A recent study led by Oakland University Professor Tanya Christ indicates that minority students' reading comprehension improves when reading culturally relevant books whose characters, places and events align well with their ...
Education
Nov 3, 2020
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Reading is the gateway for learning, but one-third of elementary school students in the United States do not read at grade level. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are exploring how the design of reading materials ...
Education
Sep 28, 2020
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Biologists have long considered the origins and continued coexistence of the immense diversity of species found in our environment. How can we explain the fact that no single species predominates? A generally accepted hypothesis ...
Evolution
Sep 21, 2020
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Springer Nature published its first machine-generated book, compiled using an algorithm developed by researchers from Goethe University. This collaboration broke new ground with the first machine-generated book to be published ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 9, 2019
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Reading a text is something that each of us does at our own individual pace. This simple fact has been exploited by computer scientists in Saarbrücken who have developed a software system that recognizes how fast a text ...
Engineering
Mar 3, 2015
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Twitter-owned Vine said Thursday it was adding an option for private messages sent using the service's looping short videos.
Software
Apr 3, 2014
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Precious mediaeval books, usually displayed in glass cases and touchable only with gloves, can now be read in glorious 3D, thanks to a system unveiled Tuesday at the world's top tech fair.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 5, 2013
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With electronic books growing in popularity, the publishing world focuses on fighting the threat of digital book pirates, much as the music industry once did with illegal downloading.
Other
Oct 13, 2011
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Amazon on Thursday launched a test version of Kindle software that lets readers fire off questions to authors in text messages sent from the popular electronic book readers.
Software
Sep 2, 2011
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Most school text books contain messages about health, but 24.6% of these are not based on any scientific evidence, according to a study by the Knowledge Management Unit at Baza Hospital (Granada), published in the journal ...
Other
Mar 24, 2011
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