When critiquing the development of the English language arts curriculum in United States secondary schools, Hartwell (1985, 127) is correct in arguing that ‘much current research is not informed by an awareness of the past’. Entrenched pedagogical beliefs about language and learning have dominated English instruction for the past three centuries. This domination occurs because of our inability ...

In this paper, we propose a method which implements Shannon’s information theory on entropy evaluation and use the results for weight decision. We assume that there are two conventional methods, LA and ELA. Using Shannon’s information theory we obtained entropy values which are used as weights for choosing interpolation method. The original image is downsampled to be low resolution image, where...

This paper provides an introduction into to the R-package flacco. A slightly modified version of this document has recently been submitted to the Journal of Statistical Software and is currently under review. Choosing the best-performing optimizer(s) out of a portfolio of optimization algorithms is usually a difficult and complex task. It gets even worse, if the underlying functions are unknown...

Adenovirus ElA-dependent trans-activation of viral transcription involves the utilization and alteration of multiple sequence-specific transcription factors. Cellular genes are also activated by ElA, one example being the immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus when assayed by transfection into fibroblast cells. We have explored the basis for the E1Adependent activation of this cellular transcription ...

Elementary and middle schoolers in New York state sat for the second round of Common Core tests this week amid boycotts and protests from parents, teachers and principals. The Common Core is a set of academic standards in mathematics and English Language Arts (ELA) meant to prepare students for college and career success. Its advocates argue that such standards are crucial for establishing equa...