Changing the English textbook of the first grade junior high school at Iran’s public schools after 27 years has sparked researchers’ interests in conducting evaluations of the new English textbook to get insights into its strengths and weaknesses. In line with this trend, this study aimed at evaluating the new textbook (Prospect 1) from teachers’ perspectives. To attain this objective, 30 junio...

This paper presents a case-study of automatic construction of a hypertext from a large full-text document. The document we used as input of the automatic authoring process is a well-known textbook of Information Retrieval (IR). We explain in detail the steps performed to transform the textbook into a hyper-textbook. A hyper-textbook is the hypertextual equivalent of a textbook, in the same way ...

Although perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use are two important factors which could directly influence the acceptance of technology and actual usage for digital textbook, less attention has been paid to children’s mobile digital textbook usage. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate and empirically validate the perceived usefulness and the perceived ease of use by elem...

among the four important factors in the educational contexts, namely, teachers, learners, textbooks and contexts, textbooks play an important role in english language teaching (elt), particularly in the english as a foreign language (efl) classroom where it provides the primary source of linguistic input. the wealth of published material for english language teaching (elt) available in the mark...

Saddle-point systems, i.e., structured linear systems with symmetric matrices are considered. A modified implementation of (preconditioned) MINRES is derived which allows subvectors of the residual to be monitored individually. Compared to the implementation from the textbook of [Elman, Silvester and Wathen, Oxford University Press, 2014], our method requires one extra vector of storage and no ...

This manuscript will be published as Chapter 5 in Wiley’s textbook Mathematical Tools for Physicists, 2nd edition, edited by Michael Grinfeld from the University of Strathclyde. The chapter provides an introduction to the basic concepts of Algebraic Topology with an emphasis on motivation from applications in the physical sciences. It finishes with a brief review of computational work in algebr...

Department of Computer Science at Yale University has been an integral part of the development and implementation of the Haskell programming language since its inception. They have helped to design Hugs (The Haskell Interpreter), write the Haskell Report (the document defining the language), write the tutorial on Haskell, and most recently Professor Paul Hudak has published a textbook using Has...

The purpose of this article was to review published research literature about the publishing process and the roles of participants in this process in the textbook publishing industry in the USA. The contents of books, collected works, reports and journal articles were analysed, and summaries of the contents were then organised chronologically to present a commentary on this topic. The results s...

Karl Sigmund is professor at the faculty of mathematics of the University of Vienna, and also works at the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg. He studied mathematics and worked on dynamical systems before turning to population genetics, theoretical ecology and evolutionary game theory. He wrote a popular book on ‘Games of Life’ (Penguin, 1994) and, jointly with Josef Hofbauer, ...

Sunil Chopra is the IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management and Jan Van Mieghem is an Associate Professor of Operations Management; both are at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Both are co-authors of "Managing Business Process Flows" (Prentice Hall 1999). Professor Chopra also is the co-author of the new textbook "Designing and Managing Supply C...