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Lack of semantic parafoveal preview benefit in reading revisited
No full textIn contrast to earlier research, evidence for semantic preview benefit in reading has been reported by Hohenstein and Kliegl (Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40, 166–190, 2013) in an alphabetic writing system; they also implied that prior demonstrations of lack of a semantic preview benefit needed to be reexamined. In the present article, we report a rather direct replication of an experiment reported by Rayner, Balota, and Pollatsek (Canadian Journal of Psychology, 40, 473–483, 1986). Using the gaze-contingent boundary paradigm, subjects read sentences that contained a target word (razor), but different preview words were initially presented in the sentence. The preview was identical to the target word (i.e., razor), semantically related to the target word (i.e., blade), semantically unrelated to the target word (i.e., sweet), or a visually similar nonword (i.e., razar). When the reader’s eyes crossed an invisible boundary location just to the left of the target word location, the preview changed to the target word. Like Rayner et al. (Canadian Journal of Psychology, 40, 473–483, 1986), we found that fixations on the target word were significantly shorter in the identical condition than in the unrelated condition, which did not differ from the semantically related condition; when an orthographically similar preview had been initially present in the sentence, fixations were shorter than when a semantically unrelated preview had been present. Thus, the present experiment replicates the earlier data reported by Rayner et al. (Canadian Journal of Psychology, 40, 473–483, 1986), indicating evidence for an orthographic preview benefit but a lack of semantic preview benefit in reading English
Rayner Whitely - 02
No full textPhotograph - Rayner Whitley's house being moved three miles east of Colinton, Alberta. The house is on a flatbed pulled by a truc
Contributions to the History of Psychology: LIX. Rosalie Rayner Watson: The Mother of a Behaviorist's Sons
No full text Rosalie Rayner Watson (1899–1936), John Watson's second wife, assisted her husband in the development of applied behavioral psychology. Not only did Rayner Watson co-author the seminal paper on conditioned emotional reactions, she also assisted Watson in preparing the most popular child care book of the time. Curiously, in the only article under her sole authorship, Rayner Watson described behaviorism in the home somewhat negatively. </jats:p
Publishing Tolkien
No full textDuring the last thirty years of the Professor’s life, but especially towards the end, Rayner Unwin met, talked with, and worked for, J.R.R. Tolkien. It was a business relationship between author and publisher, but increasingly it became a trusting friendship as well. In an ideal world authors and publishers should always act in partnership. This certainly happened between Professor Tolkien and George Allen & Unwin, but in some respects, the speaker explains, the collaboration had very unusual features
Like a Surgeon? A letter commenting on Grosse and Thomas's ‘Selection into training will always be an inexact process: a survey of Directors of Physician Education on selection into Basic Physician Training in Australia and New Zealand’
No full textLETTER TO THE EDITOR - General Correspondence.Brandon Stretton, Joshua Kovoor, Stephen Bacchi, Aashray Gupta, Thomas Hugh, Christopher Dobbins, Markus Trochsler, Peter Hewett, Weng O. Chan, Savio G. Barreto, Christopher Rayner, Martin Bruening, Robert Padbury, Nicholas J. Talley, Adrian Anthony, Michael Horowitz, Guy Maddern and Mark Boy
Beyond the Rockton Window: remembering author and painter Helen Haenke, 19 Mar 2017
No full textA talented artist and writer of poetry, plays and prose, Helen Haenke was an influential figure in Ipswich from the 1940s to 1978. The family's historic house Rockton was her creative sanctuary. The panel discussion around the works and life of Helen Haenke was led by UQ Honorary Senior Research Fellow Bronwen Levy, with Helen's daughter Margot Rayner and local Ipswich resident and drama teacher Helen Pullar. Introdcution by Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Alan Rix. UQ Press released an anthology of Helen Haenke's work, Helen Haenke at Rockton - A creative life, which was on sale at the event. This event was supported by Ipswich City Council, University of Queensland Library, Ipswich Poetry Feast and University of Queensland Press
Author reply to Hettiarachchi et al. (re Helicobacter pylori resistance in Australia…)
No full textLetter to the EditorJonathon P. Schubert, Paul R. Ingram, Morgyn S. Warner, Christopher K. Rayner, Ian C. Roberts-Thomson, Samuel P. Costello and Robert V. Bryan
Market Power in UK Food Retailing: Theory and Evidence from Seven Product Groups
No full textEstablishing the presence of market power in food chains has become an increasingly pertinent line of enquiry given the trend towards increasing concentration that has been observed in many parts of the world. This paper presents a theoretical model of price transmission in vertically related markets under imperfect competition. The model delivers a quasi-reduced form representation that is empirically tractable using readily available market data to test for the presence of market power. In particular, we show that the hypothesis of perfect competition can be rejected if shocks to the demand and supply function are significant and correctly signed in price transmission equations. Using a cointegrated vector autoregression, we find empirical results that are consistent with downstream market power in six out of seven food products investigated, supporting both the findings of the UK competition authority's recent investigation in to supermarkets and renewed calls for further scrutiny of supermarket behaviour by the UK's Office of Trading.imperfect competition, Cointegrated VARs, UK food industry, Marketing, D4, L81,
The associates ::four capitalists who created California /
No full textOne hundred and forty years ago, four men rose from their position as middle-class merchants to become robber barons and, in the end, civilization-creating philanthropists. Their names were Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins, and they were known as "The Big Four," or "The Associates." Their moneymaker was the building of the transcontinental railroad, but what stands out in their story is how smarts, rapacity, and sheer luck characterized the dizzy growth of California. Buccaneers of the untrammeled capitalism of the Gilded Age, the four nevertheless left behind a legacy of philanthropy and cultural institutions that has made California the capital of the American West. Having written about confidence artists in earlier books, author Rayner has a knack for detecting the fraudulence that so often lurks behind business success. This is a fresh retelling of a quintessentially American story.--From publisher description
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The associates ::four capitalists who created California /
No full textOne hundred and forty years ago, four men rose from their position as middle-class merchants to become robber barons and, in the end, civilization-creating philanthropists. Their names were Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins, and they were known as "The Big Four," or "The Associates." Their moneymaker was the building of the transcontinental railroad, but what stands out in their story is how smarts, rapacity, and sheer luck characterized the dizzy growth of California. Buccaneers of the untrammeled capitalism of the Gilded Age, the four nevertheless left behind a legacy of philanthropy and cultural institutions that has made California the capital of the American West. Having written about confidence artists in earlier books, author Rayner has a knack for detecting the fraudulence that so often lurks behind business success. This is a fresh retelling of a quintessentially American story.--From publisher description
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