Literacy is the cornerstone of a primary school education and enables the intellectual and social development of young children. Letter-sound knowledge has been identified as critical for developing proficiency in reading. This study explored the development of letter-sound knowledge in relation to gender during the first year of primary school. 485 Norwegian children aged 5–6 years completed a...

Hans-Jacob Bangstada, Thomas Danneb, Larry Deebc, Przemyslawa Jarosz-Chobotd, Tatsuhiko Urakamie and Ragnar Hanasf aDepartment of Pediatrics, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevål, Norway bKinderkrankenhaus auf der Bult, Diabetes-Zentrum fur Kinder und Judendliche, Hannover, Germany cDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Florida College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL, USA dDepartment of Pediatric E...

Dong Chen,1,2 Taizo Sasaki,1 Jie Tang,3 and Lu-Chang Qin4 1Computational Materials Science Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba 305-0047, Japan 2Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, People’s Republic of China 31D Nanomaterials Research Group, National Institute for Materials Science, T...

a Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA b Research Center for Nuclear Physics, Osaka University, Osaka 567-0047, Japan c Department of Physics, Konan University, Kobe 568-8501, Japan d Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut, University of Groningen, 9747 AA Groningen, The Netherlands e Cyclotron and Radioisotope Center, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan f ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: This effort has been sponsored by Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), under contract No. MDA972-88-C-0047 for DARPA Initiative in Concurrent Engineering (DICE).

The main objective of this study is to find out if organizational characteristics intervene in the relationship between CRM and organizational performance in the Nigerian insurance industry. Relevant literature was reviewed and a model consisting of fourteen variables was conceptualized and tested by means of empirical data collected through a questionnaire. A total of one hundred and eighty (1...

— China is being in the important time of economical reforming, which was still imperfect. As a result of the immature capital system, listed companies often had the loss situation .For the comparison between different loss frequency listed companies in redemption ability, operational capacity ,profit ability as well as development potential differences, this article will have 2003 to 2010 betw...