cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Illuminating (dis)enlightenment : critical media literacy and/or conspiracy theories?
Creators: name: Takeda, Yuya
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: The point of departure of this dissertation is the striking similarities between the dispositions critical media literacy education aims to cultivate and the characteristics conspiracy theorists claim to embody. The golden question of critical literacy, “who benefits?” is in fact the central question of conspiracy theorists: “cui bono?” While critical media literacy educators teach learners to disrupt the common sense, to interrogate multiple viewpoints, to focus on sociopolitical issues, and to take actions and promote social justice (Lewison et al., 2002), conspiracy theorists claim that they do exactly those things (Harambam, 2020). The question, however, is not demarcating “critical” from “conspiratorial,” but “desirable” from “undesirable” exercises of critical reading and writing. This is because the former demarcation presupposes the undesirability of conspiracy theorizing, the danger of which is evident from the fact that actual conspiracies take place rather frequently in politics and, thus, stigmatization of conspiracy theorizing makes it easier for conspirators to get away with their conspiracies (Pigden, 2007). To demarcate educationally desirable from undesirable enactments of critical reading and writing, this dissertation embarks on dialectical investigations of analysis, critique, and argument. The analysis part consists of discourse analysis of educational YouTube videos on conspiracy theories. With this, I identify the ways in which conspiracy theories are constructed in educational discourse and highlight the reductive sense of rationality promoted in it. In the critique part, such a reductive sense of rationality is criticized. Through a conceptual examination of meanings, care, and values, I highlight the limitations of the overreliance on scientific objectivity and facts in the discussion of conspiracy theories and claim that literacy education ought to pay attention to the centrality of meanings and values in the textual genre of conspiracy theories. In the argument part, drawing on Robert Brandom’s (1994, 2019) inferentialism with an existentialist spin, I argue for an educational approach that is capable of accounting for conspiracy theories in terms not only of epistemic matters of facts but also of axiological matters of concern. Through this, I offer my answer to the demarcation question and discuss educational implications that arise from it.
Screening-Induced Transport at Finite Temperature in Bilayer Graphene
Creators: name: Lv, Min
name: Wan, Shaolong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the temperature-dependent charge carrier transport of bilayer graphene (BLG) impacted by Coulomb impurity scattering within the random phase approximation. We find the polarizability is equal to the density of states at zero momentum transfer and is enhanced by a factor $\log{4}$ at large momentum transfer for arbitrary temperature. The sharp cusp of static polarizability at $q=2k_F$, due to the strong backward scattering, would be smooth by the increasing temperatures. We also obtain the asymptotic behaviors of conductivity of BLG at low and high temperature, and find it turns from a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) like linear temperature metallic behavior to a single layer graphene (SLG) like quadratic temperature insulating behavior as the temperature increases.
description: 18 pages, 11 figures
Task-based Performance Assessment for Teachers: Key Issues to Consider
Creators: name: Kim, Hyunjoo
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: In the last two decades or so, the tenets of communicative language teaching with their strong emphasis on students’ ability to use language in real-life situations have taken hold in foreign and second language classrooms. Accordingly, task-based language instruction that employs communicative tasks as the basic unit of analysis for motivating syllabus design and L2 classroom activities has received increasing recognition. As the primary goal in language instruction is shifted from an object of study to a system of communication, the need to assess students’ ability to use the language communicatively has been raised, and performance assessment, including task-based assessment, has become more and more popular.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2004)
title: Henry H. Blood as Governor of Utah
Creators: name: Setmire, John C.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1966

description: Henry Hooper Blood was born in Kaysville, Utah, on October l, 1872, to William and Jane Wilkie Blood. Henry Blood, who became Governor of Utah in 1932, obtained his basic education in Davie County and completed it at Brigham Young University. He served as a Mormon missionary in England from 1901 to 1903. In 1917, Governor Simon Ramberger appointed Blood to the Utah Public Utilities Commission, which began his career aa a public servant. He served in this capacity for four years, and in 1922 became a member of the newly created State Road Commission by the appointment of Governor Charles Mabey. When George Dern became governor in 1925, Blood presided as chairman of the road commission. Through this chairmanship he became known in every section of the state and gained knowledge that enabled him to administer Utah's affairs during the depression years.
Embelin: a multifaceted anticancer agent with translational potential in targeting tumor progression and metastasis
Creators: name: Kamath, Adithya Jayaprakash
name: Chandy, Alda Sara
name: Joseph, Aina Ann
name: Gorantla, Jaggiah N.
name: Donadkar, Asawari Dilip
name: Nath, Lekshmi R.
name: Sharifi-Rad, Javad
name: Calina, Daniela
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2023
Subjects: Embelin
Embelia ribes
cancer
antitumor mechanisms
bioavailability
toxicity of Embelin

description: Embelin, a natural para-benzoquinone product, is derived from plants of the Embelia genus, particularly Embelia ribes Burm.f. A staple in traditional medicinal formulations for centuries, Embelin's pharmacological actions are attributed to the hydroxyl benzoquinone present in its structure. Its therapeutic potential is bolstered by unique physical and chemical properties. Recently, Embelin, recognized as a non-peptidic, cell-permeable small inhibitor of the X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein (XIAP), has garnered significant attention for its anticancer activity. It demonstrates various anticancer mechanisms, such as apoptosis induction, cell cycle arrest, and autophagy, in different cancer types. Additionally, Embelin modulates several signal transduction pathways, including NF-κB, PI3Kinase/AKT, and STAT3, effectively inhibiting the proliferation of diverse cancer cell lines. This literature review illuminates the anticancer potential of Embelin, detailing its mechanisms of action and prospective clinical applications, based on relevant scientific literature from the past decade sourced from various electronic databases.
description: EXCLI Journal; 22:Doc1311; ISSN 1611-2156
title: Dynamics of War: Culture, Society, Environment, and Pedagogy
Creators: name: Jacobsen, Breanne
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: War is an ever-present feature of human civilization. Nearly all cultures and societies show accounts of human conflict. This portfolio seeks to provide both a multidimensional analysis of war and a means of instructing students to appreciate its significance as a driving force of history using three different components.
The syllabus project provides a long-term view of how the various wars and conflicts came to be and progressed in Western Civilization in the modern era.
The chapter-length paper shows the ravaging effects that war and conflict can have on a physical landscape and the environment in which the conflict takes place. Case studies of the battles of Moscow and Kursk in the Soviet Union are used to show that while war has a great impact on nature, the environment of an area can also greatly impact the progression and outcome of battles and even entire war efforts.
The digital timeline of American consumption during the Second World War provides an understanding of war through a different perspective, showing how war can affect domestic as well as foreign populations.
This portfolio intends to illustrate the complexity of conflict and war in human history and the many consequences that accompany war throughout historical accounts. While the syllabus shows the long-term effects of war over a vast amount of time, the paper and the timeline project show the direct consequences of warfare on citizens, food production and management, and the effected environment. As a whole, this portfolio seeks to further our understanding of war and its impact on humanity.
Corrective Feedback and Learner Uptake in Adult ESL Classrooms
Creators: name: Suzuki, Mikiko
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: This article presents a study investigating the relationship between corrective feedback and learner uptake in adult ESL classrooms. Inspired by Lyster and Ranta (1997), the present study describes and analyzes the patterns of corrective feedback and learner uptake, observed in a different context from that of Lyster and Ranta’s study. The database consists of 21 hours of interaction between three ESL teachers and thirty-one adult ESL students. The interaction was audiotaped and transcribed, and then coded according to Lyster and Ranta’s corrective discourse model. The results show both similarities and differences to those in Lyster and Ranta’s study. While the distribution of types of corrective feedback following learner errors showed no major difference from that reported by Lyster and Ranta, the ratio of uptake following certain corrective feedback types greatly differed from their results. Possible accounts for the differences in the results are discussed from the aspects of the classroom setting, students’ ages and their motivation of participating in the language learning programs, teachers’ experience, and the target language.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2004)
Additional file 1 of Digital traces of brain drain: developers during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Creators: name: Wachs, Johannes
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases

description: Supplementary information (PDF 113 kB)
Constraints of Implicit Focus on Form: Insights from a Study of Input Enhancement
Creators: name: Park, Eun Sung
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: Previous research on implicit focus on form (FonF) has shown that target forms are not always noticed by learners, suggesting that externally-created salience (by the teacher) does not necessarily guarantee learners’ internally-generated salience (Sharwood Smith, 1991, 1993). In an attempt to explore ways of promoting both types of salience, an input enhancement study was conducted in order to examine if, and how, externally-created salience may ideally converge with learners’ internally-generated salience. The results revealed that increasing the perceptual salience of target form(s) does not automatically lead to learners’ noticing of the form(s). In addition, the findings suggest that noticing is largely dependent on internal, cognitive factors such as learner readiness (vis-à-vis the target form), knowledge of the first language, and L2 language-learning experience. Based on the results and insights gathered from online protocol data, a number of constraining factors that need to be considered a priori in achieving a successful focus on form are identified and discussed. In particular, the current study underscores the importance of respecting learner-internal factors, such as their developmental readiness and their internal agenda for learning.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2004)
Inhomogeneous Fixed Point Ensembles Revisited
Creators: name: Wegner, Franz J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The density of states of disordered systems in the Wigner-Dyson classes approaches some finite non-zero value at the mobility edge, whereas the density of states in systems of the chiral and Bogolubov-de Gennes classes shows a divergent or vanishing behavior in the band centre. Such types of behavior were classified as homogeneous and inhomogeneous fixed point ensembles within a real-space renormalization group approach. For the latter ensembles the scaling law $μ=dν-1$ was derived for the power laws of the density of states $ρ\propto|E|^μ$ and of the localization length $ξ\propto|E|^{-ν}$. This prediction from 1976 is checked against explicit results obtained meanwhile.
description: Submitted to 'World Scientific' for the volume 'Fifty Years of Anderson Localization'. 12 pages
Issues of Corrective Feedback in Second Language Acquisition
Creators: name: Kim, Ji Hyun
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: For decades now, questions about the role of corrective feedback in second language acquisition (SLA) have been hotly debated, spawning a great deal of theoretical and empirical research. Although the facilitative role of corrective feedback in SLA has received some empirical support, the claims regarding its impact on SLA have yet to be fully or decisively substantiated. In order to move this line of research forward, it is important to examine the issues arising in the SLA literature. To this end, this paper aims to review and discuss the literature throwing light on three major issues: (1) learners’ noticing of feedback, (2) potential mismatches between teachers’ intentions and learners’ interpretations, and (3) the role of different types of implicit corrective feedback.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2004)
Channel Capacities versus Entanglement Measures in Multiparty Quantum States
Creators: name: De, Aditi Sen
name: Sen, Ujjwal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For quantum states of two subsystems, entanglement measures are related to capacities of communication tasks -- highly entangled states give higher capacity of transmitting classical as well as quantum information. However, we show that this is no more the case in general: quantum capacities of multi-access channels, motivated by communication in quantum networks, do not have any relation with genuine multiparty entanglement measures. Along with revealing the structural richness of multi-access channel capacities, this gives us a tool to classify multiparty quantum states from the perspective of its usefulness in quantum networks, which cannot be visualized by known multiparty entanglement measures.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures, RevTeX4; v2: minor changes, some implications strengthened
title: Социальные основы государственного и муниципального управления
title: Учебно-методическое пособие
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Яковлева М.А.
Publisher: name: Московский педагогический государственный университет
Year: 2019

description: В учебно-методическом пособии рассмотрены социальные аспекты государственного и муниципального управления. Раскрываются подходы, направленные на совершенствование системы управления, и способы управленческого воздействия на общество. Показано создание адекватных современным требованиям механизмов взаимодействия государства и общества и возможности принятия управленческих решений, направленных на достижение социальных результатов. Представлены основные участники и социальные институты государственного и муниципального управления. Содержание учебно-методического пособия соответствует актуальным требованиям Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования 2018 года по направлению подготовки 39.03.01 Социология и может быть рекомендовано в качестве пособия всем обучающимся. Учебно-методическое пособие адресовано бакалаврам, изучающим социологию, а также всем интересующимся социальными механизмами и способами управленческого воздействия на общество.
description: In the educational-methodical book discusses the social aspects of state and municipal management. Reveal approaches to improve the management system, and the methods of administrative influence on the society. Shows the creation of adequate to the modern requirements of mechanisms of interaction between state and society and the possibility of making management decisions aimed at achieving social results. Presents the main actors and social institutions of state and municipal management. The content of the teaching AIDS meet the current requirements of Federal state educational standard of higher education in 2018 in the direction of training 39.03.01 Sociology and can be recommended as a benefit to all students. Textbook addressed to undergraduate students of sociology and those interested in social mechanisms and methods of administrative influence on the society.
Additional file 1 of BMSC-derived extracellular vesicles intervened the pathogenic changes of scleroderma in mice through miRNAs
Creators: name: Jin, Jiahui
name: Ou, Qingjian
name: Wang, Zhe
name: Tian, Haibin
name: Xu, Jing-Ying
name: Gao, Furong
name: Hu, Shuqin
name: Chen, Jie
name: Wang, Juan
name: Zhang, Jieping
name: Lu, Lixia
name: Jin, Caixia
name: Xu, Guo-Tong
name: Zhao, Jingjun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Fig. 1. GO analysis of the DEGs between BLM-induced SSc and control skin and between EV-treated and control skin. (a-b) GO Chord analysis results showing the Gene Ontology functions of differentially expressed genes between BLM-induced SSc skin and normal skin (a) and between BMSC-EV-treated skin and normal skin (b).
Filtering Algorithms for the Multiset Ordering Constraint
Creators: name: Frisch, Alan
name: Hnich, Brahim
name: Kiziltan, Zeynep
name: Miguel, Ian
name: Walsh, Toby
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Constraint programming (CP) has been used with great success to tackle a wide variety of constraint satisfaction problems which are computationally intractable in general. Global constraints are one of the important factors behind the success of CP. In this paper, we study a new global constraint, the multiset ordering constraint, which is shown to be useful in symmetry breaking and searching for leximin optimal solutions in CP. We propose efficient and effective filtering algorithms for propagating this global constraint. We show that the algorithms are sound and complete and we discuss possible extensions. We also consider alternative propagation methods based on existing constraints in CP toolkits. Our experimental results on a number of benchmark problems demonstrate that propagating the multiset ordering constraint via a dedicated algorithm can be very beneficial.
An Interview with Dr. Lyle Bachman
Creators: name: Saito, Yoko
name: Wagner, Elvis
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: Teachers College, Columbia University Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics wouldBachman photo like to introduce The Web Journal Interview: a series of informal conversations with prominent figures in the field of TESOL and Applied Linguistics. For our inaugural interview, we had the honor of speaking with Dr. Lyle Bachman, who was recently awarded the International Language Testing Association (ILTA) “Lifetime Achievement Award” in language testing. Dr. Bachman spoke with assistant editors Yoko Saito and Elvis Wagner on the eve of the 2004 Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC) in Temecula, California.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2004)
title: Nature & Nation: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks
Creators: name: Jacobson, Valerie
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: CCC experiences have been written about other camps and areas across the United States, however, an in depth look at the CCC involvement in Zion and Bryce has not been attempted. The CCC camps in Zion and Bryce created a mark on the landscape through the projects and improvements, but also left a mark on the “boys” who were in the program. The experiences and projects the young men did with the CCC altered the land in the parks in southern Utah. The changes included new or improved trail systems in the park, better roads and maintenance, soil and erosion control along the Virgin River in Zion, and campgrounds in both parks. Zion National Park benefitted with the construction of the lecture circle for presentations at the park and the maintenance of trails. Bryce Canyon National Park benefitted through observation points and trails in the park. Their experiences and recollections of the CCC were a welcome chance at an income source for both the “boys” and their families. Oral histories are a unique and interesting way to gather information and experiences about a certain area or time-period. This project used oral histories, collected at a CCC reunion in 1989, to describe the landscape of the parks in southern Utah. Understanding CCC projects and experiences in Utah contributes to the larger picture of how and why the CCC was such a successful and beneficial program for the United States.
Multiscaling in the YX model of networks
Creators: name: Holme, Petter
name: Wu, Zhi-Xi
name: Minnhagen, Petter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a Hamiltonian model of networks. The model is a mirror formulation of the XY model (hence the name) -- instead letting the XY spins vary, keeping the coupling topology static, we keep the spins conserved and sample different underlying networks. Our numerical simulations show complex scaling behaviors, but no finite-temperature critical behavior. The ground state and low-order excitations for sparse, finite graphs is a fragmented set of isolated network clusters. Configurations of higher energy are typically more connected. The connected networks of lowest energy are stretched out giving the network large average distances. For the finite sizes we investigate there are three regions -- a low-energy regime of fragmented networks, and intermediate regime of stretched-out networks, and a high-energy regime of compact, disordered topologies. Scaling up the system size, the borders between these regimes approach zero temperature algebraically, but different network structural quantities approach their T=0-values with different exponents.
title: Stratigraphy, Petrology, and Paleontology of the Late Cretaceous Campanian Mesaverde Group in Northeastern Utah
Creators: name: Ward, Christopher
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: This project examines a poorly studied sandstone ridge called Snake John Reef located 22 miles southeast of Vernal, in northeastern Utah. Previously this ridge was mapped as exposures of late Cretaceous, undifferentiated Mesaverde Group, and recently unidentified dinosaur fossils have been found along the ridge by the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum. Stratigraphic sections, petrographic thin sections, and collection and study of fossils from Snake John Reef were undertaken to understand the stratigraphic relationship as well as to reconstruct the depositional environment of the dinosaur bearing units. Snake John Reef represents exposures of three late Cretaceous formations, the lower Sego Sandstone, middle Iles Formation, and upper Williams Fork Formation which can be diagnosed on differences in lithology. The units are capped by an unconformity with the Eocene Colton Formation. Fossil shark teeth (Scapanorhynchus, Cretolamna, and Squalicorax) are found in the lower Sego Sandstone, while dinosaur bones are located in the middle Iles Formation, and represent fragmentary but provisionally identified bones of ornithischian and tyrannosaurid dinosaurs. Fossil conifers (Geinitzia sp.) were also found in the Iles Formation, while fossil wood bored by Teredo (shipworms) is found in the upper Williams Fork Formation indicating close proximity to the ocean. This shows a marine to terrestrial transitional sequence, and an overall regression of the coastline. Petrographic study of the sandstone units indicate that they are best classified as calclithites composed of crystalline limestone with bituminous coal clasts. The absence of quartz grains indicate that the area represented a localized sediment starved coastal system, that may have been protected by barrier islands along a forested coastline. The presence of coal beds in the upper Williams Fork Formation indicate the presence of swamps higher in the section. Angularity of grains, abundance of poorly sorted fossil wood fragments, as well as sedimentary and paleontological evidence supports the interpretation that the coastline was prone to tropical storms that may have frequented the Western Interior Seaway during the Cretaceous Period. A major sequence boundary is found at the contact between the Sego Sandstone and Iles Formation representing a subaerial unconformity with an abundance of bioturbation 175.5 meters above the lower contact with the Mancos Shale. The Iles Formation represents a low stand system tract during a forced regression, with the upper Trout Creek Sandstone Member of the Iles Formation representing a short term transgressive system tract. In conclusion, the ridge along Snake John Reef presents a unique coastal depositional system during the final regression of the Western Interior Seaway that preserves dinosaur and plant fossils along a storm prone coastline during the Cretaceous.
ACMEOLOGICAL ART THERAPY: IMPROVING THE INTELLECTUAL AND CREATIVE ABILITY OF 5th CLASS TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS.
Creators: name: G'ulomova, Muxarram
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: This article analyzes the process of improving the intellectual and creative abilities of students based on acmeological art therapy, which is a current topic today, in technology science of the 5th grade. The article shows the importance of increasing the creative and intellectual development of students based on analyzes and researches from various scientific literature. The beginning of the article is made with verbal reasoning about how acmeological art therapy can affect the intellectual and creative development of students. A review of the specifics of technology science and details of how acmeological art therapy can be effective in 5th grade technology science are provided.
Additional file 1 of Implementing pharmacist-prescriber collaboration to improve evidence-based anticoagulant use: a randomized trial
Creators: name: Smith, Shawna N.
name: Lanham, Michael
name: Seagull, F. Jacob
name: Dorsch, Michael
name: Errickson, Josh
name: Barnes, Geoffrey D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1.
title: Efficiently representing the integer factorization problem using binary decision diagrams
Creators: name: Skidmore, David
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: Let p be a prime positive integer and let α be a positive integer greater than 1. A method is given to reduce the problem of finding a nontrivial factorization of α to the problem of finding a solution to a system of modulo p polynomial congruences where each variable in the system is constrained to the set {0,...,p − 1}. In the case that p = 2 it is shown that each polynomial in the system can be represented by an ordered binary decision diagram with size less than 20.25log2(α)3 + 16.5log2(α)2 + 6log2(α) whereas previous work on the subject has only produced systems in which at least one of the polynomials has an ordered binary decision diagram representation with size exponential in log2(α). Using a different approach based on the Chinese remainder theorem we prove that for α ≥ 4 there is an alternative system of boolean equations whose solutions correspond to nontrivial factorizations of α such that there exists a C > 0, independent of α, such that for any order σ on the variables in the system every function in the system can be represented by a σ-OBDD with size less than C log2(log2(α))2log2(α)4 .
Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts
Creators: name: Ganat, George
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: Post-modern, post-structural, and post-colonial thought have brought to the fore new and productive metaphors for understanding social life, challenging normative ideologies that restrict the deployment of certain personal identities. By surfacing implicit power relations traditionally accepted as common sense (Bourdieu, Foucault), locating fissures and intertextualities within discourses previously considered stable and coherent (Bakhtin, Derrida), and elucidating third spaces between dichotomous identity labels (Butler, Bhabha), critical thinkers in this vein have undermined the notion of an essentially stable self and encouraged exploration of social identity as a complex and shifting phenomenon. These commitments in turn offer profound critiques of socio-political structures in the name of liberating oppressed – or dispreferred – selves. However, with their inherently political stance and disregard for strict empirical inquiry, these discourses have simultaneously generated their own counter-productive biases and naiveties.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2004)
Instances of the Comparative Fallacy
Creators: name: Year, JungEun
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: The comparative fallacy, first termed by Bley-Vroman (1983), cautioned against the theoretically untenable comparison of second language (L2) learners’ linguistic systems to the target language norm. In other words, it warns that studies which examine interlanguage (IL) only in relation to the target grammar may hide a fuller, more complete picture of L2 learners’ internally systematic knowledge and result in an only partially correct or even misleading understanding of that knowledge (e.g., Bley-Vroman, 1983; Lakshmanan & Selinker, 2001). The purpose of this paper is to understand how the comparative fallacy may have a disastrous effect on investigations of IL. This paper begins with a brief discussion of the comparative fallacy. Then, it considers some instances of the comparative fallacy through a review of two empirical studies (Liu & Gleason, 2002 and Robertson, 2000). In this section, the focus is on (a) the use of obligatory context and (b) reliance on the notion of omission in data analysis. Finally, concluding comments address methodological issues that could help researchers avoid the comparative fallacy.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2004)
title: Healthcare Sector Stock Returns and the Election of Donald J. Trump
Creators: name: Hull, Cordell
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: The 2016 US Presidential Election was hallmarked by significant policy differences between the Democratic and Republican parties. Healthcare reform was one of the most significant and highly debated issues between the candidates; Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Donald J. Trump (R-NY). The Republican platform of repeal and replace was in direct opposition to the expansionary viewpoints of the Democratic Party which was to promote increased regulations on the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. The media narrative in the months preceding the election assumed a Democratic victory as a sure thing. The New York Times gave Hillary Clinton a 98.5% chance of victory at the beginning of election night, making the landslide victory of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton one of the greatest political upsets of the modern political era. In order to determine if market indicators were predicting a Republican victory in the election; we analyze financial performance of securities in the healthcare sector through standard event study techniques. In particular I use multivariate regression to calculate cumulative abnormal returns centered around varying time windows surrounding the Presidential Election. Financial data from 402 relevant healthcare firms is used in the analysis. Significant cumulative abnormal returns are observed for pharmaceutical/drug companies and healthcare companies in the event windows leading up to the election date. While negative in longer pre-event windows, returns become sharply positive on the days prior to the election. This is particularly true for pharmaceutical firms and healthcare stocks. Despite the prediction of Democrat victory in both the polls and in prediction markets, it is possible to show that the stock market accurately predicted a Republican victory in the General Election despite overwhelming odds indicating a Democrat victory.
Additional file 2 of BMSC-derived extracellular vesicles intervened the pathogenic changes of scleroderma in mice through miRNAs
Creators: name: Jin, Jiahui
name: Ou, Qingjian
name: Wang, Zhe
name: Tian, Haibin
name: Xu, Jing-Ying
name: Gao, Furong
name: Hu, Shuqin
name: Chen, Jie
name: Wang, Juan
name: Zhang, Jieping
name: Lu, Lixia
name: Jin, Caixia
name: Xu, Guo-Tong
name: Zhao, Jingjun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2: Supplemental Fig. 2. BMSC-derived EVs suppress the TGF-β1-induced myofibroblast differentiation of mouse fibroblasts. (a) Protein expression profiles of SSc-related ECM and inflammatory factors in vitro. (b) Proteins related to WNT signaling pathway and TGFβ signaling pathway activation.
Additional file 1 of Effects of a randomized controlled hiking intervention on daily activities, sleep, and stress among adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Anzman-Frasca, Stephanie
name: Drozdowsky, Julia
name: Zayatz, Callista
name: Holmbeck, Katherine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1
Additional file 2 of Effects of a randomized controlled hiking intervention on daily activities, sleep, and stress among adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Anzman-Frasca, Stephanie
name: Drozdowsky, Julia
name: Zayatz, Callista
name: Holmbeck, Katherine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 2
Establishment of the Center of Expertise in Big Geodata Science
Creators: name: Girgin, Serkan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: big data
big geospatial data
center of expertise
experience
know-how

description: The Center of Expertise in Big Geodata Science was established in March 2020, during the week Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) building was closed for the first time due to COVID-19. Like the circumstances of the time, the structure and embedding of the Center was also new to ITC. So besides strong signposts for the path to follow, there were also many unknowns. There still are. During the Geo-information Processing Department (ITC-GIP) Expertise Meeting, Serkan presented his experience and lessons learned during the first 18 months of the Center, which is now reaching the end of the initial phase with well-established core facilities serving ITC staff and students, active participation to research and capacity development activities, and a decent visibility both inside and outside ITC.
Temperature-invariant Casimir-Polder forces despite large thermal photon numbers
Creators: name: Ellingsen, Simen A.
name: Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi
name: Scheel, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate that Casimir-Polder potentials can be entirely independent of temperature even when allowing for the thermal photon numbers to become large at the relevant molecular transition frequencies. This statement holds for potentials that are due to low-energy transitions of a molecule placed near a plane metal surface. For a molecule in an energy eigenstate, the temperature-invariance is a consequence of strong cancellations between nonresonant potential components and those due to evanescent waves. For a molecule with a single dominant transition in a thermal state, upward and downward transitions combine to a temperature-independent potential. The results are contrasted with the case of an atom whose potential exhibits a regime of linear temperature-dependence. Contact to the Casimir force between a weakly dielectric and a metal plate is made.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
title: Efficient And Flexible Continuous Integration Infrastructure to Improve Software Development Process
Creators: name: Mun, Daehyeok
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: Continuous Integration (CI) is a popular software-engineering methodology for co-working between programmers. The key function of CI is to run, build and test tasks automatically when a programmer wants to share his or her code or implement a feature. The primary objectives of CI are to prevent growing integration problems, and to provide feedback with useful information for resolving these issues easily and quickly. Despite extensive academic research and popular services in the industry, such as TravisCI, CircleCI or Jenkins, there is practically have limitations, which result from limited available resources, including budget and low computing power. Moreover, the diversity of modern computer environments, such as different operating systems, libraries or disk sizes, memory, and network speeds, increase both the costs for CI and difficulties in finding bugs automatically in every cases. This study aims to propose supplemental external and internal methods to solve the above obstacles. First, our approach enables programmers to configure different execution environments such as memory and network bandwidth during CI services. Then, we introduce an enhanced CI infrastructure that can efficiently schedule CI services based on resource-profiling techniques and our time-based scheduling algorithm, thereby reducing the overall CI time. Our case studies show that the proposed approaches can report the resource usage information after completing a CI service as well as improve the performance of an existing CI infrastructure.
The Comparative Fallacy in Studies on Corrective Feedback
Creators: name: Suzuki, Mikiko
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: The concept of the comparative fallacy was introduced by Bley-Vroman (1983) in reference to interlanguage studies whose analytical concepts seemed to hinder the investigation of the nature of learners’ languages. To exemplify the comparative fallacy, he introduced the interlanguage study conducted by Tarone, Frauenfelder, and Selinker (hereafter TFS) (1976) and discussed the validity of what they attempted to measure – interlanguage systematicity and variability. In his discussion, Bley-Vroman criticized the attempt by TFS to reveal the systematicity of learners’ interlanguage from several angles. As a major criticism, Bley-Vroman pointed out that TFS’s measurement of learners’ systematic use of linguistic features was based only on obligatory or non-obligatory contexts from the perspective of native speakers of the learners’ L2. Bley-Vroman argued that interlanguage research must focus on the construction of a linguistic description of learners’ languages in their own right. In relation to this claim, Cook (1999) argued that second language teaching should be tailored to L2 learners’ actual needs with the L2, which would consequently deny the idea of having native speakers of the L2 serve as role models in teaching.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2004)
The Comparative Fallacy in SLA Research
Creators: name: Song, Sunhee
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: In most of the second language acquisition (SLA) research done in the 1960s and 1970s, the focus was either on errors defined in terms of the mature second language (L2) system, or on items regarded as having been adequately acquired when they were supplied 90 percent accurately in obligatory contexts. This made all the more important the early eighties warning issued to SLA researchers by Bley-Vroman (1983) as to the danger of falling into “the comparative fallacy”- that is, relying on theoretical constructs which are defined strictly in relation to the target language (TL) norm. He noted that “work on the linguistic description of learners’ language can be seriously hindered or sidetracked by a concern with the target language” (p. 2), thus suggesting that the learner’s internally-constructed second language is worthy of study in its own right, not just as a degenerate form of the target system. In other words, SLA researchers should not adopt a normative TL perspective, but rather seek to discover how an interlanguage (IL) structure that appears to be non-standard can nonetheless be used meaningfully by an L2 learner.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2004)
title: Business Development and Entrepreneurship on the Navajo Reservation
Creators: name: Hoffer, Sierra
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: In this paper, I explore the underdevelopment of the business sector on the Navajo reservation. I investigate why the Navajo reservation continues to be economically depressed and find that institutions unique to the reservation create barriers that disincentivize formal business development. I first conducted a literature review on general barriers to entrepreneurship. Second, I reviewed the institutional analysis of the Navajo reservation to understand how institutions affect potential entrepreneurs. Next, I summarized a three-phased entrepreneurship training program on the reservation. Finally, I assessed the results of the program and how it was effected by barriers to business development.
I conclude that there are three main barriers that discourage entrepreneurship. First, red tape and a complicated business license application process disincentivize new business development in the formal economy. Second, a lack of private property rights limit how entrepreneurs can access and develop land. Third, the Navajo reservation lacks access to lending opportunities, restricting the capital that is necessary to start a business. These barriers combine to create a vicious cycle of underdevelopment and poverty.
How to Avoid the Comparative Fallacy during Data Analysis: A Review of Doughty and Varela (1998) and Mackey (1999)
Creators: name: Révész, Andrea
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: The problem of the comparative fallacy, i.e., assessing the L2 learner against the native speaker in second language studies, was first addressed twenty years ago by Bley-Vroman (1983). In a critical review of the framework proposed by Tarone, Frauenfelder, and Selinker (1976) to study the issue of interlanguage systematicity and variability, Bley-Vroman demonstrated that the practice of employing analytical concepts defined in terms of the target language can seriously hinder the investigation of learner languages. Bley-Vroman showed that, as a result of the comparative fallacy, L2 studies may result in incorrect and unrevealing analyses, and may lead to inadequate description of the nature of interlanguages. Despite the early warning, SLA research has often fallen into the trap of the comparative fallacy over the past two decades. The majority of SLA studies have tended to employ blunt measures of zero-to-target change instead of using more sophisticated interlanguage-sensitive, or developmental, measures. Clearly, measures that set the target language as the sole criterion of successful treatment may result in a failure to acknowledge relevant evidence of language development.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2004)
The Comparative Fallacy in Studies of the L2 Acquisition of Unaccusative Verbs
Creators: name: Purdy, J.D.
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2004

description: Much research has been done in the past half-dozen years on the acquisition of unaccusative verbs by learners of a second language. While these studies are concerned with the acquisition of a target language (TL) system, too much emphasis on the deviation of the learner’s interlanguage (IL) system from the TL system may lead the researcher to commit a comparative fallacy (Bley-Vroman, 1983). Bley-Vroman was concerned that drawing conclusions about an L2 learner’s acquisition of TL forms based only on comparison of the learner’s IL forms with the corresponding TL forms may obscure systematicity within the IL. This paper will examine three studies to provide insight into the role the comparative fallacy plays in research into the L2 acquisition of unaccusative verbs. It will be seen that attending to the possibility of committing a comparative fallacy may lead researchers to consider features of an IL that might otherwise go unnoticed.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 4 No. 1 (2004)
title: I Heard But Didn't Hear Analyzing Women's Narrative Devices in Difficult Family Stories
Creators: name: Allred, Deanna
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2017

description: This thesis analyzed the narrative devices women use when telling difficult or sad stories in familial settings. I documented a story told by my mother, Myrle Hoagland, about the death of her twin brother at age 17. I provided a textual analysis concentrating on the storyteller’s use of silence, additional information, and non-linear structure, to provide meaning and instruction to her family. I also contextually analyzed the story, illuminating the unique way informal learning affected the storyteller’s performance. My analysis demonstrated how I, as an emic ethnographer, documented a familiar story about a death in my family. Upon deeper study, the storyteller attempted to instruct both consciously and subconsciously on topics about sexuality, economics, motherhood, and identity. This thesis is a case study of how women in my family use narrative devices such as silence, overlays, and performative variations to both project and withhold meaning.