Interactions with other people can change how a person feels about themselves and their situation. This is a basic tenet of much previous work on research as diverse as social network, psychology, and management. Studying these changes previously has been extremely laborious due to the necessity of employing surveys, human observers, or interviews. These methods also mostly preclude observing h...

1. Analysis of nitrogen, sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, and potassium levels in big brown bat guano throughout much of the summer roosting period was performed. 2. Based on the tenet that low, non-variable levels of an element in feces indicate dietary inadequacy for that element, female big brown bats are routinely and severely stressed for calcium and may become stressed for iron by the en...

The series constitute ‘ideas in progress,’ after the notion described by I.J. Good in ‘The Scientist Speculates.’ Good also describes ideas about ideas as ‘partly baked ideas’ believing that “ ... it is often better to be stimulating and wrong than boring and right.” While the papers do not take this tenet as an excuse for licence at the expense of rigour, they are exploratory and the ideas may...

here has been general consensus t in dyslexia research that phono-JL logical processing deficits underlie dyslexic readers' failure to acquire adequate word recognition skills a phonological-core deficit-that difficulty representing the sound structure of words impedes a child's ability to learn decoding principles-has guided diagnostic and intervention efforts in reading disabilities and has b...

new criticism focuses on rigorous analysis of poetry and literature, irrespective of peripheral issues. its fundamental tenet is the autonomy of literary texts. therefore, new criticism shuns dealing with such peripheral issues as authors’ biography, social, political and historical events; since this approach considers all these issues as non-artistic. in principle, the followers of new critic...