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International Conference on Education and Educational Psychology ( ICEEPSY 2012 ) Empowering ESL Readers with Metacognitive Reading Strategies

Reading is regarded as one of the essential skills for learners wanting to attend university. Many researchers believe that readers need to be aware of and employ effective reading strategies in order to be able to read accurately the information from print and beyond. In the academic context, reading involves numerous activities such as understanding and remembering ideas, identifying and selectively attending to important information, monitoring comprehension and learning, synthesizing information as well as critically evaluating a text. As readers, they interact with the text and their strategic actions lead them to effective reading comprehension. Strategic knowledge (metacognition) and monitoring of the comprehension processes is an important aspect in skilled reading. Previous studies have evidence that indicated many second language learners are ill-equipped to handle the academic reading demands. One of the most cited reasons is that these learners are not making full use of their own cognitive process or metacognition to regulate their reading abilities. This paper aims to explicate the metacognitive reading strategies employed by a group of EFL undergraduates when reading academic texts at a public university. A quantitative research design is used to collect data from a group of 41 respondents. A questionnaire which consists 30 items that are categorized into 3 components: global reading strategies, problem-solving strategies and support reading strategies are used as the main research instrument. Data is analysed quantitatively. The findings showed that there is a range of moderate to high level of metacognitive strategy use among the undergraduates. The overall mean scores for all the three categories are Global (M= 3.73) Support (M= 3.38) and Problem solving (M= 4.10). The findings showed that the respondents are conscious of their process of constructing meaning from the reading text. They are able to utilize a wide array of these reading strategies to achieve comprehension. These findings support many other studies which assert that effective L2 readers, like their native counterparts, are aware of a multitude of metacognitive reading strategies available for use and these strategies will eventually helped them to become skilled readers. © 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Dr. Zafer Bekirogullari of Cognitive – Counselling, Research & Conference Services C-crcs.
ABSENTEEISM , EXIT-VOICE , AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

The aim of this paper is to examine the voice effect in a institutional setting that extends the results of collective bargaining to all workers, whether affiliated or not, and to analyse empirically the influence of voice (proxied by the existence of a collective agreement at the firm level or “internal” bargaining) on absence rates registered by firms. The results suggest that there is a positive influence of collective agreements at firm level on absenteeism. This finding may be understood as the result of the greater protection of workers’ rights (and workers’ positions or claims against the firm in general) when workers are able to organise themselves. JEL Classification: J22, J51, J53
Running head : CULTURE AND EMPLOYMENT Psychological Effects of ( Non ) Employment : A Cross-National Comparison of the United States and Japan

The involuntary loss of employment has been shown to deteriorate subjective well-being. Adopting a cross-cultural perspective on Jahoda’s (1982) deprivation model this study examines several latent and manifest benefits of work that were expected to mediate the effects of employment status on well-being. It was hypothesized that in more collectivistic societies the decline in subjective well-being would be a consequence of a diminished sense of collective purpose for the nonemployed, whereas in individualistic societies the crucial factors would be a loss of social status and financial benefits. The findings from two representative national surveys conducted in the United States (N = 1,093) and Japan (N = 647) provided partial support for these hypotheses. Cultural differences moderated the effects of employment status on the benefits of work. As a consequence, different processes mediated the decline in well-being for the nonemployed in the two countries. These results are embedded within the wider discourse on culture and its effect on unemployment.
Entrepreneurial Orientation and SME Performance: The Serial Mediating Effects of Access to Finance and Competitive Advantage

Development of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is widely recognised as crucial sectors to the growth of internal market as well as international market. Even so, the statistics showed that they depicted of high mortality rate predominantly during their first three years of start-up phase. Recognizing the requisite study to find out the causes behind this issue, numerous prior scholars have done the research about determinants of SME performance. Consequently, previous works always related performance with Resource-based view (RBV) theory, whereby, resources and capabilities in firm level is significant to retain competitive advantage and sustain performance. Motivated to RBV theory, this research purposes to examine the factors of business performance and serial mediating effect by mapping entrepreneurial orientation as capability and access to external financial as resource which could generate competitive advantage and eventually increase SME performance. A data of 284 SMEs was proportionate stratified randomly selected analysed by using Structural Equation Model (AMOS-SEM). Resulting this, this current study highlighted that the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and SME performance was partially serial mediated by access to external finance and competitive advantage. The study stimuli the authorities such as policy makers and support systems including entrepreneurs, that entrepreneurial orientation and access to external financial resource by SME would offer competitive advantage in the firm which to conclude enhance business performance. Upcoming studies may expand this research via adding and probing either internal or external critical factors that significant to the variant of SME performance.
ENTRY AND FIRM LOCATION IN MIXED INDUSTRIES : EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF OWNERSHIP TYPE ON ENTRY DECISIONS IN LONG-TERM CARE ( Job Market Paper )

When standard profit maximizers and alternative firm types—such as nonprofits, government organizations, or cooperatives—compete in the same industry, their coexistence may be explained either by a lack of meaningful distinctions in outputs across types, or by systematic product differentiation between the two types coupled with a cost advantage for alternative types. This study develops the implications of each of these explanations of the mixed industry for observable patterns of firm entry and tests competing explanations of coexistence. It argues that the relevant test of whether alternative types should receive the preferential government treatment that is often accorded to them turns on whether these types produce outputs that are socially valuable but unprofitable for standard profit maximizers to produce. In the empirical section, I use data from rural markets in the United States to examine whether nonprofit nursing facilities enter markets that for-profit firms cannot profitably enter, thereby expanding access to nursing care to populations that would not otherwise be served. This study also addresses the broader, related question of the ways in which the markets that nonprofit firms enter differ from those that for-profit firms enter. The results of the models show that nonprofit firms typically do not enter markets that differ from markets entered by for-profits. Consistent with prediction, however, government nursing homes are more likely to enter markets that are unprofitable, as characterized by their relatively low populations. Based on patterns of entry, this study does not find evidence of a clear cost advantage for nonprofits over for-profits, despite the tax advantages conferred upon nonprofit firms. * Research Assistant Professor and Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, 2040 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208. Email: j-ballou@northwestern.edu. I am indebted to Burton Weisbrod, David Dranove, and the participants of seminars at Northwestern University and Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis for helpful comments and suggestions. Support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through grants to Burton Weisbrod is gratefully acknowledged. All errors are my own.
Carbon budget and seasonal carbon dioxide emission from a central Ohio Luvisol as influenced by wheat residue amendment

Enhancement of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks through mulching has been proposed, and although this practice can alter several soil properties, its impact on the temporal variability of carbon dioxide (CO 2) emission from soils has not been widely investigated. To that end, we monitored CO 2 fluxes from a central Ohio Luvisol (fine, mixed, mesic Aeric Ochraqualf) amended with wheat ( Triticum aestivumL.) straw applied at rates of 0 (M0), 8 (M8) and 16 (M16) Mg dry matter ha −1 per year and supplemented with fertilizer (244 kg N ha −1 per year) or without. The experimental design was a randomized complete block design with three replications. The intensity of CO 2 emission was higher in the late winter (mean: 2.79 g CO 2-C m−2 per day) and summer seasons (2.45 g CO 2-C m−2 per day) and lowest in the autumn (1.34 g CO 2-C m−2 per day). While no significant effect of N fertilization on CO 2 emission was detected, soil mulching had a significant effect on the seasonal variation of CO2 fluxes. The percentage of annual CO 2 emitted during the winter and spring was similar across treatments (17–22%); however, 43% of the annual CO 2 loss in the M0 plots occurred during the summer as opposed to 26% in the mulch treatments. A close relationship ( F = 0.47X + 4.45,R2 = 0.97,P < 0.001) was found between annual CO 2 flux (F, Mg CO2-C ha−1) and residue-C input ( X, Mg C ha−1). Litter and undecomposed residue amounted to 0.32 and 0.67 Mg C ha −1 per year in the M8 and M16 plots, respectively. After 4 years of straw application, SOC stocks (0–10 cm) were 19.6, 25.6 and 26.5 Mg C ha−1 in the M0, M8 and M16 treatments, respectively. The results show that soil mulching has beneficial effect on SOC sequestration and strongly influence the temporal pattern of CO 2 emission from soils. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Can nutrition education improve nutritional status in pregnant women ?

Background: Nutrition during pregnancy affects the health of the mother and the health and development of the fetus. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of a nutrition education program on the diet of pregnant women. Methods: A total of 120 pregnant women (intervention group: 62, control group: 58) attending our centre at 16–35 weeks of pregnancy were enrolled in our study. A pretested questionnaire was used to collect data on demographics, job, age, medication use and educational level, and food records were collected weekly. Three similar educational sessions were held each week for 12 weeks. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software (version 16). Results: There were significant improvements in diet diversity (p=0.0001) and nutrient intake (p≤0.05) in the intervention group after the educational program. Conclusion: Nutrition education can improve the diet of pregnant women.
Effect of PGRs on Vegetative and Reproductive Traits of Bitter Gourd (Momordica charantia L.): A Field Assessment

Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) is a popular crop grown as field and backyard vegetable in Asian countries. A field experiment was performed using Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) to assess the effect of plant growth regulators (PGRs) on the productivity of bitter gourd cv. Faisalabad Long. There were four treatments viz. control (no PGR), GA3 100 mg L-1, IAA 200 mg L-1 and GA3 50 + IAA 100 mg L-1, and each treatment was replicated thrice. Results revealed that untreated (control) plants took maximum days to flower (45.66), while both GA3 100 mg L-1 and GA3 50 + IAA 100 mg L-1 treated plants behaved statistically alike with 41.00 and 42.33 days, respectively. Application of GA3 100 mg L-1 depicted significant superiority for fruit length, average fruit weight, fruit yield per plant and seed yield per plant. However, statistically similar response was recorded for all the PGR treatments for male and female flowers per plant, time to first harvest, number of fruits per plant and fruit diameter; while maximum vine length at final harvest was recorded when GA3 and IAA were applied in combination. Overall results indicated that application of GA3 100 mg L-1 resulted in early crop maturity and significantly higher fruit yield per plant when compared with other treatments.
76 IMPROVEMENT OF VACUUM EFFECT ON MORTALITY OF SITOPHILUS GRANARIUS ( CURCULIONIDAE ) USING OXYGEN CHEMICAL ABSORBER IN LABORATORY CONDITIONS

The aim of this preliminary study was to find out if oxygen absorber can improve the efficacy of vacuum on mortality of stored product pests. The effect of vacuum (V) and vacuum in combination with the chemical absorber ATCO 400 (VA) on mortality of S. granarius adults was compared in dependence on temperature (15oC, 25oC), exposition time (1-7 days) and vacuum value (1.5 kPa). The airtight bags from aluminium and polyethylene films (size 10x25 cm) were used for laboratory experiments. Each bag contained a plastic 10 ml vial with 50 beetles (age 1-2 weeks) without grain substrate. The vials were closed with permeable caps. Seven replicates were used for each treatment. Bags were sealed using vacuum packing machine (KOMET Vacuboy). The results showed significant differences in efficacy of both V and V+A in dependence on temperature. Lethal time was 74 (LT50) and 160 h (LT99) of exposure in vacuum at 25oC. Low temperature (15oC) significantly prolonged the exposition time necessary for mortality of tested beetles in constant value of low pressure; LT50 and LT99 were 113 and 275 h, respectively. Suppression of exposition times was achieved with combination of vacuum and oxygen absorber (V+A); LT50 and LT99 were about 25h and 18h shorter at 25oC and about 23h and 74h shorter at 15oC in comparison with V treatment. Further research on comparison of V and VA effect is in progress including developmental stages in grain samples.
Heat Transfer Behavior of Green Roof Systems Under Fire Condition: A Numerical Study

Currently, green roof fire risks are not clearly defined. This is because the problem is still not well understood, which raises concerns. The possibility of plants catching fire, especially during drought periods, is one of the reasons for necessary protection measures. The potential fire hazard for roof decks covered with vegetation has not yet been fully explored. The present study analyzes the performance of green roofs in extreme heat conditions by simulating a heat transfer process through the assembly. The main objective of this study was to determine the conditions and time required for the roof deck to reach a critical temperature. The effects of growing medium layer thickness (between 3 and 10 cm), porosity (0.5 to 0.7), and heating intensity (50, 100, 150, and 200 kW/m²) were examined. It was found that a green roof can protect a wooden roof deck from igniting with only 3 cm of soil coverage when exposed to severe heat fluxes for at least 25 minutes. The dependency of failure time on substrate thickness decreases with increasing heating load. It was also found that substrate porosity has a low impact on time to failure, and only at high heating loads.
Deep Adversarial Multiview Clustering Network

Multi-view clustering has attracted increasing attention in recent years by exploiting common clustering structure across multiple views. Most existing multi-view clustering algorithms use shallow and linear embedding functions to learn the common structure of multi-view data. However, these methods cannot fully utilize the non-linear property of multi-view data that is important to reveal complex cluster structure. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-view clustering method, named Deep Adversarial Multi-view Clustering (DAMC) network, to learn the intrinsic structure embedded in multi-view data. Specifically, our model adopts deep auto-encoders to learn latent representations shared by multiple views, and meanwhile leverages adversarial training to further capture the data distribution and disentangle the latent space. Experimental results on several real-world datasets demonstrate the proposed method outperforms the state-of art methods.
Identification of a new outflow channel on Mars in Syrtis Major Planum using HRSC / MEx data

Syrtis Major Planum is a volcanic plain dominated by lava flows. High resolution stereo camera (HRSC) images of the northern Syrtis Major region display erosional features such as grooves, teardrop-shaped islands and valleys. These landforms are characteristics of outflow channels seen on Mars, therefore implying that a flood event took place in this region. The flow of 100 km long and a few kilometer wide followed the local slopes in most locations. Maximum flood discharges estimated from images and topography vary from about 0.3 10 to 8 10m/s, and therefore are in the range of terrestrial mega-floods in the Scablands or Lake Bonneville. In North Syrtis Major, the relationships with surrounding lava flows and the timing of the flood coeval to Syrtis Major volcanic activity suggest that it could be related to the subsurface water discharge mobilized by the volcanic activity. The proximity of Noachian age basement rocks 20 km away from the flood and below lava flows might have played a role in its formation and water presence. r 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
University of Southern Denmark Major Differences in Rates of Occupational Accidents between Different nationalities of

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Vibration characteristics and structural damping of rotating compressor blades

Nowadays, the increasing demand on the high efficiency energy, low fuel consumption and environment friendly leads the turbomachinery to be operating under a critical high rotation speed at high temperature and pressure. This severe operation condition will definitely increase the probability of the occurrence of the high cycle fatigue. To reduce the risk of appearing high cycle fatigue, the structural damping of turbomachinery components has to be increased. Since the structural damping is always positive while the aerodynamic damping can be negative at some situation, increasing structural damping is nevertheless an interesting field in turbomachinery research. One efficient way of increasing damping is to treat damping material over the blade surface. Traditional damping materials, such as rubber, are not applicable in the severe operation environment. Therefore, hard coating material is applied due to its high stiffness and good sustainability in rough environments. Numerical tools are developed to predict the structural damping of a dynamic rotating blade while varying several important designing parameters. Two types of rotating blades are modeled using the Hamilton’s principle: the straight blade by plate theory and pretwisted blade by shell theory. The extended Galerkin method and Chebyshev collocation method are applied for the numerical simulation, such as modal analysis and frequency response analysis. The parametric analysis is performed with respect to rotation speed, stagger angle, pretwisted angle, aspect ratio, etc. Proportional damping is used in all dynamic models to investigate the damping characteristics of the blades. Alternatively, a multilayer rotating blade is modeled by a high order layerwise theory, where the validated results reveal the modal damping exchanges between modes due to frequency loci veering and the influence of the damping configurations on the total damping of the multilayered structure. Finally, a commercial finite element software is used to predict the damping of a real compressor blade treated by the hard coating while varying the coating thickness and distributions.
Chapter 2 Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy with the SACCI Methodology : A ChiraSac Study

Abstract Circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy reflects sensitively the various chemistries involved in chiral molecules and molecular systems. The CD spectra are very sensitive to the conformational changes of molecules: the rotation around the single bond including a chiral atom. It is also sensitive to the changes in the stacking interactions in the chiral DNA and RNA. Since these changes are low-energy processes, we expect that the CD spectra include a lot of information of the chiral molecular systems. On the other hand, the SAC-CI method is a highly reliable excited-state theory and gives very reliable theoretical CD spectra. Therefore, by comparing the experimental CD spectra with the theoretical SAC-CI spectra calculated for various chemical situations, one can study various chemistries such as the nature of the weak interactions involved in chiral molecular systems and biology. Based on these facts, we are developing a new molecular technology called ChiraSac, a term combining chirality and SAC-CI, to study chiral molecular systems and the chemistry involved thereof. We utilize highly reliable SAC-CI method together with many useful quantum chemical methods involved in Gaussian suite of programs. In this chapter, we review our ChiraSac studies carried out to clarify the chemistries of some chiral molecules and molecular systems: large dependences of the CD spectra on the conformations of several chiral molecules in solutions and the effects of the stacking interactions of the nuclear-acid bases in DNA and RNA on the shapes of their CD spectra. The results of our several studies show that the ChiraSac is a useful tool for studying the detailed chemistry involved in chiral molecular and biological systems.
Optimization of the operation conditions for NiO dissolution with different leachants

In this study, the leaching of NiO from NiO/α-Al2O3 catalyst in acidic (HCl, HNO3 and H2SO4) and ammoniacal ((NH4)2CO3 and CH3COONH4) media was investigated. The effects of leachant concentration, liquid/solid ratio, stirring speed and temperature were studied. It was found that 100% of nickel was dissolved after 30 min of reaction with HCl at 2M, 80°C and liquid/solid ratio of 50 mL/g, while HNO3 and H2SO4 dissolved 77.15 and 46.12%, respectively, under the same operation conditions. Mixing two strong acids led to a synergetic effect on nickel leaching at the beginning of the reactions followed by a rapid stabilization in dissolution. Ammoniacal leaching was less efficient than acidic one registering 41.43% with ammonium carbonate and 29.16% with ammonium acetate after 180 min. However, the addition of chloride to ammonium carbonate led to totally dissolve NiO. © 2017 Process Engineering Journal.