Examining the relationship between word learning, nonword repetition, and immediate serial recall in adults

Two experiments examined whether the association between word-learning, nonword repetition, and immediate serial recall observed in children also exists in normal adults. The experiments also introduce a novel paradigm for studying word-learning. Experiment 1 studied the performance of 52 adults in nonword repetition, immediate serial recall, and word-learning tasks, examining the correlation between these measures. The results indicate that the developmental relationships between all three abilities also exist in adults. Experiment 2 investigated the robustness of these results using different stimuli and a variant of the word-learning task, and it also examined performance in a visuospatial span task, to test an alternative account of the results of Experiment 1; the results from 58 adults provide further evidence that the developmental association between word-learning, nonword repetition, and immediate serial recall extends into adulthood. The theoretical implications of these findings are discussed in terms of alternative models of the relationship between these abilities.     

Lourens Minnema: Tragic Views of the Human Condition: Cross-Cultural Comparisons Between Views of Human Nature in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy and the Mahābhārata and Bhagavadgītā

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Analytical Hierarchy Process Based Assignment Model for Allotting Parking Slots to Different Localities

Because of growing population and a consequent increase in number of vehicles, the problem of parking personal vehicles is becoming explosive. This paper suggests efficient use of surplus space to be utilized as parking slot using analytical hierarchy process and integer programming model. Examples covering a real situation justify the approach. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.