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The association between mathematical word problems and reading comprehension
2008
This study aimed to investigate the interplay between mathematical word problem skills and reading comprehension. The participants were 225 children aged 9–10 (Grade 4). The children’s text comprehension and mathematical word problem‐solving performance was tested. Technical reading skills were investigated in order to categorise participants as good or poor readers. The results showed that performance on maths word problems was strongly related to performance in reading comprehension. Fluent technical reading abilities increased the aforementioned skills. However, even after controlling for the level of technical reading involved, performance in maths word problems was still related to rea…
Optical properties of TiO2 suspensions: Influence of pH and powder concentration on mean particle size
2007
WOS: 000250584100025
Combining employment and family in Europe: the role of family policies in health.
2013
Objectives: The objectives of this study were: (i) to analyse the relationship between health status and paid working hours and household composition in the EU-27, and (ii) to examine whether patterns of association differ as a function of family policy typologies and gender. Methods: Cross-sectional study based on data from the 5th European Working Conditions Survey of 2010. The sample included married or cohabiting employees aged 25-64 years from the EU-27 (10,482 men and 8,882 women). The dependent variables were self-perceived health status and psychological well-being. Results: Irrespective of differences in family policy typologies between countries, working long hours was more common…
Camera-based measurement of relative image contrast in projection displays
2013
International audience; This research investigated the measured contrast of projection displays based on pictures taken by un-calibrated digital cameras under typical viewing conditions. A high-end radiometer was employed as a reference to the physical response of projection luminance. Checkerboard, gray scale and color complex test images with a range of the projector's brightness and contrast settings were projected. Two local and two global contrast metrics were evaluated on the acquired pictures. We used contrast surface plots and Pearson correlation to investigate the measured contrast versus the projector's brightness and contrast settings. The results suggested, as expected, the proj…
Bifurcations in the elementary Desboves family
2017
International audience; We give an example of a family of endomorphisms of $\mathbb{P}^2(\mathbb{C})$ whose Julia set depends continuously on the parameter and whose bifurcation locus has non-empty interior.
On the classification of mapping class actions on Thurston's asymmetric metric
2011
AbstractWe study the action of the elements of the mapping class group of a surface of finite type on the Teichmüller space of that surface equipped with Thurston's asymmetric metric. We classify such actions as elliptic, parabolic, hyperbolic and pseudo-hyperbolic, depending on whether the translation distance of such an element is zero or positive and whether the value of this translation distance is attained or not, and we relate these four types to Thurston's classification of mapping class elements. The study is parallel to the one made by Bers in the setting of Teichmüller space equipped with Teichmüller's metric, and to the one made by Daskalopoulos and Wentworth in the setting of Te…
Variétés complexes, feuilletages, uniformisation
2012
International audience
Sensibilité des rendements agricoles potentiels aux paramètres climatiques et environnementaux dans la région du mont Kenya en Afrique de l’Est.
2013
7 pages; International audience; Comprendre les interactions existantes entre le climat et les rendements céréaliers est un objectif important pour l'actuelleproduction agricole et la sécurité alimentaire future des populations résidant dans des régions à agriculture pluviale. Lesrendements potentiels de sorgho simulés par le modèle SARRAH montrent une sensibilité aux paramètres climatiques etenvironnementaux le long des pentes orientales du Mont Kenya. Si le cumul et la durée de saison expliquent une part importante dela variabilité des rendements, d’autres variables comme l’intensité quotidienne, les Tmax ou encore le rayonnement global jouentun rôle non négligeable. La date de semis modu…
On students' understanding of Riemann sums of integrals of functions of two variables
2018
International audience; APOS (Action-Process-Object-Schema) Theory is used to pose and test a conjecture of mental constructions that may be used to understand the relation between integrals of two variable functions over rectangles and corresponding Riemann sums. Interviews with ten students who had just finished a multivariable calculus course showed that the conjectured mental constructions are necessary.
Analyse d'une année d'enregistrements des températures à pas horaire pour établir un modèle spatial d'interpolation
2012
International audience; Une méthode d'analyse spatiale permettant de construire des champs continus est appliquée à la région viticole du Bordelais. La chronique des températures enregistrées à pas horaire de septembre 2010 à août 2011 en 78 stations sert d'abord de base à des régressions qui permettent d'identifier les variables significatives au seuil de 5 % parmi 13 variables spatiales. Le calcul de leur fréquence moyenne pour chaque heure de chaque mois indique que neuf d'entre elles sont très structurantes : distance à l'océan (52 %), altitude (37 %), pente (8 %) et, déclinée selon trois niveaux d'échelle, ampleur des creux (4 %) et des bosses (2,3 %). La fréquence et le gradient moyen…