The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of two handwriting approaches, D’Nealian and Sunform, on kindergartners’ letter formations. Forty-one participants received D’Nealian handwriting instruction as the control group; 133 kindergartners were instructed in Sunform as the experimental approach. Pre-post tests at the beginning and end of school year asked kindergarten students to wr...

The Lipgene Food-Exchange Model: a tool to enable investigation of four diets distinct in fatty acid composition D. I. Shaw, A. C. Tierney, S. McCarthy, J. Uprichard, S. Vermunt, H. M. Roche and J. A. Lovegrove School of Food Biosciences, University of Reading, RG6 6AP, Nutrigenomics Research Group, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin Institute of Molecular Medicine, St James’s Hospital,...

We discuss the asymptotic behaviour of weak solutions to the Hele-Shaw and one-phase Stefan problems in exterior domains. We prove that, if the space dimension is greater than one, the asymptotic behaviour is given in both cases by the solution of the Dirichlet exterior problem for the Laplacian in the interior of the positivity set and by a singular, radial and self-similar solution of the Hel...

In this paper we describe Artificial Intelligence as research that moves along two different axes: humancompatible knowledge and machine-compatible proceasing. An analysis of computer chess research along these dimensions shows that AI more and more diverges into an engineering branch and a cognitive branch. As an explanation, we offer a hypothesis about the dependency of research effort on the...

Luigi Di Biase, MD, Tamer S. Fahmy, MD, Dimpi Patel, MD, Rong Bai, MD, Kenneth Civello, MD, Oussama M. Wazni, MD, Mohamed Kanj, MD, Claude S. Elayi, MD, Chi Keong Ching, MD, Mohamed Khan, MD, Lucie Popova, MD, Robert A. Schweikert, MD, Jennifer E. Cummings, MD, J. David Burkhardt, MD, David O. Martin, MD, Mandeep Bhargava, MD, Thomas Dresing, MD, Walid Saliba, MD, Mauricio Arruda, MD, Andrea Na...

to synthesize, the works of their contributors. They also attempt a useful, if somewhat narrowly conceived, taxonomy of ethers and discuss some of the interesting questions raised by and about the recent historiography of the subject. On the whole, historians of science should welcome this book, which shows how far and in how many directions the discipline has travelled since E. T. Whittaker's ...

Health Evidence Network (HEN) synthesis report on hospital performance Measurement is central to the concept of hospital quality improvement; it provides a means to define what hospitals actually do, and to compare that with the original targets in order to identify opportunities for improvement. The principal methods of measuring hospital performance are regulatory inspection, public satisfact...