This paper discusses issues of electronic journal readability It identi es some of the tech niques that human beings have evolved for reading and skimming paper based journals An attempt is made to identify those manual techniques which could be constructively replicated in electronic form Consideration is also given to the additional functionality provided by online journals and how this can b...

Needle-in-the-haystack problems look for small targets in large spaces. In such cases, blind search stands no hope of success. Conservation of information dictates any search technique will work, on average, as well as blind search. Success requires an assisted search. But whence the assistance required for a search to be successful? To pose the question this way suggests that successful search...

Article history: We measured aqueous Cd a Received 30 January 2008 Received in revised form 16 August 2008 Accepted 19 September 2008

Textbooks are ubiquitous. They are available for almost every conceivable subdiscipline of biology, and few of us would consider teaching a course without using a textbook. Over the years, they have become more colorful, more encyclopedic, and accompanied by more ancillary materials such as CD-ROMs, study guides, and websites. With all these tools to assist our students, it seems reasonable tha...

In this study, we used the trans-contextual model of motivation (TCM) to examine the effect of Sport Education (SE) on students' participation in a voluntary lunch recess sport club. A total of 192 participants (ages 9-14 years) completed measures of the TCM constructs before and after a 12-week SE intervention period. Participants had the opportunity to participate in weekly, voluntary lunch r...