Purpose In this epilogue, we review the 4 response articles and highlight the implications of a multidimensional view of reading for the assessment and instruction of reading comprehension. Method We reiterate the problems with standardized tests of reading comprehension and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of recently developed authentic tests of reading comprehension. In the "Instru...

Twenty-four fifth grade (or equivalent age) students were assigned to one of two treatment conditions consisting of equal numbers of students from regular and special education classes. One group was involved in a dramatic games condition culminating in a theatrical performance planned by the group. The second group was involved in a noncompetitive games condition culminating in a demonstration...

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This survey paper reports on the properties of the fourth-order Bessel-type linear ordinary differential equation, on the generated self-adjoint differential operators in two associated Hilbert function spaces, and on the generalisation of the classical Hankel integral transform. These results are based upon the properties of the classical Bessel and Laguerre second-order differential equations...

Klee’s Measure Problem (KMP) asks for the volume of the union of n axis-aligned boxes in R. Omitting logarithmic factors, the best algorithm has runtime O∗(nd/2) [Overmars,Yap’91]. There are faster algorithms known for several special cases: Cube-KMP (where all boxes are cubes), Unitcube-KMP (where all boxes are cubes of equal side length), Hypervolume (where all boxes share a vertex), and kGro...

The model matching problem ${\bf min}_{R(z)}\|W(z)−R(z)E(z)\|_\infty$ involved in multirate filter banks design is addressed. A method is presented to design the synthesis filter bank $R(z)$ with the order of $W(z)$ which is the polyphase representation of the time delay of the reconstructed signal. The existence conditions of such low−order $R(z)$ are given in linear matrix inequalities (LMIs)...

Order reduction is a common theme within the simulation, control, and optimization of complex physical processes. The mathematical models used in these computations often result in large-scale systems. For example, such systems arise due to accuracy requirements on the spatial discretization of fluids or structures, in the context of lumped-circuit approximations of distributed electronic circu...

Special libraries all over the world today fulfil a whole variety of different services at a wide range of locations. This diversified spectrum of activities is by no means a recent development. At the time that the Special Library Association (SLA) was founded at the 1909 conference of the American Library Association (ALA), special libraries already had little to do with traditional library t...

The spring 1996 issue of The Future of Children on special education reviewed the legislative and litigation history of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This Revisiting article examines the impact of the two U.S. Supreme Court cases setting forth school districts' responsibility to reimburse parents of students with disabilities for private school tuition under certain ci...