Cognition and Achievement in Children With Seizure Disorders

School personnel can help to identify, monitor and accommodate students with seizure disorders. This article describes the general characteristics of seizure disorders and reviews research on implications for cognition and achievement among children. Despite methodological limitations of research in this area, a few trends are observed. Localization of seizure activity in the brain and age of onset have a major impact on cognition. A synthesis of major studies show that deficits often involve one or more of the following: verbal memory, visual memory, reaction time, and attention. Challenges in reading comprehension are well documented. Poor school performance, in general, may be due to frequent lapses of awareness. Recommendations are for school personnel to monitor and document symptoms at school

COGNITION AND ACHIEVEMENT IN CHILDREN WITH SEIZURE DISORDERS

School personnel can help to identify, monitor and accommodate students with seizure disorders. This article describes the general characteristics of seizure disorders and reviews research on implications for cognition and achievement among children. Despite methodological limitations of research in this area, a few trends are observed. Localization of seizure activity in the brain and age of onset have a major impact on cognition. A synthesis of major studies show that deficits often involve one or more of the following: verbal memory, visual memory, reaction time, and attention. Challenges in reading comprehension are well documented. Poor school performance, in general, may be due to frequent lapses of awareness. Recommendations are for school personnel to monitor and document symptoms at school

Hardy's inequalities for monotone functions on partially ordered measure spaces

We characterize the weighted Hardy's inequalities for monotone functions in ${\mathbb R^n_+}.$ In dimension $n=1$, this recovers the classical theory of $B_p$ weights. For $n>1$, the result was only known for the case $p=1$. In fact, our main theorem is proved in the more general setting of partially ordered measure spaces.Comment: 14 page

Teaching ethics: a case study-based, interdisciplinary framework

As economies in the MENA region have become increasingly global and dependent on foreign labour, higher education institutions have a responsibility to effectively incorporate ethics education. This article presents a new interdisciplinary, case study-based model for teaching ethics in higher education (ICE model). It is comprised of five components including: 1) a discussion to identify the ethical dilemma involved; 2) an examination of the consequences of an action on self and others; 3) an examination of how the environment may affect moral reasoning; 4) a discussion of how and why decision-making may change when certain details or circumstances in the dilemma are changed; 5) a summary of one\u27s final decision with its justification

Blaschke product generated covering surfaces

summary:It is known that, under very general conditions, Blaschke products generate branched covering surfaces of the Riemann sphere. We are presenting here a method of finding fundamental domains of such coverings and we are studying the corresponding groups of covering transformations