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Open AccessArsenical Cancer: A Review
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Open AccessErrors in proofreading: Evidence for syntactic control of letter processing?
The present study compared the rates of detection of misspellings in content and in function words, controlling for the effects of familiarity by studying verbs that could be either content words or function w...
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Open AccessCategorization reaction time, category structure, and category size in semantic memory using artificial categories
This study examined the effects of category structure and category size on categorization reaction time, artificial categories being used to obtain greater experimental control than is usually found in semanti...
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Open AccessConceptual processing of text during skimming and rapid sequential reading
Potential conceptual processing difficulties associated with abbreviating the duration of eye fixations during reading were explored using a rapid sequential visual presentation (RSVP) paradigm in which each w...
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Open AccessPronoun disambiguation: Accessing potential antecedents
Two general classes of pronoun disambiguation processes are considered. In reading “Jack threw a snowball at Phil, but he missed,” both possible antecedents of “he” (“Jack” and “Phil”) may be accessed initiall...
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Open AccessAn analysis of interference in recognition memory
A stimulus-sampling model of recognition memory is presented that predicts both proactive and retroactive interference. To test the predictions of the model, a recognition memory experiment was carried out usi...
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Open AccessThe role of category information in word identification: A parallel decision model
Four experiments consider the role of semantic category information in word identification using a serial classification reaction time paradigm. Experimental variables were manipulated by varying the semantic ...
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Open AccessAd hoc categories
People construct ad hoc categories to achieve goals. For example, constructing the category of “things to sell at a garage sale” can be instrumental to achieving the goal of selling unwanted possessions. These...
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Open AccessEncoding processes and the recall of text
Two experiments investigated the proposition that the amount of cognitive effort expended to encode information will be directly related to recall of that information. While previous research has shown that am...
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Open AccessOn the conflict between logic and belief in syllogistic reasoning
Three experiments are reported that investigate the weighting attached to logic and belief in syllogistic reasoning. Substantial belief biases were observed despite controls for possible conversions of the pre...
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Open AccessLevels of processing: Qualitative differences or task-demand differences?
In nearly all reported orienting task studies, the question is asked before the item or items are presented. This paper reports two experiments wherein the question was asked after the item was presented. Thes...
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Open AccessThe relation between visual imagery mediators and recall
Three hypotheses are discussed as explanations for the result that pairs of concrete nouns are more easily remembered than are pairs of abstract nouns: the imagery hypothesis, the familiarity hypothesis, and t...
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Open AccessThe Bootstrap Method for Assessing Statistical Accuracy
This is an invited review of bootstrap methods. It begins with an exposition of the bootstrap estimate of standard error for one-sample situations. Several examples, some involving quite complicated statistica...
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Open AccessCommon knowledge of the second kind
Although most of us “know” that human beings cannot and should not be replaced by computers, we have great difficulties saying why this is so. This paradox is largely the result of institutionalizing several f...
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Open AccessNitrierte Phenole in Nebelwasser
Das Vorkommen nitrierter Phenole in Nebelwasser aus dem nordbayerischen Raum wurde untersucht. 4-Nitrophenol und 2,4-Dinitrophenol konnten in Konzentrationen bis zu mehreren ppb nachgewiesen werden. Vor allem ...
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Open AccessTagungsberichte
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Open AccessSome Mathematical Concepts of the Analytic Hierarchy Process
In this paper we give a skeletal outline of the foundations of the Analytic Hierarchy Process and some of its highlights. We also show that the principal eigenvector solution is essential for deriving the scal...
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Open AccessNeues aus der Literatur
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Open AccessInteractions entre L’infection a VIH, le SIDA et les autres MST
Human immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is mainly transmitted by sexual intercourses. History of STD’s and serological markers of STD’s are frequently encountered in HIV-infected patients. This is partly due to a c...
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Open AccessLabor composition and long-run employment in a minimum-wage economy
This article examines the long-run consequences of minimum wage regulation within the framework of a two-labor-sector growth model, where a minimum real wage is effective only in the “unskilled” labor sector. ...
