The study aims to identify the types of metacognitive awareness as well as Multiple Intelligences with Taiwanese EFLs (English as Foreign Language) at medical junior colleges. In addition, metacognitive awareness and multiple intelligences were investigated to discover whether or not both factors affect students’ English reading performance, specifically in reading comprehension. A total of 454...

Learning difficulties in reading and arithmetic are among the most commonly noted in school-age learners, with around 5% seriously affected in each skill. Reading appears to involve a brain network that has little overlap with that for basic number processing, and the candidate genes for reading disability seem to be quite different from those for dyscalculia. Nevertheless, there is evidence th...

We investigate the issue of classifying short essays based their linguistic issues, for English at the high school levels. A good selection of appropriate essays is crucial for the language learners and for the reading comprehension tests, which is an important type of tests for language competence examinations. Although the text alone does not allow us to judge the difficulty of reading compre...

E. B. Christoffel, Gesammelte mathematische Abhandlungen, Unter Mitwirkung von A. KRAZER und G. FABER, herausgegeben von L. MAURER. Zwei Bande. B. G. Teubner, Leipzig, 1910. WHEN one turns over the pages of the collected works of a mathematician such as this one, arranged in chronological order, and notes the varied fields in which the author worked, he feels an impulse to follow the methods of...

There are many historical manuscripts written in a single hand which it would be useful to index. Examples include the early Presidential papers at the Library of Congress and the collected works of W. B. DuBois at the library of the University of Massachusetts. The standard technique for indexing documents is to scan them in, convert them to machine readable form (ASCII) using Optical Characte...

autos, xvii, 62, 123, 128, 133, 177, 202, 225, 231, 234, 243–4, 255, 267, 303–5, 321, 323, 327, 394 n. 57 A María el corazón, 34 Andrómeda y Perseo, 286, 387 n. 8 ‘El Ante-Cristo’, 381 n. 18 El año santo de Roma, 305 El árbol del mejor fruto, 164, 286 attribution problems, 180, 266–7 based on plays, xvii, 165, 285, 286, 328 carts used for, 177, 204, 304 La cena del rey Baltasar, 68, 160, 186, 3...

EA TI VE S O LU TI O N S When Congress established the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in 1997, it also enacted presumptive eligibility, a new state option for expediting children’s enrollment in Medicaid.1 Presumptive eligibility helps states cover children more quickly by allowing them to provide immediate, but temporary, enrollment in Medicaid or SCHIP to children who appea...