This paper explores the relation between society, family, and learning. In particular, it addresses the features of home literacy environments in low income families and their impact on children's pre-literacy skills and knowledge. Sixty-two four/five-year-old children and their mothers were…

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the configurations of the families that live in contexts of social exclusion; provide conceptualizations of their operation mode; highlight the formative effects that neighborhood interdisciplinary practices with such families produce in the…

The purpose of the study was to investigate whether teachers’ knowledge of student assessment was influenced by their gender and if it was related to their teaching experience (years in education). One hundred and twenty six physical education teachers (n=126)…

Security has been major concern of mankind for decades. Various techniques have introduced to provide possible solutions and this list is growing everyday. Most of these techniques are preventive and are mainly used to raise alarms. With growing knowledge and…

With the advancement of technology, we are able to collect, store, and transmit an ever-increasing volume of data. However, our ability to extract useful patterns from this massive amount of data is still lagging behind. Machine learning and signal processing…

by Nancy Ann Daly., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1987., MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING., This research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.,…

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Population size has been a matter of concern for rulers and states for centuries. Fears of over- and under-population led to extensive political debate and the implementation of numerous policies…

A major theme of the Dionysiaca is the voyeur or curious seeker, whose search, often eroticized, for new experience or knowledge is in various ways rewarding or endangering.

Aeschylus evokes, sometimes literally and sometimes metaphorically, the elements and their interactions in ways that show his knowledge of the ideas of Parmenides and Empedocles.

Analysis of the trial scenes in Chariton, Longus, and Achilles Tatius shows their knowledge and use of the full repertory of rhetorical theory concerned with designing the strategy of forensic arguments.