Following breakthrough achievements in molecular neurosciences, the current decade witnesses a trend toward interdisciplinary and multimodal development. Supplementation of neurosciences with tools from computer science solidifies previous knowledge sets ground for new research on “big data” hypothesis-free experimental models. In this Special Issue, we set focus informatics-supported neuroscie...

The ways in which parent-child interactions can encourage the development of emergent literacy skills in young children remains to be fully explored. The present report describes how one parent scaffolded her young child’s emergent writing and letter knowledge in the home. Environmental print provided many rich and meaningful examples for the parent to show that print conveys meaning and is con...

This study investigates a new approach that connects scaffolded inquiry activities within a knowledge building curriculum in secondary school science. We present a blended model that accounts for the flow of ideas within such a curriculum. Using a co-design methodology, researchers collaborated with veteran secondary science teachers to create engaging curriculum that provided the context for t...

The use of DNA as a nanoscale construction material has been a rapidly developing field since the 1980s, in particular since the introduction of scaffolded DNA origami in 2006. Although software is available for DNA origami design, the user is generally limited to architectures where finding the scaffold path through the object is trivial. Herein, we demonstrate the automated conversion of arbi...

Foreign Language Reading Anxiety (FLRA), distinguished as a distinct phenomenon from general language anxiety, has been shown to have a negative impact on reading comprehension skill especially for less proficient EFL learners. FLRA is believed to originate from "unfamiliar writing system" or learners' difficulty in pronouncing words and sentences (Saito, Graza, & Horwitz, 1999). Slow or word b...

A restrictive view of self-control identifies exercises with synchronic intrapsychic processes, and pictures diachronic externally-scaffolded strategies not as proper instances self-control, but clever ways avoiding the need to exercise that ability. In turn, defenders an inclusive typically argue we should construe more than effortful inhibition, that, on grounds functional equivalence, all th...

corrective feedback (cf) and its different types have long absorbed many scholars and practitioners. as ellis (2009) mentioned some experimental studies need to be carefully designed to discover the relative effectiveness of each of these cf techniques. the goal of this qualitative study was to discover whether the employment of different cf strategies could bring about an attitudinal shift. to...

Dynamic combinatorial chemistry (DCC) has emerged in recent years as a powerful tool for the discovery of molecular receptors. DCC uses reversible covalent reactions to link together building blocks, forming libraries of compounds whose product distributions are under thermodynamic control. The reversible nature of the linkages enables the library members to reconfigure their structures by exch...