Synaesthesia for time, numbers and space (TNS synaesthesia) is thought to have costs and benefits for recalling and manipulating time and number. There are two competing theories about how TNS synaesthesia affects cognition. The ‘magnitude’ account predicts TNS synaesthesia may affect cardinal magnitude judgements, whereas the ‘sequence’ account suggests it may affect ordinal sequence judgement...

We prove that any countable index, universally measurable subgroup of a Polish group is open. By consequence, any universally measurable homomorphism from a Polish group into the infinite symmetric group S∞ is continuous. We also show that a universally measure homomorphism from a Polish group into a second countable, locally compact group is necessarily continuous. The present work is motivate...

Th e dynamics of the emerging transnational stage in world capitalism cannot be understood through the blinkers of nation-state-centric thinking. In her study Empire of Capital, Ellen Meiksins Wood exhibits the reification and outdated nation-state-centric thinking that plagues much recent work on world capitalism and US intervention, expressed in the confusing notion of a ‘new imperialism’. Th...

In this paper, we describe an innovative approach to promoting effective classroom-based groupwork and the development of children’s speaking and listening at key stage 1. This approach, known as Thinking Together, was initially developed for use with key stage 2 children. The work reported here explains how this approach has now been applied to the teaching of speaking and listening at key sta...

We present GrÆStl, a combined hardware architecture for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Grøstl, one of the final round candidates of the SHA-3 hash competition. GrÆStl has been designed for low-resource devices implementing AES-128 (encryption and decryption) as well as Grøstl-256 (tweaked version). We applied several resource-sharing optimizations and based our design on an 8/16-bit...

When I was contacted by MDPI to serve as inaugurating Editor-in-Chief, skeptical because recalled my spam-packed email inbox that is flooded daily introductions of new journals with groovy names praising their highest scientific objectives and goals. [...]

Young people develop as “the sum of past experiences,” and data on their time use are one means of quantifying those experiences. U.S. children and adolescents spend dramatically less time than in the agrarian past in household and incomegenerating labor. Because such labor is usually repetitive and unchallenging, this reduction has probably not deprived youths of crucial developmental experien...