R ecent surveys in the U.S., Britain, Australia, and other OECD nations continue to report unacceptably high ,levels of adult illiteracy (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1997a, 1997b). In the present context of unprecedented growth in symbolic sophistication associated with the current technological revolution (Castells 1996, 1997), claims of widespread adult illiteracy in "advanced" societies...

T he Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), due to be released this spring, represents a revolutionary step toward establishing modern, national K–12 science education standards. Based on the recommendations of the National Research Council’s A Framework for K–12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas (NRC 2012), these performance expectations present a progressi...

This paper introduces a novel technique for synthesis of speed-independent circuits from their Signal Transition Graph specifications. The new method uses partial order in the form of the STG-unfolding segment to derive the logic implementation using approximation techniques. It is based on a new notion of slice, which localises the behaviour of a particular signal instance in a structural frag...

For synthesising efficient asynchronous circuits from STGs one has to deal with the state space explosion problem. For this purpose STG decomposition was introduced by Chu and improved by Vogler and Wollowski. Here, we present the tool DesiJ which is the implementation of STG decomposition and proposed by Vogler and several other optimisations.

in this article generational attitudes towards gender issue in three generation young, middle age, and elders have been studied and the objective is to answer following questions: 1. are there differences in attitudes towards women between generations? 2. are the attitudes’ differences between rural and urban communities similar? 3. do men and women have different attitudes toward women? analys...

it has been demonstrated that anxiety is accompanied by significant warm up in the periorbital area. this warm up was attributed to the increased blood circulation in the area around the eyes. the whole pattern makes physiological and evolutionary sense since it represents a mechanism to facilitate rapid eye movements during preparedness for fight. this increased blood flow dissipates convectiv...

BACKGROUND More studies include multiple generations of the Actigraph activity monitor. So far no studies have compared the output including the newest generation and investigated the impact on the output of the activity monitor when enabling the low frequency extension (LFE) option. The aims were to study the responses of four generations (AM7164, GT1M, GT3X and GT3X+) of the Actigraph activit...