Archive for November, 2004

04-11-30

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Odum provides short courses in social science data analysis. Most of them are 1-day, although some are series.

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Social science research has come a long way since the days of data
punch cards and face-to-face surveys. In today’s competitive research
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04-11-30

Tags: has some old papers on counterfactual, which include Karl Popper’s 49 article.

1.Classifying Conditionals: The Traditional Way is Right
Jonathan Bennett

Mind, New Series, Vol. 104, No. 414. (Apr., 1995), pp. 331-354.

Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-4423%28199504%292%3A104%3A414%3C331%3ACCTTWI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23

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2.On Conditionals (in State of the Art)
Dorothy Edgington

Mind, New Series, Vol. […]

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04-11-30

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Is the Possible Worlds interpretation a mere logical device for
philosophical analyses of counterfactual truth values, or could it be a
psychological reality? In other words, for a child engaged in a pretend
play, is she living in an otherly world, or is she simply tagging the
fact that she is pretending to be a doggy (and related […]

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04-11-30

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also link to William Lycan, Philosophy of Linguistics and Semantics, writer of the book Real Conditionals
(2001)

LINGUIST List 13.1632
Sun Jun 9 2002
Review: Philosophy of Lang, Semantics: Lycan (2001)

Message 1: Lycan (2001) Real […]

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04-11-30

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David Lewis (philosopher)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

David K. Lewis

David Kellogg Lewis (September 28, 1941 - October 14, 2001)
is considered by many to have been the leading Analytic
philosopher of the latter half of the 20th century. Born in the
United States of America, he taught there (at UCLA and then Princeton) for […]

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04-11-30

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Modal logic is where the idea of possible worlds and modal realism come from.

Modal logic
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Modal logic, or (less commonly) intensional logic is the branch of logic that deals with sentences that are qualified by modalities such as can, could,
might, may, must, possibly, and […]

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04-11-30

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John McArthy, creater of Lisp, in an extension of his book on philosophical problems in AI, touched on modal logic

The idea is that modal calculi describe several possible
worlds at once, instead of just one. Statements are not assigned […]

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04-11-30

Tags: J. Michael Terry

Ph.D. 2003, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

terryjm@email.unc.edu
Office: Dey 321, (919) 962-4996

Michael Terry’s principal area of interest is natural language
semantics. His current research involves investigating the formal
semantic properties of Tense and Aspect in African-American English.
His other areas of interest include negation, and definiteness and
specificity.

Had a quick lunch with Mike and talked about counterfactual and the […]

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04-11-30

Tags: David Mora-Marin

Ph.D. 2001, State University of New York at Albany

http://www.unc.edu/~davidmm
davidmm@unc.edu
Office: Dey 325

David Mora-Marin, affiliated with both the Linguistics Department and
the Duke-UNC Consortium for Latin American Studies, specializes in
historical linguistics and the epigraphic study of ancient Mayan
hieroglyphic inscriptions. Currently he is working on the linguistic
structure (e.g. morphosyntax, pragmatics) and historical development of
Mayan texts, such as the […]

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04-11-29

Tags: Gallery 2 Alpha-4 (Nice Commits) Released

This is the fourth and final installment in the Gallery 2 alpha cycle
(which means the next release will be beta!). Once again we've made considerable improvements
in G2 in the past two months and are presenting you with another
technology release so […]

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04-11-29

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http://www.socsci.duke.edu/ssri/about.html
MISSION STATEMENT

Building on the strength of its core schools and disciplines, Duke is
poised to take advantage of inter- and multi-disciplinary
collaborations to become an institution distinguished for the breadth
and depth of its social science research. The SSRI exists to make this
possible; its mission is to extend the efforts of social scientists at
Duke University in creating and […]

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04-11-29

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This is a list of PubMed journals that provide links to full text articles.

NOTE: Links are supplied by full text providers. While
NCBI makes every effort to ensure proper functioning of links, some of
them may still be problematic due to situations beyond our control.
Please report problems to linkout@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov so that we can have them corrected as […]

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04-11-29

Tags: PubMed publishes abstracts from Elsevier, but does not tell you whether
it’s legal to download the abstracts from its own server. What a
confusing world.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/download.html
Prospective licensees
and those considering downloading data for redistribution should obtain
opinion from legal counsel for any use planned for the author-generated
abstracts in National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases and to ensure
compliance with intellectual property […]

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04-11-29

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TinyMCE upgraded to 1.38.
BM script changed to the following to control the position of the pop-up.
javascript:bm=window.open(’http://www.garyfeng.com/cgi-bin/MT/index.cgi?is_bm=1&bm_show=category,text_more&__mode=view&_type=entry&link_title=&link_href=&text=’,’_blank’,‘width=600,height=680,alwaysRaised=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,status=yes,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes’);

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04-11-29

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URL: doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2004.09.004

The texts used in this paper might be useful for future reading tasks
– their definition of difficulty is based on the number of concepts
introduced.
Veenman, M. V. J.,
& Beishuizen, J. J. (2004).
Intellectual and metacognitive skills of novices while studying texts
under conditions of text difficulty and time constraint.
Learning and Instruction, 14, 621-640.

Abstract
This study investigated […]

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04-11-28

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ProcessingInstructions in XML can be passed to tcl
handler in TclXML, which means I could in priciple define an
emXML-specific tcl script in the processingInstruction element in the
emXML and use it to update trialInfo, etc.
There must be a similar mechanism in tDOM

Example program

proc PI {target data} { switch — $target […]

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04-11-28

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xmlgen is part of the TclXML distribution, which uses libxml. It is a
simple package to output xml from tcl objects. It could be useful for
emXML editor, which could:

read emXML file, either parse with DOM, or using SAX and read a trial a time.
turn each emXML elements into a tcl object

which gets all the […]

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04-11-20

Tags: Duke has the book. Note: alse search the related keywords. There are some 74 related books.

Author  

 Hannas, Wm. C., 1946-

Title  

 Asia's orthographic dilemma / Wm. C. Hannas ; with a foreword by John […]

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04-11-20

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This is not quite what Reiko and I talked about before she left last Wednesday, but it's clearly another language difference.
An study idea:
Language production with eye tracking; task — making up a sentence
based on 3 pieces of info: Place, time, and manner. The 3 sources of
info (presented as 3 pictures, e.g., car, […]

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