Archive for September, 2004
04-09-23
Tags: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Volume 89, Issue 2, Pages 93-182 (October 2004)
Levels of phonological awareness in three cultures Pages 93-111 Catherine McBride-Chang, Ellen Bialystok, Karen K. Y. Chong and Yanping Li
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04-09-22
Tags: Original URL: http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/news/china_0904.html Duke Students Act on Dream by Helping Rural Schools in China Duke students send more than a dozen voulunteers to rural China to open libraries, offer technology training and teach English
A story featured on the frontpage of Duke´s main website. Ralf is one of the facult supporters.
Note to editors: For more information […]
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04-09-22
Tags: Original URL: The Connected DVD Player is so versatile you can use it to simply play DVDs and CDs.
Original Title: Gateway Connected DVD Player with Wireless 802.11g Card
That´s what Gateway says about its most advanced wireless DVD player, which costs $120 compared to $30 once you can buy at Walmart.
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04-09-21
Tags: Original URL: http://www.psych.yorku.ca/ellenb/ Ellen Bialystok Distinguished Research ProfessorDepartment of Psychology Email: ellenb@yorku.ca Campus Location: Behavioural Science Build, 234 Telephone: (416)736-5115 (Voicemail) Telephone: (416)736-2100 x 66109 (Voicemail)
JUNE - SEPTEMBER 2004 NEWS
Bilingualism, Aging, and Cognitive Control: Evidence From the Simon Task
The above article by Dr. Ellen Bialystok, reporting the results of several studies undertaken by our lab, has been the focus […]
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04-09-21
Tags: TI: Maturation of Cognitive Processes From Late Childhood to AdulthoodAU: Beatriz Luna; Krista E. Garver; Trinity A. Urban; Nicole A. Lazar; John A. SweeneyJN: Child DevelopmentPD: September 2004VO: 75NO: 5PG: 1357-1372(16)PB: Blackwell Publishing IS: 0009-3920URL: http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/Expand/ingenta?pub=infobike://bpl/cdev/2004/00000075/00000005/art00005 As expected, peak saccade velocity across tasksand accuracy in the VGS task did not change over theage range investigated (Abel, […]
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04-09-17
Tags: Original URL: http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040913/full/040913-19.html References Senghas A., Kita S. & Ozyurek A. Science, 305. 1779 - 1782 (2004). | Article |Published online: 16 September 2004; | doi:10.1038/news040913-19
First heard it on NPR ( Deaf Students Form New Language audio) yesterday. I´ve been suspecious about these kinds of “evidence.” But maybe they finally found somethings …?
Surprised nothing shows up today on Language Log
The […]
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04-09-17
Tags: Original URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/16/technology/circuits/16tuto.html Software Tutors Offer Help and Customized Hints Chris Maynard for The New York TimesMATH COACH - Rochelle Brown, left, and Iesha Antonetti, students at Middle School 103 in the Bronx, use […]
Although his name is not cited in this article, this is the brain child of
JR Anderson. see CMU Pittsburgh Area Cognitive Tutor (PACT) Center
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04-09-17
Tags: Original URL: http://www.irobot.com/consumer/product_detail.cfm?prodid=18 The signature Robotic Floorvac that´s changing the way the world cleans. Roomba Discovery is leading the way into the next generation of Roombas. With more advancements and improvements, Roomba Discovery features dirt detect, a self-charging Home Base(TM) and an […]
Me want that! It goes back to its home to recharge, unlike my little boy …
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04-09-17
Tags: Original URL: http://www.iopus.com/iim.htm Internet Macros™ is the first HTML-based macro recorder and a Web Scripting Powerhouse™. Compare features & Buy now View online demos How does Internet Macros Scripting Edition compare to big name capture/replay web test software on the market? Internet Macros […]
Would be useful for searching references in Ovid. The shareware version costs $30
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04-09-15
Tags: Original URL: http://www.microsoft.com/office/onenote/prodinfo/sp1/overview.mspx OneNote 2003 Service Pack 1 Overview Copy notes from a Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC or Smartphone. Take notes […]
This is old news, but I am still glad that MS is improving ON. A few of the features I´d been looking for (or things they should have done in the first place).
Published: July 27, 2004
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04-09-15
Tags: Original URL: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001453.html An alternative to the special chording keyboards that I wrote about earlier is […]
Except for the “stenomask”, this is essentially what I suggested to Kevin as a solution to transcribing his stacks of classroom observation video. Assuming a student RA can type 40 wpm, using something like this could improve efficiency by 300%.
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04-09-14
Tags: Original URL: http://www.lib.fsu.edu/sfx_linker.html What if I already have a citation and want to find the full text?The traditional method for finding full text is to search the journal title in the Duke Libraries Catalog which will display electronic and print holdings. You can also enter your citation information into the Citation Linker form that may link […]
http://library.duke.edu/research/help/getitatduke/
http://info.library.unsw.edu.au/web/resources/sfxfaq.html
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04-09-14
Tags: I have always thought that Spanish is at the far end of “orthographic depth.” But according to the following article, /v/ and /b/ (letters or phonemes?) are apparently the same and children make mistakes in spelling. TI: INFLUENCE OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE ON THE INITIAL ACQUISITION OF READING/WRITING: CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF VERBAL DEFICIT THEORYAU: JOSE RAMOS-SANCHEZ; ISABEL […]
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04-09-14
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Damn! I, Agassi, miss again! Mad!
from http://thinks.com/words/palindromes.htm, is an ept palindrome for Agassi in the 2004 US Open.
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04-09-14
Tags: Original URL: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/benezet/index.html National Research Council, Reshaping School Mathematics: A Philosophy and Framework for Curriculum (Mathematical Sciences Education Board, 1990); pp. 30-31:
A recent post by Chris Corea on Louis Benezet leads to the above website, where I found an unexpected reference to Whole-language in the 1990 NRC book.
Why don´t call it “whole-math” instead?
Mastery of subject matter […]
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04-09-13
Tags: Original URL: http://communities.microsoft.com/NewsGroups/previewFrame.asp?ICP=GSS3&sLCID=US&sgroupURL=microsoft.public.windowsxp.general&sMessageID=%253CeOYsDefmEHA.2340@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl%253E Jeff wrote: > I downloaded the service pack 2 update from microsoft and
You can tell what I have been doing for fun lately… Micro$oft !!!!
> now many of my programs wont work. When I click them
> they just dont do anything, no error message pops up or
> anything. A couple of my programs […]
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04-09-13
Tags: Simone Nguyen, with whom I overlapped at UIUC, recently published an SRCD Monograph (69;1) with Susan Gelman and Marianne Taylor, titled “Mother-child Conversations about Gender” (accessible online for SRCD members). With detailed coding and analysis of mother-child conversations in semi-structured picture-book reading, the authors showed clear evidence that by age 2, “[m]other´s linguistic input conveys subtlemessages […]
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04-09-12
Tags: Original URL: http://www.umich.edu/~chgdwww/faculty/hagen.html
also: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/directory/profiles/faculty/?uniquename=jwhagen
Met John in the ICP2004 in Beijing, where he told me about his review of articles in Child Development in the past 75 years. Strange enough, his name is not on SRCD website (http://www.srcd.org/about.html#officers), except for a very obscure place (http://www.srcd.org/announcements.html).
A little bit of detective work leads to this page: http://www.new.org/cgi-bin/directory/viewitem?465, dated […]
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04-09-11
Tags: I have not followed the ESL debate for some time. Today the term EAL — “English as an additional language” — caught my eye. It was from the title of the article The early identification of dyslexia: children with English as an additional language Dyslexia (Chichester, England), Volume 10, Issue 3, August 2004, Pages 179-195 […]
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04-09-10
Tags: Original URL: http://wiki.tcl.tk/3828 Cookies A lot of webservers use client-side cookies for logging in. Here is some sample code of how to log in to an OpenACS 3.x server: set tok [::http::geturl \ http://mysite.net/register/user-login.tcl\ -query $login]
Saved my day in writing the first version of PaperFetch.
Login package require http
set login [::http::formatQuery email spammer@hotmail.com\ password fooFoo!]
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