Readers The challenge of understanding reading comprehension derives, in part, from the difficulty of defining its borders. Comprehension was defined by the Research and Development (RAND) Reading Study Group (RRSG, 2002) as ‘‘the process of simultaneously constructing and extracting meaning through interaction and engagement with print.’’ This definition was intended to signal the importance o...

We present JHK S observations of 22 intermediate-mass stars in the Scorpius-Centaurus OB association, obtained with the NAOS/CONICA system at the ESO Very Large Telescope. This survey was performed to determine the status of (sub)stellar candidate companions of Sco OB2 member stars of spectral type A and late-B. The distinction between companions and background stars is made on the basis of a c...

ABSTRACT Objectives: to evaluate a pediatric risk evaluation and classification service in the aspects of structure, process, outcome. Methods: cross-sectional, descriptive, exploratory study which qualitative data complement results. Data collection by non-participant observation, interview, consultation medical records. Results: we observed two hundred four visits. The works makeshift room wi...

This paper presents some of the requirements for the design of long-term affect sensitive and socially interactive companions. Research conducted in the EU project LIREC (LIving with Robots and intEractive Companions) envisage some capabilities including affect sensitivity, memory and learning, cognitive and expressive behaviour, personalisation and embodiment, highlighting the key issues that ...

In the context of abstract coinduction in complete lattices, the notion of compatible function makes it possible to introduce enhancements of the coinduction proof principle. The largest compatible function, called the companion, subsumes most enhancements and has been proved to enjoy many good properties. Here we move to universal coalgebra, where the corresponding notion is that of a final di...

We present Spitzer IRAC photometry of white dwarf remnants of 14 stars with M = 3− 5 M⊙. We do not detect mid-infrared excess around any of our targets. By demanding a 3σ photometric excess at 4.5 μm for unresolved companions, we rule out planetary mass companions down to 5, 7, or 10 MJ for 13 of our targets based on the Burrows et al. (2003) substellar cooling models. Combined with previous IR...

We examine the relationship between the frequency of close companions (stellar and planetary companions with orbital periods<5 yr) and the metallicity of their Sun-like ( FGK) hosts. We confirm and quantify a 4 positive correlation between host metallicity and planetary companions. We find little or no dependence on spectral type or distance in this correlation. In contrast to the metallicity d...

A subset of 51 Hipparcos astrometric binaries among FG dwarfs within 67 pc has been surveyed with the Near-Infrared Coronagraphic Imager adaptive optics system at Gemini-S, directly resolving for the first time 17 subarcsecond companions and 7 wider ones. Using these data together with published speckle interferometry of 57 stars, we compare the statistics of resolved astrometric companions wit...