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Assessing time knowledge in children aged 10 to 11 years
The acquisition of time knowledge involves learning how to read clocks, estimate time, read dates and learn about temporal sequences. Evidence suggests that many of these competencies are acquired by 10 years of age although not all children may follow this developmental path. The main purpose of this study was to collect normative data for a screening tool that assesses time knowledge. These data identify the prevalence and pattern of difficulties with time knowledge among a UK sample of Year 6 pupils (aged 10 to 11 years). The Time Screening Assessment tool (Doran, Dutt & Pembery, 2015), designed to assess time knowledge, was administered individually to a sample of 79 children. Findings revealed a median overall score of 32 out of a maximum score of 36. 25% of children performed at or close to ceiling, however seven children scored more than -1.5 standard deviations below the mean. The value of these findings to practitioners working with children in schools is discussed
Orbital surveys and state resource management
The resource management implications of satellite earth resource surveys for the state of Ohio are discussed. Discussions cover environmental problems, planning future developments, and short- and long-range benefits of such resource management
Fracture of disordered solids in compression as a critical phenomenon: III. Analysis of the localization transition
The properties of the Hamiltonian developed in Paper II are studied showing
that at a particular strain level a ``localization'' phase transition occurs
characterized by the emergence of conjugate bands of coherently oriented
cracks. The functional integration that yields the partition function is then
performed analytically using an approximation that employs only a subset of
states in the functional neighborhood surrounding the most probable states.
Such integration establishes the free energy of the system, and upon taking the
derivatives of the free energy, the localization transition is shown to be
continuous and to be distinct from peak stress. When the bulk modulus of the
grain material is large, localization always occurs in the softening regime
following peak stress, while for sufficiently small bulk moduli and at
sufficiently low confining pressure, the localization occurs in the hardening
regime prior to peak stress.
In the approach to localization, the stress-strain relation for the whole
rock remains analytic, as is observed both in experimental data and in simpler
models.
The correlation function of the crack fields is also obtained. It has a
correlation length characterizing the aspect ratio of the crack clusters that
diverges as (\xi \sim (\ep_{c}-\ep)^{-2}) at localization.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure
Closed Geodesics on Godel-type Backgrounds
We consider radial oscillations of supertube probes in the Godel-type
background which is U-dual to the compactified pp-wave obtained from the
Penrose limit of the NS five-brane near horizon geometry. The supertube probe
computation can be carried over directly to a string probe calculation on the
U-dual background. The classical equations of motion are solved explicitly. In
general, the probe is not restricted to travel unidirectionally through any
global time coordinate. In particular, we find geodesics that close.Comment: latex, 15 pages, 1 figure. v3: reference added, clarifications added
and some discussions expande
Observation of the Faraday effect via beam deflection in a longitudinal magnetic field
We report the observation of the magnetic field induced circular differential
deflection of light at the interface of a Faraday medium. The difference in the
angles of refraction or reflection between the two circular polarization
components is a function of the magnetic field strength and the Verdet
constant. The reported phenomena permit the observation of the Faraday effect
not via polarization rotation in transmission, but via changes in the
propagation direction in refraction or in reflection. An unpolarized light beam
is predicted to split into its two circular polarization components. The light
deflection arises within a few wavelengths at the interface and is therefore
independent of pathlength
Religion, place and space: a framework for investigating historical geographies of religious identities and communities
This is the author's post-print version. The definitive version is available at http://phg.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/30/1/28Despite a well-established interest in the relationship between space and identity, geographers still know little about how communal identities in specific places are built around a sense of religious belonging. This paper explores both the theoretical and practical terrain around which such an investigation can proceed. The paper makes space for the exploration of a specific set of religious groups and practices, which reflected the activities of Methodists in Cornwall during the period 1830-1930. The paper is concerned to move analysis beyond the `officially sacred' and to explore the everyday, informal, and often banal, practices of Methodists, thereby providing a blueprint for how work in the geography of religion may move forward
Direct measurements of helium and hydrogen ion concentration and total ion density to an altitude of 940 kilometers
Measurement of ion concentration and total ion density in exosphere using mass spectrometer and electrostatic prob
Noncommutative 1-cocycle in the Seiberg-Witten map
We show that the Seiberg-Witten map for a noncommutative gauge theory
involves a noncommutative 1-cocycle. The cocycle condition enforces a
consistency requirement, which has been previously derived.Comment: 6 pages; email correspondence to R. Jackiw ;
missing factors of i inserted, one reference adde
Ionosphere Electron Temperature Measurements and Their Implications
Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/147864/1/jgrtb00020.pd
Gradual Change In Human Tooth Size In The Late Pleistocene And Post‐Pleistocene
Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/137561/1/evo05847.pd
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