Traditionally, children’s books are in a printed format and shared book reading is done with an adult. In recent years, interactive E-books have become a common medium for children’s books and shared book reading is diminishing. This study compared the contribution of book format to the development of literacy in kindergarten children. We constructed an E-book, which included a story and relate...

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The growth of the electronic book market has allowed publishers to make many previously out-of-print titles available, cost-effectively, in an electronic format. However, as of January 2012, there were still nearly 2,700,000 out-of-print titles that are unavailable as eBooks. The goal of this paper is to generate estimates of how much producer and consumer surplus could be created by making the...

The paper explores differences between bestsellers in print and the most popular audiobooks a subscription-based streaming service for books (‘beststreamers’) by means of computational stylistics. point departure is complete set digital audiobook beststreamers Swedish book market 2015–2019, total 172 novels. We probed 34 linguistic measures to track subsets at stylistic level. results indicate ...

In a recent paper [e-print quant-ph/0101012], Hardy has given a derivation of ‘‘quantum theory from five reasonable axioms.’’ Here we show that Hardy’s first axiom, which identifies probability with limiting frequency in an ensemble, is not necessary for his derivation. By reformulating Hardy’s assumptions, and modifying a part of his proof, in terms of Bayesian probabilities, we show that his ...

eLearning vs. eDistribution So many experiences of (so-called) eLearning report on the usage of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and particularly the Internet, to support the electronic distribution of didactic material that is completely traditional in its contents and structure. Typical is the case of the web sites of most universities, from which students can download th...

Background: This study describes the possibility of implementing three-dimensional printing technology to create a precise construction of a planned bolus, based on computed tomography information stored in the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format file. Materials and Methods:  To create the bolus with a 3D printer, we converted data in the DICOM format to the s...

In a series of 5 experiments in 2000 and 2001, several hundred students at two different universities with three different professors and six different teaching assistants took a semester long course on causal and statistical reasoning in either traditional lecture/recitation or online/recitation format. In this paper we compare the pre-post test gains of these students, we identify features of...

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