Child adaptational development in contexts of interparental conflict over time

This multi-method study sought to identify parameters of developmental change and stability of child reaction patterns to interparental conflict in the context of family relations in a sample of 223 6-year-old children and their parents followed over the course of one year. Consistent with the sensitization hypothesis, interparental withdrawal and hostility each consistently and uniquely predicted child distress reactions to conflict even after analytically controlling for parental warmth. Associations were found across multiple domains of child responding (i.e., overt negative affect, subjective negative affect, internal representations) and both concurrent and prospective, autoregressive analyses. Results of the autoregressive path analyses indicated moderate stability in each of the domains of conflict reactivity over the 1-year longitudinal period.     

URI和数字对象唯一标识符*

数字对象唯一标识符作为数字图书馆的基础设施，具备网络环境下数字对象的标识、定位、管理等多种职能。本文分析了唯一标识符的类型、组成和构造原则，从逻辑标识、命名域相关、复杂性、完整性和互操作等角度论述唯一标识符的需求。在W3C提供的URI背景下，比较URI、URL和URN，并分析了相关命名语法和标识框架。最后介绍了COOL URL的概念和命名需求。     

Performance-Based Assessment: Implications of Task Specificity

How generalizable are the scores from performance-based assessments? How can we best increase the gener-alizability of results? What level of generalizability is needed for different testing purposes?     

Concurrent and predictive validity of parent reports of child language at ages 2 and 3 years

The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI; Dale, 1996; Fenson et al., 1994), parent reports about language skills, are being used increasingly in studies of theoretical and public health importance. This study (N = 113) correlated scores on the CDI at ages 2 and 3 years with scores at age 3 years on tests of cognition and receptive language and measures from parent-child conversation. Associations indicated reasonable concurrent and predictive validity. The findings suggest that satisfactory vocabulary scores at age 2 are likely to predict normal language skills at age 3, although some children with limited skills at age 3 will have had satisfactory scores at age 2. Many children with poor vocabulary scores at 2 will have normal skills at 3.     

Integrating inquiry science and language development for English language learners

The traditional approach to the education of language minority students separates English language development from content instruction because it is assumed that English language proficiency is a prerequisite for subject matter learning. The authors of this article take the alternate view that the integration of inquiry science and language acquisition enhances learning in both domains. The report describes a conceptual framework for science–language integration and the development of a five‐level rubric to assess teachers' understanding of curricular integration. The science–language integration rubric describes the growth of teacher expertise as a continuum from a view of science and language as discreet unrelated domains to the recognition of the superordinate processes that create a synergistic relationship between inquiry science and language development. Examples from teacher interviews are used to illustrate teacher thinking at each level. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 39: 664–687, 2002     

Blocking in landmark-based search in honeybees

Two experiments tested blocking in landmark-based search in honeybees. Honeybees in the experimental group were trained in Phase 1 with a single landmark in a constant spatial relation to the target (sugar water). In the compound training second phase, the landmark used in Phase 1 (blocking landmark) and a new landmark (blocked landmark) were presented at constant spatial relations to the target. The blocking and blocked landmarks differed from each other in color and position, and the blocking landmark retained the same spatial relationship to the target as in Phase 1. In Experiment 1, the control group experienced only Phase 2 training with two landmarks. In Experiment 2, the control group was trained with a different landmark in a different position in Phase 1. Blocking was found in both cases.     

An Upper Bound for the Singular Parameter in a Stable,Singularly Perturbed System

This paper considers the problem of stability of a singularly perturbed system and of finding an upper bound for the parameter when the order of the system changes as a result of parameter perturbation. By means of the contraction mapping technique, conditions have been derived for determining explicitly the range of parameter perturbation such that both bounded-input-bounded-output and asymptotic stabilities are insured. In addition, bounds of the state and output of the singularly perturbed system can be found. Two examples are given to illustrate the application and significance of the results.