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Gang Fu, Nengwen Xiao, Yue Qi, Wei Wang, Junsheng Li, Caiyun Zhao, Ming Cao, Juyi Xia
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Ed Manley, Gabriele Filomena, Panos Mavros
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE
(2021)
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Carrie Georges, Veronique Cornu, Christine Schiltz
Summary: Recent evidence suggests that preschoolers' spatial language positively influences the development of verbal number skills. This study aimed to examine the relationship between spatial language and numerical tasks without explicit verbal components. The results showed that spatial language was uniquely related to forward and backward counting, but not number naming. It did not predict number writing or numerosity comparisons, but explained unique variance in symbolic magnitude classifications and was the sole predictor of ordinal judgments. These findings emphasize the importance of spatial language for early numerical development beyond verbal number skills. Promoting spatial language in preschool could be a promising way to enhance the acquisition of symbolic numerical skills before formal schooling.
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Arik Kershenbaum, Vlad Demartsev, David E. Gammon, Eli Geffen, Morgan L. Gustison, Amiyaal Ilany, Adriano R. Lameira
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Punit Gandhi, Maria-Veronica Ciocanel, Karl Niklas, Adriana T. Dawes
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Physics, Multidisciplinary
Jordao Natal, Ivonete Avila, Victor Batista Tsukahara, Marcelo Pinheiro, Carlos Dias Maciel
Summary: Entropy is a concept that emerged in the 19th century, associated with heat harnessed by thermal machines during the Industrial Revolution. The 20th century saw a scientific revolution due to the innovation of information theory, which includes the concept of entropy. Misconceptions exist regarding the concept of entropy in different fields, as attempts have been made to reconcile the entropy of thermodynamics with that of information theory.
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(2019)
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