This study investigated the utilization of laboratory resources for learning word processing by business and home economics education undergraduates. The achieved four objectives, answered research questions tested null hypotheses. descriptive design was adopted conducted in Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, using 505 undergraduates with 92 respondents sampled convenience sampling technique....

First of all, as a new chair of the AMD TC, I would like to thank the former chair, Dr. Zhengyou Zhang for his role in leading our community and his initiation of a new IEEE transaction on AMD. Also, on the behalf of the AMD TC, I appreciate your continuous supports for our activities. The AMD TC is the largest one among IEEE CIS TCs, (see http://ieee-cis.org/technical/welcome/). Therefore, our...

the purpose of this study was to determine computer and internet use in agricultural extension by extension workers (ews). this study used a descriptive-correlational design.population for the study consisted of all extension workers (n= 320) in isfahan province, iran. a stratified sampling technique and census was used to select ews (n = 200). overall, findings indicate that ews have access to...

Orthographic knowledge is affected by language processing, which is associated with word exposure. This study used event-related potentials (ERP) to explore this association in Spanish-speaking adults with different levels of orthographic competence (High Spelling Skills: HSS; Low Spelling Skills: LSS) while they performed a lexical decision task on previously exposed words (1 or 5 times). Both...

BACKGROUND The importance of the electronic health records in health care well known to everybody, as well as, the role of nurses to provide clinical care; they have a valuable role in successful implementation of electronic systems. The aim of this paper is to assess the nurses' readiness for EHR implementation. METHODS AND MATERIALS This was a descriptive cross sectional study, conducted in...

Previous research suggests that children with developmental dyslexia have low-level visual and auditory deficits. The present study further examines these proposed deficits and how they relate to component reading skills. Children with dyslexia and control children were administered measures of visual and auditory processing and a battery of reading tasks, including nonword and irregular-word r...

This study investigated cross-language and writing system relationship in biliteracy acquisition of children learning to read two different writing systems-Chinese and English. Forty-six Mandarin-speaking children were tested for their first language (Chinese-L1) and second language (English-L2) reading skills. Comparable experiments in Chinese and English were designed focusing on two reading ...

The present study aimed to examine the relationship between letter processing and word processing skills in deaf and hearing readers. The participants were 105 students (51 of them hearing, 54 of them deaf) who were evenly and randomly recruited from two levels of education (primary = 3rd-4th graders; middle = 6th-7th graders). The students were tested with four computerized paradigms assessing...