Social skill deficits have become a defining characteristic of students with specific learning disability (SLD). Attempts have been made to enhance social functioning through structured training approaches. The effectiveness of these efforts was evaluated in a quantitative research synthesis (meta-analysis), which revealed a “small” effect with very few differences among teachers, peers, or stu...

An essential property of GIS is the adequate visual portrayal of spatial data. The OGC Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) specification is a map-styling language for producing geo-referenced maps with user-defined styling. However, SLD shows some weaknesses: 1.) it does not support interaction, 2.) it does not consider the requirements of mobile GIS, and 3.) it is rather restricted in referencing ob...

The predictions of the MSSM are discussed in the light of recent LEP and SLD precision data. The full supersymmetric one loop corrections to the e ective weak mixing angle, experimentally determined in LEP and SLD experiments, are considered. It is demonstrated, both analytically and numerically, that, potentially dangerous, large logarithmic sparticle corrections are cancelled. The relative di...

In these notes we study run-time properties of general programs w.r.t. constructive negation, i.e. termination and properties of the form of the arguments of the literals selected during the execution. We consider here SLD-CNF resolution, i.e. resolution with constructive negation and arbitrary selection rule, and LD-CNF resolution, i.e. resolution with constructive negation and Prolog selectio...

We have used a probe derived from TRP-2/DT to detect migratory melanoblasts shortly after they emerge from the neural crest, as early as 10 days post coitum (dpc). TRP-2/DT expression is otherwise restricted to the presumptive pigmented retinal epithelium, the developing telencephalon and the endolymphatic duct. The pattern of steel and c-kit hybridisation in the developing brain differed from ...

We review recent electroweak and B physics results obtained in polarized ee interactions at the SLC by the SLD experiment. Unique and precise measurements of the electroweak parameters Ae, Ab, Ac, Rb and Rc provide powerful constraints on the Standard Model. The excellent 3-D vertexing capabilities of SLD are further exploited to extract precise B and B d lifetimes, as well as measurements of t...

We have updated our results on identified charged hadron production using the full SLD data sample of 550,000 hadronic Z 0 decays taken between 1993 and 1998. The SLD Cherenkov Ring Imaging Detector allows the identification of clean samples of charged pions, kaons and protons over a wide momentum range, providing precise tests of perturbative QCD calculations and of fragmentation models. We ha...

We present the measurements of the leptonic asymmetries in Z decays measured by the SLD experiment at SLAC. A data sample of approximately 550,000 Z bosons are used for the preliminary measurement of ALR(Ae) and the leptonic final state measurements of Ae, Aμ and Aτ , representing the entire set of 1992-1998 SLD runs. When combining all results, a preliminary value for the effective weak mixing...

The relationships between exposure, biomarkers (vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), soluble VEGF receptors (sVEGFR)-1, -2, -3, and soluble stem cell factor receptor (sKIT)), tumor sum of longest diameters (SLD), diastolic blood pressure (dBP), and overall survival (OS) were investigated in a modeling framework. The dataset included 64 metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients (mRCC) treat...

The Barrel CRID detector has been operating successfully at SLD for the past seven years. It is an important tool for SLD physics analyses. The long-term operational experience with this device is described. Invited talk at the Third International Workshop on Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors, Ein-Gedi, Dead Sea, Israel, November 15-20, 1998 * Work supported by The Department of Energy, contract...