This simply shows that those who possess prior topic knowledge stored in their long term have a better edge than those who do not.
Overwhelmingly, topics emerge in the course of the meetings through two sets of practices that researchers in CA have described as a "stepwise topical movement" [ 11], whereby the participants make a topic flow out of a prior topic, and as "topic initiation" [ 12], whereby the participants start a new topic after a prior topic has been discontinued.
In a context where a prior topic has been closed and where there is not an official agenda of items from which the participants can choose, the practical problem of selecting a next topic is solved by having one of the participants (either a staff member or a client) make a bid for a new topic.
From the twelfth century on, a second group of works were either newly read after long neglect, such as Aristotle's Prior Analytics, Topics, and Sophistic Refutations, or were newly translated from Arabic sources, most importantly Aristotle's Prior Analytics (Marrone 2010: 66; Ashworth 2010: 161).
I VII, discuss ancient (and, in the case of Gosling, medieval and early modern) work on the topic prior to engaging with the contemporary literature in later chapters.
It would also be possible to use multimodal PLSA [8] to share a single topic prior between all three modalities, assuming independent generation of the codeword of each modality from the topic: (2).
These abstracts corresponded to a random sample retrieved by a PubMed search carried out the 27th of August 2013 selecting records published during 2013 in English, with abstracts and links to full text papers, without any prior keyword or topic filtering.
Thus, the purpose of administrating these questions to ensure equivalence of learners in both groups and to confirm that none of the students had studied the topic prior to the treatment was fulfilled.
To evaluate student attitudes toward the use of games to promote learning when introducing the students to a brand new subject topic prior to a lecture, when reviewing a previously taught subject topic, or when being used as the sole method for teaching a new subject topic.
However, when an appropriate pragmatic context licenses a metaphysical reading of the sentence in 37, it removes the topmost PRES and replaces it with a time prior to the topic time zuotian shangwu 'yesterday morning', thus leading to a metaphysical reading.
Clients predict the results of a survey on this topic, prior to carrying out the survey.
