Effects of advance exposure to an animated surgery-related picture book on preoperative anxiety and anesthesia induction in preschool children: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Background Our aim was to investigate whether early surgical preparation by reading an animated picture book about procedure-related events could reduce the preoperative anxiety in preschoolers. Methods 131 patients, aged 3–6 years and underwent elective
Yanyan Yang +5 more
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A Smart Picture Book Design Using Augmented Reality Technology
The developments that’s currently being experienced today are passing very fast and growing exponentially, as well as education, teaching methods from the past cannot be applied into the new era. With utilizing developing technology, teaching methods can
Suryatno Wiganepdo Soegoto +3 more
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Reading Picture Books in Preschool and Lower Grades of Primary School
This article introduces the results of a research survey that involved 443 preschool and classroom teachers. The objective of the investigation was to discover teachers’ views on making picture book reading a part of the teaching process, how picture ...
Janja Batič
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This paper reports on an investigation into the reading path patterns in a children’s picture book. The primary investigation focused on the semiotic resources involved in the construction of meanings in picture books, i.e.
Ika Lestari Damayanti, Yusnita Febrianti
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The Playful Affordances of Picture Book Apps for Children
The tradition of children’s literature has evolved side by side with the market of children’s entertainment, games, and toys. The selection of contemporary print products includes a wide variety of materially or technologically enhanced picture books ...
Hanna Järvenpää
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Developing Wordless Picture Book to Improve the Storytelling Ability of 5 to 6 Years Old Children
: This study aims to design and develop a wordless picture book to improve the storytelling ability of level B kindergarten students. This research adopted the design and development model proposed by Lee and Owens (2004).
Ika Lestari
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Review of: 'Crossroads and Boundaries: The Archaeology of Past and Present in the Malloura Valley, Cyprus', edited by M.K. Toumazou, P.N. Kardulias, and D.B. Counts (2011) [PDF]
The Athienou Archaeological Project has been carrying out excavation, survey and a wide range of analytical and community engagement activities in the Malloura Valley in central Cyprus since 1990.
Given, M.
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On the Move. Picture Books and Picture Book Studies in Times of Change This article discusses three significant changes in picture books as a medium that have consequences for picture book studies: First the transformation of visual narratives from ...
Nina Christensen
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Wild Flowers of the United States: Volume 1, The North-Eastern States (in two parts). Harold William Rickett. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. x, 559 pp. $39.50. [PDF]
Excerpt: Many entomologists are faced with the problem of identifying a plant that an insect has been gathering nectar from, feeding on, or pollinating.
Donahue, Julian P
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A Dutch Book Theorem for Quantificational Credences [PDF]
In this paper, I present an argument for a rational norm involving a kind of credal attitude called a quantificational credence – the kind of attitude we can report by saying that Lucy thinks that each record in Schroeder’s collection is 5% likely to be ...
Lennertz, Benjamin
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