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reader

An academic rank in the UK and certain Commonwealth (Australia, New Zealand) universities, which is hierarchically above senior lecturer and awarded to someone with a distinguished international reputation for original research and a track record for teaching excellence and service to the university. Readers are equivalent to professors in the US.

reader

Academic medicine An academician in the UK who is an expert in a specific area of medicine. See Lecturer Informatics A device that can access data from a machine-readable storage source–eg, a device that reads magnetic stripe cards. See OCR reader, Scanner.
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Others prefer to spread the wealth, but regardless of their plan, most readers reveal that their giving is well thought out and researched.
What do you get from giving? Their charitable checks may be small compared to those of a billionaire, but U.S. CATHOLIC readers have faith that they will get some bang for their buck when they give to their charities of choice
Top Producer readers are the most sophisticated in agriculture, so it makes sense they'd be the first to gravitate to a new technology like online publishing," added Steve Custer, publisher of Farm Journal and Top Producer.
Digital delivery of Top Producer: Farm Journal Media is first in agriculture to embrace new technology
Even if, at worst, the reader defaults her way through the text (hitting return at every writing space, which will lead through a specific chain of links and writing spaces), a choice has still been made--one of laziness, maybe, or one of resistance to the hypertext project--and this still opens the door to consideration of the active relationship of reader to hypertext.
Teaching the hypertext novel
I love to go to retreats because they combine two of my favorite activities--reading and traveling," says Alicia Thomas, a reader from Michigan who has attended 12 retreats and two cruises.
Have books, will travel: events that bring authors and readers together are a new front in the evolution of the black book market
Word reading also galvanizes two related parts of the frontal left brain, but only in experienced readers, Eden's team finds.
Read all about it: kids take different neural paths to reach print mastery
The focus on readers of information products is at the heart of a growing discipline called information design.
Designing better documents: information design professionals attempt to understand what makes documents usable and to apply that knowledge in preparing functional documents and records
Nevertheless, just as Morrison has stayed with this town and these men and just as she wants the reader to stay with them, Richard knows, even as he passes judgment on them, that he must stay.
Furrowing all the Brows: Interpretation and the transcendent in Toni Morrison's Paradise
Reader has also drawn glowing reviews from a diversity of publications, including the Wall Street Journal, which described her as ``a clever, beguiling singer,'' adding that ``Simple Soul'' is ``as endearing as it is unexpected.
READER IS FUNDAMENTALS
So start beefing up the reward by focusing your copy on benefits to the reader.
Think like a reader
Through the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN), FINREAD is developing a series of specifications for intelligent smart card readers intended to support electronic commerce, home banking and digital signature applications.
SCM MICROSYSTEMS TO PROVIDE FINREAD COMPLIANT SMART CARD READERS FOR SECURE ONLINE PAYMENT APPLICATIONS
In The Starry Messenger, the reader experiences the text as a form of reading compatible with the new way of seeing achieved by the telescope.
Reading through Galileo's Telescope. Margaret Cavendish and the Experience of Reading [*]
Spofford (1900), who continued to be conservative in his use of assistants, noted that: "It is enough for the librarian to act as an intelligent guidepost, to point the way; to travel the road is the business of the reader himself' (p.
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