In What Primary Sources Teach: Lessons for Every Classroom, authors Jen Hoyer, Kaitlin H. Holt, and Julia Pelaez with Brooklyn Public Library describe their successful collaborative education program, Connections, present a thoroughly developed, interesting, accessible approach to incorporating work archival materials into classrooms. As an educator who often works marginalized students, I foun...

SICS starting points are that given a semantic word space trained on general purpose text, where distance and nearness are measures of semantic similarity, we can represent sentences by the centroid of the words that occur in it, that constructional features contribute to the organisation of this semantic space, and attitude is a semantic dimension of variation in that sentences with similar at...

BlackBOX[1a]: Painting A Digital Picture of Documented Memory: Digital Identities – The City, Composition & Migration is an experimental interactive disc based & online work authored for delivery on the Internet and site specific installation. This immersive digital story emerges from protagonist Russian/Greek girl’s movement through the metropolis. The objective for the player/participant is t...

This article presents a systematic review of the research evidence on the effects of the characteristics of typefaces on the legibility of text for adult readers with low vision. The review revealed that research has not produced consistent findings and thus that there is a need to develop standards and guidelines that are informed by evidence. Reading is critical to full participation in moder...

This article examines the recent emergence of the motion comic as part of a growing relationship between comic books, animation and new forms of digital entertainment and distribution. Motion comics typically appropriate the narrative and ‘static’ artwork of a comic book, which is then manipulated by animation software such as Adobe’s After Effects to create an impression that is similar to pap...

SCHULZE, K. L. (Michigan State University, East Lansing). Continuous thermophilic composting. Appl. MIicrobiol. 10:108-122. 1962.Under complete mixing conditions, aerobic decomposition of mixed organic waste materials has been maintained continuously in the thermophilic phase in a 55-gal rotating drum. Temperatures ranged between 53 and 70 C. Raw material was added daily or every second day in ...

A Practice Scaffolding Interactive Platform (PracSIP) is a social learning platform which supports students in collaborative project based learning by simulating a professional practice. A PracSIP puts the core tools of the simulated practice at the students' disposal, it organizes collaboration, structures the students' activity, and interactively supports subject learning. A PracSIP facilitat...

Often portrayed as a harmless leisure activity in the UK, gambling is being increasingly recognised public health concern. However, policy system that explicitly tackles concerns and confronts dependencies conflicts of interest undermine good absent UK. Although there window opportunity to change system, with UK Government's launch review Gambling Act 2005, adoption comprehensive meaningful app...

A model-based field study was conducted to elucidate the detailed beliefs of participants in the photovoltaic industry. The mental models of system participants are important because participants are the people with the greatest knowledge about the system, because in any policy solution they are the critical actors, and because it is their decisions and actions from which the behavior of the sy...

This paper describes experiments to use non-terminological information to find attitudinal expressions in written English text. The experiments are based on an analysis of text with respect to not only the vocabulary of content terms present in it (which most other approaches use as a basis for analysis) but also on structural features of the text as represented by presence of form words (in ot...