THE USE OF STORY MAP IN IMPROVING THE YEAR FOUR PUPILS’ ABILITY IN READING COMPREHENSION

This is an action research on improving reading comprehension through story map among Year 4 pupils in one of the primary schools in Malaysia. My pupils were unable to answer WH-questions of the narrative texts. The research aimed to use story map to improve pupils’ reading comprehension and improve my teaching practices in reading comprehension. I am the researcher with 24 pupils, 12 males and 12 females. I utilized three data collection methods: pre-reading comprehension test and post-reading comprehension test, pupils’ work and teacher’s reflective journal. I introduced story map through demonstration. Then the participants completed the story through literary elements identification based on the narrative texts. Findings showed that story map helped to improve pupils’ reading comprehension by identifying literary elements and relating the literary elements with the comprehension questions. The story map gave positive impact to reading comprehension. The research has impacted the teaching and learning environment, pupils’ learning, and my teaching practices. I found out that story map was a useful method in attracting pupils’ attention and teaching literary elements. Furthermore, I was developed to be a reflective teacher in terms of strengths and weaknesses of the teaching and learning process. Story map can be an effective tool in improving reading comprehension among pupils. In addition, a more interactive story map which incorporates Information and Communication Technology (ICT) may also be employed in further research

On the Bethe states of the one-dimensional supersymmetric t-J model with generic open boundaries

By combining the algebraic Bethe ansatz and the off-diagonal Bethe ansatz, we investigate the supersymmetric t-J model with generic open boundaries. The eigenvalues of the transfer matrix are given in terms of an inhomogeneous T-Q relation, and the corresponding eigenstates are expressed in terms of nested Bethe states which have well-defined homogeneous limit. This exact solution provides basis for further analyzing the thermodynamic properties and correlation functions of the model.Comment: 17 pages, 2 tables, published versio

Enabling controlling complex networks with local topological information

Complex networks characterize the nature of internal/external interactions in real-world systems including social, economic, biological, ecological, and technological networks. Two issues keep as obstacles to fulflling control of large-scale networks: structural controllability which describes the ability to guide a dynamical system from any initial state to any desired fnal state in fnite time, with a suitable choice of inputs; and optimal control, which is a typical control approach to minimize the cost for driving the network to a predefned state with a given number of control inputs. For large complex networks without global information of network topology, both problems remain essentially open. Here we combine graph theory and control theory for tackling the two problems in one go, using only local network topology information. For the structural controllability problem, a distributed local-game matching method is proposed, where every node plays a simple Bayesian game with local information and local interactions with adjacent nodes, ensuring a suboptimal solution at a linear complexity. Starring from any structural controllability solution, a minimizing longest control path method can efciently reach a good solution for the optimal control in large networks. Our results provide solutions for distributed complex network control and demonstrate a way to link the structural controllability and optimal control together.The work was partially supported by National Science Foundation of China (61603209), and Beijing Natural Science Foundation (4164086), and the Study of Brain-Inspired Computing System of Tsinghua University program (20151080467), and Ministry of Education, Singapore, under contracts RG28/14, MOE2014-T2-1-028 and MOE2016-T2-1-119. Part of this work is an outcome of the Future Resilient Systems project at the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC), which is funded by the National Research Foundation of Singapore (NRF) under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme. (61603209 - National Science Foundation of China; 4164086 - Beijing Natural Science Foundation; 20151080467 - Study of Brain-Inspired Computing System of Tsinghua University program; RG28/14 - Ministry of Education, Singapore; MOE2014-T2-1-028 - Ministry of Education, Singapore; MOE2016-T2-1-119 - Ministry of Education, Singapore; National Research Foundation of Singapore (NRF) under Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme)Published versio

Author correction: Enabling controlling complex networks with local topological information

Correction to: Scientific Reports https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-22655-5, published online 15 March 2018. The Acknowledgements section in this Article is incomplete.The work was partially supported by National Science Foundation of China (61603209, 61327902), and Beijing Natural Science Foundation (4164086), and the Study of Brain-Inspired Computing System of Tsinghua University program (20151080467), and SuZhou-Tsinghua innovation leading program 2016SZ0102, and Ministry of Education, Singapore, under contracts RG28/14, MOE2014-T2-1-028 and MOE2016-T2-1-119. Part of this work is an outcome of the Future Resilient Systems project at the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC), which is funded by the National Research Foundation of Singapore (NRF) under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) program. (61603209 - National Science Foundation of China; 61327902 - National Science Foundation of China; 4164086 - Beijing Natural Science Foundation; 20151080467 - Study of Brain-Inspired Computing System of Tsinghua University program; 2016SZ0102 - SuZhou-Tsinghua innovation leading program; RG28/14 - Ministry of Education, Singapore; MOE2014-T2-1-028 - Ministry of Education, Singapore; MOE2016-T2-1-119 - Ministry of Education, Singapore; National Research Foundation of Singapore (NRF) under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) program)Published versio

Bethe states of the trigonometric SU(3) spin chain with generic open boundaries

By combining the algebraic Bethe ansatz and the off-diagonal Bethe ansatz, we investigate the trigonometric SU(3) model with generic open boundaries. The eigenvalues of the transfer matrix are given in terms of an inhomogeneous T-Q relation, and the corresponding eigenstates are expressed in terms of nested Bethe-type eigenstates which have well-defined homogeneous limit. This exact solution provides a basis for further analyzing the thermodynamic properties and correlation functions of the anisotropic models associated with higher rank algebras.Comment: 17 pages, 3 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1705.0947

Diaqua­bis­(4-carb­oxy-2-propyl-1H-imidazole-5-carboxyl­ato-κ2 N 3,O 4)cobalt(II) N,N-dimethyl­formamide disolvate

In the title complex, [Co(C8H9N2O4)2(H2O)2]·2C3H7NO, the CoII cation (site symmetry ) is six-coordinated by two 5-carb­oxy-2-propyl-1H-imidazole-4-carboxyl­ate ligands and two water mol­ecules in a distorted octa­hedral environment. In the crystal structure, the complex mol­ecules and dimethyl­formamide solvent mol­ecules are linked by extensive O—H⋯O and N—H⋯O hydrogen bonding into sheets lying parallel to (21)

Knowledge and basic skills in Singapore

In a country that encourages the development of a knowledge-based economy, the educational investment is the essential source of prosperity. The national program aims to ensure the success of the school student learning while including them optimize their provisions. This is to form citizens capable of more independent thinking creatively to meet the economic challenges and teach educational content related to specific knowledge, while taking into account the needs of individual students and enhancing the capacities and talents. This implies a redefinition of the concepts of knowledge and learning, enhancement of the learning process, exceeding the results culture. The implementation of these provisions is not without contradictions, ambiguities and resistances. It also requires the modification and diversification of evaluation methods