The present findings are drawn from the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia (JLD), in which approximately 100 children with familial risk of dyslexia and 100 control children have been followed from birth. In this paper we report data on the reading development of the JLD children and their classmates, a total of 1,750 children from four measurement points during the first two school years...

Research on guanxi is conducted principally within the disciplines of anthropology, business studies and sociology. It typically takes the form of empirical case studies, applications of extrinsic theory and literature reviews cum trend reports. The present paper, on the other hand, provides an analysis of guanxi in consideration of its elemental relations, components and properties. Discussion...

We develop a general construction for nonlinear Lévy processes with given characteristics. More precisely, given a set Θ of Lévy triplets, we construct a sublinear expectation on Skorohod space under which the canonical process has stationary independent increments and a nonlinear generator corresponding to the supremum of all generators of classical Lévy processes with triplets in Θ. The nonli...

There is much evidence now to support the view that drug abusers, particularly those who seek treatment, are poorly psychologically adjusted (Braucht et al., 1973). The contributory factors and nature of this poor psychological adjustment vary widely. It seems unlikely now that there is any one specific set of psychological traits or psychiatric disorder which differentiates the drug abuser fro...

Generalized Place/Transition Petri nets, called contextual nets, and processes of such nets are considered. Processes of contextual nets are represented as partial orders with some extra structure. Operations of composing processes are deened such that each process of a contextual net can be obtained by combining processes corresponding to places and transitions of this net. Matrix-like charact...

The Knowledge Management (KM) is a recent discipline that was born under the idea of explicitly managing the whole existing knowledge of a given organisation (Wiig, 1995) (Wiig et al., 1997). More specifically, the KM involves providing the people concerned with the right information and knowledge at the most suitable level for them, when and how best suit them; in such way, these people will h...

In the 1980s new methods and findings from cognitive psychology began to influence research on teaching. The emerging literature on commonalities in expertise across different fields seemed pertinent to educational researchers because it appeared to describe characteristics of effective teachers. So without much theory to guide them, a few scholars began to explore expertise in teaching and thi...

AN ACCURATE ENUMERATION of the blind in the United States is not available. I t is questionable whether such an enumeration could be made except through an elaborate case-finding method, since there is no precise and universally accepted definition of blindness, a lack which is undoubtedly in a measure responsible for the varied results of several attempts to enumerate the blind. Efforts have b...

Consider, for every g ≥ 4, a non-singular, complex, canonical curve of genus g, that is, a curve X embedded in P by its complete canonical series |ωX |. Each such a curve possesses 2 2g line bundles L of degree g − 1 such that L = ωX , the theta-characteristics of X, and precisely Ng := ( 2 2 ) of them are odd (i.e. h(X,L) is odd). To a non-zero section σ of a theta-characteristic one associate...

1. A quantitative description of facilitation in the crayfish claw opener muscle is presented. The facilitation of a test response following one or more conditioning stimuli, and the growth of facilitation during a tetanus, are measured. 2. In superficial central fibres facilitation following one or more impulses can be described as the sum of two components which are both maximum at the end of...