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Robert M. McKenzie

Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics, Northumbria University
Verified email at northumbria.ac.uk
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Impact of valid selection procedures on work-force productivity.

FL Schmidt, JE Hunter, RC McKenzie… - Journal of Applied …, 1979 - psycnet.apa.org
Used decision theoretic equations to estimate the impact of the Programmer Aptitude Test
(PAT) on productivity if used to select new computer programers for 1 yr in the federal …

[BOOK][B] The social psychology of English as a global language: Attitudes, awareness and identity in the Japanese context

RM McKenzie - 2010 - Springer
This series is based on the idea that there is a need for studies that break barriers. It is
dedicated to innovative studies of language use and language learning in educational …

Social factors and non‐native attitudes towards varieties of spoken English: a Japanese case study

RM McKenzie - International journal of Applied linguistics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This paper, through the employment of a verbal‐guise study and techniques incorporated
from perceptual dialectology, investigated the attitudes of 558 Japanese university students …

The complex and rapidly changing sociolinguistic position of the English language in Japan: A summary of English language contact and use

RM McKenzie - Japan Forum, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates the role of English in Japan, outlining its current status and use. The
paper begins with a critical review of the World Englishes model as it relates to the …

Computational RAM: Implementing processors in memory

DG Elliott, M Stumm, WM Snelgrove… - IEEE Design & Test …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computational RAM is a processor-in-memory architecture that makes highly effective use of
internal memory bandwidth by pitch-matching simple processing elements to memory …

[BOOK][B] A guide to the history of physical education

FE Leonard, RT McKenzie - 1927 - books.google.com
THE shore of physical education is strewn with the wrecks of systems and movements, many
of them good in themselves, but left to drift when the personal support and enthusiasm of the …

The role of variety recognition in Japanese university students' attitudes towards English speech varieties

RM McKenzie - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Language attitude studies have tended to assume that informants who listen to and
evaluate speech stimuli are able to identify with consistent accuracy the varieties of English …

Traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta: should one always operate immediately?

R Maggisano, A Nathens, NA Alexandrova… - Annals of vascular …, 1995 - Elsevier
Although the traditional therapy for blunt traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta (TRA) is
immediate operative repair, there may be a selective role for delayed repair, particularly in …

Goal orientation, self-regulation strategies, and job-seeking intensity in unemployed adults.

PA Creed, V King, M Hood… - Journal of Applied …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract At Time 1 (T1), the authors surveyed 277 unemployed adults using measures of
human capital, goal orientation, self-regulation (emotion control, motivation control, work …

Effects of caffeine, fructose, and glucose ingestion on muscle glycogen utilization during exercise.

MA Erickson, RJ Schwarzkopf… - Medicine and science in …, 1987 - europepmc.org
Five competitive cyclists were used to determine the effects of fluid intake (16 ml. kg-1)
consisting of:(i) non-nutrient control (CON);(ii) fructose (1 g. kg-1) before exercise (FRU);(iii) …