Baseline characteristics, including average number of children per community, age of children, fraction female, and clinical trachoma prevalence, were similar in the communities randomized to the two treatment arms (Table 1).
We now examine the dependence of the critical condition for the global invasion on the assortativity level of the population partition, by plotting in Figure 5 R* as a function of the parameters ε and η, where we have set the children fraction α equal to the European average value, α = 0.197.
He did not remember which one, he said, but he believed it was the one in which children learn fractions, which he never mastered.
Martin and Schwartz (2005), for example, taught children about fractions using either pie wedges or tiles.
In India's pursuit of the dream birth rate, human beings are reduced to whole numbers, children to fractions and fallopian tubes to mobile phones.
The program teaches children about fraction magnitudes through tasks such as comparing and ordering fraction magnitudes and locating fractions on number lines.
Tickets cost $10 for adults and $5 for children, a fraction of the $150 that fans are being charged for a six-game package of first- and second-round East Regional games in Chicago.
Before departing for New York City, the pope attended a lunch for 300 homeless men, women and children -- a fraction of the more than 11,600 estimated to be living in shelters, encampments or braving the elements nightly in the Washington region.
It takes a certain sense of self to stand up for yourself, as she did; it takes one even more finely faceted to also be able to sit down with children a fraction of your age and struggle with the alphabet.
Such programs may help children learn fraction arithmetic by encouraging them to note that answers such as 1/3+1/2 = 2/5 cannot be right, because the sum is less than one of the numbers being added, and therefore to try procedures that generate more plausible answers.
