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HOW CAREGIVERS EXPERIENCE READING ALOUD TO CHILDREN IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH SECOND GRADE: AN INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
According to Hudson, Koh, Moore, and Binks-Cantrell, (2020), The National Assessment of Educational Progress’s (NAEP) 2019 testing data revealed that 32% of U.S. fourth-grade students are reading below basic levels. This issue calls for interventions to increase reading achievement levels for elementary students. One way to accomplish this is to increase studies regarding what motivates caregivers to read to children. This present study examines how caregivers perceived the at-home read-aloud experience for children in primary grades: kindergarten through second grade. This study employed Bandura’s observational theory. The study consisted of a qualitative interpretative phenomenological analysis of 20 caregivers of students from kindergarten through second grade. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews of the caregivers. The data were coded and interpreted to connect themes. The findings will help guide future read aloud interventions
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Anonymity and its Prospects in the Digital World
"This working paper traces the changes undergone by anonymity - and by the discourses surrounding it - in liberal Western societies. The author asks whether the current politicization of the issue is likely to have any impact on the gradual disappearance of opportunities for anonymity that we are currently witnessing and argues that anonymity is an ambivalent but critical feature of the democratic public sphere. The argument proceeds in three stages. It begins with a number of conceptual observations on anonymity. From these, a heuristic framework emerges with which the changes in anonymous communication, and in the role this communication plays in society, can be described. The author then analyses the extent to which options for anonymity have been affected by the revolution in information and communication technologies and concludes by considering how anonymity is framed in public discourse and what impacts this has." (author's abstract)"Das Working Paper untersucht die Veränderungen von Anonymität und den Diskursen über Anonymität in liberalen westlichen Gesellschaften. Der Autor fragt, inwiefern die gegenwärtige Politisierung des Themas einen Einfluss auf das graduelle Verschwinden der Möglichkeiten anonymer Kommunikation haben wird und welche Bedeutung Anonymität für die demokratische Öffentlichkeit hat. Die Analyse vollzieht sich in drei Schritten: Zunächst wird konzeptuell geklärt, was Anonymität ist und darauf aufbauend ein heuristisches Instrument entwickelt mittels dessen sich die Veränderung anonymer Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten in der Gesellschaft beschreiben lassen. Im zweiten Schritt wird dieses Instrument zur Anwendung gebracht, um die sich wandelnden Möglichkeiten anonymer Kommunikation im digitalen Strukturwandel zu porträtieren. Der dritte Teil des Papiers fragt schließlich nach der Art und Weise, wie Anonymität im öffentlichen Diskurs politisiert wird - und sucht die Erfolgsaussichten abzuschätzen, die diese Thematisierung hat, der Entwicklung zu begegnen oder sie gar umzukehren." (Autorenreferat
Chaotic behaviour of nonlinear waves and solitons of perturbed Korteweg - de Vries equation
This paper considers properties of nonlinear waves and solitons of
Korteweg-de Vries equation in the presence of external perturbation. For
time-periodic hamiltonian perturbation the width of the stochastic layer is
calculated. The conclusions about chaotic behaviour in long-period waves and
solitons are inferred. Obtained theoretical results find experimental
confirmation in experiments with the propagation of ion-acoustic waves in
plasma.Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX, 2 Postscript figures, submitted to Reports on
Mathematical Physic
The Modulation of Multiple Phases Leading to the Modified KdV Equation
This paper seeks to derive the modified KdV (mKdV) equation using a novel
approach from systems generated from abstract Lagrangians that possess a
two-parameter symmetry group. The method to do uses a modified modulation
approach, which results in the mKdV emerging with coefficients related to the
conservation laws possessed by the original Lagrangian system. Alongside this,
an adaptation of the method of Kuramoto is developed, providing a simpler
mechanism to determine the coefficients of the nonlinear term. The theory is
illustrated using two examples of physical interest, one in stratified
hydrodynamics and another using a coupled Nonlinear Schr\"odinger model, to
illustrate how the criterion for the mKdV equation to emerge may be assessed
and its coefficients generated.Comment: 35 pages, 5 figure
Soliton formation from a pulse passing the zero-dispersion point in a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation
We consider in detail the self-trapping of a soliton from a wave pulse that
passes from a defocussing region into a focussing one in a spatially
inhomogeneous nonlinear waveguide, described by a nonlinear Schrodinger
equation in which the dispersion coefficient changes its sign from normal to
anomalous. The model has direct applications to dispersion-decreasing nonlinear
optical fibers, and to natural waveguides for internal waves in the ocean. It
is found that, depending on the (conserved) energy and (nonconserved) mass of
the initial pulse, four qualitatively different outcomes of the pulse
transformation are possible: decay into radiation; self-trapping into a single
soliton; formation of a breather; and formation of a pair of counterpropagating
solitons. A corresponding chart is drawn on a parametric plane, which
demonstrates some unexpected features. In particular, it is found that any kind
of soliton(s) (including the breather and counterpropagating pair) eventually
decays into pure radiation with the increase of the energy, the initial mass
being kept constant. It is also noteworthy that a virtually direct transition
from a single soliton into a pair of symmetric counterpropagating ones seems
possible. An explanation for these features is proposed. In two cases when
analytical approximations apply, viz., a simple perturbation theory for broad
initial pulses, or the variational approximation for narrow ones, comparison
with the direct simulations shows reasonable agreement.Comment: 18 pages, 10 figures, 1 table. Phys. Rev. E, in pres
Cuspons, peakons and regular gap solitons between three dispersion curves
A general wave model with the cubic nonlinearity is introduced to describe a
situation when the linear dispersion relation has three branches, which would
intersect in the absence of linear couplings between the three waves. Actually,
the system contains two waves with a strong linear coupling between them, to
which a third wave is then coupled. This model has two gaps in its linear
spectrum. Realizations of this model can be made in terms of temporal or
spatial evolution of optical fields in, respectively, a planar waveguide or a
bulk-layered medium resembling a photonic-crystal fiber. Another physical
system described by the same model is a set of three internal wave modes in a
density-stratified fluid. A nonlinear analysis is performed for solitons which
have zero velocity in the reference frame in which the group velocity of the
third wave vanishes. Disregarding the self-phase modulation (SPM) term in the
equation for the third wave, we find two coexisting families of solitons:
regular ones, which may be regarded as a smooth deformation of the usual gap
solitons in a two-wave system, and cuspons with a singularity in the first
derivative at their center. Even in the limit when the linear coupling of the
third wave to the first two vanishes, the soliton family remains drastically
different from that in the linearly uncoupled system; in this limit, regular
solitons whose amplitude exceeds a certain critical value are replaced by
peakons. While the regular solitons, cuspons, and peakons are found in an exact
analytical form, their stability is tested numerically, which shows that they
all may be stable. If the SPM terms are retained, we find that there again
coexist two different families of generic stable soliton solutions, namely,
regular ones and peakons.Comment: a latex file with the text and 10 pdf files with figures. Physical
Review E, in pres
Stationary Solitons of the Fifth Order KdV-type Equations and their Stabilization
Exact stationary soliton solutions of the fifth order KdV type equation are obtained for any p
() in case , , (where D is the
soliton velocity), and it is shown that these solutions are unstable with
respect to small perturbations in case . Various properties of these
solutions are discussed. In particular, it is shown that for any p, these
solitons are lower and narrower than the corresponding solitons.
Finally, for p = 2 we obtain an exact stationary soliton solution even when
are all and discuss its various properties.Comment: 8 pages, no figure
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