Reading in the digital age: using electronic books as a teaching tool for beginning readers

This study investigated the eBook reading experiences of eight grade 1 students. Eight students were given ten 25-minute sessions with the software programs over 15 weeks. Qualitative data were collected from students, teachers, and parents through questionnaires, interviews, observations and field notes.The results suggest the promise of electronic books in enhancing the reading motivation of beginning readers.Beginning readers\u27 motivation to read and the texts they choose to read impact on their literacy achievement and willingness to engage with reading activities in the primary years of schooling

On smooth approximations of rough vector fields and the selection of flows

In this work we deal with the selection problem of flows of an irregular vector field. We first summarize an example from \cite{CCS} of a vector field $b$ and a smooth approximation $b_\epsilon$ for which the sequence $X^\epsilon$ of flows of $b_\epsilon$ has subsequences converging to different flows of the limit vector field $b$. Furthermore, we give some heuristic ideas on the selection of a subclass of flows in our specific case.Comment: Proceeding of the "XVII International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications.

Smooth approximation is not a selection principle for the transport equation with rough vector field

In this paper we analyse the selection problem for weak solutions of the transport equation with rough vector field. We answer in the negative the question whether solutions of the equation with a regularized vector field converge to a unique limit, which would be the selected solution of the limit problem. To this aim, we give a new example of a vector field which admits infinitely many flows. Then we construct a smooth approximating sequence of the vector field for which the corresponding solutions have subsequences converging to different solutions of the limit equation.Comment: 22 pages, 4 figure

Weak solutions obtained by the vortex method for the 2D Euler equations are Lagrangian and conserve the energy

We discuss the Lagrangian property and the conservation of the kinetic energy for solutions of the 2D incompressible Euler equations. Existence of Lagrangian solutions is known when the initial vorticity is in $L^p$ with $1\leq p\leq \infty$. Moreover, if $p\geq 3/2$ all weak solutions are conservative. In this work we prove that solutions obtained via the vortex method are Lagrangian, and that they are conservative if $p>1$.Comment: 28 page

Agape: The Responsible Choice

In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. Dr. Martin Luther King‟s “Love, Law, and Civil Disobedience” offers an important message today as it did when it was given in 1961. The essential message is one of love and respect for our fellow man, and can we honestly look at our society today and claim we have reached a point of love and respect for all people? When we examine recent events, health care reform, issues in education, war, and immigration, we should realize we still have a ways to go

Electronic Storybooks: A Constructivist Approach to Improving Reading Motivation in Grade 1 Students

This study stemmed from a concern of the perceived decline in students’ reading motivation after the early years of schooling. This research investigated the effectiveness of online eBooks on eight grade 1 students’ reading motivation. Eight students were given ten 25-minute sessions with the software programs over 15 weeks. Qualitative data were collected from students, teachers, and parents through questionnaires, interviews, observations and field notes. The results suggest the promise of online reading software programs in supporting early readers with reading, motivation, and/or behavioural difficulties.  Keywords: digital reading; early literacy; reading motivation; online; eBooks; constructivism &nbsp

Anton Boisen's Fellowship of the Best and the ACPE's Communities of Practice

In a 2017 address to the Eastern Region of ACPE, Ralph Ciampa explores Anton Boisen’s concept of the “fellowship of the best,” as a resource for understanding ACPE’s new structure, communities of practic

Energy conservation for 2D Euler with vorticity in L(log⁡L)αL(\log L)^\alpha

In these notes we discuss the conservation of the energy for weak solutions of the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations. Weak solutions with vorticity in $L^\infty_t L^p_x$ with $p\geq 3/2$ are always conservative, while for less integrable vorticity the conservation of the energy may depend on the approximation method used to construct the solution. Here we prove that the canonical approximations introduced by DiPerna and Majda provide conservative solutions when the initial vorticity is in the class $L(\log L)^\alpha$ with $\alpha>1/2$.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1905.0972

Dall'occupazione britannica all'intervento americano: storia del tormentato stato iracheno

L’obbiettivo del mio studio è stato quello di ripercorrere in modo critico la storia del paese iracheno. Lo stato, nato dall’unione delle tre province ottomane di Baghdad, Bassora e Mosul, venne assegnato per mandato alla Gran Bretagna, che, nonostante l’indipendenza del paese ottenuta nel 1932, continuò ad avere una forte influenza sul paese. A causa della sua controversa composizione, la cospirazione e i colpi di stato furono all’ordine del giorno fino al 1979, anno in cui Saddam Husayn arrivò al potere, cambiando la storia del paese. L’Iraq, desideroso di erigersi a potenza regionale, iniziò una politica estera aggressiva che lo portò a dichiarare guerra a Iran e Kuwait a distanza di pochi anni. Le conseguenze di queste decisioni avventate e l’invasione americana nel 2003 hanno avviato il paese ad una completa disintegrazione, riproponendo il problema di inizio Novecento: sunniti, sciiti e curdi sono oggi in lotta tra di loro a difesa dei propri interessi. La nazione irachena forse non è mai nata

United States Asylum Law: The Failure Of the United States To Accommodate Women\u27s Gender-Based Asylum Claims

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. Those are the words of Emma Lazarus, inscribed on the Statute of Liberty