Socio- and Psycholinguistic Considerations in Interactive Video Instruction for Limited English Proficient Students

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Motor control of practice and actual strokes by professional and amateur golfers differ but feature a distance-dependent control strategy

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We explored how practice and actual putting strokes differed between professionals and high-level golf amateurs, and how practice strokes reflected subtle differences in putting distances. We analysed swing amplitude, impact velocity, and acceleration profile of the club-head. The acceleration profiles showed that the motor control pattern of the practice stroke differed from that of the actual stroke. To clarify the effects of different putting distances on the practice stroke and to analyse how much the actual stroke could be explained by the practice stroke, we conducted individual regression analyses. The practice strokes of all participants could be divided into three strategies and five types by the coefficient of determination and the slope. This implies that the purpose of the practice stroke varied among golfers. Most golfers used the individual velocity criteria in their practice strokes, which resulted in different putting distances based on their criteria. Unexpectedly, we found no significant difference in skill level between professionals and high-level amateurs. The results of this study imply that the practice stroke does not duplicate the actual stroke, even for professional golfers with excellent skills. However, most high-level golfers adopted distance-dependent control strategies for slightly different putting distances.     

The Effect of Bilingualism on the Measured Intelligence of Elementary School Children of Italian Parentage

The recency of the community college movement has prevented large scale organization and dissemination of knowledge concerning the processes and steps required to establish a community college. There is, therefore, a need for means to incorporate contemporary evidence into the curriculum of prospective administrators of higher education. The purpose of this study was to compare Higher Education Administration students’ peceptions of a logical sequence of events for establishing a community college with a sequence of events for establishing a community college as determined by practice. The Edwards’ matched-pair technique was used to rank the perceptions of the students. A sequence of twenty-nine events was selected from the literature. Each event was matched with every other, thus providing 406 decision situations. From these decisions an ordering was obtained. Using the Spearman rho correlation technique, a coefficient of 0.82 was found between the sequence of events taken from the literature and rank ordering of these events as determined by the Edwards’ matched-pair technique.     

Cultivation of taste and bounded rationality: Some computer simulations

One can approach the economics of the arts, as any field of applied economics, in either of two ways. First, one can treat economic theory and econometric technique as subjects settled by specialists in those fields, to be used in the ec onomics of the arts as they are given, very much as if one were studying the demand for maize. Alternatively, one can treat the economics of the arts as a field which may need and suggest its own developments in theory and technique, suitable to its spec ial problems and processes, from which general economic theory and econometric theory might in principle learn something. Perhaps this latter view is implausible, given the high state of development of economic theory and econometrics in the modern liter ature. Yet many of the advances embodied in these fields have come from particular areas of application-and the economics of maize has been a particularly fertile field.I am indebted to participants in the Seventh International Conference on Cultural Economics, Fort Worth, Texas, October 1992; to p articipants in the Seminar on the Economics of the Arts, Venice, Italy, December 1992; to participants in the conference of the Pennsylvania Economists' Association, Wiles-Barre, PA, June, 1993; to participants in the second conference on Simulating Soci eties, Siena, Italy, July 1993; to participants in the conference of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics, Rensselaerville, NY, August 1993; and to participants in the Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Economics and Manage ment, Portland, OR, August 1993, for useful comments on topics related to the research reported in this paper. Errors and omissions are, of course, attributable to the author.     

Dynamic Monte Carlo simulation of linear SAW polymer chain near a flat surface

Investigation of the conformational properties of a SAW polymer chain near an impenetrable, non-interacting flat surface showed that the chain at first contracted and orientated itself to slightly parallel when it pulled close to the surface and at last elongated and reoriented itself to slightly perpendicular to the surface at very small distance from the surface. Simulation showed that most of the disappeared configurations were of large size at moderate distance from the surface while they were of small size at very small distance from the surface; and that the mean-square end-to-end distance was much more prone to be influenced by the surface than the mean-square radius of gyration . The orientational correlation between the direction of the longest principal axis of the moment of inertia and end-to-end vector was also discussed.     

编辑加工中常见问题辨析

分析编辑加工中经常遇到的国家标准没有明确规定或容易出错的问题,如计算机仿真图的编辑加工、直径的表示方法和缩略语的使用等,并提出相应的建议.     

船舶电站仿真系统数学模型

阐述了船舶电站计算机仿真器逻辑和控制系统数学模型及系统动态特性的数学模型,并着重介绍了动态特性数学模型的计算机算法。     

划水时手指张角的变化对游泳推进力影响的数值模拟

针对游泳中划水时手指应该张开与否的分歧,运用CFD数值模拟的方法,通过建立手掌和手指的简化模型,先后计算了手指分别张开不同角度及不同划水攻角时对应的阻力和阻力系数,计算结果表明手指张开角度越大其阻力和阻力系数越小。     

浅谈元素及化合物性质的“对角线”关系

本文从元素的性质、氧化还原反应、酸碱反应等几个方面探讨了元素及化合物的“对角线”关系。     

基于ACT-R的注意过程仿真及其在教学中的应用

注意是学习的开端,一个学生在课堂上对课程内容的注意越多,他就学得越好。文章针对注意研究之不足,使用ACT-R对注意的过程进行仿真,将注意的详细过程和步骤以及一些认知细节挖掘出来,揭示注意规律在教学中的应用,有益于人们对注意的认知过程和认知规律的整体把握,从而在实际的教学过程中能有效利用好注意这一要素提高教学效果。