Prior research shows that shared book reading promotes preschoolers ́ language and literacy skills. However, little is known about the potential role of books ́ features –e.g., wordless picture books vs. books with text– in children and teachers ́ spontaneous language production. In this study, we transcribed verbal interactions of thirteen Colombian teachers reading to groups of preschooler stude...

this paper compares the value relevance of book value and dividends versus book value and reported earnings. the main purpose of this study explains which of dividends, book value and earnings are more value relevance. thus, we have examined 98 firms of tehran stock exchange over a period 1377-1382. our methodology of examining the information content of various income statement and balance she...

“hedayat al-motealemin fi teb”, written by abobakr ebn ahmad akhaveini in the fourth century, (ah) is his only book left to the present time. from historical prospective, it is, by far, the first medicine book written in farsi. today, there are only three copies of the book kept in badlyan libraries of oxford, fateh library of istanbul and malek library of tehran. the reviews done on the three ...

In 2003, psychology professor and sex researcher J. Michael Bailey published a book entitled The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism. The book's portrayal of male-to-female (MTF) transsexualism, based on a theory developed by sexologist Ray Blanchard, outraged some transgender activists. They believed the book to be typical of much of the biomedical literatu...

This paper is intended to serve as an overview of the IEEE Color Book standards series. Because each of the 13 books deals with a different aspect of electrical power production, distribution, and utilization in industrial and commercial power systems, it can be an intimidating process to sift through each book trying to determine its applicability. Furthermore, the rapid globalization of the p...

The title page of Georg Bartisch's Ophthalmodouleia indicated that the book was protected against reprinting for ten years. In the event it was not reprinted till 103 years later. The present facsimile reproduction has come after nearly 400 years-an event that the pious and superstitious Bartisch would probably have ascribed to a happy juxtaposition of the stars on the 'Wednesday after Palm Sun...

This draft chapter, prepared for inclusion in the (prospective) Handbook of Production Economics, Vol. 1 (Theory), edited by Subash Ray, Robert Chambers, and Subal Kumbhakar, analyses recent developments in the modeling of pollution-generating technologies. We first lay out the inadequacies of the traditional, single-equation representations of models of such technologies prominently associated...