Discourse Analysis and the Study of Classroom Language and Literacy Events: A Microethnographic Perspective Bloome, D., Carter, S. P., Christian, B. M., Otto, S., & Shuart-Faris, N. (2005) Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ISBN: 0-8058-5320-0 (paperback) Cost: USD $34.50 Reviewed by Lawrence Jun Zhang National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University 1 Nanyang Walk, Singap...

teachers—lifelines, as it were—while explaining the need to adapt constantly since each learning situation is different and dynamic, dependent upon the specific student’s prior knowledge, level of engagement, and other factors often outside a teacher’s control. In foregrounding the importance of metacognition, Booth offers the foundations for maintaining a solid footing in the classroom while u...

The scientific community produces a large number of mathematical papers (approximately 108.000 new papers per year [arX]), which raises the importance of machine based processing of such documents. Unfortunately, the most popular formats in which these papers are found (for instance, LTEX) do not contain much information that would allow the computers to infer the human-understandable knowledge...

'Max Weber is the one undisputed canonical figure in contemporary sociology.' The Times Higher Education Supplement 'Weber's essay is certainly one of the most fruitful examinations of the relations between religion and social theory which has appeared, and I desire to acknowledge my indebtedness to it.' All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any...

This paper explores the effects of “visible difference” on employment outcomes of three recently arrived refugee2 groups: ex-Yugoslavs, black Africans, and people from the Middle East. The paper draws on data collected through a survey (150 questionnaire-based face-to-face interviews conducted by bilingual interviewers) of refugees who settled in Western Australia over the past decade. Results ...

a Demonstrator in the same school. The rapid advance in all branches of tropical medicine has rendered inevitable the continued production of such books. The great object of Dr. Daniels' book remains as before, viz., the application of simple laboratory methods to the practice of medicine, and it aims at being of special assistance to the lonely worker in his improvised private laboratory, it m...

[1] We utilize seismic converted phases on more than 700 receiver functions calculated for 42 stations in the South Island, New Zealand, to infer crustal and uppermost mantle structure. We determine the crustal thickness from direct observations of conversion from the Moho interface and infer zone of the maximum thickness being located along the axis of the Southern Alps, just east from the Alp...

We say that agreeing to agree is possible for an event E if there exist posterior beliefs of the agents with a common prior such that it is common knowledge that the agents’ posteriors for E coincide. We propose a notion called Dutch book which is a profile of interim contracts between an outsider and the agents based on the occurrence of E, such that the outsider makes positive profit in all s...

We prove that the matrix of capacitance in electrostatics is a positive matrix. We explore the physical implications of this mathematical fact, and study the eigenvalue problem for the matrix of capacitance and its physical meaning. Many properties are easily visualized by constructing a “potential space” isomorphic to the euclidian space and defining an inner product in it. The problem of mini...

Cohomology of finite groups developed rapidly during the seventies and eighties and is maturing into an important branch of algebra of interest in its own right, having applications in algebra, to group theory and representation theory, and in topology, especially to homotopy theory. Both Benson and Evens are at the forefront of the research, and their books are valuable contributions to the li...