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Child-centered versus teacher-directed teaching practices: Associations with the development of academic skills in the first grade at school
(Pergamon; National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2016)
This study examined the extent to which child-centered versus teacher-directed teaching practices predicted the development of children's reading and math skills in the first year of elementary school. In addition, we ...
Organization of the social sphere and typology of the residential setting in Europe: how sociability affects the adoption of the mobile phone in rural and urban locations
(Elsevier, 2012)
The purpose of this study is to explore the role that the possession of the mobile phone plays in the organization of the relational sphere at a social level, in different geographical settings. The research questions were: ...
Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Elements in Hume
(Edinburgh University Press; Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, 2016)
For the last forty years, Hume's Newtonianism has been a debated topic in Hume scholarship. The crux of the matter can be formulated by the following question: Is Hume a Newtonian philosopher? Debates concerning this ...
GraphoGame – a catalyst for multi-level promotion of literacy in diverse contexts
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2015)
GraphoGame (GG) is originally a technology-based intervention method for supporting
children with reading difficulties. It is now known that children who face problems in
reading acquisition have difficulties in learning ...
Vulnerability matrix of the food system : operationalizing vulnerability and addressing food security
(Elsevier BV, 2016)
Food security is the major desired outcome of any food system, but its realization may be prevented by vulnerabilities in a food system. By shifting the focus of their vulnerability analysis from the discrete components ...
Predictive error detection in pianists: A combined ERP and motion capture study
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2013)
Performing a piece of music involves the interplay of several cognitive and motor processes and requires extensive training to achieve a high skill level. However, even professional musicians commit errors occasionally. ...
Polymorphisms in DCDC2 and S100B associate with developmental dyslexia
(Nature Publishing Group; Japan Society of Human Genetics, 2015)
Genetic studies of complex traits have become increasingly successful as progress is made in next-generation sequencing. We aimed at discovering single nucleotide variation present in known and new candidate genes for ...
What happened to body-to-body sociability?
(Elsevier, 2013)
This article aims to investigate how the body-to-body forms of sociability evolved from 1996 to 2009 simultaneously with the proliferation of ICTs in Europe and why this happened. The article also aims to find out how the ...
The Professional Form of Recognition in Social Work
(Students and Faculty of the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex, 2015)
Recognition and the Ideology of Merit
(Students and Faculty of the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought, University of Sussex, 2015)