and engineering where materials are heated electrically via the so-called ohmic heating, or Joule heating, process. In this process the heating occurs throughout the volume as ... -
Quasi-markets and school performance : evidence from a study of English secondary schools
(Peter Lang Pub. Inc., 2000)The concurrence of stagnating budgets for education has tended to increase demands on education systems. This has resulted in the tightening of the financial bottleneck situation, and this begs the question of, what is the ... -
Representations of time in symbol grounding systems
(AAAI, 2010)This paper gives a short overview of time representations in current symbol grounding architectures. Furthermore we report on a recently developed embodied language acquisition system that acquires object words from a ... -
Learning and the external environment
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2004)The chapters in this fully-edited text convey an international view on leadership and management roles and their relationship to improving education systems. The interactions of educational institutions are explored at ... -
Urban schools : Performance, competition and collaboration
(Springer Nature Link, 2008)This chapter briefly sets current educational policy on urban education in England in the context of policy developments over the past 25 years, highlighting certain continuities and disjunctures in the journey from ... -
Space for idealism? : Politics and education in the UK
(2002)This article discusses the political changes that have occurred in the United Kingdom during the past quarter century. Education as an electoral issue is placed in the context of the political philosophies of the Conservative ... -
Democratic leadership in education
(SAGE Publications, 2005)In this text Woods studies the notion of democratic leadership. He explores the term and what it means, the varying forms it can occupy, and conveys how it is relevant to learning and school education. Woods portrays how ... -
Alternative education for the 21st Century : Philosophies, approaches, visions
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)This text comprises an innovative collection of leading examples of threads of education that are grounded in alternative philosophies and cultures. This ranges from schemes to make more democratic schools, through Quaker, ... -
Investigation of skin permeation using ATR-FTIR spectroscopic imaging and multivariate target factor analysis
(2010-10)ATR-FTIR spectroscopic imaging permeation experiments of a model formulation across stratum corneum (SC) were conducted to acquire further understanding of the mechanism of drug permeation. Quantitative iterative target ... -
Study of inheritable mutations in von Neumann self-reproducing automata using the GOLLY simulator
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)This article involves the study of inheritable mutations in a von Neumann self-reproducing automaton, making use of the GOLLY cellular automata simulator. Multi-point mutations were done on the tape which holds the description ... -
From babbling towards first words : The emergence of speech in a robot in real-time interaction
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)This paper describes a system that simulates word form acquisition without meaning as a preliminary stage in language acquisition, through interaction with a human teacher. The system extracts phonemes from the teacher's ...