......................................................................................... 8 Acknowledgment .............................................................................. 9 Introduction .................................................................................... 10 Selective attention ........................................................................... 11 The conce...

This randomised controlled pilot trial tested a six-week mindfulness-based intervention in a sample of pregnant women experiencing high levels of perceived stress and pregnancy anxiety. Forty-seven women enrolled between 10 and 25 weeks gestation were randomly assigned to either a series of weekly Mindful Awareness Practices classes (n = 24) with home practice or to a reading control condition ...

Our goal is to generalize the well known bottom-up, set-oriented query evaluation for deductive databases in two aspects: First, we consider arbitrary clauses as rules in the database, not only Horn clauses or clauses with stratified negation. This allows to represent disjunctive information, in the database as well as in answers to queries. We utilize NF2 relations for modelling sets of disjun...

This essay considers a researcher’s anxiety at submitting trauma memoir to critical scrutiny. By studying the uneven distribution of grievability in white expatriate’s Zimbabwe, it explores how this can open up for reading strategy that is sensitive political power selective empathy.

We present the first comprehensive review of research into hemianopic dyslexia since Mauthner's original description of 1881. We offer an explanation of the reading impairment in patients with unilateral homonymous visual field disorders and clarify its functional and anatomical bases. The major focus of our review is on visual information processing, visuospatial attention and eye-movement con...

1- introduction reading is recognized as the essential part of scientific learning and development of awareness, the basis for teaching other language skills, and one of the most important goals of teaching language. bernhard believes that reading is the only goal of learning a foreign language. reading is the process of perceiving and interpreting encoded information through writing. bernstein...