Representations of intergenerational care on BBC children’s television

Honorary Whites: Representations of Asian Americans on Television

compactifications and representations of transformation semigroups

this thesis deals essentially (but not from all aspects) with the extension of the notion of semigroup compactification and the construction of a general theory of semitopological nonaffine (affine) transformation semigroup compactifications. it determines those compactification which are universal with respect to some algebric or topological properties. as an application of the theory, it is i...

Science in the Making: Right Hand, Left Hand. I: A BBC television programme broadcast in 1953.

In August 1953, the BBC broadcast a television science programme entitled Science in the Making: Right Hand, Left Hand. The programme was broadcast live, being presented by Dr Jacob Bronowski in collaboration with Dr Kenneth Smith, and produced by George Noordhof. It not only presented a popular account of current ideas about right- and left-handedness, by using a group of celebrities (and a ch...

Listen to the graph: Childrens matching of melodies with their visual representations

This paper is a report of matching of melodies with line graphs and music notation by children (aged 10 & 11 years). The study found that children are able to match the up-down contour of melodies with their visual representations, and that matchingtask performance is positively related to mathematical ability in the case of line graphs, and musical ability in the case of music notation. The re...

Intergenerational representations of schistosomiasis in endemic area, Jaboticatubas, Minas Gerais.

The analysis of the intergenerational process of disease/health representations constitutes a requisite for the construction of projects and health education interventions. The objective of this work is to describe the meaning attributed to schistosomiasis in the family context. Twenty-one residents of an endemic area were interviewed. The interviews were submitted to content analysis. The resu...