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Matthew R. Cersosimo football
No full textThis is a photo of Matt Cersosimo appearing to play defense on a football field. Matt is seen sporting nike shoes, socks and gloves, as well as a Springfield College helmet, jersey and pants.While at Springfield College, Matt Cersosimo was a member of both the men's lacrosse and football team at Springfield College. A physicial education major, Matt won the Springfieold College Male Multi-Sport Athlete Award in 1999 and was captain of the men's lacrosse team his junior and senior year (2000). Matt completed his collegiate career in lacrosse scoring 100 assists, 183 points and a team-leading 61 points his senior year. Matt helped his team win its first Pilgram League Tournament Title his junior year and was all-state selection in football and an all-league in lacrosse and hockey during his time at Conard High School
Increasing inclusion and engagement in foreign language learning: A pilot study with multilingual digital storytelling and virtual reality
No full textMultilingual digital storytelling (MDST) widens the interfaces between learner engagement, creativity and digital literacy, resulting as particularly beneficial for foreign language classes. However, thus far, little research has been conducted on MDST involving students with special educational needs. This report presents a pilot study of a nine-hour-workshop conducted with eight children aged 8 to 11, two with severe dyslexia and two with mild intellectual disability; among these, two were bilingual. The digital tool used for the workshop was Cos paces Edu, a VR-based program that allows students to create virtual environments that can be explored using cardboard headsets. Engagement in the activity, self-efficacy and interest in language learning were measured by means of a questionnaire adapted from Ahmad and Yamat (2020) which was administered at the beginning and at the end of the course. Results showed increase in all areas and more positive feelings related to foreign language learning after the MDST activity
R. DINGWALL AND S. FROST (EDS.), HEALTH AND SAFETY IN A CHANGING WORLD, ROUTLEDGE, LONDON, 2017 - EVOLVING GOALS FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY IN WORKPLACES TODAY
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Back to Kyoto? US Participation and the Linkage between R&D and Climate Cooperation
No full textThe US decision not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and the subsequent outcomes of the Bonn and Marrakech Conferences of the Parties drastically reduce the effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol in controlling GHG emissions. The reason is not only the reduced emission abatement in the US. Lower spillover effects on technology and an increase in Russia’s bargaining power were also induced by the US decision. It is therefore crucial to analyse whether an incentive strategy exists that could induce the US to revise its decision and comply with the Kyoto commitments. One solution, occasionally proposed in literature and in actual policymaking, is to link negotiations on climate change control with decisions concerning international R&D cooperation and technology transfers. This paper explores this idea by analysing on the one hand the incentives for the EU, Japan and Russia to adopt an “issue linkage” strategy, and on the other hand the incentives for the US to join a coalition cooperating both on climate change control and on technological innovation. The extended regime in which cooperation takes place on both dimensions (GHG emissions and R&D) will be examined from the view point of countries’ profitability and free-riding incentives. The effectiveness and credibility of the “issue linkage” strategy will thus be assessed
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Novel metaphor processing in dyslexia: a visual world eye-tracking study
No full textMetaphor comprehension has been investigated in neurodevelopmental disorders, but studies devoted to adults with dyslexia are few and present inconsistent results. The present study sought to investigate how adults with dyslexia process novel metaphors. Individual differences in vocabulary, working memory, and Theory of Mind were also assessed. An online metaphor comprehension task based on the Visual World Paradigm was carried out with eye-tracking. Metaphors and corresponding literal sentences were aurally presented in isolation, and participants were asked to select a picture that best corresponded to the sentence they heard. Our results indicated that participants with dyslexia chose metaphor interpretations at a similar rate as did the control group. However, online processing data indicated generally slower response times, with a particular delay in processing metaphorical utterances. Eye movement analyses provided further insights into the underlying nature of the processing slowdowns, highlighting specific challenges encountered by individuals with dyslexia when interpreting figurative language
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