Sentences with phrase «reading devices such»

Women who do not currently borrow e-books from libraries are more interested than men in taking classes on how to use handheld reading devices such as e-readers or tablets.

Ebooks are simply books in digital form, readable on your computer or on other reading devices such as your iPhone (or other smart phone), iPad, Barnes & Noble Nook, the Amazon Kindle reader, the Kobo Reader, and many other devices.

The cloud also allows you to access your stored content on other reading devices such as your smartphone, your tablet or your computer.

Sales of digital e-books designed for reading devices such as the Amazon Kindle continue to escalate.

If dedicated digital reading devices such as Amazon's Kindle weren't going to put the humble bookstore, with its shelves and shelves of printed books, out of business, sustained growth of media tablets, such as the Apple iPad, would.

Your ebooks can be easily read on the computers or on reading devices such as Amazon Kindle, but if you need to have some pages on paper then things start getting complicated.

And in late 2012 19 % of Americans ages 16 and older own e-book reading devices such as Kindles and Nooks, compared with 10 % who owned such devices at the same time last year.

Washington (April 5, 2012)-- One - fifth of American adults (21 %) report that they have read an e-book in the past year, and this number increased following a gift - giving season that saw a spike in the ownership of both tablet computers and e-book reading devices such as the original Kindles and Nooks.

The electronic version of a book, usually read on dedicated Reading devices such as Kindles or Kobo readers, or on devices such as smartphones, tablets, or PCs.

48 % of all owners of e-book reading devices such as original Kindles and NOOKs say they do not know if their library lends e-books.

Etisalat chief executive Dumindra Ratnayaka revealed they are already in discussion with the education ministry to have more of educational text on the book store, which in turn can be accessed via portable reading devices such as an e-reader or tablet PC.

Present gadgets that we see in the market using displays made by e-Ink include e-book reading devices such as the Kindle, Nook, and Sony Reader.

According to the report, 33 % of Americans 16 years and older owned an electronic reading device such as a Kindle or an iPad, an increase of 18 % when compared to survey results from the previous year.

Does any ebook reading device such as iPad support flash -LRB-.

Not exact matches

Customers buy three to four times as many books after they buy the Kindle device... That's such a remarkable increase in the amount of book purchasing, it seems pretty likely to be an increase in the rate of which people buy books [over all]... I hear this from people every day, that they're actually recapturing minutes of the day for reading.

And according to the MPAA's stats about these frequent moviegoers, they love their mobile devices: «Frequent moviegoers tend to own more key technology products, such as smartphones and tablets, than the general population of adults 18 years and older,» reads the report.

Already, Qualcomm (QCOM) and Intel (INTC) have introduced new biometic security technology that would use readings from the human body — such as a fingerprint or a facial reading — to allow access to devices instead of traditional passwords.

According to reports, distractions such as using mobile devices, reading, using the GPS, and passenger interaction contributed to about 1,600 crashes.

The technique has gained such acceptance that a machine has recently been installed at Santa Anita — the first such device ever installed at an American track — and trainers are just beginning to bring their horses by to get their hot spots read.

For example, the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty reads: Each nuclear - weapon State Party to the Treaty undertakes not to transfer to any recipient whatsoever nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or control over such...

Prof. Shen and her unit say that, in the future, nanoplasmonic materials may even be integrated with emerging technologies, such as wireless systems in microfluidic devices, allowing users to take readings remotely and thereby minimizing the risk of contamination.

Further research is needed to ascertain if any form of media which disrupts parent - child interaction will have a similar effect, such as mobile device use, reading newspapers, or speaking on the phone.

A few decades later other physicists figured out how to build such a device for use as a powerful weapon or to read bar codes at grocery stores.

The main challenge in building such a device is to be able to read the data and manipulate it without disturbing the delicate quantum states of the atoms.

The new device can read health vitals such as heart rate and blood pressure, and diagnose 13 conditions including diabetes and pneumonia.

If you compared the readings of your hygrometer with another instrument that measures humidity, such as a psychrometer or an electric hygrometer, you may find that your hygrometer is 20 percent to 30 percent inaccurate, but you can recalibrate it using these devices to increase its accuracy.

GIS is able to store, manipulate, analyse and communicate between user and data, while mobile - based QR codes technology can be read by an imaging device (such as a camera) and processed using Reed - Solomon error correction until the image can be appropriately interpreted about the tree; data is then extracted from tree patterns present in both horizontal and vertical component of the image.

Such devices could be read quickly and contain far more information than Braille directions, but go completely unnoticed by the sighted, says Makino.

At the time, such devices could only read a few fonts.

Readings can be taken every 10 to 15 minutes over several hours and the data wirelessly transmitted to a mobile device, such as a smartphone or watch.

However, with all of the technical gadgets that rock the first world, we are more often than not hunched over our information devices reading awesome articles such as this.

When they're vanity projects built on such hoary devices as talking to off - stage characters or writing letters and reading them aloud, they can make theater feel like a dried - up old fossil.

Look for...» They can be reading closely in search of: humor, author's purpose, use of literary devices (such as foreshadowing, imagery), facts, confusion, and context clues for new words.

The well - documented Type 1 stressors include experiences such as being impersonated, receiving a barrage of personal attacks, and being outed, shamed, or humiliated publicly, whereas the lesser - documented Type 2 involves a curious or controlling boy / girlfriend or friend constantly breaking into social media accounts or smartphone devices to read digital communications with others, feeling smothered by the quantity of digital communications with close others, and feeling a pressure to comply with requests that reveal something considered highly personal and private.

And two tips for parents: on the one hand, be somewhat sceptical about what a device or software can do by itself to help your child's learning; on the other hand, set an example by showing pride in their learning wherever it takes place, whether online or offline; and encourage using the Internet for serious pursuits, such as reading about current affairs or finding a summer job, as well as for entertainment.

Reading them all would require perseverance to say the least, but most of the benefits highlighted across many sites focus on key terms such as «flexibility» of the device and learning, «cheaper», «portable», «collaborative», «21st century skills», «engaged learners», «challenge based learning», «1 ‑ to - 1» — the list goes on and on.

For a 10th - grade poetry unit, I had students read traditional poems such as Wilfred Owen's «Dulce et Decorum Est» and Emily Dickinson's «Because I could not stop for Death,» and analyze the poetic devices in them.

Therefore, I will utilize other means to get the meaning across to that student by either reading the passage to him / her, using a device such as audible.com to read to the child, or chunk the reading into more manageable reading tasks.

• Chrome books • Scholarly magazines • Beanbags • Board games • Manipulatives • Stress balls • Playdough • Lamps • Science lab equipment • Math manipulatives such as snap cubes, pattern blocks, and base ten blocks • Laminator • Ellison press • Clocks for every classroom • Listening centers • Audio books • iPod nano / MP3 players for listening to books • Reading pens (electronic device) • Carpets • Quality headphones • Hydroponic plant potters (school garden / greenhouse) • Math solutions training • IReady training • Anchor chart stands • Subscriptions to scholarly magazines • Podium • Magnetic tape and wall putty • Clickers • Exercise balls • Exercise bands

Like many teachers, we all hear about these wonderful online resources, apps and mobile devices such as the iPad, the flipped classroom model, bring your own... Continue reading →

In surveying a sample of preservice teachers who were in the process of entering a college of education, a group of mostly freshmen and sophomores, Cavanaugh and Eastham (2014) found that 87 % had smartphones with Internet and application abilities, 41 % already had their own e-text reading devices, 29 % had their own tablet device such as an iPad, and 12 % were limited to using a desktop or laptop for e-text access.

When using your Vehicle, UVO eServices automatically (or passively), including, through the use of telematics, collects and stores information about your Vehicle, such as: (i) information about your Vehicle's operation, performance and condition, including such things as diagnostic trouble codes, oil life remaining, tire pressure, fuel economy and odometer readings, battery use management information, battery charging history, battery deterioration information, electrical system functions; (ii) driver behavior information, which is information about how a person drives a Vehicle, such as the actual or approximate speed of your Vehicle, seat belt use, information about braking habits and information about collisions involving your Vehicle and which air bags have deployed; (iii) information about your use of the Vehicle and its features, such as whether you have paired a mobile Device with your Vehicle); (iv) the precise geographic location of your Vehicle; (v) data about remote services we make available such as remote lock / unlock, start / stop charge, parking location, climate control, charge schedules, and Vehicle status check; (vi) when there is a request for service made; and (vii) information about the Vehicle itself (such as the Vehicle identification number (VIN), make, model, model year, selling dealer, servicing dealer, date of purchase or lease and service history)(collectively, «Vehicle Information»).

Sendyn, a provider of technologies for battery system management including current, voltage and temperature measurement ICs and modules (earlier post), has introduced the SIM100, a new type of automotive - rated isolation monitoring safety device that is capable of detecting potential electrical hazards during the dynamic operation of high - voltage unearthed systems — such as... Read more →

The system also includes an advanced Bluetooth interface to access extra functions, such as phone call management or reading received SMS text messages via text - to - speech technology, innovative Audio Streaming system that reproduces music files and web radio stations directly from a smartphone in streaming via Bluetooth on the UConnect device.

Read the instructions in this post and you will find a basic method to learn how to flash such custom ROMs for your device.

And for single - use, high - price devices such as the higher - end ereaders, growth is certain to slow in the coming years as tablets and the larger smartphones gain popularity as reading devices, as well.

The e-readers will also include a social - networking service for sharing reading lists and comments on books; a converter that transfers PC data - such as documents and maps - into the device; a Web browser; and «Automated Scheduled Delivery Service» for periodicals.

For example, recent data from Pew Internet Research revealed 41 % of e-book readers read their e-books on an e-reader device, such as the Kindle, while 42 % read them on a computer, 29 % on a cell phone and 23 % on a tablet.

It's getting easier and easier for successful digital - first authors to move into print and even bookstores without the help of a publisher, and the spread of e-book reading from dedicated devices such as the Kindle to tablets and smartphones (22 percent of Americans age 18 to 29 read books on their phones, according to the Pew survey) seems to offer new opportunities for those who get the format and pricing right.

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