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Strategies for Pre-service Secondary English Teacher Development in the UK

The pre-service secondary English teacher development programmes in a university in the UK were selected for the analysis. The efficiency of Post-Graduate Certificate Examination (PGCE), School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) and Graduate Teacher Programme (GTP) was analysed using the experiential and reflective knowledge of prospective teachers. The professional knowledge categories were 'learning theories in ITT', 'subject knowledge' and 'vocational practice in ITT'. Qualitatively significant coherence is found between the categories. The study suggests that an appreciation of learning theories is essential for English language teaching and provide a framework for application of teaching strategies. Indeed, subject knowledge and teaching strategies were viewed as core parts of ITT courses for secondary English teacher development. The link between theoretical learning and pedagogical application of those theories in vocational training is identified. Key words: Teacher development; Pre-service teachers; Profession; Personality Journal of NELTA Vol. 15 No. 1-2 December 2010 Page: 134-145 Uploaded date : 4 May, 2011 DOI: 10.3126/nelta.v15i1-2.4619
Relationships Among Women's Menopausal Life-cycle Stages, Occupational Experiences & Health

Writers in the popular and academic press indicate that women are seeking information about their life cycle and corresponding changes upon their life roles. The purpose of this research was to explore and describe how women’s menopausal life-cycle stages of development relate to their health through occupational experiences of burnout, job involvement, and hardiness. Approximately 700 Registered Nurses responded to the Women’s Health Occupational and Life Experiences (WHOLE) Profile. Significant findings were found between pre and post-menopausal (but not peri-menopausal) lifecycle stages and health. No significant correlations were found between menopausal life-cycle stages and the variables of burnout, job involvement and hardiness. Significant differences were found between health ailments and burnout and hardiness, between chronic illnesses and hardiness, between age and job involvement and hardiness, as well as number of children and job involvement. The findings indicated that about 40% of the participants were experiencing a high degree of burnout, 43% demonstrated active job involvement, and 36% showed high hardiness.
Time-dependent recommendation of tourist attractions using Flickr

We propose a system that recommends tourist attractions based on the moment that the user visits a given city. We start from a large collection of georeferenced photos on Flickr, and use Mean Shift clustering to determine points of interest within a city. We then estimate the probability that a random user would visit a given place within a given temporal context. This system is compared against a baseline system whose only criterion is the overall popularity of the place. Our experimental results show that significant improvements over this baseline can be obtained.
A branched transport limit of the Ginzburg-Landau functional

We study the Ginzburg-Landau model of type-I superconductors in the regime of small external magnetic fields. We show that, in an appropriate asymptotic regime, flux patterns are described by a simplified branched transportation functional. We derive the simplified functional from the full Ginzburg-Landau model rigorously via Γ-convergence. The detailed analysis of the limiting procedure and the study of the limiting functional lead to a precise understanding of the multiple scales contained in the model.
Increasing Intrapreneurial Intentions among Business Students: Using a Net-Enabled Business Innovation Cycle (NEBIC) Theory Team Project

Institutions of higher education are placing greater emphasis on entrepreneurship education. Yet, in reality, few students will actually use their entrepreneurial skills to start a business. Instead, many will go to work for existing organizations as intrapreneurs – those who contribute to entrepreneurship at the firm level. This paper descries how we developed and implemented a team project using the Net-Enabled Business Innovation Cycle (NEBIC) theory as a means to promote intrapreneurial intention in a Technology Entrepreneurship course. We also present preand post-project survey results showing that completing the NEBIC project increased students’ intention to become intrapreneurs.
Practical Runtime Attestation for Tiny IoT Devices

One of the main challenges in IoT security is to assure the integrity of the firmware running on a constrained low-cost device. A solution to this challenge could be provided by security service called attestation, where the device generates an evidence about its firmware which is attested by a remote verifier. How attestation evidence can be generated at boot time on a tiny microcontroller was investigated in earlier work and also specified by the TCG’s DICE specification. It is, however, challenging to generate such attestation evidence during runtime, where the device usually is prone to powerful attacks. Previous contributions have attempted to solve this by using custom hardware extensions of the CPU architecture. We, however, present a method based on DICE to securely generate attestation evidence at runtime using only standard CPU features like MPU, privileged/unprivileged levels of execution and the required by DICE boot ROM and lock mechanism. Precisely, we use the MPU and privilege levels to effectively isolate the attestation firmware and secrets from the remaining application. As a result, our method can immediately be applied to a broad range of popular microcontrollers. We provide a proof of concept implementation for the Cortex-M4-based STM32L476 microcontroller.
Simulation of granular soil behaviour using the bullet physics library

A physics engine is computer software which provides a simulation of certain physical systems, such as rigid body dynamics, soft body dynamics and fluid dynamics. Physics engines were firstly developed for using in animation and gaming industry ; nevertheless, due to fast calculation speed they are attracting more and more attetion from researchers of the engineering fields. Since physics engines are capable of performing fast calculations on multibody rigid dynamic systems, soil particles can be modeled as distinct rigid bodies. However, up to date, it is not clear to what extent they perform accurately in modeling soil behaviour from a geotechnical viewpoint. To investigate this, examples of pluviation and vibration-induced desification were simulated using the physics engine called Bullet physics library. In order to create soil samples, first, randomly shaped polyhedrons, representing gravels, were generated using the Voronoi tessellation approach. Then, particles were pluviated through a funnel into a cylinder. Once the soil particles settled in a static state, the cylinder was subjected to horizontal sinusoidal vibration for a period of 20 seconds. The same procedure for sample perparation was performed in the laboratory. The results of pluviation and vibration tests weere recorded and compared to those of simulations. A good agreement has been found between the results of simulations and laboratory tests. The findings in this study reinforce the idea that physics engines can be employed as a geotechnical engineering simulation tool.
Information extraction from web services: a comparison of Tokenisation algorithms

Most web service discovery systems use keyword-based search algorithms and, although partially successful, sometimes fail to satisfy some users information needs. This has given rise to several semantics-based approaches that look to go beyond simple attribute matching and try to capture the semantics of services. However, the results reported in the literature vary and in many cases are worse than the results obtained by keyword-based systems. We believe the accuracy of the mechanisms used to extract tokens from the non-natural language sections of WSDL files directly affects the performance of these techniques, because some of them can be more sensitive to noise. In this paper three existing tokenization algorithms are evaluated and a new algorithm that outperforms all the algorithms found in the literature is introduced.
Plant Growth Promotion ( PGP ) : on Cicer arietinum L . Under Elaborated Treatment Conditions

Different plant growth promoting rhizospheric microorganisms, including associative and symbiotic bacterial such as Pseudomonas sp. , Azospirillum sp. , Azotobacter sp. , Rhizobium sp. , Klebsiella sp. , Enterobacter sp. , Alcaligenes sp. , Arthrobacter sp. , Burkholderia sp. , Bacillus sp. , and Serratia sp. groups have been used for their beneficial effects on plant health and development of natural crop production International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 5 Number 3(2016) pp. 159-180 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
The stability of the variable-density Kelvin–Helmholtz billow

We perform a three-dimensional stability analysis of the Kelvin–Helmholtz (KH) billow, developing in a shear layer between two fluids with different density. We begin with two-dimensional simulations of the temporally evolving mixing layer, yielding the unsteady base flow fields. The Reynolds number is 1500 while the Schmidt and Froude numbers are infinite. Then exponentially unstable modes are extracted from a linear stability analysis performed at the saturation of the primary mode kinetic energy. The spectrum of the least stable modes exhibits two main classes. The first class comprises three-dimensional core-centred and braid-centred modes already present in the homogeneous case. The baroclinic vorticity concentration in the braid lying on the light side of the KH billow turns the flow into a sharp vorticity ridge holding high shear levels. The hyperbolic modes benefit from the enhanced level of shear in the braid whereas elliptic modes remain quite insensitive to the modifications of the base flow. In the second class, we found typical two-dimensional modes resulting from a shear instability of the curved vorticity-enhanced braid. For a density contrast of 0.5, the wavelength of the two-dimensional instability is about ten times shorter than that of the primary wave. Its amplification rate competes well against those of the hyperbolic three-dimensional modes. The vorticity-enhanced braid thus becomes the preferred location for the development of secondary instabilities. This stands as the key feature of the transition of the variable-density mixing layer. We carry out a fully resolved numerical continuation of the nonlinear development of the two-dimensional braid-mode. Secondary roll-ups due to a small-scale Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism are promoted by the underlying strain field and develop rapidly in the compression part of the braid. Originally analysed by Reinoud et al. (Phys. Fluids, vol. 12, 2000, p. 2489) from two-dimensional non-viscous numerical simulations, this instability is shown to substantially increase the mixing.
Survey of Orthodontists’ Attitude and Experiences Regarding Miniscrew Implants in Baghdad City

: Background: the aim of this study is to assess implant success rates, the predictability of placement techniques, or the management of risk factors for failure among sample of orthodontists in Baghdad. Materials and methods: Questionnaires were collected from certified orthodontist in private clinic and specialized center of ministry of health. This questionnaire was divided into six sections: practice characteristics, treatment planning, practice management, miniscrew placement, miniscrew complications and failures, annotated andBlinded data were extracted for statistical analysis. Statistical analyses were performed using the database of Excel and making percentage of each answer of all questions. Results: A questionnaire was given to 70 orthodontists working in Baghdad city. The questionnaire consisted of six parts, containing multiple-choice questions. Practice characteristics, treatment planning, practice management, miniscrew placement, miniscrew complications and failures were assessed. All statistical analyses were performed using Excel and taking percentage of each question. The overall response rate was (85%). Most of the respondents (81%) reported using miniscrews for orthodontics treatment. Indirect anchorage for space closure was the most commonly reported treatment indication (51%), followed by Intrusion for anterior open bite (40%) and Anterior en masse retraction (34%), The most commonly reported biological, mechanical, or iatrogenic complications of mini-screw treatment most commonly were screw loosening (61%), followed less commonly by soft-tissue overgrowth/irritation (61%), and irritation caused by auxiliary springs (40%). Conclusion: Most orthodontists in Baghdad uses Miniscrew Implant, most common uses of miniscrew implant are indirect anchorage for space closure, intrusion for anterior open bite and anterior en masse retraction, most common guide that helps in placement of miniscrew implant is OPG, most common complication for using miniscrew implant are miniscrew loosening, and irritation caused by auxiliary springs.
College Women’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence: Exploring Mental Health Issues

College women’s experiences with sexual and physical violence are so common that campus interventions are needed. To help guide these, we surveyed 339 college women and asked: (a) are college women’s experiences with different types of relational violence interrelated; and (b) are there patterns of association between types of violence and mental health symptoms? Analyses showed that experiences with verbal aggression, and minor and major physical violence overlapped. Experiences of sexual assault and minor physical violence also co-occurred. Moreover, women who encountered verbal and physical, but not sexual violence, suffered from symptoms of hostility, anxiety, and depression; those who encountered sexual coercion displayed signs of depression. We explore the implications of these findings for those who work with college women.
Nano-Engineering of Graphene and Related Materials

Graphene is the ultimately monolayer material with single-atom thickness. It possesses many fascinating properties including massless Dirac electronic structure, anomalous quantum Hall effects, high mobility, extraordinary high thermal conductivity, stiffness and strength (see other chapters in this book). Impressively, these properties have remarkable dependence on its morphology and atomic structure, e.g. its size and shape (Fig. 1, Xu & Buehler, 2010a). Moreover, interior and exterior doping effects from defects, molecular adsorptions or electromagnetic fields are also significant. For example, hydrogenation, oxidation and electrical field significantly tune its structural, mechanical, thermal, electronic and optical structures, which is controllable and even reversible. These sensitive responses of a graphene sheet to structural and environmental cues enable us opportunities to engineer its physical and chemical properties at nanoscale.
Anthropometric Measures in the Prediction of High Fat Percentage in Female Adolescents

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the predictive power of anthropometric indices for the diagnosis of high fat mass in female adolescents. Subjects/Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with a sample of 233 students female, aged 10–19 years, from 16 public schools of São Luís (Maranhão State, Brazil). The following indicators were assessed: body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), conicity index (C-index), and the waist-to-height ratio (WHtR). The percentage of body fat was estimated using a bioimpedance device quadruple model. The cut-off points used in the excess 10 body fat classification were established by Lohman et al., was used as the reference method in the analysis Curve ROC. Descriptive analyses, Student’s t test for independent samples, Mann Whitney U test and Person correlation coefficient were used for data analysis. Results: BMI presented the largest areas under the ROC curve (ROC area = 0.87) in the prediction of excess body fat. The BMI anthropometric indicator showed the highest correlation with body fat percentage (r=0.69) compared to the other studied indicators. Conclusion: In this context, the BMI proved to be the best predictor of high body fat in the evaluated sample.
TR-CITI-15-001 2015 / 03 / 23 The AWtoolbox for Characterizing Audio Information

AWtoolbox (Audio Word Toolbox) is an open-source software designed for extracting the audio word (AW) representation of audio signals. This document describes the usage of AWtoolbox for both basic users who are interested in extracting AW representation with the toolbox’s graphical user interface and advanced users who are interested to learn about the details of audio word extraction process or to expend the functionality of the toolbox. Additionally, a preliminary benchmark on tweaking various components of audio word extraction process is presented. The preliminary benchmark shows how one can use AWtoolbox to procedurally search for the best AW representation for an audio recognition problem. AWtoolbox is available for download at http://mac.citi. sinica.edu. tw/awtoolbox.
A Study of Feature Subset Selection Methods for Dimension Reduction

The interest and focus for quite some time has been on Feature Selection and lot of work has been made in this field. With databases getting larger in volume so machine learning techniques are required which results in demand for feature selection. Feature selection is commonly used method for performing data mining in the field of data preprocessing that is scaled on large amount of data sets. In this paper, several kinds of feature selection methods are used which may result in different subsets of features with evaluation criterion.
Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin Area, Ireland, we find a positive and significant relationship between risk aversion and remittance behavior. Risk-averse individuals are more likely to send remittances home and are, on average, likely to remit a higher amount, after controlling for a broad range of individual and group characteristics. Consistent with a "purchase of self-insurance" motive to remit, we also provide evidence of more remittances sent by risk averse immigrants facing higher wage risks and remitting to individuals with more financial resources.
Salmon Bias or Red Herring? Comparing Adult Mortality Risks (Ages 30 – 90) between Natives and Internal Migrants: Stayers, Returnees and Movers in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1850 – 1940

The purpose of this research is to empirically test the salmon bias hypothesis, which states that the “ healthy migrant ” effect — referring to a situation in which migrants enjoy lower mortality risks than natives — is caused by selective return-migration of the weak, sick, and elderly. Using a unique longitudinal micro-level database — the Historical Sample of the Netherlands — we tracked the life courses of internal migrants after they had left the city of Rotterdam, which allowed us to compare mortality risks of stayers, returnees, and movers using survival analysis for the study group as a whole, and also for men and women separately. Although migrants who stayed in the receiving society had significantly higher mortality risks than natives, no significant difference was found for migrants who returned to their municipality of birth (returnees). By contrast, migrants who left for another destination (movers) had much lower mortality risks than natives. Natives who left Rotterdam also had significantly lower mortality risks than natives who stayed in Rotterdam. Female migrants, in particular, who stayed in the receiving urban society paid a long-term health price. In the case of Rotterdam, the salmon bias hypothesis can be rejected because the lower mortality effect among migrants was not caused by selective return-migration. The healthy migrant effect is real and due to a positive selection effect: Healthier people are more likely to migrate.
Are Socially Responsible Managers Really Ethical? Exploring the Relationship between Earnings Management and Corporate Social Responsibility

This study offers insights for policy makers and managers interested in enhancing CSR. For managers, our findings suggest that projecting a socially-friendly image in order to disguise earnings management cannot be sustained over time due to the detrimental effect on financial performance. In addition, this study provides a warning signal to policy makers that certain practices geared toward raising a firm's CSR may simply be a mechanism for hindering other devious practices. This study draws on a generalized agency theory where managers are seen as the agents of all stakeholders and the earnings management literature to highlight that CSR can be used to garner support from stakeholders and, therefore, provides an opportunity for entrenchment to those managers that manipulate earnings. As such, it suggests new avenues of research for both the corporate governance literature, as well as for the stakeholder perspective. Using archival data from a multi-national panel sample of 593 firms from 26 countries between 2002 and 2004, we find a positive impact of earnings management practices on CSR; this relationship holds for different robustness checks. Also, we demonstrate that the combination of earnings management and CSR has a negative impact on financial performance. This paper investigates the connection between earnings management and corporate social responsibility (CSR). We argue that earnings management practices damage the collective interests of stakeholders; hence, managers who manipulate earnings can deal with stakeholder activism and vigilance by resorting to CSR practices.
The Influence of Short-Term Insurance Industry on the Finance-Growth Nexus in South Africa

This study seeks to establish the influence of the short-term insurance industry on financial and economic development in South Africa. The study uses quarterly data from 1994 to 2009 to perform the Johansen (1991) co-integration tests and subsequently the Granger causality tests to establish the relationship between the short-term insurance industry and the finance-growth nexus. The study is premised on the ‘demand-following’ and ‘supply-leading’ propositions by Patrick (1966). Results show that the insurance industry has a positive relationship with economic development. The development of the short-insurance industry heavily relies on economic development rather than on banking sector development and financial deepness. This suggests that formulating policies that promote economic growth directly leads to the development of the short-term insurance industry in South Africa confirming the demand-following proposition. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014. v5n1p489