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Developmental Trajectories of Reading Ability in Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities
No full textIndividuals with ID often struggle with decoding and reading comprehension, and some studies indicate that these students do not progress beyond the early stages of decoding development. The aim of this study was to investigate the developmental trajectories of reading abilities in relation to mental age in a sample of 136 adolescents with mild, non-specific ID. Decoding and reading comprehension, together with their predictors of phonological awareness, RAN, phonological working memory, and vocabulary, were fitted against mental age. The results showed that, after 105 months, there was an unexpected plateau in the development of decoding, phonological awareness, rapid automatised naming (RAN), and phonological working memory in this sample, while reading comprehension and vocabulary continued to show growth in relation to mental age. The implications of these different trajectories are discussed in relation to developmental models of disability, and possible reasons for the plateau in decoding are suggested
[Book Review] <i>Hajj Travelogues: Texts and Contexts from the 12th Century until 1950</i> by Richard van Leeuwen, Leiden and Boston, MA, Brill, 2024
No full textCo-evolution of design research and industrial development: empirical insights from European manufacturing companies
No full textWhile many studies have analysed societal and technological trends, what these imply for product development practice is less clear. However, engineering design research has typically responded to existing challenges in industrial practice, instead of looking forwards to create tools and methods in parallel with technological developments. This paper reports on the findings of a three-stage process with 12 interviews and two workshops, in 2018 with ca 50 participants and 2021 with ca 100 participants. Experienced engineers working on complex engineering products and engineering design researchers reflected on developments in engineering, which were analysed from the perspective of how they would affect design practice. The paper summarises trends the participants identified in manufacturing, energy, transport, digitisation, product design and product development practice; and highlights differences in expectation between 2018 and 2021, in particular around the speed in which sustainability policies and changes to work practice are adopted. The paper analyses the interaction of trends, pointing to the increasing interaction of products with each other and with services, and the implications of the rapid advances in digitalisation, which increase the need for disciplinary integration. The paper ends with a discussion of research questions arising from the analysis in this paper
The founding of the <i>Journal of the London Mathematical Society</i> and its first volume
No full textThat the Journal of the London Mathematical Society came into existence in 1926 can be ascribed to the efforts of one man: G.H. Hardy. As one of the two Secretaries of the Society, Hardy was aware of the increasing demand for publication space in the Society’s Proceedings, and the need for an outlet for shorter papers. It was evident that these problems could be solved if the Society could publish a second journal. However, to do so required money, money that the Society did not have; funds would have to be raised. Hardy rose to the challenge. Well-connected and international in outlook, he was the right man for the task. Not only did he secure the funds, he ensured that the Journal was no parochial periodical; of the papers in Volume 1, over 25% came from authors based outside Britain
Revisiting CN<sup>−</sup> Formation Mechanisms in Electron Collisions with Benzonitrile
No full textRadiation‐induced processes in the aromatic cyano compound benzonitrile have attracted renewed interest since its detection in the interstellar medium in 2018, and recent studies have elucidated dissociative ionization pathways leading to species such as CN• and HCN, which can play important roles in interstellar chemistry. This work explores negative ion formation from benzonitrile upon electron attachment with mass spectrometry experiments and the most extensive theoretical study to date of the underlying negative ion states and their respective dissociative relaxation pathways. The measurements confirm the previously reported CN− formation at a collision energy of 3.0 eV as well as formation of the dehydrogenated parent anion and phenyl anion and CN− formation in the 7–10 eV energy range. Threshold energies for these dissociation channels are reported at the G4(MP2) level of theory for the first time. Furthermore, by using both scattering calculations and bound state techniques, CN− formation at around 3.0 eV may proceed from a 2B1, π4* shape resonance through nonadiabatic coupling with the σ*, C CN state. In the 7–10 eV range, complete active space plus second‐order perturbation (CASPT2) calculations suggest strong contributions from core excited π4* and σ* resonances
The Introduction of the "Spinario" in the Byzantine Scene of the Entry into Jerusalem. An Iconographic Detail Revisited
No full textCopies of and variations on the classical statue of the “Spinario” (thorn puller) appear in Byzantine art from as early as the seventh century onward. Doula Mouriki addressed this phenomenon in a seminal article she published in Δελτίον της Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας in 1972. Mouriki’s publication explained the presence of this figure in Byzantine art as a reference to classical antiquity. The present paper focuses on the role of the “Spinario” in the religious scene of the Entry into Jerusalem, and specifically on the earliest known instance of its occurrence in that scene, a tiny but wellknown ivory (18.4 × 14.7 cm) currently housed in the Bode Museum’s Museum für Byzantinische Kunst in Berlin. The argument presented is that the “Spinario” in this context is not simply a motif from classical antiquity inserted into a Christian context, but in fact a calculated iconographical reference made at a time when there was a heightened interest in thorns as a metaphor for sin as reflected in the Crown of Thorns, one of the most important Passion relics. As such, this paper highlights the process of appropriation and transformation of pagan art into a Christian religious context and, in this process, presents an example of a type of “associative narrative”, one of Byzantine art's most sophisticated aspects