Intervention for improving comprehension in 4–6 year old children with specific language impairment : practicing inferencing is a good thing

Few studies report on therapy to improve language comprehension in children with specific language impairment (SLI). We address this gap by measuring the effect of a systematic intervention to improve inferential comprehension using dialogic reading tasks in conjunction with pre-determined questions and cues. Sixteen children with a diagnosis of SLI aged 4-6 participated in 10 weekly treatment sessions carried out by their regular therapists. Baseline and maintenance periods were also tabulated. Two experimental measures and a standardized test revealed that children's total scores and the quality of their responses post-treatment were better than those obtained pre-treatment. However, perhaps due to the use of non-equivalent probes, this change could not be interpreted solely as a significant effect of intervention. These results nevertheless suggest that a systematically designed intervention focusing on the comprehension of specific types of questions requiring inferencing and using a carefully scaffolded cueing strategy can be beneficial

The jet/wind outflow in Centaurus A: A local laboratory for AGN feedback

We present new radio and optical images of the nearest radio galaxy Centaurus A and its host galaxy NGC 5128.We focus our investigation on the northern transition region, where energy is transported from the ~5 kpc (~5 arcmin) scales of the northern inner lobe (NIL) to the ~30 kpc (~30 arcmin) scales of the northern middle lobe (NML). Our Murchison Widefield Array observations at 154 MHz and our Parkes radio telescope observations at 2.3 GHz show diffuse radio emission connecting the NIL to the NML, in agreement with previous Australia Telescope Compact Array observations at 1.4 GHz. Comparison of these radio data with our wide-field optical emission-line images show the relationship between the NML radio emission and the ionized filaments that extend north from the NIL, and reveal a new ionized filament to the east, possibly associated with a galactic wind. Our deep optical images show clear evidence for a bipolar outflow from the central galaxy extending to intermediate scales, despite the non-detection of a southern radio counterpart to the NML. Thus, our observational overview of Centaurus A reveals a number of features proposed to be associated with active galactic nucleus feedback mechanisms, often cited as likely to have significant effects in galaxy evolution models. As one of the closest galaxies to us, Centaurus A therefore provides a unique laboratory to examine feedback mechanisms in detail

VizieR Online Data Catalog: Cen A MWA 154MHz image (McKinley+, 2018)

The observations of Cen A used in this paper were undertaken as part of the Galactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA (GLEAM) survey (Wayth et al., 2015PASA...32...25W; Hurley-Walker et al., 2017MNRAS.464.1146H, Cat. VIII/100) on 2014 June 10. (2 data files)

Réparation de poésie : 15e livre des artistes d'art postal : ...Où les grands esprits se rassemblent = Réparation de poésie : 15e livre des artistes d'art postal : ...Dove I spiriti grandi sincontranno = Réparation de poésie : 15e livre des artistes d'art postal : Where Great Spirits Gather

The 15th edition of this Quebec collective’s annual publication comprises Mail Art projects by 46 artists from six countries. The works, some of which include short poetic texts, employ drawing, collage, silkscreening, photocopying, painting, digital imagery, objects, postcards or recycled materials. Themes addressed include: the passage of time, sexuality, solidarity, reprography, agriculture and aesthetic taste. Texts primarily in French or English