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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract While the geographical distribution of eviction filings has been explored in Toronto, the intersection of rental housing financialization, race and eviction remains underexplored. Financial actors and their intermediaries, who fuel the eviction crisis in economically disenfranchised Black renter communities, exert significant influence over ...
Nemoy Lewis +2 more
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Users characteristic influence on the efficiency of typographic design [PDF]
, 2013 This paper investigates the efficiency of typographic design using Bertin’s variables, both individually and combined. A user study was con-ducted in which two types of map users had to perform a search task.
De Maeyer, Philippe, Deeb, Rasha
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Introduction [BJHS special section: book history and the sciences] [PDF]
, 2000 The expanding interest in book history over recent years has heralded the coming together of an interdisciplinary research community drawing scholars from a variety of literary, historical and cultural studies. Moreover, with a growing body of literature,
Topham, J.R.
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Australian &New Zealand Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.Summary R graphics has provided the ability to draw simple text labels on plots since R version 1.0.0. However, these basic text‐drawing facilities are quite limited. Over the past 25 years, more sophisticated text‐drawing features have been added: support for the Unicode character set; access to system fonts; text paths; support for text markup; and ...
Paul Murrell
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Vocabulary knowledge is key to understanding and addressing disparities in higher education
British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Background Persistent degree‐awarding gaps exist in UK universities along the lines of domicile (UK vs. non‐UK) and ethnicity (white British vs. ethnic minority). Although both intersect with language (English as a first or second language), research on the role of language in academic disparities in higher education remains sparse.
Selma Babayiğit, Danijela Trenkic
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Reviewing the understanding of the effects of spacing on children’s eye movements for on-screen reading [PDF]
, 2008 This paper endeavors to consolidate current knowledge and empirical research concerning the use of typography for children’s on-screen reading. This paper is not intended as a full literature review but attempts to raise awareness of the areas required ...
Vanderschantz, Nicholas
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Mitigating the seductive details effect by topic and irrelevance signals
British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Background Seductive details (interesting digressions in learning materials) are often integrated into learning units to make them more appealing to learners. However, studies indicate that this tends to overload students cognitively and impairs their learning performance. Aims The present study investigated whether these negative consequences
Lukas Wesenberg +4 more
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British Journal of Educational Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Background and Aims A vast body of theory and research highlights the operation of seriation as a prerequisite to mathematical thinking in young children. However, there is limited evidence that seriation interventions improve early years mathematics.
David Tzuriel, Dikla Hanuka‐Levy
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From XML to XML: The why and how of making the biodiversity literature accessible to researchers [PDF]
, 2010 We present the ABLE document collection, which consists of a set of annotated volumes of the Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). These follow our work on automating the markup of scanned copies of the biodiversity literature, for the ...
Dil, Anton +5 more
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Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract ‘I have to share a bathroom’, I had so often murmured, almost with shame, as if I personally had been found unworthy of a bathroom of my own. Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952) For a single woman of a certain age, living alone in postwar London, austerity was more than a set of political and economic imperatives.
Charlotte Charteris
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