Random Ramblings--Why Don't Public Librarians Brag More about One of Their Greatest Successes: Providing Pleasure Reading for Their Patrons?

the effect of efl teachers beliefs about teaching reading strategies on their students success and motivation in reading comprehension

previous studies regarding teachers’ beliefs have revealed that teachers’ beliefs have influence on their classroom practices. the current study aimed to investigate the effect of teachers’ beliefs about teaching reading strategies on students’ motivation and success in reading comprehension in the context of english teaching as a foreign language in high schools of mazandaran, iran. data were ...

More about measures and Jacobians of singular random matrices

In this work are studied the Jacobians of certain singular transformations and the corresponding measures which support the jacobian computations.

More about Latin Tableaux and their Embeddings

It is shown that any non-solvable Latin Tableau (LT) has a solvable LT-extension with the same shape, and an algorithm computing the minimal such extension is presented. Minimal Latin Square embeddings of solvable Latin Tableaux are established. The results depend partly on the truth of the Wide Partition Conjecture for Latin Tableaux. More about Latin Tableaux and their Embeddings Bart Demoen ...

More About BIOLOGISTS And Their Work

Are E-Books Making Us Stupid?: Why Electronic Collections Mean Trouble for Libraries and Their Patrons

In 2008, Nicholas Carr published a provocative article titled “Is Google making us stupid?” in which he ponders the effect of the internet and electronic sources generally on the brain. This paper discusses one source specifically, e-books, and explores whether libraries are acting wisely by moving from print to electronic book collections. The topic is considered from the vantage point of the ...