The relation between reading ability and morphological skills: Evidence from derivational suffixes     

Singson  Maria  Mahony  Diana  Mann  Virginia 《Reading and writing》2000,12(3):219-252

The English orthography represents both phonemes and morphemes, implying that sensitivity to each of these units could play a role in the acquisition of decoding skills. This study offers some new evidence about sensitivity to morphemes and the decoding skills of American children in grades three to six. It focuses on knowledge of derivational suffixes, which is examined with sentence completion and sentence acceptability tasks that manipulate the suffixes in real words (e.g., electric, electricity) and nonsense derived forms (e.g., froodly, froodness). Both written and spoken materials are considered over the course of two experiments in which the children also received various reading tests, as well as tests of phonological awareness, vocabulary and intelligence. The results indicate that knowledge of derivational suffixes increases with grade level, along with decoding ability and phoneme awareness. Path analyses further reveal that, although there is a consistent correlation between performance on the derivational suffix materials and phoneme awareness and decoding ability, performance on the derivational suffix materials makes an independent and increasing contribution to decoding ability throughout the higher elementary grades.  相似文献   

OA in the Library Collection: The Challenges of Identifying and Maintaining Open Access Resources     

Chris Bulock  Nathan Hosburgh  Sanjeet Mann 《期刊图书馆员》2015,68(1-4):79-86

While librarians, researchers, and the general public have embraced the concept of Open Access (OA), librarians still have a difficult time managing OA resources. To find out why, Bulock and Hosburgh surveyed librarians about their experiences managing OA resources and the strengths and weaknesses of management systems. At this session, they shared survey results, reflected on OA workflows at their own libraries, and updated audience members on relevant standards and initiatives. Survey respondents reported challenges related to hybrid OA, inaccurate metadata, and inconsistent communication along the serials supply chain. Recommended solutions included the creation of consistent, centralized article-level metadata and the development of OA collection development principles for libraries.  相似文献   

A Case of Light Chain Deposition Disease (LCDD) in a Young Patient     

Mala Mahto  Sudhesna Mohapatra  G. Sumitra  Smita Kaushik  T. K. Mishra  Alpana Saxena 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2011,26(4):420-422

Light chain disease is a variant of multiple myeloma in which the malignant population of marrow cells produces free monoclonal light chains but no heavy chain or complete immunoglobulin. The monoclonal light chains are small enough to be freely filtered by the kidneys and become Bence–Jones protein. Light chain disease comprises about 18% of multiple myeloma patients. Here we present a case report of a 38-year-old man who initially presented with complaints of pain in back and low grade fever off and on. He was found to have collapse of D9 and D12 vertebrae along with ascites and right pleural effusion and massive proteinuria. Multiple myeloma was considered as a differential diagnosis based on the investigations but eventually the patient was lost to follow up. This case is reported here as the light chain variant of multiple myeloma leading to deposition disease is less commonly reported and presents considerable difficulties in diagnosis.  相似文献   

A case example of one state's efforts to measure and address the critical shortage of school psychologists     

Angela Mann  Jose Castillo  Mary Alice Myers 《Psychology in the schools》2019,56(10):1716-1736

Despite persistent calls for school psychologists to provide comprehensive and integrated services, school psychologists may have difficulty providing these services because of critical shortages in the profession. This practical action research study involved surveying district supervisors of school psychologists and training program directors in the state to identify the current and projected shortages in Florida. This multimethod, multi‐informant case example also focused on facilitators of and barriers to addressing the critical shortage. How the data have been used to inform recruitment, retention, and advocacy efforts to identify school psychology as a critical shortage legislatively are provided as well as recommendations for future research.  相似文献   

Preliminary studies on the hypoglycaemic effect ofAbroma augusta in alloxan diabetic rats     

Halim Eshrat  M. Ali Hussain  Kaiser Jamil  Mala Rao 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2001,16(1):77-80

The hypoglycemic effect of the aqueous extract ofAbroma augusta (Family: Steculiceae) was studied in normal as well as alloxan diabetic rats. Treatement of diabetic rats with 4 ml (4gm dry weight) of agueous extract ofA. augusta for 16 weeks resulted in gradual but significant fall in fasting blood glucose and improvement in glucose tolerance. Serum total and LDL cholesterol and triacylglycerol which increased in diabetic rats showed improvement. These results show that the water extract ofA. augusta has both hypoglycemic and hypocholesterolemic effects.  相似文献   

A Five-Year Follow-Up: Teachers�� Perceptions of the Benefits of Home Visits for Early Elementary Children     

James A. Meyer  Mary Beth Mann  Jennifer Becker 《Early Childhood Education Journal》2011,39(3):191-196

The purpose of this study was to replicate previous research about teachers?? perceived benefits of home visits to determine if they remained stable. Furthermore, the investigation sought to find out whether home visits impacted variables often associated with improved school success (i.e., school attendance, academic performance, parent engagement). Participants were 29 kindergarten through second grade teachers in a rural, Midwestern school district who conducted home visits at the beginning of the school year. Seventeen of the teachers participated in the earlier study. Revised surveys were completed. Results are consistent with those of the previous study. Specifically, teachers reported these positive effects: beneficial relationships and better communication with parents, more appreciation of the influence of the child??s home environment related to school performance, and a better understanding the child??s behavior in school. In addition, teachers identified a connection between the home visits and variables related to school success. Thus, teachers?? perceptions reinforced the importance of conducting home visits.  相似文献   

Comparing different measures of affective attributes relating to sustainability     

Kerry Shephard  Nell Smith  Lynley Deaker  John Harraway  Freya Broughton‐Ansin  Sam Mann 《Environmental Education Research》2011,17(3):329-340

A survey was developed to benchmark the affective sustainability characteristics of an incoming cohort of students in a Polytechnic in New Zealand, with the intention to monitor changes in these attributes as the students experience higher education over subsequent years. The survey contained a number of research instruments as we were interested in exploring how best to record these attributes. This article reports on the comparative efficacy of four of these instruments in describing the affective characteristics of the students. All the instruments depended on respondents’ self‐reporting in the absence of researchers or interviewers. The results do encourage us to have some confidence that students’ sustainability characteristics may be researched using a variety of survey‐based research instruments, and particular confidence in ongoing use of the Revised New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale.  相似文献   

The Influence of Wolf Wolfensberger and His Ideas     

Glenys Mann 《International Journal of Disability, Development & Education》2011,58(3):203-211

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Adapting tests of sign language assessment for other sign languages--a review of linguistic, cultural, and psychometric problems     

Haug T  Mann W 《Journal of deaf studies and deaf education》2008,13(1):138-147

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Assessing infant breastfeeding beliefs among low-income mexican americans          下载免费PDF全文

Gill SL  Reifsnider E  Mann AR  Villarreal P  Tinkle MB 《The Journal of perinatal education》2004,13(3):39-50

Focus groups were conducted with low-income, pregnant women and new mothers receiving services from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC program) along with their male partners and their mothers. All participants were Hispanics of Mexican American origin. The topics for the focus-group discussions were breastfeeding beliefs and perceptions. All participants were aware of the benefits of breastfeeding. Participants identified time, embarrassment, and pain as barriers to breastfeeding; discussed decision-making efforts regarding breastfeeding; identified cultural beliefs related to breastfeeding; and discussed the lack of care-provider support for breastfeeding.  相似文献