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An Exploration into the Relationship between EFL Learners' Self-regulation and Willingness to Communicate

This study investigated the association between Willingness to Communicate (WTC) and Self-Regulation (SR) among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. In order to fulfill this purpose, male and female EFL learners ( n = 520), between the ages of 19 and 34 ( M age = 26), majoring in English Language Teaching, English Translation, and English Literature at Islamic Azad University, Fars Province, were selected via random selection. These participants were asked to fill in two questionnaires: WTC Scale developed by McCroskey and Baer (1985) and SR Questionnaire developed by Brown, Miller, and Lawendowski (1999). The collected data were initially checked as to meeting the assumptions of normality, linearity, and homoscedasticity. Owing to the violation of the assumptions of linear correlation, Spearman's rank-order correlation was utilized to examine the way SR and WTC are associated. The analysis outcomes suggested a significant direct correlation between SR and WTC, ρ = . 56, n = 520, p < . 05, standing for a large effect size and a very small confidence interval. In addition, running a Kruskal-Wallis test revealed that there exists a statistically significant difference in WTC scores based on the level of SR, divided into three categories through employing the SD, χ 2 (2) = 157.843, p = 0.000. Subsequently, a post-hoc comparison using the Dwass-Steel-Critchlow-Fligner test reflected significant differences among the three groups on WTC scores. The study concludes with a discussion on the results and making a number of suggestions for further research.
Filtrations in Rouquier Blocks of Symmetric Groups and Schur Algebras

We study Rouquier blocks of symmetric groups and Schur algebras in detail, and obtain explicit descriptions for the radical layers of the principal indecomposable, Weyl, Young and Specht modules of these blocks. At the same time, the Jantzen filtrations of the Weyl modules are shown to coincide with their radical filtrations. We also address the conjectures of Martin, Lascoux–Leclerc–Thibon–Rouquier and James for these blocks. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 20G05, 20C30.
8-28-2006 Adjustment Uncertainty in Effect Estimation

The selection of confounders and their functional relationship with the outcome affects exposure effect estimates. In practice, there is often substantial uncertainty about this selection, which we define here as “adjustment uncertainty”. We address the problem of estimating the effect of exposure on an outcome with focus on quantifying the effect of unknown confounders from a large set of potential confounders. We propose a general statistical framework for handling adjustment uncertainty in exposure effect estimation, a specific implementation called “Structured Estimation under Adjustment Uncertainty (STEADy)”, and associated visualization tools. Theoretical results and simulation studies show that STEADy consistently estimates the exposure of interest and its associated variability. An important by-product of our methodology is that it reveals that the standard version of Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) can fail to estimate the effect of scientific interest and can over or underestimate statistical variability of the exposure effect estimate. This is essentially due to the fact that BMA averages parameter estimates, only a subset of which can ∗Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N. Wolfe St. Baltimore, MD 21205 USA. E-mail: ccrainic@jhsph.edu †Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, 615 N. Wolfe St. Baltimore, MD 21205 USA. E-mail: fdominic@jhsph.edu ‡Professor, Departments of Oncology, Biostatistics, and Pathology Johns Hopkins University, 550 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205 USA. E-mail: gp@jhu.edu
Monitoring Antibiotic Residues and Corresponding Antibiotic Resistance Genes in an Agroecosystem

Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) have been commonly reported due to the overuse worldwide of antibiotics. Antibiotic overuse disturbs the environment and threatens public human health. The objective of this study was to measure the residual concentrations of veterinary antibiotics in the tetracycline group (TCs), including tetracycline (TC) and chlortetracycline (CTC), as well as those in the sulfonamide group (SAs), including sulfamethazine (SMT), sulfamethoxazole (SMX), and sulfathiazole (STZ). We also isolated the corresponding ARGs in the agroecosystem. Four sediment samples and two rice paddy soil samples were collected from sites near a swine composting facility along the Naerincheon River in Hongcheon, Korea. High performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) was employed with a solid-phase extraction method to measure the concentration of each antibiotic. ARGs were identified by the qualitative polymerase chain-reaction using synthetic primers. SAs and their corresponding ARGs were highly detected in sediment samples whereas TCs were not detected except for sediments sample #1. ARGs for TCs and SAs were detected in rice paddy soils, while ARGs for TCs were only found in sediment #2 and #4. Continuous monitoring of antibiotic residue and its comprehensive impact on the environment is needed to ensure environmental health.
What First-Year Teachers Really Want from Principals During Their Induction Year: A Beginning Teacher Study Group's Shared Inquiry

University teacher educators have a role to play in helping their graduates manage the transition from formal teacher preparation to independent teaching. This study focuses on a shared inquiry that five first-year elementary teachers conducted while participating in a monthly study group facilitated by two teacher educators from their teaching preparation program. The novices regularly perceived a lack of support from their campus administrator, including failing to give the beginning teachers permission to carry out teacher research projects they had designed. After analyzing the degree and kinds of support that they did or did not receive from their principals, the beginning teachers developed four recommendations for principals to help novices feel wellsupported during their initial year of teaching, including (1) developing productive relationships with novices, (2) helping novices becoming insiders to the campus, (3) being a visible presence in beginning teachers’ classrooms, and (4) establishing and/or sustaining a professional learning community on the campus.
Establishing the number of distinct stabilizer bases for a quantum qudit error-correcting code

The class of quantum codes called stabilizer codes is increasingly well-understood. The premise of the stabilizer formalism is that a quantum code can be efficiently described by a subgroup of its error group, and, interestingly, the stabilizer formalism permits correspondences with classical linear codes. In this paper, we examine one such correspondence, and we shall use this to establish the number of distinct stabilizer codes that exist for a fixed parametrisation.
Isolation of Emiliania huxleyi viruses from the Gulf of Maine

Viruses infective to the marine coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi were isolated from waters of the Gulf of Maine during May and June of 2004, a period when ambient E. huxleyi concen- trations were minimal. Three DNA-containing, ether-insensitive virus isolates possessed icosahedral symmetry, and were 130 to 160 nm in diameter. All isolates caused complete lysis of host cultures within 4 d, produced large plaques on host lawns in agarose and were stable at -72°C for at least 18 mo. Originally propagated on the 88E strain of E. huxleyi, none of the viral isolates were able to infect related host strains, including several that were native to the Gulf of Maine. They were also noninfectious for strains of Synechococcus and Micromonas pusilla. One-step growth studies showed a high level of virus propagation during the first 24 h, a period when corresponding host populations were quite stable. This finding led us to speculate that virus progeny might be leaking from intact hosts during this period, with eventual host lysis occurring later. The viruses appeared to be highly infectious, with multiplicities of infection (MOI) as low as 10 -5 clearing host cultures within 96 h. Sim- ilar efficiencies were seen when host concentrations were as low as 10 2 cells ml -1 . An additional iso- late, which appeared to possess similar characteristics to the above viruses, exhibited an unusually rapid growth cycle, with host lysis occurring within 5 h post infection.
The evaluation and assessment framework: Embracing a holistic approach

This chapter looks at the overall framework for evaluation and assessment, i.e. its various components such as student assessment, teacher appraisal, school evaluation, school leader appraisal and education system evaluation, the coherence of the whole as well as the articulation between the different components. This chapter supports the view that evaluation and assessment in school systems need to be conceived holistically, as a whole framework, building on the interdependence of its parts in order to generate complementarities, avoid duplication, and prevent inconsistency of objectives. The chapter illustrates the synergies that can be generated between the different evaluation and assessment components. Areas analysed include the governance and structure of the framework, capacity for evaluation and assessment, alignment with educational goals, articulations within the framework, knowledge management, the use of evidence to inform policy development and strategies in the implementation of evaluation and assessment policies.
DuLa-Net: A Dual-Projection Network for Estimating Room Layouts From a Single RGB Panorama

We present a deep learning framework, called DuLa-Net, to predict Manhattan-world 3D room layouts from a single RGB panorama. To achieve better prediction accuracy, our method leverages two projections of the panorama at once, namely the equirectangular panorama-view and the perspective ceiling-view, that each contains different clues about the room layouts. Our network architecture consists of two encoder-decoder branches for analyzing each of the two views. In addition, a novel feature fusion structure is proposed to connect the two branches, which are then jointly trained to predict the 2D floor plans and layout heights. To learn more complex room layouts, we introduce the Realtor360 dataset that contains panoramas of Manhattan-world room layouts with different numbers of corners. Experimental results show that our work outperforms recent state-of-the-art in prediction accuracy and performance, especially in the rooms with non-cuboid layouts.
DEVELOPMENT OF A WEARABLE HAND REHABILITATION DEVICE FOR STROKE PATIENTS

This paper proposes a wearable hand rehabilitation device to enable hand stretching for the stroke patients. The device has 3 degrees of freedom for wrist, the index finger and three other fingers. The motion trajectory for the hand stretching is aligned to the hand motion by using parallel mechanism. This makes the hand be unified with the device without slip. Flexion and extension motions are actuated by air-muscles in order to reduce its weight. From experimental results, we show that the maximum range of motion of the proximal phalange and wrist are 85° and 90°, respectively.
Law and Preferences

Legal rules do more than provide incentives, they change people. When preferences and norms are endogenously determined via a process of imitation and learning, legal rules, by affecting the market outcome, may affect the dynamics of preference formation. Analyzing the effect of different legal rules should therefore go beyond the analysis of the incentives they provide. It should also include an analysis of their effect on the distribution of preferences and norms of behavior. We illustrate this claim by considering a simple market game in which individuals may have preferences that include fairness concerns. We show that different legal rules change not only the pattern of trade in a market game, but also individuals' fairness concerns. That is, different rules may eventually make individuals care more (or less) about a fair outcome. Specifically, our model suggests that enhanced remedies for breach of contract may reduce equilibrium preferences for fairness. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.
On Combining Family Data from Different Study Designs for Estimating Disease Risk Associated with Mutated Genes

Genetic disorders caused primarily by abnormalities in genes or chromosomes are rare in the general population. The associated putative mutations that lead to a high risk of developing such diseases are even rarer. In order to study disease risks associated with mutated genes, families sampled under different study designs are commonly used in association studies. This is because family data recruited via affected individuals (probands) would be expected to contain more affected individuals and mutation carriers than families randomly sampled from a general population, thus leading to increased statistical efficiency in estimating the disease risk. The disease risk associated with a mutated gene can be measured on a relative or absolute scale. As the event we consider is disease with its age of onset, the relative risk can be measured as a ratio of two hazards of developing disease between mutation carriers and non-carriers, and the absolute risk as a function of age, i.e., the cumulative risk of developing disease by a given age, which is also termed penetrance.
Spatial aftershock distribution of the 26 December 2004 great Sumatra‐Andaman earthquake in the northern Sumatra area

In July 2005, about 6 months after the 2004 great Sumatra‐Andaman earthquake, 20 ocean bottom seismometers were deployed in the northern Sumatra area. More than 1000 events were identified during the 12 day recording period. After relocation, the seismicity shows different patterns on each side of the Lower Splay Fault. East of this feature and beneath the Aceh basin and fore arc, the deep earthquakes outline the subduction megathrust fault. West of it, the aftershocks distribution is strongly influenced by the active N–S oceanic fracture zones of the subducted plate. Two N–S trending clusters of 10‐ to 50‐km‐deep earthquakes observed below the lower wedge are interpreted as reactivated oceanic fracture zones. The postseismic activity suggests a significant influence of the N–S active fracture zones of the oceanic plate on the toe of the wedge explaining the dextral wrenching of wedge thrusts in the morphology. The megathrust fault does not extend to the trench but outcrops east of these active oceanic fractures and seems to merge upward along the Lower Splay Fault where shallow earthquakes are observed.
Correlations between dysglycemia, markers of oxidative stress and inflammation in diabetic foot patients

Impaired glucose metabolism, dyslipidemia and chronic inflammation are present in diabetes mellitus. Ulceration of the foot in diabetes is common and disabling and frequently leads to amputation of the leg. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between fasting plasma glucose (FPG), postprandial plasma glucose (PPG), plasma lipids and inflammation markers in diabetic foot patients. Hospitalised diabetic foot patients (n=12), diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 2, for less than 6 years, who haven’t yet received insulin as treatment, were included. Spectrophotometric and HPLC methods were used to assess plasma studied parameters. Significant correlations (r with values between 0.81 and 0.94, for p<0.05) were calculated between LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol and: haptoglobin, ceruloplasmin, lipid peroxides, FPG, uric acid, glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA 1c ), plasma dicarbonyls and fructosamine. Atherogenic index was positively correlated (r with values between 0.74 and 0.88, for p<0.05) with: haptoglobin, ceruloplasmin, lipid peroxides, leukocytes, HbA1c, triglycerides. The leukocytes were correlated with acute phase proteins (r=0.82 with Creactive protein and r=0.81 with haptoglobin). PPG didn’t correlate with any of the above markers. Glucose metabolism was revealed by the average values: HbA 1c =10.14%, FPG=144mg/dL, dicarbonyls=0. 49µmol/L and fructosamine 256.17 µmol/L. This pilot study underlines the strong correlations between precursors of AGE (advanced glycation end-products), dyslipidemia markers and acute phase proteins in a group of type 2 diabetic foot patients with incorrect glycaemic control and duration of diabetes for less than six years. Atherogenic index correlated with all the pathogenic markers in diabetes mellitus demonstrates the strong link between atherosclerosis and the diabetic foot complication. Rezumat Diabetul zaharat se caracterizează prin anomalii in metabolismul glucozei, dislipidemie si inflamaţie cronică. Ulceraţia din piciorul diabetic este frecventă si invalidantă si conduce deseori la amputaţii. Scopul prezentului studiu a constat in determinarea corelaţiilor dintre glicemia a jeun, glicemia postprandială, lipidele plasmatice si markerii de inflamaţie la pacienţii cu picior diabetic.
Real-time observation of secondary aerosol formation during a fog event in

Real-time observation of secondary aerosol formation during a fog event in London M. Dall’Osto, R. M. Harrison, H. Coe, and P. Williams National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Division of Environmental Health & Risk Management, School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences, The Univ. of Manchester, Simon Building Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK Received: 7 August 2008 – Accepted: 17 October 2008 – Published: 28 November 2008 Correspondence to: R. M. Harrison (r.m.harrison@bham.ac.uk) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
Home range and activity patterns of black-tailed jackrabbits

-Home range usc and activity p.atterns ofbla<'k-tailed jackrabbits (Lepus califomicus) in northern Utah were studied using telemetry, Home range sizes ranp;ed from <I km! to 3 km'! and did not differ between sexes or among seasons, Jackrabbits were inactive during daylight, became act.ive at dusk, and remained active throughout the night. Animals often tra\'ersed their home ranges in a fe\\' hours. During the breeding seasOIl, males were more active than females. Jackrahbits . ere most active during well-lit nights, ilnd high . 'imls decreasedjackrahbit :lctivity. The black-tailed jack-rabbit occupies a wide geographic area and is an irn{X>rtant component of the biota throughout its range. In the Great Basin the jackrabbit is the most abundant large herbivore (Wagner 1981) and serves as an important prey item for many predators. Considering the central role of the jackrabbit in many ecosystems, little research on the species has been reported. Detailed quantitative information regarding activity patterns and home range use is Jacking. Home range use varies with the patterns of food, cover, and water distribution (Dunn et a1. 1982). I examined patterns ofjackrabbit activity and home range nse throughout a calendar year in shrub·steppe vegetation in northern
ARMHEx: embedded security through hardware-enhanced information flow tracking

Security in embedded systems is a major concern for several years. Untrustworthy authorities use a wide range of both hardware and software attacks. This paper introduces ARMHEx, a practical solution targeting DIFT (Dynamic Information Flow Tracking) implementations on ARM-based SoCs. DIFT is a solution that consists in tracking the dissemination of data inside the system and permit to ensure some security properties. Existing DIFT solutions are either hardly portable to SoCs or bring unsuitable time overheads. ARMHEx overcomes both issues using modern debugging CPU features, along with a coprocessor implemented in FPGA logic. This work demonstrates how ARMHEx performs DIFT with negligible communication costs opening interesting perspectives in the context of reconfigurability and hardware-enhanced security for multiprocessor architectures.
Rent And Resources: A Market Process Perspective

While characteristically ‘Austrian' themes such as entrepreneurship, economic calculation, tacit knowledge and the temporal structure of capital are clearly relevant to the business firm, Austrian economists have said relatively little about management, organization, and strategy. This innovative book features 12 chapters that all seek to advance the understanding of these issues by drawing on Austrian ideas.
Interactive comment on “ Technical Note : Development of chemoinformatic tools to enumerate functional groups in molecules for organic aerosol characterization ” by G . Ruggeri and S .

1. Comment: I am unsure whether Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics is the most suitable journal for this manuscript. Further, in its current form, the manuscript needs to be simplified to be an effective Technical Note. I found the diversity of datasets and example applications distracting. For example, in Fig. 6, the authors are comparing functional group distributions derived from GC /MS measurements made during the late 1990’s with functional group distributions derived from FTIR measurements in 2010; also included are estimates of measured/unmeasured fractions for each instrument based on additional (and separate) publications. The authors spend one paragraph describing each of the measurements, the dominant functional groups, and the reasons for the discrepancies between the wood burning samples. In the conclusions section, the authors return to this discrepancy between the GC/MS and FTIR measurements for wood smoke, which has little to do with the overall contribution of the Ruggeri and Takahama work. It would be sufficient to demonstrate that functional group distributions can be obtained using their approach. Further comments are provided below on the inclusion of likely extraneous information that diminishes the potential contribution of this work. It is recommended that the authors consider simplifying the applications presented, and focus more discussion on validation.
envlp: A MATLAB Toolbox for Computing Envelope Estimators in Multivariate Analysis

Envelope models and methods represent new constructions that can lead to substantial increases in estimation efficiency in multivariate analyses. The envlp toolbox implements a variety of envelope estimators under the framework of multivariate linear regression, including the envelope model, partial envelope model, heteroscedastic envelope model, inner envelope model, scaled envelope model, and envelope model in the predictor space. The toolbox also implements the envelope model for estimating a multivariate mean. The capabilities of this toolbox include estimation of the model parameters, as well as performing standard multivariate inference in the context of envelope models; for example, prediction and prediction errors, F test for two nested models, the standard errors for contrasts or linear combinations of coefficients, and more. Examples and datasets are contained in the toolbox to illustrate the use of each model. All functions and datasets are documented.
Schubert calculus in complex cobordism

We study the structure of the complex cobordism ring of the flag variety of a compact connected Lie group. An explicit procedure for determining products of basis elements is obtained, generalizing the work of Bernstein-Gel'fand-Gel'fand on ordinary cohomology and of Kostant-Kumar on K-theory. Bott-Samelson resolutions are used to replace the classical basis of Schubert cells
A New Outlier Detection Method for Multidimensional Datasets

4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 6 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS . 9 LIST OF SYMBOLS . 10 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . 11 LIST OF TABLES. 12 Chapter