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We investigated the relationship between three potential markers for reading difficulties (phonemic awareness, verbal short-term memory, and rapid automatized naming) and students’ responsiveness to Reading Recovery instruction. At pretest, students’ most prevalent weakness was on phonemic awareness, but more than half were below average on rapid automatized naming. Students who entered Reading...

The ban on international trade in ivory introduced by the international community in 1989 was intended to protect the declining stock of African elephant (Loxodonta africana), by providing a barrier between the range state and the principal consuming nations. If there is a residual trade, then the efficiency of the ban is determined by the decline in the price paid to poachers, and the responsi...

This paper investigates the effects of organizational form on problemistic search. We contrast how Indian firms affiliated to business groups and unaffiliated firms evaluate performance and react by adjusting their internal technology search and external market search. We propose that, compared with unaffiliated firms, business group firms are more externally oriented in setting aspiration leve...