cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Enhancing trace acrylamide analysis by bromine derivatization coupled with direct-immersion solid-phase microextraction in drinking water
Creators: name: Li, Mian
name: Lin, Yi-Li
name: Zhang, Tian-Yang
name: Xu, Bin
name: Zhang, Min-Sheng
name: Chu, Wen-Hai
name: Tang, Yu-Lin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Acrylamide is a neurotoxic and genotoxic compound. It is abundant in drinking water because of the usage of polyacrylamide. Its high polarity and small molecular weight characteristics make it difficult to be extracted and analysed. In this study, a novel method was optimized for the determination of trace acrylamide in drinking water. The optimized method, uses bromine derivatization, can avoid false analysis of co-extractives and precursors effectively by transferring acrylamide to 2-bromopropenamide. The 2-bromopropenamide was extracted from water samples using DI-SPME and further analysed by GC-MS. This optimized method uses CAR/PDMS coating SPME fibre to extract at 55°C for 45 min after the addition of 12 g Na2SO4, and then desorbs the extractions in GC injector at 260°C for 3 min. The detection limit was 0.05 μg/L with linearity ranging from 0.5 to 500 μg/L. The repeatability and reproducibility relative standard deviation were 7.30% and 8.50%, respectively. The spiking recovery of tap water samples ranged from 100% to 106%. These results confirmed that this novel method was more precise and accurate than the previously reported SPME methods that used to analyse trace acrylamide in drinking water. The concentrations of acrylamide in the collected samples from clarification and filtration units were 0.80 and 0.71 g/L respectively.
Anne Sexton
Creators: name: Coco Davani, Maria Carmela
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 1991

description: In this interpretation, Anne Sexton's poems constitute a transgression of dominant socio-cultural and literary norms and values. The textual analysis highlights the range of imagery produced by "nomination" and the use of daring metaphors, but it ultimately centers on the lexical patterns which can be traced back to each of the poet's major artistic phases.
description: RSAJournal, Vol. 2 (1991): Untitled
A commentary on “Ozymandias” and “Metaphors of Terror”
Creators: name: Magalhaes, Margarete
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2005

description: Historians are engaged in a constant endeavor to find patterns of meaning that could lend us some understanding of human life. Indeed, history is recurrent, and it is fascinating to see how literature can grasp this recurrence, or the universal features of our human past and our human nature, showing us how we and the events that we participate in all fit into a prototype established long, long ago. In this sense, literature merges with historiography unraveling the archetypical meanings that not only dress our past but also foretell its cyclical comebacks. Who would think that a poem, ‘Ozymandias’ (http://www.yoga.com/raw/readings/Ozymandias), published in 1818, almost two hundred years ago, would strike us now in the twenty-first century with the metaphorical predictability of the tragic events that overtook the world in the second half of 2001?
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 2 No. 1 (2002)
Trasformazione o scomparsa del “sistema della piantagione” nel sud postbellico
Creators: name: Gennaro Lerda, Valeria
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 1991

description: Contemporary historiography on the South of the United States is mainly focused on the key problems of change and continuity of the plantation system after the Civil War. This essay traces the debate which originated by C. Vann Woodward's theory of discontinuity as it developed in the "new social history" and "new economic history" schools of thought. Although these schools used different methodologies, they did reach some agreement in emphasizing processes of continuity within the former planters' economic and social system.
description: RSAJournal, Vol. 2 (1991): Untitled
An Interview with Dr. Carol A. Chapelle
Creators: name: Saito, Yoko
name: Ekiert, Monika
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2005

description: Editorial Board members Yoko Saito and Monika Ekiert recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Carol Chapelle, who was the guest speaker at the 2005 APPLE Lecture sponsored by the Programs in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2005)
Readers’ Credits for Volume 5, Issue 1
Creators: name: Wagner, Santoi
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2005

description: Teachers College, Columbia University Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics thanks the following people for one or more reviews of manuscripts for Issue 1, Volume 5 (2005).
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2005)
Study of the de Almeida-Thouless line using power-law diluted one-dimensional Ising spin glasses
Creators: name: Katzgraber, Helmut G.
name: Larson, Derek
name: Young, A. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We test for the existence of a spin-glass phase transition, the de Almeida-Thouless line, in an externally-applied (random) magnetic field by performing Monte Carlo simulations on a power-law diluted one-dimensional Ising spin glass for very large system sizes. We find that an Almeida-Thouless line only occurs in the mean field regime, which corresponds, for a short-range spin glass, to dimension d larger than 6.
description: 4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
“Inesprimere l'esprimibile”
Creators: name: Fink, Guido
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 1991

description: The simultaneous apparition in 1925 of such different works as Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer is the starting point for a contrastive analysis within the more general issue of the relationship between America and Modernism. Dreiser's omniscient author, Fitzgerald's Jamesian "reflector" and Dos Passos' ellipses and collages are obviously quite different narrative strategies. However, the three novels do share common themes and techniques—from the relevance of glance and other visual elements to the cinematic montage to the creation of a "scapegoat-hero": in different ways, they may be seen as following (ante litteram) Roland Barthes' prescription for modern poetry and prose, that is, not to express what could be easily expressed.
description: RSAJournal, Vol. 2 (1991): Untitled
Studying effects of a web-based “bridge building” intervention
Creators: name: Schalm, Melody
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Although there has been a recent unprecedented global spotlight on issues of prejudice and polarization, researchers have noted that there is a dearth of rigorously tested prejudice reduction interventions. Certain theoretical and applied approaches show promise, including recent “bridge building” interventions focused on reducing bias and growing understanding across cultural divides. However, there remains a scarcity of research on “real world” interventions, including web-based and other mass media interventions and cultural competence training for leaders and others. At the same time, there is immense need for evidence-based interventions, including in the areas of post-secondary student and teacher training. This research study took a necessary first step in addressing these needs and literature gaps by studying participant engagement with a web-based intervention incorporating “bridge building” strategies of the University of California, Berkeley Greater Good Science Center’s Bridging Differences Playbook (2020). Study participants were teacher candidate students at British Columbia (BC) universities (N = 28). This phase 1 study examined the effects of exposure to the web-based intervention on teacher candidates’ (a) intention to use bridge building strategies in the university classroom, (b) comfort with engaging in classroom discussions with people who have very different backgrounds or views, and (c) knowledge of bridge building strategies. Results indicated statistically highly significant increases in participants’ intention, comfort, and knowledge after exposure to the intervention. Participants also provided positive feedback on the value of the bridge building strategies. Study results suggest that the intervention shows promise for consideration by post-secondary institutions for student and teacher training, and that it warrants further research.
“Mardi”
Creators: name: Russo, Paola
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 1991

description: Certainly the most overlooked of Melville's books, Mardi is still a puzzle even for those readers who will not dismiss it either as a continuation of his autobiographical novels or as the foreshadowing of more complex work to come. This essay, while claiming textual autononomy for Mardi, investigates the "departure" structures which constitute the original narrative kernel. The novel does not begin just once, but five times at least, leading readers, through different literary paths, to a breathtaking landlessness from which there seems to be no return.
description: RSAJournal, Vol. 2 (1991): Untitled
Value-sharing of meromorphic functions on a Riemann surface
Creators: name: Schweizer, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30D35, 30F10

description: We present some results on two meromorphic functions from S to the Riemann sphere sharing a number of values where S is a Riemann surface of one of the following types: compact, compact minus finitely many points, the unit disk, a torus, the complex plane.
description: 15 pages
title: The Research, Process, and Design of the Trout Creek Revegetation Plan
Creators: name: Bolin, Daniel C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2009

description: The Bear River is the largest tributary to the Great Salt Lake, with water volumes reaching up to 1.4 million acre feet of water. The river begin s in Utah 's Uinta Mountains and flows into Wyoming and Idaho before finally flowing south and returning to Utah. The river flows nearly five hundred mile s before emptying into Bear River Bay of the Great Salt Lake, ending only ninety miles from its origin (Utah History to Go, 2008).
Additional file 1 of The spatial–temporal effect of air pollution on individuals’ reported health and its variation by ethnic groups in the United Kingdom: a multilevel longitudinal analysis
Creators: name: Abed Al Ahad, Mary
name: Demšar, Urška
name: Sullivan, Frank
name: Kulu, Hill
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Sensitivity checks and additional analysis.
Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition
Creators: name: Pazvant, Özlem
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2005

description: Most non-native speakers would agree that it is sometimes frustrating to communicate in another language. Many have embarrassing stories about how they have been misunderstood or have not been able to convey their intended messages at all. In the field of second language acquisition (SLA), there is little doubt that native-like mastery of a second language (L2) by adult non-native speakers is hard to attain (Bley-Vroman, 1989; Schachter, 1988). Failure in some aspects of the language is to be expected, and this is the reason why the nature of this failure has to be investigated thoroughly. Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition takes a long step towards shedding light onto the nature of failure. This book offers a systematic analysis of fossilization, a phenomenon which occurs despite continuous exposure to the target language input, sufficient motivation to improve, and ample opportunity to practice.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2005)
САЙЛОВ ЖАРАЁНЛАРИНИ ОЧИҚ, ОШКОРА ВА ҚОНУНИЙ ЎТИШИДА ОАВНИНГ ЎРНИ ВА РОЛИ
Creators: name: Намозов, Жамшидбек
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Янги Ўзбекистоннинг мустақил демократик давлат қуриш борасидаги танлаган йўли бугун кунда жаҳон ҳамжамияти томонидан муносиб эътирофга сазовор бўлмоқда. Сабаби, Президентимиз Шавкат Мирзиёев томонидан мамлакатдаги ислоҳатларни босқичма-босқич амалга ошириш учун ҳаракатлар стратегиясини ишлаб чиқилиши ва унинг ҳаётга тадбиқ этилаётганлигидир.
The “Natural Order” of Morpheme Acquisition: A Historical Survey and Discussion of Three Putative Determinants
Creators: name: Kwon, Eun-Young
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2005

description: The paper discusses the history and implications of the so-called “morpheme” studies. A brief overview of L1 research in this regard is followed by a more detailed discussion of L2 research. Thereafter, the paper explores the impact of three putative determinants of acquisition order: semantic complexity, input frequency, and native language transfer. The possible role of these determinants in accounting for perceived differences in L1 and L2 acquisition orders is also discussed, along with their implications for various theoretical perspectives on language acquisition. The paper concludes with both practical applications and criticism of existing natural (morpheme) order studies as well as suggestions for future work in this field, such as investigating target languages other than English and developing a multi-determinant approach to acquisition order.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2005)
Preferred sizes and ordering in surface nanobubble populations
Creators: name: Borkent, Bram M.
name: Schoenherr, Holger
name: Caer, Gerard Le
name: Dollet, Benjamin
name: Lohse, Detlef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two types of homogeneous surface nanobubble populations, created by different means, are analyzed statistically on both their sizes and spatial positions. In the first type (created by droplet-deposition, case A) the bubble size R is found to be distributed according to a generalized gamma law with a preferred radius R*=20 nm. The radial distribution function shows a preferred spacing at ~5.5 R*. These characteristics do not show up in comparable Monte-Carlo simulations of random packings of hard disks with the same size distribution and the same density, suggesting a structuring effect in the nanobubble formation process. The nanobubble size distribution of the second population type (created by ethanol-water exchange, case B) is a mixture of two clearly separated distributions, hence, with two preferred radii. The local ordering is less significant, due to the looser packing of the nanobubbles.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Methamphetamine use among people who use opioids : longitudinal patterns and the role of opioid agonist therapy
Creators: name: Cui, Zishan
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Background: Methamphetamine use is on the rise among people who use opioids (PWUO), which brings additional complexity to the landscape of opioid agonist therapy (OAT). However, the circumstances surrounding methamphetamine use among PWUO and the role of OAT in this context remain under-explored. The overarching aims of this dissertation were to: 1) understand the social context surrounding methamphetamine use among PWUO and 2) explore the interplay between methamphetamine use and OAT among PWUO. Methods: I first conducted a systematic review to synthesize the studies characterizing the trend of and factors associated with methamphetamine use among PWUO. Then, using empirical data obtained from two prospective cohorts of people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada, between 2005 and 2020, I conducted multivariable generalized estimating equation (GEE) analyses to identify predictors of methamphetamine use initiation among individuals on OAT and examine the relationship between OAT engagement and methamphetamine use frequency among PWUO. Last, I employed repeated measures latent class analysis (RMLCA) to identify longitudinal substance use patterns among people receiving OAT, and used marginal structural Cox modeling to estimate their association with OAT discontinuation. Results: The systematic review found a wide range of individual, microsocial, and macrosocial factors associated with methamphetamine use among PWUO. The multivariable GEE analyses identified factors associated with methamphetamine initiation among individuals on OAT, including younger age, unstable housing, unprotected sex, previous methamphetamine use, recent cocaine use, and recent non-medical opioid use. Among PWUO, OAT engagement was associated with a lower methamphetamine use frequency in the absence of ongoing non-medical opioid use, while OAT initiation was associated with a greater methamphetamine use frequency. The RMLCA analysis identified four distinct substance use classes among people receiving OAT, with the opioid and stimulant use classes exhibiting a higher risk of OAT discontinuation. Conclusion: Addressing the ongoing overdose crisis requires comprehensive strategies encompassing prevention, intervention, and harm reduction efforts that consider both opioid and methamphetamine use. Care providers should adopt person-centred treatment approaches to meet the individualized needs of patients. Future research is needed to actively explore integrated treatment approaches and develop effective pharmaceutical interventions targeting concurrent opioid and methamphetamine use.
What Is International English?
Creators: name: Burt, Channing
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2005

description: The number of people using English for international communication is increasing on an unprecedented scale and the spread of English shows no signs of stopping. There is a growing body of research on the phenomenon of international English, yet international English is defined variously in the literature and what is included in these definitions differs considerably. This review seeks to examine what is meant by the various terms employed in the literature and focuses on the international use of English by people for whom it is not a first or official, institutionalized second language, a population which is rapidly growing in number but whose linguistic behavior is still under-researched. The central questions posed are: (1) Does English used by this population constitute a new kind of English or is it simply an error-marred, simplified performance variety of English as a native language? (2) Is it possible that lingua franca English use will affect English as a native language? This paper will review recent empirically-based descriptive studies on international lingua franca English as well as two large-scale corpora currently being compiled in an attempt to shed light on the developing global use of the English language.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2005)
title: Scale Economies in Public Education: Evidence from School Level Data
Creators: name: Bosworth, Ryan C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2001

description: The structure of school finance regimes in the United States has been a subject of much political and legal debate over the past three decades. Court rulings have required many states to restructure school financing methods in order to pursue some concept of equality. Achieving equality of spending is, of course, a simple matter. Developing a funding mechanism that provides for equality of educational opportunity. however, is difficult since such a system, by definition, must allow for cost differences across schools and districts.
A Discrete Algorithm to the Calculus of Variations
Creators: name: Pereira, Celia T. L. M.
name: Cruz, Pedro A. F.
name: Torres, Delfim F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 49M05; 49M25

description: A numerical study of an algorithm proposed by Gusein Guseinov, which determines approximations to the optimal solution of problems of calculus of variations using two discretizations and correspondent Euler-Lagrange equations, is investigated. The results we obtain to discretizations of the brachistochrone problem and Mania example with Lavrentiev's phenomenon are compared with the solutions found by other methods and solvers. We conclude that Guseinov's method presents better solutions in most of the cases studied.
description: 16 pages, 4 figures
Gating Walls and Bridging Gaps: Validity in Language Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Creators: name: Badon, Linda C.
name: Oller, Stephen D.
name: Yan, Ruixia
name: Oller, John W.
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2005

description: Theoreticians and practitioners often speak as though classrooms and clinics were located outside the real world, but this is not so. The demand for the teaching, learning, and assessment of English language proficiency for international pilots and air traffic controllers is just one practical example touching almost everyone in the world that shows that contexts of actual language use are invariably in the real world just as learners and teachers are. From actual instances of discourse processing, in some cases with life or death consequences, it follows that judgments of validity, like those of ordinary truth, involve the dynamic interactions of persons, sign systems, and variable content in real contexts. Studies of so-called task-based performance assessment (in various forms and by other names) afford many ways to connect teaching, learning, and assessment. The authenticity, representativeness, and consequent generalizability of teaching, learning, and assessment tasks depends on their incorporation of the sign systems, social actions, and realia found in actual contexts of discourse. While codes, contexts, and interactions must be distinguished in theory, in practice they interact holistically. Our theories need to accommodate and account for the synergistic interactions.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2005)
What Cognitive Processes Are Triggered by Input Enhancement?
Creators: name: Combs, Charles Homer
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: Recently in Second Language Acquisition research much attention has been focused upon the cognitive mechanisms that underpin learner processing of input. In studies of how second language instruction has an effect on L2 learner’s subsequent processing of input, researchers have examined how external manipulation of input can affect intake and subsequent learning. In this literature review, input enhancement (an instantiation of manipulated input) will be examined in light of current cognitive psychological models of attention and memory. After reviewing current models of attention and memory as they pertain to SLA, previous input enhancement studies will be analyzed in order to see how input enhancement could affect L2 learner processing. Particular attention will be paid to the potential triggering effects of input enhancement as well as its impact upon second language learning.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 3 (2004)
Additional file 1 of Frequency of pleural effusion in dengue patients by severity, age and imaging modality: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Kaagaard, Molly D.
name: Matos, Luan Oliveira
name: Evangelista, Marliton V. P.
name: Wegener, Alma
name: Holm, Anna Engell
name: Vestergaard, Lasse S.
name: Do Valle, Suiane C. N.
name: Silvestre, Odilson M.
name: Lacerda, Marcus Vinícius Guimarães
name: de Souza, Rodrigo Medeiros
name: Barreto dos Santos, Flavia
name: Biering-Sørensen, Tor
name: Brainin, Philip
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Chiral magnetization of non-Abelian vacuum: a lattice study
Creators: name: Buividovich, P. V.
name: Chernodub, M. N.
name: Luschevskaya, E. V.
name: Polikarpov, M. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The chiral magnetization properties of cold and hot vacua are studied using quenched simulations in lattice Yang-Mills theory. In weak external magnetic fields the magnetization is proportional to the first power of the magnetic field. We evaluate numerically the coefficient of the proportionality (the chiral susceptibility) using near-zero eigenmodes of overlap fermions. We found that the product of the chiral susceptibility and the chiral condensate equals to 46(3) MeV. This value is very close to the phenomenological value of 50 MeV. In strong fields the magnetization is a nonlinear function of the applied magnetic field. We find that the nonlinear features of the magnetization are well described by an inverse tangent function. The magnetization is weakly sensitive to temperature in the confinement phase.
description: 8 pages, 3 figures, uses elsarticle style; revision: factorization checked numerically, references added, published version
PRODUCTIVITY OF RASPBERRY VARIETIES
Creators: name: Zuftarov, Erkin
name: Islamov, Sokhib
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This article examines the productivity indicators of raspberry varieties grown in the conditions of Uzbekistan. The average weight of fruits of raspberry varieties, the weight of the largest fruits, the weight of 100 fruits, the yield per bush and the productivity per hectare were analyzed.
Supplementary document for Rapid and label-free urine test based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for non-invasive detection of colorectal cancer at different stages - 4876020.pdf
Creators: name: Lin, Jinyong
name: Lin, Xueliang
name: Wu, Qiong
name: Quan, Kerun
name: Cheng, Yanming
name: Zheng, Mingzhi
name: Xu, Jiaying
name: Dai, Yitao
name: Qiu, Hejin
name: Lin, Duo
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2020
Subjects: Uncategorized
Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

description: Two canonical discriminant functions and the Classification results of SERS spectra prediction of the three urine types in validation dataset
On the Relationship between Aptitude and Intelligence in Second Language Acquisition
Creators: name: Teepen, Jim
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: Better understanding of the varied factors that account for successful second language acquisition is a goal that is of obvious interest to anyone within the field of language study. Before the influence of these factors can be adequately understood, of course, they must be defined and utilized in an accurate and consistent way. This paper endeavors to explore and clarify the ambiguity surrounding usage of the terms intelligence and aptitude in second language acquisition in effort to understand the more central issue of how the qualities designated by these terms relate to second language acquisition. This should enable a clearer picture to emerge about the relative importance of intelligence and aptitude among the constellation of factors associated with second language acquisition.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 3 (2004)
McKay correspondence and the branching law for finite subgroups of $\mathbf{SL}_3\mathbb{C}$
Creators: name: Butin, Frédéric
name: Perets, Gadi S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22E46; 17B10; 17B67; 20F55

description: Given $Γ$ a finite subgroup of $\mathbf{SL}_3\mathbb{C}$, we determine how an arbitrary finite dimensional irreducible representation of $\mathbf{SL}_3\mathbb{C}$ decomposes under the action of $Γ$. To the subgroup $Γ$ we attach a generalized Cartan matrix $C_Γ$. Then, inspired by B. Kostant, we decompose the Coxeter element of the Kac-Moody algebra attached to $C_Γ$ as a product of reflections of a special form, thereby suggesting an algebraic form for the McKay correspondence in dimension 3.
description: 32 pages
title: Spatial Perception and Integration of the Interior and Exterior Environments
Creators: name: Howard, Eric Don
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2001

description: My course of study, which focused on spatial perception and integration of the interior and exterior environments, has fulfilled my expectations completely. The underlying premise of my personal design philosophy is the idea of integrating the man-made environment with the natural environment. I felt before I undertook this specialized coursework, and feel so even more now, that there is much to learn about the multitude of effects -- therapeutic, emotional, psychological and experiential, to name a few -- that designed spaces have on people.
Gender in Interruptive Turns at Talk-In-Interaction
Creators: name: Reznik, Deirdre
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: In this paper, gender and its role in interruptive turns at talk-in-interaction are examined. Research on the topic of gender in interaction and gender and interruption reflects a tension between essentialist and contextual views. Using the research methods of conversation analysis, this paper examines interruptions in a transcript of a conversation between a male and a female speaker. This examination of the form and function of the interruptions appears to support the idea that gender as a construct is situated rather than fixed.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 3 (2004)
Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning
Creators: name: Wiseman, Cynthia
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: There seems to be an ever-widening gap between practitioners and researchers: a disconnect that never seems to close. This relationship--or perhaps lack of relationship--was perhaps no better evidenced than in one of the opening colloquia at TESOL 2004 Long Beach. Panelists included Diane Larsen-Freeman, Patricia Duff, and David Nunan, among others. These researchers have long been active in our field and have held leadership roles in the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) as well as in TESOL. The panelists addressed the concerns of many TESOLers on the relationship between AAAL and TESOL.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2004)
Cross-Correlation between UHECR Arrival Distribution and Large-Scale Structure
Creators: name: Takami, Hajime
name: Nishimichi, Takahiro
name: Yahata, Kazuhiro
name: Sato, Katsuhiko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate correlation between the arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe by using statistical quantities which can find the angular scale of the correlation. The Infrared Astronomical Satellite Point Source Redshift Survey (IRAS PSCz) catalog of galaxies is adopted for LSS. We find a positive correlation of the highest energy events detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO) with the IRAS galaxies inside $z=0.018$ within the angular scale of $\sim 15^{\circ}$. This positive correlation observed in the southern sky implies that a significant fraction of the highest energy events comes from nearby extragalactic objects. We also analyze the data of the Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (AGASA) which observed the northern hemisphere, but the obvious signals of positive correlation with the galaxy distribution are not found. Since the exposure of the AGASA is smaller than the PAO, the cross-correlation in the northern sky should be tested using a larger number of events detected in the future. We also discuss the correlation using the all-sky combined data sets of both the PAO and AGASA, and find a significant correlation within $\sim 8^{\circ}$. These angular scales can constrain several models of intergalactic magnetic field. These cross-correlation signals can be well reproduced by a source model in which the distribution of UHECR sources is related to the IRAS galaxies.
description: 21 pages,7 figures
title: Gambling with Momentum: How Gambling Cultures Shape Financial Markets
Creators: name: Mosman, Daniel
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: Do people who gamble carry such preferences into their investments? This study looks at various factors which are used to identify countries with a significant gambling population, and seeks to find a relationship with those gambling tendencies and premiums associated with momentum. From historical market data from financial markets in 45 different countries I found stronger evidence of a momentum premium in those countries which have those identifying factors for gambling, than those that do not. Results of the regression analysis suggest weak evidence that it is possible that the momentum premium could be associated with gambling preferences and culture due to the hot hand fallacy. Meaning, when gamblers see a stock get hot they will double down, believing they exercise an illusion of control that the stock they invest in will continue to have positive returns.
title: Quantitative Easing: Money Supply and the Commodity Prices of Oil, Gold, and Wheat
Creators: name: Kasteler, Aaron
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: The recent financial crisis has raised awareness among the public regarding the role the Federal Reserve has in the broader economy, primarily as it pertains to overall price levels, and especially to commodities. Has the implementation of quantitative easing had an effect on underlying commodity prices and, if so, to what degree? Specifically, has the rise in the money supply created a subsequent rise in prices that are transferred onto the end consumer? This paper surveys the recent empirical evidence of the policy of quantitative easing as it relates to the money supply and commodity prices. It then uses this evidence to analyze the macroeconomic effect of this policy on such prices. It is concluded that this form of quantitative easing has had an impact on overall commodity prices and that the long-term results of this policy are as yet undecided. This paper ends with a discussion of the potential avenues of research that may be pursued in the future to expand the understanding of money supply and the use of quantitative easing as a viable instrument of monetary policy.
Bilingual Children’s Language and Literacy Development
Creators: name: Kwon, Eun-Young
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: If asked to name a place that typifies issues in multicultural and multilingual pedagogy, few educators worldwide would think first of New Zealand. Yet in a world of increasing globalization, where many of us are forced to put English first while striving to preserve and respect the cultural and linguistic distinctiveness of our own or our students’ ethnicities, New Zealand presents an instructive case study. Long submerged under the dominant Englishspeaking Pakeha (euro-New Zealand) culture, the indigenous language of the Maori people foundered until a recent movement for cultural recognition brought it into the foreground of national consciousness. During roughly the same period, since a 1987 change in the immigration law, New Zealand has experienced dramatic changes in its cultural and linguistic landscape. Most notably, a significant influx of Pacific islanders and Asians of various nationalities has led to the presence of a range of new cultural communities and to a major challenge for New Zealand’s schools.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2004)
Additional file 1 of Efficacy of disease management program used among patients with chronic heart failure: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis
Creators: name: Duan, Yongjie
name: Li, Zongren
name: Zhong, Qin
name: Rao, Chongyou
name: Hua, Yun
name: Wu, Rilige
name: Dong, Jing
name: Li, Da
name: Wang, Wenjun
name: He, Kunlun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Materials. A. Components of heart failure management plan in this study. B. The specific search strategy for different database.
Study Protocol: Asymptomatic Intracranial Atherosclerotic Disease in Pakistanis
Creators: name: Zeenat Qureshi Stroke Institutes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Conflict of Interest—None declared. Background—Intracranial atherosclerotic disease (ICAD) is the most frequent subtype of ischemic stroke globally. It is important to describe the determinants of early ICAD as a strategy to prevent strokes from clinically evident and progressive ICAD. Our objective is to report the determinants of asymptomatic ICAD by linking the presence or absence of ICAD on magnetic resonance angiogram (MRA) with detailed risk assessment in asymptomatic adults. Methods—This is an observational cross-sectional analytical study. We plan to recruit 200 adult participants from the radiology departments of two tertiary care centers of Karachi, Pakistan. The participants will first be screened for the absence of stroke symptoms via the Questionnaire for Verifying Stroke Free Status (QVSFS). QVSFS negative will be participants will be eligible. After written informed consent, participants will undergo detailed medical, sociodemographic, lifestyle, and anthropometric evaluation by a detailed interview. They will, in addition, undergo MRA to study the presence, degree, and distribution of asymptomatic ICAD. All MRA scans will be reviewed centrally by vascular neurologists blinded to clinical information. These images would be reviewed on DICOM Viewer 3.0 used for calculating the degree of stenosis using Warfarin–Aspirin Symptomatic Intracranial Disease (WASID) study defined criteria employing electronic calipers. A sample size of 200 will achieve 80% power for detecting a minimum difference of 20% in the prevalence of exposure factors (medical and lifestyle) between asymptomatic ICAD
Magnetic and Electric Black Holes in Arbitrary Dimension
Creators: name: Belhaj, Adil
name: Diaz, Pablo
name: segui, Antonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we compare two different objects: electric black holes and magnetic black holes in arbitrary dimension. The comparison is made in terms of the corresponding moduli space and their extremal geometries. We treat parallelly the magnetic and the electric cases. Specifically, we discuss the gravitational solution of these spherically symmetric objects in the presence of a positive cosmological constant. Then, we find the bounded region of the moduli space allowing the existence of black holes. After identifying it in both the electric and the magnetic case, we calculate the geometry that comes out between the horizons at the coalescence points. Although the electric and magnetic cases are both very different (only dual in four dimensions), gravity solutions seem to clear up most of the differences and lead to very similar geometries.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures, latex
title: Experiences and Perceptions of Human Vulnerability to Climate Change in Calakmul, Mexico
Creators: name: Green, Lisa
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: This report explores how residents of Calakmul, Mexico perceive and experience their own vulnerability to climate change, and how these perceptions and experiences are differentiated among communities, households, and individuals. Fifty-five semi-structured interviews in 2013 and 45 follow-up interviews in 2016 provide data on familiarity with climate change and perceived effects of climate-related stressors on livelihood activities, health, and experiences of hunger. We found that coping responses to the effects of climate change often require cash inputs, and communities are differentiated in their experiences of vulnerability, based in part on their access to wage labor and importantly governmental support.
Issues of Validity in the Assessment of Writing Performance
Creators: name: Tsai, Constance Hui Ling
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: According to Weigle (2002), any writing test that involves actual writing, as opposed to completing selected response or limited production items, can be considered performance assessment. McNamara (1996) proposed distinguishing between a strong sense and a weak sense of performance assessment. In a second language (L2) writing test in the strong sense, the test task will represent a real-world task like making an official request, and performance will primarily be judged on real-world criteria. The focus of performance assessment is on the successful fulfillment of the task, and not on the successful use of language in performing the writing task. The L2 is only a medium of the performance and an insufficient condition for success. In fact, if aspects of L2 writing ability are stressed at all, criteria reflecting L2 writing ability will only be part of a larger set of criteria used. Performance of the task itself is the target of the assessment (Messick, 1994). In the weak sense of performance assessment, the focus of the assessment is on the language used. Although the task used to elicit writing may resemble real-world tasks, the purpose is to elicit a display of writing ability.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2004)
title: Herbert B. Maw as Governor of Utah
Creators: name: Setmire, John C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1966

description: Herbert B. Maw, like many other Utahn’s, is a self-made man, a poor boy who sold newspapers from the age of ten to fifteen, and worked nights to put himself through college. He graduated from the University of Utah in 1923 with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree, and in 1926 he obtained a Master’s Degree from Northwestern University. Maw received his Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1927 from Northwestern University, and in the same year he was elected to the Utah Senate on the Democratic ticket. In 1934 Maw ran for the United States Senate and lost the election, however, in the same year he was elected President of the Utah Senate, an office which he held until he left that legislative body in 1938, after serving for eleven years. While in the senate, Maw became the champion of progressive legislation in the fields of labor, social security, utility control, and political reform, such as the direct primary. Regular party leaders disliked Maw and his progressive movement. They claimed that by his amiable manner, his ability to speak (he was a professor of speech at the University of Utah), and his emotional appeal, he exploited an element of discontent purely for political and personal advantage.
An Overview of Portfolio-based Writing Assessment
Creators: name: Park, Taejoon
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: The notion of portfolio-based assessment began to attract attention around the mid-1980s as a reaction against the psychometric climate prevailing at the time. In the United States in the 1980s, there was growing concern about declining educational standards. This atmosphere led to intense pressure to place more emphasis on testing as a means of raising standards, in accordance with the belief that the more students are tested, the more they will be motivated to improve efforts and performance. Elbow and Belandoff (1997), in looking back on that period, noted that “in retrospect, what was striking was urgent and growing pressure for assessment, assessment, assessment: test everything and everyone for a score; don’t trust teachers” (pp. 22-23). In fields like composition, in particular, this view of testing was seen as counterproductive to the whole process of teaching and learning the complex, multifaceted skill of writing. As a result, many composition specialists began to search for ways of measuring student writing that would be more consistent with the emerging process approach to writing, allowing other views of student writing than the single, timed test, usually placed at the end of a writing course.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2004)
Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy from the ordinal viewpoint
Creators: name: Keller, Karsten
name: Sinn, Mathieu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the case of ergodicity much of the structure of a one-dimensional time-discrete dynamical system is already determined by its ordinal structure. We generally discuss this phenomenon by considering the distribution of ordinal patterns, which describe the up and down in the orbits of a Borel measurable map on a subset of the real numbers. In particular, we give a natural ordinal description of Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of a large class of one-dimensional dynamical systems and relate Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy to the permutation entropy recently introduced by Bandt and Pompe.
description: 10 pages
Issues of Validity and Reliability in Second Language Performance Assessment
Creators: name: Liao, Yen-Fen
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: With an increasing practical need for language tests that can provide predictive information about how successfully a candidate will perform in a non-testing setting, second language performance assessment has recently aroused immense interest in the field of language testing. Of the many issues involved in performance assessment, validity and reliability in particular have been of great concern to language testers and educators. In this regard, it is the intent of this commentary to briefly discuss the issues of validity and reliability in the context of second language performance assessment.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2004)