Holiday selections for readings and recitations, specially adapted to Christmas, New Year, Valentine's day, Washington's birthday, Easter, Arbor day, Decoration day, Fourth of July, and Thanksgiving,

Mode of access: Internet.

Choice dialect and other characterizations, containing readings and recitations in Irish, German, Scotch, French, Negro, and other dialects,

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Shoemaker's best selections for readings and recitations.

Originally published under title : The elocutionist's annual.

Werner's readings and recitations.

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Shoemaker's best selections for readings and recitations.

No. 1-2: Enlarged edition.

Werner's readings and recitations.

Various editions.

A second thousand of temperance anecdotes, jokes, riddles, puns, and smart sayings, suitable for speakers, penny readings, and recitations ...

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Readings and recitations from modern authors: being pearls gathered from the fields of poetry and romance.

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Shoemaker's best selections for readings and recitations ...

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Independent fifth reader : containing a practical treatise on elocution : illustrated with diagrams, select and classified reading and recitations, with copious notes, and complete supplementary index /

Includes index.

Characterisation of pavement profile heights using accelerometer readings and a combinatorial optimisation technique

Pavement surface profiles induce dynamic ride responses in vehicles which can potentially be used to classify road surface roughness. A novel method is proposed for the characterisation of pavement roughness through an analysis of vehicle accelerations. A combinatorial optimisation technique is applied to the determination of pavement profile heights based on measured accelerations at and above the vehicle axle. Such an approach, using low-cost inertial sensors, would provide an inexpensive alternative to the costly laser-based profile measurement vehicles. The concept is numerically validated using a half-car roll dynamic model to infer measurements of road profiles in both the left and right wheel paths.

Cross-readings and ecoliteracy in children's pop-up books

The purpose of this text is to analyse two recently been published pop-up books aimed at children, by Anouck Boisrobert e Louis Rigaud, Popville (2009) and Dans la forêt du paresseux [Wake up, Sloth!, En el bosque del perezoso] (first published in 2009 and 2012, accompanied with texts by Joy Sorman and Sophie Strady, respectively). These books were published originally in France by Hélium Editions, but they can now be found in several western countries and in many languages (Catalan, French, Dutch, English, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish, at least). The objective is to analyse their verbal text and their visual aspects produced by a sophisticated paper engineered to question how they achieve what seems to be one of their goals, the promotion of the readers' ecoliteracy (Orr, 1992) by his involvement in the reading process. This issue seems to be one of the main trends on children's literature in western societies nowadays, transcending the traditional and almost omnipresent role of scenario that nature plays in many children's narratives.

Scientific pedagogy at the end of the 19th century: Some readings and writings in the Portuguese debate

Through the text presented we intend to outline the debate that occurred in Portugal in the transition from the 19th to the 20th centuries. At the time, the imperatives of scientific development had reached education as a basis for the national prosperity. It was believed that Portugal had fallen behind in comparison to the other European countries because it was not capable of constructing a civilization directed by scientific criteria, through the expansion and spreading of culture. The debate over the extension of schools to increasingly broader segments of the population acquires a different meaning when the theorist of Education make use of language from several other areas of knowledge in order to create a mosaic of what has become known, since that time, as the Science of Education.