Children with phonological disorders often display difficulty in other domains of language. Language-based approaches focus on all aspects of language; therefore, little attention may be drawn to sound errors and these may not be specific targets of intervention. These approaches involve a variety of naturalistic, conversationally based techniques such as focused stimulation in the form of expa...

BACKGROUND This study applies the POETICs framework (population, organization, environment, technology, institutions and culture) to an analysis of industrial carbon dioxide emissions in Japanese cities. The inclusion of institutional variables in the form of International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives membership, ISO 14001 implementation, and non-profit sector activity addresses ...

Traditional plasma physics has mainly focused on regimes characterized by high temperatures and low densities, for which quantummechanical effects have virtually no impact. However, recent technological advances (particularly on miniaturized semiconductor devices and nanoscale objects) have made it possible to envisage practical applications of plasma physics where the quantum nature of the par...

Computer-related accidents have caused injuries and fatalities in mining as well as other indus­ tries. Normal accident theory (NAT) explains that some accidents are inevitable because of system complexity. NAT is a classic argument in organizational sociology although it has been criticized as having imprecise deWnitions and lacking criteria for quantifying complexity. These limitations are ad...

Attention is a core property of all perceptual and cognitive operations. Given limited capacity to process competing options, attentional mechanisms select, modulate, and sustain focus on information most relevant for behavior. A significant problem, however, is that attention is so ubiquitous that it is unwieldy to study. We propose a taxonomy based on the types of information that attention o...

In 1991, in theUnited States, SurgeonGeneral Koopdeclared violence a public health epidemic, ushering in a surge of funding for primary and secondary prevention, aswell as research to study themany faces of this social problem. For women, violence may take many forms, violence against women being the most common. Defining violence as a public health epidemic recasts problems of violence from a ...

The air pollution problem has been a serious issue for public health and city development in recent years, which rises an urgent demand accurate prediction models. Traditional time series scheme challenged such case because the signals can be highly dynamic uncertain. Distinct latent physical processes complex environment changes over make it hard one fixed model to give consistently good perfo...

A high-order quadrature algorithm is presented for computing integrals over curved surfaces and volumes whose geometry implicitly defined by the level sets of (one or more) multivariate polynomials. The recasts as graph an defined, multi-valued height function, applies a dimension reduction approach needing only one-dimensional quadrature. In particular, we explore use Gauss-Legendre tanh-sinh ...

This paper fills an important gap in the literature on determinacy and existence of sunspot equilibria in stochastic linear self-referential models. The results in this paper demonstrate that heterogeneity in expectations may alter a model’s regions of determinacy. We show how to associate with a heterogeneous expectations model (HE-model) a rational expectations model (ARE-model), the solution...

PURPOSE This study examined preschool teachers' fidelity to the language-focused curriculum (LFC; B. Bunce, 1995), a comprehensive classroom curriculum designed to improve at-risk children's language outcomes through targeted improvements to a classroom's activity contexts (e.g., dramatic play, art, storybook reading) and instructional processes (e.g., teacher use of open-ended questions, recas...