cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Karsten Lehmann, 2016, Religious NGOs in International Relations. The Construction of 'the Religious' and 'the Secular', Routledge, pp.218, ISBN 978-1-138-85635
Creators: name: Stoeckl, Kristina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: Stoeckl, Kristina (2017). Karsten Lehmann, 2016, Religious NGOs in international Relations. The Construction of „the Religious“ and „the Secular“, Routledge, pp.218, ISBN 978-1-138-85635, in: Politikologija religije, Vol. 11(2), 289–292, https://www.politicsandreligionjournal.com/index.php/prj/article/view/278
Dalla presenza al remoto: i progetti di PCTO (ex Alternanza Scuola Lavoro) dell'Ufficio Orientamento e URP dell'Area Campus Di Cesena e Forlì
Creators: name: Sabattini, Fulvia
name: Savorani, Chiara
name: Freda, Monica
name: D'Addario, Francesca
name: Giardini, Beatrice
name: Alice Andrea, Minot
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2021
Subjects: SH4_11 Education: systems and institutions, teaching and learning Environmental studies, geography, demography, migration, regional and urban studies

description: Questo è il racconto del passaggio dalla presenza al remoto nella progettazione dei PCTO (ex Alternanza Scuola Lavoro) dell'Ufficio Orientamento e URP dell'Area Campus Cesena Forlì (Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna). Il fine è quello di condividere le strategie e attività elaborate per riuscire a mantenere vivi gli obiettivi dei PCTO nonostante la proposta delle attività da remoto, condividendo il nostro lavoro con tutti coloro che lo possano ritenere utile.
title: Development of Agricultural Cooperatives in Thailand
Creators: name: Manopimoke, Wirote
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1975

description: The seed of cooperatives was first brought to Thailand by Sir Bernard Hunter, the British banker, in 1914. Because of his suggestion , the first cooperative society was established in Phitsanulok Province in the northern part of Thailand, on February 26, 1916, along the lines of the Raiffeisen model, or what is known as the "village credit cooperative." The government at that time was still an absolute monarchy under the reign of King Rama VI. It desired, however, to relieve farmers from severe indebtedness and to enable them to expand their rice production, which was at that time becoming more and more important in earning foreign exchange. During the initial stages of cooperative development, the government directly provided cooperatives with funds to be loaned to members.
Complete fusion of $^9$Be with spherical targets
Creators: name: Esbensen, Henning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The complete fusion of $^9$Be with $^{144}$Sm and $^{208}$Pb targets is calculated in the coupled-channels approach. The calculations include couplings between the 3/2$^-$, 5/2$^-$, and 7/2$^-$ states in the $K=3/2$ ground state rotational band of $^9$Be. It is shown that the $B(E2)$ values for the excitation of these states are accurately described in the rotor model. The interaction of the strongly deformed $^9$Be nucleus with a spherical target is calculated using the double-folding technique and the effective M3Y interaction, which is supplemented with a repulsive term that is adjusted to optimize the fit to the data for the $^{144}$Sm target. The complete fusion is described by in-going-wave boundary conditions. The decay of the unbound excited states in $^9$Be is considered explicitly in the calculations by using complex excitation energies. The model gives an excellent account of the complete fusion (CF) data for $^9$Be+$^{144}$Sm, and the cross sections for the decay of the excited states are in surprisingly good agreement with the incomplete fusion (ICF) data. Similar calculations for $^9$Be+$^{208}$Pb explain the total fusion data at high energies but fail to explain the CF data, which are suppressed by 20%, and the calculated cross section for the decay of excited states is a factor of three smaller than the ICF data at high energies. Possible reasons for these discrepancies are discussed.
The Anxiety of Discovery
Creators: name: Giordano, Fedora
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 1994

description: This essay, which is part of a work in progress on the subject, outlines the various views on Native Americans held by Italian explorers, missionaries, travelers, anthropologists, and writers in the past four centuries.
description: RSAJournal, Vol. 5 (1994): Untitled
A Reversal of Perspective
Creators: name: Gavioli, Davida
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 1994

description: Over the past decade, feminist scholars have shown how the mother-daughter bond falls outside of the accepted social context of men-women relationship and, for this reason, remains unsaid. Wharton's novel can be read as a text that suspends the cultural muteness of the mother, showing instead how disruptive a mother's voice can be when she speaks, like Kate Clephane, as a subject who shapes "her story."
description: RSAJournal, Vol. 5 (1994): Untitled
Using dual height fields for the parametrization of signed distance fields
Creators: name: Talero, Camilo
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Ray-tracing has become an important technique used to generate photorealistic images in video games and movies. It is a technique in which straight rays of light traveling in a scene are simulated to produce realistic images. Signed Distance Fields are a class of mathematical functions used to describe 3D geometry. They allow for fast ray-object collision detection. While they are very well suited for simulating the trajectory a ray of light travels through in a scene, they lack explicit surface connectivity information. This makes it challenging to use existing methods that map the surface of the model into an image, also known as texture mapping. Thus, many applications either resort to hybrid approaches where both Signed Distance Fields and triangle meshes are used for different purposes, or texture mapping is not used. In these cases, it is assumed that objects have uniform material properties across large portions of their surface. We propose an algorithm that is capable of computing parametrizations (one of the most popular techniques for texture mapping) of Signed Distance Field data, that leverages an approach based on Dual Height Fields. We leverage the properties of Dual Height Fields, for efficient and effective texture mapping. We achieve this by meshing the model along the DHF direction, parametrizing the result, and then, at render time, using the DHF's natural parametrization to a plane to sample from a texture atlas. We show how our method suitably parametrizes surfaces with minimum distortion in many complex models and how it can be used for texture mapping.
Revêtements hyperelliptiques d-osculateurs et solitons elliptiques de la hiérarchie KdV
Creators: name: Kohn, Armando Treibich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14E20 14J26

description: Let $d$ be a positive integer, $\mathbb K$ an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0 and $ X$ an elliptic curve defined over K. We study the hyperelliptic curves equipped with a projection over $ X$, such that the natural image of $ X$ in the Jacobian of the curve osculates to order $d$ to the embedding of the curve, at a Weierstrass point. We construct ($d-1$)-dimensional families of such curves, of arbitrary big genus $g$, obtaining, in particular, $(g+d-1)$-dimensional families of solutions of the $KdV$ hierarchy, doubly periodic with respect to the $d$-th $KdV$ flow.
Issues of Rating Scales in Speaking Performance Assessment
Creators: name: Kim, Hyun Jung
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2006

description: As with any other area of language assessment, the fundamental issues to be considered in a speaking assessment are: (a) whether or not the test is used as intended, and (b) what its consequences may be (Bachman & Purpura, in press). To ensure that the uses and consequences of a speaking test are fair, the operational definition of speaking ability in the testing context should be examined, since the definition of speaking ability varies with respect to the targeted use and the decisions made. One way to elicit the construct of speaking ability for a certain context is through a scoring rubric which informs test users what a test aims to measure (Luoma, 2004). However, a scoring rubric can affect the speaking assessment, as there may be an interaction effect between the rating criteria and examinees’ performance (Luoma, 2004; McNamara, 1996). Different interpretations of the construct may cause biased effects on test-takers’ performance, leading to unfairness in scoring and test use. Thus, careful examination of how rating scales interact with speaking performance needs to be considered to determine the fairness of the speaking assessment.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2006)
title: The Effect of Combination Companies on Electricity Rate Structures in the United States
Creators: name: Manopimoke, Wirote
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1975

description: In general, public policy in the United States has been directed to maintaining competition. The belief has been that competitive free enterprise economy is the best means toward a higher standard of living and the preservation of personal freedom. In many industries, however, competition is imperfect. The electric power and natural gas industries are such activities.
Differential Item Functioning and Item Bias: Critical Considerations in Test Fairness
Creators: name: Perrone, Michael
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2006

description: In recent years, policy makers, administrators, and test developers in the field of second language assessment have paid considerable attention to the issue of test fairness. A fair test is one that is comparably valid for all groups and individuals and that affords all examinees an equal opportunity to demonstrate the skills and knowledge which they have acquired and which are relevant to the test’s purpose (Roever, 2005). Various aspects of fairness in testing have been highlighted in the literature, including fairness in regards to standardization, test consequences/score use, and item bias (Kunnan, 2000; Shohamy, 2000). This commentary will focus, in part, upon the issue of item bias.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2006)
A Backward Glance over Travelled Roads
Creators: name: Balestra, Gianfranca
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 1994

description: Known mainly for her portrayal of Old New York, Edith Wharton was an exile writing from the margin, an expatriate writer whose imagination was shaped by traveling and living in Europe. Expatriation not only gave her a better perspective on American society, but provided her with the artistic and professional stimuli she needed to become a writer. Cultural differences interplay throughout her work, which includes travel writing and novels featuring Europe, expatriates, and visions of America through the expatriate eye. This essay explores the complexities of expatriation both at the biographical and the literary level, in an attempt to trace Wharton's subtle variations on the theme and her articulation of a personal mythology.
description: RSAJournal, Vol. 5 (1994): Untitled
Parity criterion and Dehn twists for unstabilized Heegaard splittings
Creators: name: Lee, Jung Hoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M50

description: We give a parity condition of a Heegaard diagram to show that it is unstabilized. This improves the result of [5]. As an application, we construct unstabilized Heegaard splittings by Dehn twists on any given Heegaard splitting.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
title: Single...Chance or Choice
Creators: name: Robinson, Karen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1981

description: "It is said to be the largest unrecognized minority group in America, but it has no lobbying efforts, central organization or focus. The group is singles - divorced, widowed or never married - and there is an estimated l 190,000 of them in Kansas City Area." One out of every three adults in the United States is single. That is 43 million. Yet in spite of their great numbers, single people find that social pressures still call for "settling down" and raising a family.
A Caravan of Gypsies
Creators: name: Vanon Alliata, Michela
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 1994

description: This paper focuses on the affinities and differences between Henry James and his favorite portrait painter, John Singer Sargent. At first, a comparison between the two expatriates may seem inevitable. Continentalized from their earliest years, polyglots with a penchant for society, they were almost counterparts in their different media. But a closer look reveals their diverging attitudes toward questions of exile, dislocation, and expatriation. Sargent's refined style, bravura and precocious talent propelled him into the forefront of international society portraiture. From the very beginning his career was accompanied by public acclaim and his status as an exile was never an issue for him. James, instead, was keenly aware of the question of home and belonging; his choice of exile entailed renunciation and losses which remained painfully relevant to the very end.
description: RSAJournal, Vol. 5 (1994): Untitled
title: Uniform Commercial Credit Code of Utah
Creators: name: Robinson, Karen
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1981

description: Although our country is said to be free, we live primarily on credit, and we are bound to financial obligations. Each of us deals with credit in our everyday lives, yet most people know very little concerning their rights and the laws dealing with credit. A discussion of credit laws contained in the Utah Uniform Consumer Credit Code, complicated legal language versus layman's language in loans and sales, and enforcement will be presented in this paper. Following the report, there is a conclusion which summarizes the points presented and explains why I believe the American public needs a mass education in consumer credit. A bibliography concludes the paper.
title: Analysis of the Costs and Returns of Pasturing Irrigated Alfalfa for Beef Production in Utah in 1983
Creators: name: Bowen, Irvin R.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1984

description: The purpose of this study was to analyze the economics of pasturing feeder steers on irrigated alfalfa and compare this alternative to harvesting, storing, and selling alfalfa hay as well as selling standing alfalfa in the field. Available prices, costs and returns were calculated for fall planted wheat as a rotation crop, alfalfa establishment, alfalfa hay, alfalfa sold standing in the field, and pasturing feeder steers of different weight classifications on alfalfa with side roll irrigation. A case study mode 1 farm was developed to examine the cost and returns of each enterprise option. The pasturing of feeder steers on alfalfa was found to have the highest returns to land and management with the exception of the 450-pound weight class. The other enterprise alternative that showed promise was selling alfalfa standing in the field.
Can the Search for “Fairness” Be Taken Too Far?
Creators: name: Wagner, Elvis
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2006

description: The many works devoted to the issue of fairness in language testing (e.g., Kunnan, 1999, 2000; Shohamy, 2001; Spolsky, 1981) testify to the field’s recognition of the importance of this issue. Brown (1996) defines fairness as “the degree to which a test treats every student the same or the degree to which it is impartial” (p. 31). The goal of language tests is to impartially measure individual test-takers’ language ability. If, however, performance on those tests is influenced by factors other than language ability, then bias is introduced into the measurement.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2006)
The Effect of Keyboarding and Presentation Format on the Recall of Accent Marks in L2 Learners of French
Creators: name: Sturm, Jessica L.
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2006

description: Are there some implementations of technology in the language classroom which lead to measurable advantages over others? Sturm and Golato (in press) found considerable variance on dictée tests within groups of students who practiced a list of accent-bearing target words by handwriting, typing using preprogrammed function keys, or typing using ALT+ numeric codes. These results contradict the results of Gascogine-Lally (2000), who found that students who typed a paragraph recalled accents better than those who wrote the paragraph by hand. The present study seeks to explore the difference between the two studies. Participants were exposed to Gascoigne-Lally's paragraph, as well as a set of words in both list and paragraph form. One-way ANOVAs revealed no significant differences between groups, although repeated-measures ANOVAs revealed differences within participants on different sets of target words on immediate posttests. The results of this study encourage future research to investigate the results obtained by Gascoigne-Lally as well as Sturm and Golato.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2006)
A Reading and Writing Placement Test: Design, Evaluation, and Analysis
Creators: name: Kim, Hyun Jung
name: Shin, Hye Won
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2006

description: Placement tests, along with the growing interest in their validation, have become increasingly important in English as a Second Language programs. To this end, the present paper illustrates procedures in designing a placement test and using it to evaluate students’ language ability by means of statistical analysis. 29 participants from three proficiency levels (beginning, intermediate, and advanced) took reading and writing placement test sections. Students’ performance at each proficiency level was analyzed separately and compared across proficiency levels. In addition, analyses of responses on a survey revealed a relationship between language learning attitudes and behaviors exhibited by the participants and their performance on the placement test. Through close examination of the process of placement test design, evaluation, and analysis, this paper provides practical guidelines for reading and writing placement testing.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2006)
Women, Portraits, and Painters
Creators: name: Izzo, Donatella
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 1994

description: Although traditionally interpreted as dealing with the problem of the artist, these early tales by Henry James can be read as powerful statements on the cultural and aesthetic construction of woman. Woman's beauty opens the way for her entrance into the aesthetic dimension, that is, her withdrawal from the existential and temporal sphere, thus virtually changing her from an actual person into an art object. In "The Madonna of the Future," the woman protagonist's explicit resistance to such an aestheticization and the male artist's failure to produce his masterpiece are a denunciation of the artist's idealization both of woman and of Renaissance art. In "The Sweetheart of M. Briseux," the woman protagonist's entrance into the aesthetic sphere, seen as a release from the strictures of life as a bourgeois wife, turns out to be a delusive alternative, equally involving self-denial and loss of identity.
description: RSAJournal, Vol. 5 (1994): Untitled
Minimizing Cache Timing Attack Using Dynamic Cache Flushing (DCF) Algorithm
Creators: name: Bani, Jalpa
name: Rizvi, Syed S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Rijndael algorithm was unanimously chosen as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) by the panel of researchers at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in October 2000. Since then, Rijndael was destined to be used massively in various software as well as hardware entities for encrypting data. However, a few years back, Daniel Bernstein devised a cache timing attack that was capable enough to break Rijndael seal that encapsulates the encryption key. In this paper, we propose a new Dynamic Cache Flushing (DCF) algorithm which shows a set of pragmatic software measures that would make Rijndael impregnable to cache timing attack. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed DCF algorithm provides better security by encrypting key at a constant time.
description: 7 Pages IEEE format, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, IJCSIS 2009, ISSN 1947 5500, Impact Factor 0.423 http://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/
Second Language Writing Ability: Towards a Complete Construct Definition
Creators: name: Di Gennaro, Kristen
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2006

description: In this paper, I explore the construct of second language (L2) writing ability within the context of large-scale writing assessment. As L2 writing theory is based in part on the previously established field of first language (L1) writing, I provide a brief discussion of seminal contributions from this related field before summarizing and critiquing a few early L2 writing studies. This discussion includes the process-product debate in writing research and identifies the inadequacies of applying L1 process definitions to a construct definition of L2 writing ability. After drawing a distinction between L2 and L1 writing ability, I summarize several empirical studies in L2 writing research, noting how these contribute to our current understanding of the nature of the construct. I conclude by suggesting what remains to be explored in the quest for a more complete construct definition of L2 writing ability. Specifically, I claim that a complete model of L2 writing ability must indicate (a) how L2 writing ability is distinct from other types of L2 knowledge, and (b) how L2 proficiency and writing ability interact.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2006)
Partitioning of energy in highly polydisperse granular gases
Creators: name: Uecker, Hildegard
name: Kranz, W. Till
name: Aspelmeier, Timo
name: Zippelius, Annette
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A highly polydisperse granular gas is modeled by a continuous distribution of particle sizes, a, giving rise to a corresponding continuous temperature profile, T(a), which we compute approximately, generalizing previous results for binary or multicomponent mixtures. If the system is driven, it evolves towards a stationary temperature profile, which is discussed for several driving mechanisms in dependence on the variance of the size distribution. For a uniform distribution of sizes, the stationary temperature profile is nonuniform with either hot small particles (constant force driving) or hot large particles (constant velocity or constant energy driving). Polydispersity always gives rise to non-Gaussian velocity distributions. Depending on the driving mechanism the tails can be either overpopulated or underpopulated as compared to the molecular gas. The deviations are mainly due to small particles. In the case of free cooling the decay rate depends continuously on particle size, while all partial temperatures decay according to Haff's law. The analytical results are supported by event driven simulations for a large, but discrete number of species.
description: 10 pages; 5 figures
Second Language Preservice Teachers’ Accessing of Background Knowledge and the Role of Context
Creators: name: Dahlman, Ann
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2006

description: This qualitative study examined six second language preservice teachers’ active learning processes through exploring their information processing when accessing background knowledge. The study utilized a constructivist view of teacher learning which acknowledges the complexity of real-life learning as part of which teachers make a variety of decisions regarding the information to be learned and the processing and use of that information based on their previous knowledge, experiences, and the context at hand. It is the interplay between cognitive and constructive learning processes. The findings point to the complex nature of this cognitive process of accessing background knowledge where teachers first engage in locating a piece of knowledge and then making decisions about how to use that knowledge. The context seemed to play an important role in this process, in that teachers would make a decision, often unconscious, about using a piece of knowledge they had located, based on their affective reactions to the context, for example, their students, curriculum, and other teachers. Often teachers would act against what they knew to be the best way to react because of their strong emotional response to the situation.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 6 No. 2 (2006)
Observation of Dirac Cone Electronic Dispersion in BaFe2As2
Creators: name: Richard, P.
name: Nakayama, K.
name: Sato, T.
name: Neupane, M.
name: Xu, Y. -M.
name: Bowen, J. H.
name: Chen, G. F.
name: Luo, J. L.
name: Wang, N. L.
name: Ding, H.
name: Takahashi, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We performed an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy study of BaFe2As2, which is the parent compound of the so-called 122 phase of the iron-pnictide high-temperature superconductors. We reveal the existence of a Dirac cone in the electronic structure of this material below the spin-density-wave temperature, which is responsible for small spots of high photoemission intensity at the Fermi level. Our analysis suggests that the cone is slightly anisotropic and its apex is located very near the Fermi level, leading to tiny Fermi surface pockets. Moreover, the bands forming the cone show an anisotropic leading edge gap away from the cone that suggests a nodal spin-density-wave description.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Association of CYP2R1 and CYP27B1 genes with the risk of obesity and vitamin D metabolism in Saudi women
Creators: name: AlSedairy, Sahar Abdulaziz
name: Al-Harbi, Laila Naif
name: Binobead, Manal Abdulaziz
name: Athinarayanan, Jegan
name: Arzoo, Shaista
name: Al-Tamimi, Dalia Saade
name: Shamlan, Ghalia
name: Alshatwi, Ali Abdullah
name: Periasamy, Vaiyapuri Subbarayan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Comparison between total promoter methylation of CYP27B1 of normal and obese samples. Fig. S1 Comparison between total promoter methylation of CYP27B1 of normal and obese samples. Fig. S2. Spearman Correlations between site 1 of CYP2R1 methylations with different anthropometric and biochemical parameters. Fig. S3. Spearman Correlations between site 3 of CYP2R1 methylations with different anthropometric and biochemical parameters. Fig. S4. Spearman Correlations between site 1 of CYP27B1 methylations with different anthropometric and biochemical parameters. Fig. S5. Spearman Correlations between site 2 of CYP27B1 methylations with different anthropometric and biochemical parameters. Fig. S6. Spearman Correlations between site 3 of CYP27B1 methylations with different anthropometric and biochemical parameters. Fig. S7. Spearman Correlations between site 4 of CYP27B1 methylations with different anthropometric and biochemical parameters.
title: Review and Recommendations Regarding Available Funding Sources For Moab City Development
Creators: name: Chang, Kuo Kwang
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1988

description: On April 28, 1986 a proposal was presented to the Grand County Commission by Professors Toth and Nicholson. The proposal was an offer to assist the Moab/Grand County area in their efforts to focus on community revitalization, planning and economic development. The LAEP Field Service Program was to provide these services. Given the favorable responses of the commissioners, the city council members, and other community leaders, the "Moab Project" was established as a major long-term commitment for the Environmental Field Service Program. This study continues the "Moab project" by examining the feasibility of funding sources for the implementation of plan recommendations. It identifies the range, sources, and form of possible funds. Information for this report was obtained from three sources: questionnaire responses, analysis of illustrative material, and interviews with community development specialists. This study is intended to assist towns, like Moab, in identifing appropriate funding sources to assist in physical development. It will also survey the various financial programs available through federal and state governments.
Sorption of Eu(III) on Attapulgite Studied by Batch, XPS and EXAFS Techniques
Creators: name: Fan, Q. H.
name: Tan, X. L.
name: Li, J. X.
name: Wang, X. K.
name: Wu, W. S.
name: Montavon, Gilles
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of pH, ionic strength and temperature on sorption of Eu(III) on attapulgite were investigated in the presence and absence of fulvic acid (FA) and humic acid (HA). The results indicated that the sorption of Eu(III) on attapulgite was strongly dependent on pH and ionic strength, and independent of temperature. In the presence of FA/HA, Eu(III) sorption was enhanced at pH < 4, decreased at pH range of 4 - 6, and then increased again at pH > 7. The X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis suggested that the sorption of Eu(III) might be expressed as ?X3Eu0 ?SwOHEu3+ and ?SOEu-OOC-/HA in the ternary Eu/HA/attapulgite system. The extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) analysis of Eu-HA complexes indicated that the distances of d(Eu-O) decreased from 2.451 to 2.360 Å with increasing pH from 1.76 to 9.50, whereas the coordination number (N) decreased from ~9.94 to ~8.56. Different complexation species were also found for the different addition sequences of HA and Eu(III) to attapulgite suspension. The results are important to understand the influence of humic substances on Eu(III) behavior in the natural environment.
title: A Proposed Analysis of Planning Factors within the Interpretive Planning Process
Creators: name: Sands, Christopher W.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1994

description: Every year, millions of people visit parks and preserves and in the process, learn about the natural and cultural resources of these areas. These resources typically include, but are not limited to, unique features of geology, hydrology, wildlife, vegetation, and historical and prehistorical influences. Many of these resources may be fragile, which is often the reason for park or preserve establishment, and therefore vulnerable to the impacts created through uncontrolled visitor use. If these resources are not protected from improper recreational use, the activities have the potential to influence the species composition and diversity of vegetation, soil properties and stability of the recreation environment, the behavior and population levels of various wildlife species, and the overall quality of the visitors ' experience (Kuss et al. 1990).
An Interview with Dr. William Grabe
Creators: name: Di Gennaro, Kristen
name: Johnson, Rebekah
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2006

description: Editorial Board members Kristen di Gennaro and Rebekah Johnson recently had the pleasure of speaking extensively with Dr. William Grabe, the guest speaker at the 2006 APPLE Lecture sponsored by the Programs in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2006)
Readers’ Credits for Volume 6, Issue 1
Creators: name: Ekiert, Monika
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2006

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 6 (2006).
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2006)
The role of Connexin43 carboxyl terminal domain in regulating various signaling-induced cytoskeleton-dependent cellular processes in B-lymphocytes
Creators: name: Pournia, Farnaz
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2023

description: Cellular processes requiring cytoskeleton remodeling such as cell adhesion, cell spreading, protrusion extension, immune synapse formation, cell motility and directional migration are essential for normal B lymphocyte (B cell) development and for immune responses. These cellular processes occur downstream of different signaling pathways that are tightly regulated and dysregulation of the signaling pathways are associated with pathological conditions such as immune deficiencies, autoimmune diseases, and B cell malignancies. Previous work by our group showed the importance of the carboxyl tail (CT) domain of the most ubiquitously expressed member of the gap junction family, connexin43 (Cx43) in supporting BCR-mediated membrane spreading and LFA-1 mediated adhesion of B cells. However, whether the CT domain can support various cytoskeleton-dependent processes independent of the other domains of the protein was not known. Additionally, previous studies in the Matsuuchi lab revealed the importance of the tyrosine residues of the Cx43 CT as potential phosphorylation sites for supporting BCR-mediated spreading. The importance of other potential phosphorylation sites of the Cx43 CT such as the serine residues was not previously explored. In this dissertation, using chimeric proteins containing the CT domain of Cx43 we were able to express the CT domain of Cx43 at the plasma membrane, which was first of its kind. Our results showed that the CT domain of Cx43, by itself supports BCR-mediated spreading. Next, we showed site-specific phosphorylation of the Cx43 CT at Y247, S255, S279, S282 and S368 residues. Using a mutational approach, we showed the importance of S279 and S282 residues, located within a SH3-biniding domain, for BCR-mediated spreading. Lastly, we showed that Cx43 differentially affects the activation of various signaling molecules and the downstream cytoskeleton-dependent cellular processes. These findings suggest that the CT of Cx43 is modified and differentially affects various signaling induced cytoskeleton-dependent processes in B cells. These results provide a novel understanding of the functions of Cx43 CT for B cell responses that are important for immune functions. These findings could be important for development of novel therapeutic approaches for B cell related disease and could possibly be extended to other cell types.
title: Partial characterization of glutathione S-transferases from different field populations of Liposcelis bostrychophila
Creators: name: Dou, W.
name: Niu, J.-Z.
name: Xiao, L.-S.
name: Deng, Y.-X.
name: Wang, J.-J.
Publisher: name: Julius Kühn-Institut
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: GSTs
subject: purification
subject: psocids
subject: xenobiotic compounds
subject: field populations

description: Julius-Kühn-Archiv; 425; 202-206
Building on Strength: Language and Literacy in Latino Families and Communities
Creators: name: Pousada, Alicia
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2006

description: This collection of articles by teacher-researchers debunks the conventional myth of a monolithic U.S. Latino community by revealing the inter- and intra-group diversity of language socialization patterns, cultural and linguistic attitudes, and literacy practices among Latinos. The eleven chapters of Building on Strength: Language and Literacy in Latino Families and Communities present case studies of Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican, Cuban, and Central American families in various regions of the country. These are preceded by an insightful introduction by editor and linguist Ana Celia Zentella (University of California, San Diego) who reviews the current situation of Latinos in the U.S., argues for a language socialization focus in the study of first and second language acquisition, and explains the anthropolitical perspective on language and literacy which served as the intellectual impetus for the volume.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2006)
Language in Jewish Society: Towards a New Understanding
Creators: name: Krohn, Nitza
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2006

description: In his book, Language in Jewish Society: Towards a New Understanding, Myhill ambitiously analyzes the relationship between language, identity, and society over a period of 3,000 years of Jewish history. Addressing a general readership, Myhill rejects an insider’s ideological approach, which focuses on the uniqueness of Jewish attitudes to language, in favor of a typological perspective, which explores the commonalities and differences between Jewish and non-Jewish sociolinguistic attitudes.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2006)
title: Environmental Contamination by Trace Metals at the Inactive Pacific Mine Site, American Fork Canyon: Legal and Remediation Implications
Creators: name: Bustamante, Phyllis Ann
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: Over the next decade, the environment will be the most important issue facing the minerals industry (Ary, 1990). Mining and its associated activities can be a source of considerable environmental damage (Table 1 ). Mining activities can cause surface and ground water pollution , damage the land and subsurface strata, and destroy terrestrial and aquatic habitat. While mining contributes to environmental degradation , it may be considered a necessary activity because it provides natural resources with a variety of commercial uses.
Studies of Fossilization in Second Language Acquisition
Creators: name: Bambino Finneran, Rosette
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2006

description: Having systematically examined and evaluated nearly 30 years of research on fossilization in her 2004 volume, Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition, ZhaoHong Han, along with co-editor Terrence Odlin, now explores the more current fossilization literature in its sequel, Studies of Fossilization in Second Language Acquisition. One might argue that Han and Odlin have taken on an even greater challenge here, as it is no small feat to bring together such a wide variety of perspectives in a volume that is at once integrated and even-handed. That they succeed is no surprise to anyone familiar with their work.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2006)
Cosmological constraints from 21cm surveys after reionization
Creators: name: Visbal, Eli
name: Loeb, Abraham
name: Wyithe, Stuart
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 21cm emission from residual neutral hydrogen after the epoch of reionization can be used to trace the cosmological power spectrum of density fluctuations. Using a Fisher matrix formulation, we provide a detailed forecast of the constraints on cosmological parameters that are achievable with this probe. We consider two designs: a scaled-up version of the MWA observatory as well as a Fast Fourier Transform Telescope. We find that 21cm observations dedicated to post-reionization redshifts may yield significantly better constraints than next generation Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments. We find the constraints on $Ω_Λ$, $Ω_{\rm m}h^2$, and $Ω_νh^2$ to be the strongest, each improved by at least an order of magnitude over the Planck CMB satellite alone for both designs. Our results do not depend as strongly on uncertainties in the astrophysics associated with the ionization of hydrogen as similar 21cm surveys during the epoch of reionization. However, we find that modulation of the 21cm power spectrum from the ionizing background could potentially degrade constraints on the spectral index of the primordial power spectrum and its running by more than an order of magnitude. Our results also depend strongly on the maximum wavenumber of the power spectrum which can be used due to non-linearities.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures; Replaced with version accepted by JCAP; Significant changes regarding treatment of scale dependent bias due to UV background
Theatrical Translation and Film Adaptation: A Practitioner’s View
Creators: name: Ganat, Geprge
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2006

description: Translated novels and poems often arrive footnoted with “cultural notes” on words and allusions obscure to the reader’s cultural heritage. But translations of performances – whether of theatrical or cinematic dramas – have no recourse to such devices. The language experienced in performance has all the transience of an eavesdropped conversation, with no opportunity for review or back channeling: the immediacy of the audience’s engagement restricts the range of options available to the translator.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2006)
Specifying the Norms of Successful L2 Users for Developing Theories on the Learning Potential in SLA
Creators: name: Liu, Yeu-Ting
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2006

description: In the plenary talk of the 2005 SLRF, Vivian Cook (2005) reiterated the concept of successful L2 users that he proposed earlier in 1999, and contended that the norms of successful L2 users, rather than native speaker norms, should be used as the standards for L2 teaching and learning. Although the above claim is theoretically appealing, specification of successful L2 users still depends upon further research and needs to be empirically established.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2006)
title: Developing Optimal Levels of Appreciation for And Use of School Sites for Education
Creators: name: Worthley, Gary Lee
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 1996

description: The purpose of this study was to develop a manual that would encourage teachers and students to use their school site for educational activities across the curriculum by encouraging a high level of student involvement, identifying real or perceived barriers teachers have toward using school sites for education, and relating the use of school sites to the standards and objectives of the Utah Core Curriculum. A three-phase planning process was outlined in the manual that describes a step by step approach to planning for the use of a school site for education. The three phases in this process include the pre-analysis phase, analysis phase, and synthesis phase. The pre-analysis phase describes how to initiate this process by forming a committee and subcommittees, developing goals and objectives, determining level of commitment, developing a program (needs assessment), and collecting and mapping data. The analysis phase describes how to analyze the site to determine its educational or enhancement potential. The synthesis phase describes and illustrates how to develop a master plan and detailed plans for the use of a school site. Additionally, this phase describes how to implement and maintain an enhanced area of a school site for educational purposes.
Additional file 1 of Characteristics and key differences between patient populations receiving imaging modalities for coronary artery disease diagnosis in the US
Creators: name: Pelletier-Galarneau, Matthieu
name: Vandenbroucke, Emily
name: Lu, Minyi
name: Li, Olivia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
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: Science Policy

description: Additional File: Characteristics and key differences between patient populations receiving imaging modalities for coronary artery disease diagnosis in the US: Supplemental appendix
Beyond the L2: How Is Transfer Affected by Multilingualism?
Creators: name: Heidrick, Ingrid
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2006

description: As if learning a foreign language were not hard enough, those who have studied more than one might have noticed that it is tough keeping all those languages straight in your head! In the process of foreign language learning, we often mix things around. The question of language transfer, a fundamental issue in second language acquisition, has recently been examined from a new perspective, namely that of multilingualism, or third language acquisition (TLA), as it is commonly referred to. The emerging interest in TLA seems to have sprung in large part from Cook’s (1992) multicompetence model. Cook calls attention to the “monolingual bias to research” (p. 577) and points out the very obvious fact that multi- – not monolingualism – is the reality for the great majority of the world’s population. He presents a powerful argument that multilingualism is the existence in the mind of one system, which functions as a whole, rather than the coexistence of separately functioning linguistic systems.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2006)
Please Use Other Door
Creators: name: AA.VV.
Publisher: name: RSAJournal
Year: 1992

description: A Round Table with R. Boyers, R. Kalechofsky, G. Lish, M. Materassi, H. Nissenson, C. Ozick and E. Sifton
description: RSAJournal, Vol. 3 (1992): Untitled
Multicompetence and First Language Attrition: Where Do We Draw the Line?
Creators: name: Lowe, Erica Won-Jing
Publisher: name: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Year: 2006

description: Cook’s (1992) model of multicompetence not only contributes to our understanding of second language learners as L2 users, but also offers one of the first attempts in looking at how a speaker’s L2 affects the L1. Before the notion of multicompetence emerged, almost all changes happening in the L1 of a fluent L2 user were regarded as attrition. For example, competent L2 users sometimes find themselves struggling with finding the right words in their L1, or using L2 syntax when speaking in their L1, and they often are regarded as individuals undergoing first language attrition. However, according to Cook, multicompetent individuals, that is, those who have two or more languages in their minds, have different knowledge of their L1s than monocompetent individuals, that is, those who only have one language in their minds. How, then, can we categorize the changes in the proficient L2 users’ L1? Do we regard these changes as natural results of multicompetence, or do we regard them as signs of first language attrition? In light of Cook’s multicompetence model, I will examine studies of multicompetent individuals whose L1 (English) is undergoing changes.
description: Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, Vol. 6 No. 1 (2006)