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Strategies For The Design Of The Second-Semester Business French Class, Will Thompson May 2010

Strategies For The Design Of The Second-Semester Business French Class, Will Thompson

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Basque Studies: Commerce, Heritage, And A Language Less Commonly Taught, But Whole-Heartedly Celebrated, Nina M. Ray, Nere Lete May 2010

Basque Studies: Commerce, Heritage, And A Language Less Commonly Taught, But Whole-Heartedly Celebrated, Nina M. Ray, Nere Lete

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Assessment Of Liquefaction Susceptibility Of Geological Units In The Area Of Gulf Of Corinth, Greece, George Papathanassiou, Sotiris Valkaniotis, Spyros Pavlides May 2010

Assessment Of Liquefaction Susceptibility Of Geological Units In The Area Of Gulf Of Corinth, Greece, George Papathanassiou, Sotiris Valkaniotis, Spyros Pavlides

International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

The coastal area of Gulf of Corinth is characterized as medium to high seismicity zone since devastating earthquakes occurred during a 2500 years period. One of the most characteristic events is the 373 B.C. Eliki earthquake that triggered severe secondary effects including soil liquefaction and large scale landslides. The basic aim of this paper is the compilation of a map regarding the liquefaction susceptibility in the coastal area of Gulf of Corinth, Central Greece. In order to achieve this, we used data regarding the age and depositional process of sediments the value of peak ground acceleration (PGA) and the occurrence …


Landslide Hazard Mapping And Assessment In Himalayas, A. K. Pachauri May 2010

Landslide Hazard Mapping And Assessment In Himalayas, A. K. Pachauri

International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

Himalayas offer a good opportunity to study landslides in hard terrains. The region is a well established seismic region of Asia where earthquakes are common occurrence. The on going plate motion and its collision with Asian plate is the main triggering factor for landslides, but there are geological factors that make the slopes susceptible for landslides to be triggered during rains. The Yatra routes of Char Dham the four pilgrimage centers where millions of Hindus go each year for salvation and heaven abode have to face road blocks each rainy season. The border road organization the pioneer organization looking after …


Characterization Of The Elastic Displacement Demand: Case Study - Sofia City, Ivanka Paskaleva, Mihaela Kouteva, Franco Vaccari, Giuliano F. Panza May 2010

Characterization Of The Elastic Displacement Demand: Case Study - Sofia City, Ivanka Paskaleva, Mihaela Kouteva, Franco Vaccari, Giuliano F. Panza

International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

The results of the study on the seismic site response of a part of the metropolitan Sofia are discussed. The neo-deterministic seismic hazard assessment procedure has been used to compute realistic synthetic waveforms considering four earthquake scenarios, with magnitudes M=3.7, M=6.3 and M = 7.0. Source and site specific ground motion time histories are computed along three selected cross sections, making use of the hybrid approach, combining the modal summation technique and the finite differences scheme. Displacement and acceleration response spectra are considered. These results are validated against the design elastic displacement response spectra and displacement demand, recommended in Eurocode …


The Role Of Soil And Site Conditions In The Vulnerability And Risk Assessment Of Lifelines And Infrastructures. The Case Of Thessaloniki (Greece)., Kyriazis Pitilakis, Anastasios Anastasiadis, Kalliopi Kakderi, Maria Alexoudi, Sotiris Argyroudis May 2010

The Role Of Soil And Site Conditions In The Vulnerability And Risk Assessment Of Lifelines And Infrastructures. The Case Of Thessaloniki (Greece)., Kyriazis Pitilakis, Anastasios Anastasiadis, Kalliopi Kakderi, Maria Alexoudi, Sotiris Argyroudis

International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

Soil conditions and site effects play an important role in the vulnerability assessment of lifelines and infrastructures under strong seismic excitation. Due to the spatial extent of these networks, they are subjected to non-uniform and incoherent ground motion as a result of the variability of soil and geological conditions; consequently their vulnerability assessment depends entirely on the variability of soil conditions and ground motion, known as site effects, for a given seismic scenario. Fragility functions for the exposed elements at risk, composing the different lifelines and infrastructure systems, play an equally important role. The paper presents some selected results of …


Genetic And Phenotypic Differentiation Between Winemaking And Wild Strains Of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Katie Hyma May 2010

Genetic And Phenotypic Differentiation Between Winemaking And Wild Strains Of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Katie Hyma

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Traditionally, Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been associated with wine, beer and bread production, yet wild strains have also been isolated from natural habitats. While all strains of S. cerevisiae as well as other Saccharomyces species are capable of wine fermentation, a genetically distinct group of S. cerevisiae strains is primarily used to produce wine. These strains exhibit an apparent genetic bottleneck, which led to the hypothesis that wine stains have been domesticated from `wild' natural strains. However, it is unknown whether the genetic bottleneck was accompanied by selection for phenotypic differences. In this study we tested for phenotypes correlated with the …


Experimental Mathematics, T. J. Mccormack May 2010

Experimental Mathematics, T. J. Mccormack

The Open Court

No abstract provided.


Commencement Program [Spring 2010], Clark University May 2010

Commencement Program [Spring 2010], Clark University

Commencement Programs

Annual Commencement Program for graduation ceremonies at Clark University, held on May 23rd, 2010.


2010 Commencement Program, State University Of New York College At Cortland May 2010

2010 Commencement Program, State University Of New York College At Cortland

Commencement Programs

May commencement. Undergraduate ceremony.


French For Green Business, Thérèse Saint Paul May 2010

French For Green Business, Thérèse Saint Paul

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


How Open Is Japan Linguistically? Natives' Attitudes Toward Non-Natives' Use Of Honorifics In Business Settings, Shoji Azuma May 2010

How Open Is Japan Linguistically? Natives' Attitudes Toward Non-Natives' Use Of Honorifics In Business Settings, Shoji Azuma

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Global Managers' Perceptions Of Cultural Competence, Christine Uber Grosse May 2010

Global Managers' Perceptions Of Cultural Competence, Christine Uber Grosse

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Developing Cultural Awareness With International Business Students: A Look At Empathy Breakdown, Thérèse Saint Paul May 2010

Developing Cultural Awareness With International Business Students: A Look At Empathy Breakdown, Thérèse Saint Paul

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


A Generation Of Business Foreign Languages, James L. Schorr May 2010

A Generation Of Business Foreign Languages, James L. Schorr

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Review Of Richard D. Lewis, When Cultures Collide: Managing Successfully Across Cultures., Norbert Hedderich May 2010

Review Of Richard D. Lewis, When Cultures Collide: Managing Successfully Across Cultures., Norbert Hedderich

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Web-Based Audio: Resources For Teaching German, Norbert Hedderich May 2010

Web-Based Audio: Resources For Teaching German, Norbert Hedderich

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


On Using Technology To Help Blend Language Proficiency And Language For Special Purposes, Orlando R. Kelm May 2010

On Using Technology To Help Blend Language Proficiency And Language For Special Purposes, Orlando R. Kelm

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Relationships Between Foreign Languages And Interest In Global Business Courses And Careers Classroom Networking With The Business World, John E. Robbins, Joe Abramson, Craig A. Hollinshead May 2010

Relationships Between Foreign Languages And Interest In Global Business Courses And Careers Classroom Networking With The Business World, John E. Robbins, Joe Abramson, Craig A. Hollinshead

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Cross-Cultural Awareness In The Foreign Language Class: Differing Concepts Of Space In Germany And The Usa, Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner May 2010

Cross-Cultural Awareness In The Foreign Language Class: Differing Concepts Of Space In Germany And The Usa, Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


The School And Society, T. J. Mccormack May 2010

The School And Society, T. J. Mccormack

The Open Court

No abstract provided.


When Doing Business In Russia, It Pays To Speak Russian! An English-Russian Phrase Book. Dimitry Vinogradov, Eleonora Vinogradova, Mikhail Sergeev. Business Russian: A Complete Course For Beginners. Olga Bridges, With Pauline Rayner And Irina Tverdokhlebova, Zina Breschinsky May 2010

When Doing Business In Russia, It Pays To Speak Russian! An English-Russian Phrase Book. Dimitry Vinogradov, Eleonora Vinogradova, Mikhail Sergeev. Business Russian: A Complete Course For Beginners. Olga Bridges, With Pauline Rayner And Irina Tverdokhlebova, Zina Breschinsky

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Berlitz Live! Japanese. Bright Star Technology, Atsushi Fukada May 2010

Berlitz Live! Japanese. Bright Star Technology, Atsushi Fukada

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Issues And Methods In French For Business And Economic Purposes, Patricia W. Cummins, Editor, Allen Wood May 2010

Issues And Methods In French For Business And Economic Purposes, Patricia W. Cummins, Editor, Allen Wood

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


The Language Of Business: Organizing Language Instruction For The Citizens In The International Marketplace Of The Twenty-First Century, T. Bruce Fryer May 2010

The Language Of Business: Organizing Language Instruction For The Citizens In The International Marketplace Of The Twenty-First Century, T. Bruce Fryer

Global Business Languages

No abstract provided.


Queering Latin American Theater: A Panoramic Study And Its Performative Implications., Joanne Pol May 2010

Queering Latin American Theater: A Panoramic Study And Its Performative Implications., Joanne Pol

Open Access Dissertations

The aim of this dissertation is to analyze Latin American play texts (1970-2006), within their historical and geographical framework, under a queer theoretical lens. What I specifically focus my analysis on are destabilized identities through the play text's performative construction of gender as well as the theatricality. A queer theoretical dialogue not only breaks with the compulsory gay and feminist criticism, under which these plays have been categorized, but also allows for a (re)conceptualization of queer performativities in Latin American Theatre.


Vascular Plants Of The High Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico: An Annotated Checklist, Robert F. Thorne, Reid V. Moran, Richard A. Minnich May 2010

Vascular Plants Of The High Sierra San Pedro Mártir, Baja California, Mexico: An Annotated Checklist, Robert F. Thorne, Reid V. Moran, Richard A. Minnich

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

The Sierra San Pedro Mártir (SSPM) is the highest mountain range in Baja California, Mexico, the summit of Picacho del Diablo peak attaining 3095 meters. An annotated checklist describes the vascular flora of the SSPM high country, defined here as above 1800 m. It comprises almost 500 species in 251 genera and 78 families. The high country is dominated by coniferous forest species known from montane California and Arizona whose southern ranges terminate in the SSPM. The annotated checklist identifies 453 species in 236 genera as indigenous, of which 23 species and one variety are endemic to the SSPM. Over …


The Challenge Of A Siberian Bluegrass (Poa) Phylogeny, Marina V. Olonova May 2010

The Challenge Of A Siberian Bluegrass (Poa) Phylogeny, Marina V. Olonova

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

In Siberia, the bluegrass genus (Poa) comprises 43 species and 61 subspecies in 12 sections. Diverse modes of speciation, including polyploidy and hybridization, have led to reticulate evolution and adaptive radiation. Cladistic methods that ignore hybridization and reticulate evolution may not be appropriate for morphological data. The number of morphological characters suitable for bluegrass analysis is limited, a majority does not have clear adaptive significance, and the character states cannot be readily polarized, rendering phylogenetic reconstruction very difficult in this group. Other methods of estimating phylogenetic relationships should be used to test hypotheses about relationships and hybridization. Biochemical …


Helianthus Inexpectatus (Asteraceae), A Tetraploid Perennial New Species From Southern California, David J. Keil, Mark A. Elvin May 2010

Helianthus Inexpectatus (Asteraceae), A Tetraploid Perennial New Species From Southern California, David J. Keil, Mark A. Elvin

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Helianthus inexpectatus is described as a new species from the Newhall Ranch of northern Los Angeles County, California. It is a tetraploid (2n = 68) perennial that is morphologically similar to--—and intermediate in some characters between--—the diploid H. nuttallii and the hexaploid H. californicus.


Two New Combinations In Western North American Asteraceae, David J. Keil May 2010

Two New Combinations In Western North American Asteraceae, David J. Keil

Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Floristic Botany

Two new combinations that will be used in the second edition of The Jepson Manual are proposed for western North American Asteraceae: Helianthus petiolaris subsp. canescens and Cirsium scariosum var. loncholepis.