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Literacy and Deafness: The Development of Reading, Writing, and Literate Thought

All chapters conclude with "A Final Word" and "Further Readings. " Preface. 1.Introduction to Literacy and Deafness. Metatheorizing in Literacy and Deafness. Perspectives on Literacy. Two World-Views for Theorizing, Research, and Instruction. Discussion of Deafness. Overview of Literacy Achievement and Deafness. 2.Reading-Comprehension Perspective: Theories and Research on Hearing Students. Reading-Comprehension Framework: The Notion of Models. Bottom-Up Models. Top-Down Models. Interactive Models. Research on Reading-Comprehension and Hearing Students: A Summary. 3.Reading-Comprehensive Perspective: Research on Students Who Are Deaf. Perspectives on Reading Achievement and Deafness. Select Subgroups. Research on Selected Text-Based Variables. Research on Selected Reader-Based Variables. 4.The Development of Writing. Models of Writing. Critique of the Three Broad Theoretical Views. Research on Written Language and Hearing Students. Stages of Written Language Development. Research on Written Language and Students Who Are Deaf. The Reading-Writing Connection: Future Directions. 5.Literary Critical Perspectives. Critical Theory: A Brief Introduction. Critical Theory and Literacy. Clinical and Cultural Perspectives. 6.Second-Language Literacy. Bilingualism and Second-Language Learning: Description. Theories of Second-Language Learning and Second-Language Literacy. The Development of L1 and L2: Similar or Different? Type of Student and Language Goal. Synthesis of Research. The Notion of Transfer. ASL and Second-Language Literacy: Remarks and Future Research. 7.Instruction and First-Language Literacy, [Martha G. Gaustad, Bowling Green State University Peter V. Paul, The Ohio State University]. General Instructional Issues. The Emergence of Literacy Skills: Focus on Typical Readers/Writers. Beginning Literacy and Children Who are Deaf. Instruction: Actions for Meeting Literacy Readiness. Instruction for Classroom Development of Literacy Skills. 8.Instruction and Second-Language Literacy [Peter V. Paul & Martha G. Gaustad]. Selection of Students and Teachers. Curricular and Instructional Issues. Use of ASL in Teaching English. ASL/English Bilingual Education: Some Considerations. 9.Literacy Assessment: Selected Issues. General Issues of Assessment. Assessment: Purpose and Use. A Few Assessment Issues Related to Deafness. Characteristics of Good Assessment Tools. Categories of Literacy Assessment. 10.Literacy, Literate Thought, and Deafness: A Brief Synthesis. Effects of Metatheory and Metatheorizing. Reciprocal Relation Between Conversational and Written Forms. Appendix A: Comprehension Questions and Challenge Questions. Appendix B: Suggested Books and Materials for Children and Adolescents. References. Index.
The handbook of Japanese verbs = 日本語動詞ハンドブック

This handbook aims to present clearly and concisely the basics of Japanese verb construction and to demonstrate how verbs work within various sentence structures. Part One deals with the conjugation of verbs: regular, semi-regular and irregular verbs. Conjugation practice for the student follows the description of a verb or group of verbs. Part Two deals with the usage of various verb forms. Each usage is illustrated with example sentences. Exercises are provided intermittently to test the student's progress. Appendices include exercise answers, a list of sentence patterns, a list of verbs divided into regular, semi-regular and irregular forms and an English-Japanese dictionary.
DIGITAL TOOLS FOR THE BLIND How to increase navigational capabilities for visually impaired persons

The development of human-computer interaction (HCI) systems, usable by people with visual impairments is a progressing field of research. Similarly, the creation of audio-only games and digital tools has been investigated somewhat thoroughly, with many interesting results. This thesis aims to combine the two fields in the creation of an audio-only digital tool, aimed at aiding visually impaired persons to navigate unknown areas. This is done by looking at the field of HCI systems, and games for blind, and by looking at the concept of mental maps and spatial orientation within cognitive science. An application is created, evaluated and tested based on a set number of criteria. An experiment is performed and the results are evaluated and compared to another digital tool in order to learn more about how to increase the usability and functionality of digital tools for the visually impaired. The results give a strong indication towards how to best proceed with future research.
The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery

The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery describes how to make every practical woodworking joint in a series full-colour step-by-step photographic tutorials. The real value of this book is its coverage of the many ways to get the same result. For example, there are eleven methods for cutting a simple mortise described here. This gives woodworkers the option of choosing the option that best fits their tooling and skill level. The book is organized for quick access, using visual maps, and detailed visual contents. Since nomenclature varies, the visual reference allows rapid identification of the desired result. And like a classic cookbook, this book gives all the standard methods and variations, but is especially useful for guidance on a seldom used, but necessary techniques. Fully illustrated: graphic step-by-step illustrated presentation of key techniques and methods - visual maps, cross references and indexes make information easy to find and understand. In full colour: over 1,700 full colour photographs and line drawings. Essential Text: a single-volume encyclopedia of woodworking joints that every woodworker and every student will want to refer to.
Modeling and Simulation of Lab-on-a-Chip Systems

Abstract : Behavioral modeling and schematic simulation methodology for top-down Lab-on-a-Chip (LoC) design is presented. The methodology: decomposing a complex LoC system into a small set of elements. Each of the elements is associated with a parameterized behavioral model that describes its electric and biofluidic behavior. Key issues: schematic representation, behavioral multi-physics modeling and numerical and experimental validation. The modeling effort focuses on sample transport in LoC devices. Turn and Joule heating induced dispersion in electrophoretic separation chips are studied using the method of moments. The skew of the species band is effectively represented by a set of Fourier cosine series coefficients, obtained analytically. These coefficients capture the effect of band skew on separation performance in various complex chip geometries (including multiple turns). Variations of sample concentration profiles in laminar diffusion-based micromixers are also derived using the Fourier cosine series representation. The model holds for arbitrary sample flow ratios and inlet concentration profiles, and accurately considers the overall effects of device topology, size and electric field on mixing performance. In addition, a simplified reaction model is developed and integrated with the separation and mixing models to perform system-level schematic simulations of an integrated LoC system. Simulation results at both element and system levels are validated against numerical and experimental data. Excellent accuracy (generally less than 100 times) have been achieved when compared with finite element analysis. The mixing model is also adapted to pressure driven flow and used to propose a novel concentration gradient generator design. The resulting modeling and simulation framework is a significant contribution to balancing the needs for efficiency and accuracy thus enabling iterative design of complex biofluidic LoC systems.
Ecologia e teologia

L'A. cherche a definir le rapport entre ecologie et theologie : il s'agit de comprendre de facon chretienne la problematique ecologique en tant que fait de societe. A partir de la contestation de l'anthropocentrisme chretien, on passe en revue quelques tendances de la theologie ecologique qui n'ont pas encore ete elaborees sous une forme theologique. La reformulation de la question a la lumiere de la foi requiert de partir de Jesus-Christ et surtout de structurer de facon christocentrique la theologie. Le sens chretien de la creation a besoin d'etre precise a la lumiere d'une reflexion philosophico-transcendantale sur le rapport entre l'Homme et la nature
Using Hierarchical Folders and Tags for File Management.

Using Hierarchical Folders and Tags for File Management Shanshan Ma Advisor: Susan Wiedenbeck, Ph.D. Hierarchical folders have been widely used for managing digital files. A well constructed hierarchical structure can keep files organized. A parent folder can have several subfolders and one subfolder can only reside in one parent folder. Files are stored in folders or subfolders. Files can be found by traversing a given path, going through different levels of folders and subfolders. Folders can be moved, renamed, copied and deleted to serve the needs of the changing working environment. However, previous research has revealed several problems with hierarchical folder structures. One important problem is that users frequently have to turn to desktop search to re-find files. Tagging is the activity of applying users’ own descriptors to digital objects, such as web pages, photos, and documents. Compared with traditional indexing which enforces a controlled vocabulary, tagging systems give users freedom in describing digital resources. We believe that tagging may have the potential to improve information navigation and information organization. This research aimed at exploring the possibility of incorporating tagging into the hierarchical folder structure for file management, especially for the process of file organization and file re-finding. We studied users’ behavior and preference of using three file management structures, a hierarchical folder structure, a tagging structure, and a hybrid structure with both hierarchical folder and tagging functionalities. We found that using tag alone or using folder alone generated similar results in file organization time, in file refinding time and in answer correctness. Combining folders and tags resulted in longer file organization time but no improvement in file re-finding efficiency. The tagging structure required the least number of mouse clicks in the re-finding process among the three structures. The primary contribution of the study is a comparison of three file management structures for better organizing and re-finding files in the desktop environment. Advantages and disadvantages of each structure were revealed from the study. Users’ preference among the three structures
Complexity Scales and Licensing in Phonology

This book is an attempt to demonstrate that the basic principles of phonological organization boil down to the interaction between the strength of nuclei as licensers of phonological structure and various non-rerankable scales of complexity occurring at different levels of phonological representation. The licensing relation between nuclei and the preceding onsets on the one hand, and governing relations between consonants, which are to a great extent determined by their internal melodic structure, allow us to view the phonological representation as a self-organizing system, which is able to predict both the location and the type of phonological processes that may occur.
Teaching Algebra through Functional Programming:An Analysis of the Bootstrap Curriculum

Teaching Algebra Through Functional Programming: An Analysis of the Bootstrap Curriculum Robert Lee School of Technology, BYU Master of Science Bootstrap is a computer-programming curriculum that teaches students to program video games using Racket, a functional programming language based on algebraic syntax. This study investigated the relationship between learning to program video games from a Bootstrap course and the resulting effect on students’ understanding of algebra. Courses in three different schools, lasting about six weeks each, were studied. Control and treatment groups were given a pre and post algebra assessment. A qualitative component consisting of observations and interviews was also used to further triangulate findings. Statistical analysis revealed that students who completed the Bootstrap course gained a significantly better understanding of variables and a suggestive improvement in understanding functions. In the assessments, students failed to demonstrate a transfer of the advanced concepts of function composition and piecewise functions from programming to algebraic notation. Interviews with students demonstrated that with coaching, students were able to relate functions written in Racket to functions written in algebraic notation, but were not yet able to transfer their experience of function composition from programming to algebra.
Towards Recommender Engineering: tools and experiments for identifying recommender differences

Since the introduction of their modern form 20 years ago, recommender systems have proven a valuable tool for help users manage information overload. Two decades of research have produced many algorithms for computing recommendations, mechanisms for evaluating their effectiveness, and user interfaces and experiences to embody them. It has also been found that the outputs of different recommendation algorithms differ in user-perceptible ways that affect their suitability to different tasks and information needs [Mcn+02]. However, there has been little work to systematically map out the space of algorithms and the characteristics they exhibit that makes them more or less effective in different applications. As a result, developers of recommender systems must experiment, conducting basic science on each application and its users to determine the approach(es) that will meet their needs. This thesis presents our work towards recommender engineering: the design of recommender systems from well-understood principles of user needs, domain properties, and algorithm behaviors. This will reduce the experimentation required for each new recommender application, allowing developers to design recommender systems that are likely to be effective for their particular application. To that end, we make four contributions: the LensKit toolkit for conducting experiments on a wide variety of recommender algorithms and data sets under different experimental conditions (offline experiments with diverse metrics, online user studies, and the ability to grow to support additional methodologies), along with new developments in object-oriented software configuration to support this toolkit; experiments on the configuration options of widely-used algorithms to provide guidance on tuning and configuring them; an offline experiment on the differences in the errors made by different algorithms; and a user study on the user-perceptible differences between lists of movie recommendations produced by three common recommender algorithms. Much research is needed to fully realize the vision of recommender engineering in the coming years; it is our hope that LensKit will prove a valuable foundation for much of this work, and our experiments represent a small piece of the kinds of studies that must be carried out, replicated, and validated to enable recommender systems to be engineered.
New directions in social question answering

Social Question Answering (SQA) services are emerging as a valuable information resource that is rich not only in the expertise of the user community but also their interactions and insights. The next generation SQA services are challenged in many fronts, including but not limited to: massive, heterogeneous, and streaming collections, diverse and challenging users, and the need to be sensitive to context and ambiguity. However, scholarly inquiries have yet to dovetail into a composite research stream where techniques gleaned from various research domains could be used for harnessing the information richness in SQA services to address these challenges. This chapter first explores the SQA domain by understanding the service and its modules, and then investigating previous studies that were conducted in this domain. This chapter then compares SQA services with traditional question answering systems to identify possible research challenges. Finally, new directions in SQA are proposed.
Can Everyone Master Mathematics

These kinds of explanations minimize the power that teachers have. But educators can directly affect how they perceive students as mathematical thinkers. Teachers can carry out the curriculum creatively with expanded methodology and engage all students in higher-orderthinking conversations. Successful teachers acknowledge student contributions and explore connections. They check for understanding and draw on students’ natural mathematics to connect it with formal math. And they connect mathematics to students’ reality.
Adult Children's Information Deficiencies and Risk Aversion Regarding LTCI Purchase for Elderly Parents: A Multi Case Study

Long-term care is the greatest uninsured risk facing the American public today. The failure to plan for long-term care has had a serious, and often devastating, impact on families that are thrust into the role of caregiver to an elderly parent. The failure to plan for long-term care also has very serious consequences for society, which, through public programs such as Medicaid, pays for a huge and unsustainable portion of long-term care supports and services. The impact of the failure to plan for long-term care is becoming more devastating due to the confluence of several factors. People are living longer now than ever before thereby increasing the demand for long-term care services and supports, with the population of senior citizens expected to more than double in the near future. There are far fewer family caregivers available to provide care to elderly parents as a result of lower birth rates, later marriages, and the rapid increase of women participating in the workforce, reducing the available pool of family caregivers. Understanding the dynamics of long-term care planning, and the failure to plan for long-term care, is a necessary step in successfully addressing long-term care planning.
Experiments in cultural language evolution

1. Foreword (by Steels, Luc) 2. Introduction. Self-organization and selection in cultural language evolution (by Steels, Luc) 3. Part I. Emergence of perceptually grounded vocabularies 4. The Grounded Naming Game (by Steels, Luc) 5. Language strategies for color (by Bleys, Joris) 6. Emergent mirror systems for body language (by Steels, Luc) 7. The co-evolution of basic spatial terms and categories (by Spranger, Michael) 8. Multi-dimensional meanings in lexicon formation (by Wellens, Pieter) 9. Part II. Emergence of grammatical systems 10. The evolution of case systems for marking event structure (by Trijp, Remi van) 11. Emergent functional grammar for space (by Spranger, Michael) 12. The emergence of internal agreement systems (by Beuls, Katrien) 13. A language strategy for aspect: Encoding Aktionsarten through morphology (by Gerasymova, Kateryna) 14. The emergence of quantifiers (by Pauw, Simon) 15. Index
Automatic Creation of Opinion-Based Summary Representations

Customers interested in buying a product, can search on the internet for reviews about that product. For many products, an enormous amount of information and opinions is available. Customers gets overwhelmed by this information and systems are needed to filter out the essential information. In this research, a model is developed to automatically create a graphical summary of a set of Dutch product reviews. This model is divided into three sub modules. The first module is meant to select sentences expressing opinions. The second module groups those sentences based on their subjects. Finally, the third module generates a graphical representation of the groups of sentences and presents it to the customer. The most important parts of the model are implemented into a system. An user experiment is conducted to evaluate the performance of this system. This experiment shows that the first module has an accuracy of 81%. This is comparable with systems developed for other languages. Information shown in the graphical summary representation is judged as relevant in 56% of the cases. Although further research is needed, this model is a good basis to provide insight to the customer about essential information in product reviews.
A Generative Approach towards Performance-Based Design

Due to a growing number of regulations and standards, building performance becomes equally important as traditional design drivers. Therefore, it is necessary to quickly explore design alternatives that meet these performance requirements. To support this complex design task, a rule-based design system is proposed that is founded on a shape grammar. This paper describes a graph-based implementation of this shape grammar that allows subshape detection, parametric rules and attributed shapes. The implementation described in this paper forms the basis to further investigate to what extent rule-based design systems can support a generative approach towards performance-based design.
Entwicklung einer schnellen digitalen Bildverarbeitungstechnik und einer interferometrischen 2 λ-Mikroskopietechnik

Mikrooptische Methoden in Kombination mit schneller Bildverarbeitung werden in der biophysikalischen Forschung immer wichtiger. Im technischen Teil dieser Arbeit wurde ein speziell auf die Bedurfnisse der Biophysik zugeschnittenes Bildverarbeitungsprogramm entwickelt. Zur Messung absoluter Abstande im Nanometerbereich zwischen Substraten und Objekten wurde erstmals die Reflexions-Interferenz-Kontrast-Mikroskopie mit zwei Wellenlangen realisiert. Mit Hilfe dieser Techniken konnten verschiedene Zellmodelle untersucht werden: Vesikel aus Lipidmembranen mit Zusatzkomponenten als Modell fur eine geschlossene Zellhulle, spezifisch an eine Membran gekoppelte Hyaluronsauremolekule als Modell fur die extrazellulare Matrix und Aktinnetzwerke als Modell fur das Zytoskelett.
MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA MINING FOR COMPUTER SECURITY: METHODS AND APPLICATIONS

Survey Contributions. - An Introduction to Information Assurance. - Some Basic Concept of Machine Learning and Data Mining. - Research Contributions. - Learning to Detect Malicious Executables. - Data Mining Applied to Intrusion Detection: MITRE Experiences. - Intrusion Detection Alarm Clustering. - Behavioral Features for Network Anomaly Detection. - Cost-Sensitive Modeling for Intrusion Detection. - Data Cleaning and Enriched Representations for Anomaly Detection in System Calls. - A Decision-Theoritic, Semi-Supervised Model for Intrusion Detection.