Archive for June, 2003

03-06-17

Tags: XPath TutorialThis site provides simple XPath examples sch as

//BBB[@id=’b1′]

Select BBB elements which have attribute id with value b1

     <AAA>           <BBB id = “b1″/>           <BBB name = ” bbb “/>           <BBB name = “bbb”/>      </AAA>

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03-06-16

Tags: Study Inventory of COST-A8 project
In the attached file are descriptions of numerous studies on reading development and dyslexia, many of which are longitudinal in nature. It also includes details on measurement and publications.
This should be a great reference for the Durham Study

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03-06-16

Tags: cost-inventory A8
A detailed document of research projects in the COST-A8 project UNIVERSITYOFW�RZBURG
Department of PsychologyWittelsbacherplatz 1D - 97074-W�rzburgGERMANYTel.: ++49-931-888 48 23Fax: ++49-931-888 48 91

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction

 

History of inventories of longitudinal research
 
 

Focus on reading and spelling: Background of the present inventory
 
 

Incentive for a new documentation attempt
 
 

Goals of the project
 
 

Stages of the […]

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03-06-16

Tags: untitled.htmlLearning Disorders as a Barrier to Human Development (Dyslexia)St John’s College, Cambridge, 9 - 11 September 1999The final meeting of the European Concerted Action (COST-A8) on Learning Disorders as a Barrier to Human Development with special reference to dyslexia will be held in Cambridge, England, at St. John’s College, from 9 -10 September 1999. The […]

">COST-A8 final meeting on Dyslexia:: 1999
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03-06-16

Tags: List of NMI publications 1991- 2001
Dyslexia
Ahonen, T. (1997). Lukivaikeus oppimisvaikeuksien kentss. Teoksessa K. Strandn (toim.), Erilainen oppija (s. 1617). Jyvskyl: Gummerus.
Aro, M. (1992). Brain event related potentials as tools in dyslexia research. NMI-Bulletin, 2 (4), 2223.
Aro, M. (1994). Prof Bakkerin kuvaama lukemisvaikeuksien alaryhmdiagnostiikka ja kuntoutus. Teoksessa D. Runeberg & R. Takkinen (toim.), Lapsen puheen […]

">NMI publications on Dyslexia:: 1991- 2001
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03-06-16

Tags: Annual Report
The Niilo Mki Foundation was established in 1990 by the University Association of Jyvskyl, the City of Jyvskyl and by the Support Association of the Child Psychiatric Institution of Haukkala. The foundation aims at advancing the neuropsychological research and remediation of children and adolescents by maintaining the Niilo Mki Institute (NMI), which was set […]

">The Niilo Mki Institute & Dyslexia research
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03-06-16

Tags: Reading Acquisition and Dyslexia in European OrthographiesReading acquisition in European orthographies
The goal of this project is to contrast reading acquisition / dyslexia in English with development in other European languages which differ in the complexity of their syllabic structure and in the depth of their orthographies.
The main collaborators are:
Prof Heikki Lyytinen, University of Jyvaskyla, […]

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03-06-16

Tags: Dr Jane Erskine Post Doctoral Fellow in Psychology departmental
Department of Psychology,University of Dundee, Dundee,  DD1 4HN  Scotland. 
Tel: (+44)(1382) 344853Fax: (+44)(1382) 229993 
j.m.erskine@dundee.ac.uk
 
Post-Doctoral Fellow
M.A. Hons Psychology, Dundee, UK.
Ph.D Psychology, Dundee, UK
My research interests lie with developmental disorders, mainly dyslexia. My undergraduate dissertation ‘Cognitive and Psychophysiological Evidence for a Transient System Deficit Specific to Individuals […]

">Jane Erskine:: Foundation literacy acquisition in European orthographies
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03-06-16

Tags: EBSCOhost

Title:
HOW SHOULD READING BE TAUGHT? (cover story)

Author(s):
Rayner, KeithFoorman, Barbara R.Perfetti, Charles A.Pesetsky, DavidSeidenberg, Mark S.

Source:
Scientific American; Mar2002, Vol. 286 Issue 3, p84, 8p, 1 chart, 4c

6 page(s) will be printed.Back

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Title:
HOW SHOULD READING BE TAUGHT? (cover story)

Author(s):
Rayner, KeithFoorman, Barbara R.Perfetti, Charles A.Pesetsky, DavidSeidenberg, Mark S.

Source:
Scientific American; Mar2002, Vol. 286 Issue 3, p84, 8p, 1 chart, […]

">HOW SHOULD READING BE TAUGHT

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03-06-16

Tags: research on orthography and literacy 

Research on comparative orthography and literacy
References to research on learning to read in the traditional English orthography compared to learning to read in the less complicated orthographies found in the writing systems of other languages 1980 to the present  -Compiled by Allan Campbell  Please send leads on additional research to Dr. […]

">The Simplified Spelling Society:: research on orthography and literacy

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03-06-16

Tags: Prof. Philip H.K. Seymour: Professor of Cognitive Psychology
Philip H. K. Seymour
Professor of Cognitive Psychology
Head of Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology,University of Dundee, Dundee,  DD1 4HN  Scotland. 
Tel: (+44)(1382) 344614Fax: (+44)(1382) 229993 
p.h.k.seymour@dundee.ac.uk
My earlier interest was in experimental cognitive psychology, especially the role of semantic processes in linking verbal and pictorial information (Seymour, P.H.K. Human Visual […]

">Philip Seymour
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03-06-16

Tags: LINGUIST List 10.797: Dyslexia ConferenceLearning Disorders as a Barrier to Human DevelopmentCOST A8 FINAL WORKSHOPSt John’s College, Cambridge,  9 - 11 September 1999The final meeting of the European Concerted Action (COST-A8) onLearning Disorders as a Barrier to Human Development with specialreference to dyslexia will be held in Cambridge, England, atSt. John’s College, from 9 - […]

">Heikki Lyytinen, Heinz Wimmer, & Mikko Aro
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03-06-16

Tags: Wimmer Heinz - English Page 

WIMMER Heinz, Dr., Univ.-Prof.

Tel:  ++43 / 662 / 8044 - 5128Fax: ++43 / 662 / 8044 - 5126Email: heinz.wimmer@sbg.ac.at This webpage is old, though. Looks like it has not been updated since 1999.

Main Research Topics And Selected Publications

Basic questions of the childs cognitive development in the Neo-Piagetian traditionIn particular: Acquisition of […]

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03-06-16

Tags: Celebrating the centenary of Niilo Mki’s birth. Dyslexia day
THE DEVELOPMENT OF READING AND SPELLING SKILLS DURING THE FIRST GRADE
Mikko Aro
Dept. of Psychology, University of Jyvskyl, and Niilo Mki Institute, Jyvskyl, Finland
The aim of the study was to follow-up the development of the basic reading and spelling skills of 63 children entering the first […]

">Mikko Aro: a Dyslexia day presentation
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03-06-09

Tags: Judy DeLoache
JUDY S. DELOACHE
Department of Psychology, University of VirginiaP. O. Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400434-243-3577  |  jdeloache@virginia.edu
 
    My primary area of research is early cognitive development, especially the development of symbolic functioning.  There is no domain of development more important than mastery of the various symbols and symbol systems used for communication.  My research […]

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03-06-06

Tags: tDOM manual: tDOM Overwiew
tDOM combines high performance XML data processing with easy and powerful Tcl scripting functionality. tDOM should be one of the fastest ways to manipulate XML with a scripting language and uses very few memory (for example the DOM tree of the XML recommendation in XML (160K) needs only about 450K in memory)! […]

">tDOM Overwiew
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03-06-06

Tags: TclXML
TclDOM has limited support of XPath
The TclXML project is a collection of tools and libraries for handling XML documents with the Tcl scripting language. It has Tcl, C based XML parsers, DOM interfaces and XSLT. Steve Ball, from Zveno is the original author. All of the packages released by the TclXML project are open source […]

">The TclXML project
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03-06-06

Tags: Kitten

A collection of lots of Tcl extensions, both scripted and compiled, has been combined into a single starkit, called Kitten.
See also http://mini.net/tcl/kitten for some more info about kitten.
Using the extensions in your own TclKit-based application is trivial: source kitten.kit
That’s it - over 140 packages at your disposal.
Kitten is […]

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03-06-06

Tags: XOTcl - Applications
ActiWeb is of a library of components for internet applications written in XOTcl, which reaches from HTTP server and clients, over support to process the common internet formats, and for mobile code. The main components for ActiWeb are:

xoComm: A highly flexible and configurable HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 server and client access implementation. It supports […]

">XOTcl & ActiWeb

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03-06-04

Tags: Ingenta Select: Electronic Publishing Solutions

2003 by the Psychonomic Society, Inc.

">EM special edition online:: Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers

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