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AbstractThis study examines the effect of text structure and vocabulary difficulty level on comprehension for readers in Grades 4 and 6. The 220 word texts represent four types of structure and two levels of vocabulary difficulty. The texts used were judged by a jury of teachers to be equivalent in terms of interest and familiarity. The results obtained permit the authors to conclude that comprehension is influenced by text structure. However, the analysis of data do not show any effect due to vocabulary difficulty level.
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This paper is the French translation of Ayelet Shachar's introduction, «The Puzzle of Birthright Citizenship», digitally reproduced by permission of the publisher from The Birthright Lottery : Citizenship and Global Inequality, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, pp.1-18. © 2009 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Translation by Martin Provencher.
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This article explores the relationship between environmental changes and the reform process at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The basic question it seeks to answer is : how does an organization self-produce in conditions of intense environmental change ? International organizations, while carrying out their mission, are constantly called upon to take notice of changes in their environment and to make accordingly whatever adjustment is required. This adaptive process serves two main purposes : first, to facilitate the pursuit and attainment of the objectives of the organization and, second, to help the organization self-produce, for international organizations like any other social System self-produce through the action it exercises on it self. The reform process undertaken at UNIDO beginning in the late 80s clearly bears out that contention. It sheds light on the conditions and difficulties that surround the undergoing reform process at the United nations.
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