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A review of online dyslexia learning modules
No full textFrontiers in Education, Volume 5, 14 July 2020, Article number 118.This paper presents a comprehensive review of publicly available online dyslexia learning modules with a particular focus on the extent to which modules address the prevalent myth that dyslexia is caused by “backwards reading.” The authors conducted a systematic internet search to identify publicly available online dyslexia learning modules and coded the content across education, neurocognition, and policy disciplinary domains. We identified 18 topics across a small number (N = 14) of publicly available modules that focused on dyslexia, with only two modules directly addressing this dyslexia myth. While both identified this myth as false, neither provided information about the neurocognitive underpinnings of dyslexia to explain why this myth is false. This review will be useful for guiding further development of online dyslexia learning modules which are urgently needed due to persisting misinformation about this disorder. The coded content reviews of each module will also be beneficial for directing attention to existing resources for professional development on dyslexia
Signs on the door of Grand Liquors
No full textSigns on the door of Grand Liquors on 15th Street NE. The signs read, 'In compliance with physical distancing guidelines during the Coronavirus epidemic, we are asking that no more than 6 customers be present inside the store at any time. Please respect a distance of 6 feet from other persons' and 'Please wear a mask or mouth covering.' Additional signage about the store's rules and inventory appear on the door, as well
For sale sign
No full textA Compass real estate sign advertising virtual showings with Realtor Chris Coppola for a home at 15th Street and C Street NE
Information Rigidity and Economic Uncertainty: A New Theory and Stylized Facts
No full textI propose a structural micro-founded sticky-noisy information model with high- and low-uncertainty regimes. Agents first appraise the state of uncertainty and only spend resources to update their inflation expectations if they perceive uncertainty as sufficiently high. Time-varying uncertainty affects expectation formation through two direct channels: 1) the "wake-up call" effect, which causes agents to pay more attention, increasing their quantity of information; and 2) the "wait-and-see" effect, which decreases their quality of information and prompts them to put less weight on new noisier information. Using structural estimation of alternative models with information frictions, I find that accounting for the indirect state-dependence channel, the proposed innovation of the model, better explains the observed information rigidity, since it considers the interaction between the two direct effects. A substantial amount of information rigidity is due to inattention, leaving ample room for policymakers to employ frequent, direct, and simple forward guidance to "pierce the veil" of inattention.Economicsattention, inflation expectations, information rigidity, state-dependence, survey forecasts, uncertaintyEconomicsDegree Awarded: Ph.D. Economics. American Universit
Rank orders and signed interactions in evolutionary biology
No full texteLife, Volume 9, January 2020, Article number e51004.Rank orders have been studied in evolutionary biology for almost a hundred years. Constraints on the order in which mutations accumulate are known from cancer drug treatment, and order constraints for species invasions are important in ecology. However, current theory on rank orders in biology is somewhat fragmented. Here, we show how our previous work on inferring genetic interactions from comparative fitness data (Crona et al., 2017) is related to an influential approach to rank orders based on sign epistasis. Our approach depends on order perturbations that indicate interactions. We apply our results to malaria parasites and find that order perturbations beyond sign epistasis are prevalent in the antimalarial drug-resistance landscape. This finding agrees with the observation that reversed evolution back to the ancestral type is difficult. Another application concerns the adaptation of bacteria to a methanol environment
Artwork on a restaurant storefront
No full textPainted artwork by Shawn Perkins on the storefront of the restaurant the Coupe DC. The artwork reads: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do'
