The learning difficulties of Down Syndrome students are often related to limitation of their short term memory. They have constraints in separating the information received by the brain. This leads to difficulties in reading process. Therefore, they fail to focus when learning. Scaffolding is a systematic assistance used to ease the burden of the short term memory of the Down Syndrome students....

We make explicit the geometric content of Mel’nikov’s method for detecting heteroclinic points between transversally hyperbolic periodic orbits. After developing the general theory of intersections for pairs of family of Lagrangian submanifolds constrained to live in an auxiliary family of submanifolds, we explain how the heteroclinic orbits are detected by the zeros of the Mel’nikov 1-form. Th...

perpetuate old inequalities in modern dress, rather than bring about "positive diversity", is a reiterated theme of these articles. Another common theme is the inherently problematic nature of a mercantile model invoking "competition" and "customers". The vexed issue of knowledge creation surfaces again in Mel Bartley's investigation of the relationship between research and policy in the case o...

Let A be a set of n > n0(ε) positive real numbers, all at least 1 apart. We show that, if δa,b and δ� a,b are arbitrary real numbers satisfying |δa,b| < n 1−ε a , and |δ � a,b| < n1−ε b , we have |{(a + δa,b)(b + δ� a,b) : a, b ∈ A}| + |A + A| � n1+ε/9 log n . – Dedicated to Mel Nathanson and Carl Pomerance on the occasion of their 65th birthdays

This book is a treat. A psychologist (Hurlburt) and a philosopher (Schwitzgebel) join forces to interview a young college graduate (Melanie). They ask Melanie what she experiences at randomly selected times. They debate what Melanie reports and what can be learned from it. They often disagree -but in a candid, humble, and open-minded way. Their imaginative and insightful dialogue, lightly edite...

This paper presents the lubrication characteristics between a bush and a blade of a swing compressor that was developed for a new type of compressor for an air conditioner using alternative refrigerants. The mixed lubrication analysis that simultaneously solved the motion equations of the bush and the blade, the lubrication equation and the rough surface contact equation was performed. Moreover...

Use of herbal remedies from medicinal plants (bush medicines) was studied in 622 people with diabetes mellitus attending 17 government health centers on the island of Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. Bush medicines were used by 42% of patients surveyed and were used for diabetes by 24%. Bush medicine use was more frequent in Afro-Trinidadians and in those of mixed ethnicity than in Indo-Trinidadi...

Increasing Australian bush-fire frequencies over the last decade has indicated a major climatic change in coming future. Understanding such climatic change for Australian bush-fire is limited and there is an urgent need of scientific research, which is capable enough to contribute to Australian society. Frequency of bush-fire carries information on spatial, temporal and climatic aspects of bush...

Abstract Wemake explicit the geometric content of Mel’nikov’s method for detecting heteroclinic points between transversally hyperbolic periodic orbits. After developing the general theory of intersections for pairs of family of Lagrangian submanifolds N ε , with N + 0 = N − 0 constrained to live in an auxiliary family of submanifolds, we explain how the heteroclinic orbits are detected by the ...