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Stable Isotopic Constraints Of The Turpan Basin In Northwestern China, Allen J. Schaen

Undergraduate Review

Stable isotopic analysis of sedimentary rocks can be used to reconstruct past geologic changes in the elevation and climate of topographic features such as mountain ranges and plateaus. The Tibetan Plateau is an ideal field laboratory for conducting this type of study because of the Plateau’s extreme topographic relief and relatively recent geologic growth. Here we present oxygen and carbon isotope compositions from a suite of sedimentary rock samples taken from the western Turpan Basin in northwestern China. This area of the basin collects sediment from weathering and erosion of the Bogda Shan located to the north. The goal of …

"The Status And Distribution Of Freshwater Crabs [Indo-Burma Region Of Asia]" , Neil Cumberlidge, Peter Kl Ng, Darren Cj Yeo

Book Sections/Chapters

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Winter 2011 Magazine

Ergo

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Rendering Borders Obsolete: Cross-Cultural And Cultural Psychology As An Interdisciplinary, Multi-Method Endeavor, Franziska Deutsch, Mandy Boehnke, Ulrich KüHnen, Klaus Boehnke

IACCP Proceedings of the Biennial International Conferences

A peer-reviewed book based on presentations at the XIX Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2008, Bremen, Germany.

(c) 2011, International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology

State Of The Climate In 2010, Jessica Blunden, Derek S. Arndt, Molly O. Baringer

United States Department of Commerce: Staff Publications

Several large-scale climate patterns influenced climate conditions and weather patterns across the globe during 2010. The transition from a warm El Niño phase at the beginning of the year to a cool La Niña phase by July contributed to many notable events, ranging from record wetness across much of Australia to historically low Eastern Pacific basin and near-record high North Atlantic basin hurricane activity. The remaining five main hurricane basins experienced below- to well-below-normal tropical cyclone activity. The negative phase of the Arctic Oscillation was a major driver of Northern Hemisphere temperature patterns during 2009/10 winter and again in late …

Relationships Of The Heteronchocleidids (Heteronchocleidus, Eutrianchoratus And Trianchoratus) As Inferred From Ribosomal Dna Nucleotide Sequence Data, W.B. Tan, Mun Yik Fong, L.H.S. Lim

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

The monogeneans, Heteronchocleidus, Eutrianchoratus and Trianchoratus, were postulated to be closely related based on their haptoral hard parts of three well-developed anchors and one vestigial anchor. In this present study, partial 28S rDNA sequences from 12 heteronchocleidids species (10 Trianchoratus spp. and two Eutrianchoratus spp.) were obtained. Phylogenetic trees generated based on 28S rDNA (from the present study and GenBank) using neighbour-joining (NJ), maximum parsimony (MP), maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference (BI) analyses show that members of these three genera constitute a clade. Within this main monophyletic clade are the Heteronchocleidus-Eutrianchoratus and the Trianchoratus clades. This suggests that the …

Culture And Passionate Love, Elaine Hatfield, Richard L. Rapson

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

For more than 4,000 years, poets and storytellers have sung of the delights and sufferings of love and lust. This chapter reviews what scholars from various disciplines have discovered about the nature of passionate love and sexual desire. Anthropologists and evolutionary psychologists have assumed that passionate love is a cultural universal. Cultural researchers, historians, and social psychologists have emphasized the stunning diversity in the way passionate love and sexual desire have been viewed and experienced. Culture, ethnicity and the rules passed down by political and religious authorities have a profound impact on the way people think about and act out …

A Novel Adaptive Distributed Cooperative Relaying Mac Protocol For Vehicular Networks, Ting Zhou, Hamid Sharif, Michael Hempel, Puttipong Mahasukhon, Wei Wang, Tao Ma

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Faculty Publications (to 2015)

Explosive growth in Information Technology has enabled many innovative application areas such as large-scale outdoor vehicular networks for vehicle-to-vehicle communications. By providing time-sensitive and location-aware information, vehicular networks can contribute to a safer and more efficient driving experience. However, the performance of vehicular networks requires robust and real-time data communications and is impacted by high mobility, intermittent connectivity, and unreliability of the wireless channel. In this paper, a novel adaptive distributed cooperative medium access control (ADCMAC) protocol is proposed in order to address the inherent problems in the IEEE 802.11 standard when employed in vehicular networks. ADC-MAC exploits spatial diversities …

Investigating Dietary Acculturation And Intake Among Us-Born And Thailand/Laos-Born Hmong-American Children Aged 9–18 Years, Urvashi Mulasi-Pokhriyal, Chery Smith, Lisa Franzen-Castle

Panhandle Research and Extension Center

Objective: The Hmong are a growing population of South-East Asian immigrants with increasing rates of obesity and diabetes, yet little is known about their dietary consumption patterns. The present study aimed to investigate the dietary intake of Hmong children and whether acculturation and/or time lived in the USA influences dietary intake, BMI and nutritional status. Design: Two 24 h dietary recalls were collected on non-consecutive days using the multiple-pass interviewing method and were averaged. Heights and weights were measured, from which BMI was calculated. An acculturation score was computed. Setting: Schools, churches, Hmong organizations, and community centres. Subjects: …

Buletin Pusat Dialog Peradaban Universiti Malaya, Volume 17, 2011, Centre For Civilisational Dialogue University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2010s)

No abstract provided.

Kekal Abadi, Jilid 29, Bilangan 2, 2011, Library University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2010s)

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The Village As Cold War Site: Experts, Development, And The History Of Rural Reconstruction, Nicole Sackley

History Faculty Publications

This article examines ‘the village’ as a category of development knowledge used by policymakers and experts to remake the ‘Third World’ during the Cold War. The idea of the village as a universal category of underdevelopment, capable of being remade by expert-led social reform, structured efforts to win the ‘hearts and minds’ of people from Asia to Latin America and Africa. Rooted in a transnational interwar movement for rural reconstruction, village projects were transformed in the 1950s and 1960s by a scientization of development that narrowed the range of experts in the field and by Cold War politics that increasingly …

Grouse News 41-50 (2011-2015), Iucn Ssc-Wpa Specialist Group

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

Issue 41 (May 2011)

From the Editor

From the Chair

Conservation News Urgent measures for conservation of the Cantabrian capercaillie Tetrao urogallus cantabricus in its habitat in the Cantabrian mountain range

Research Reports

Effects of large-scale human land use on capercaillie Tetrao urogallus (L.) populations in Finland: A short summary of the PhD thesis

Why the capercaillie population Tetrao urogallus (L.) in the West Carpathians decline?

Hazel grouse in open landscapes

Investigating the importance of thermal refugia for white-tailed ptarmigan at the southern extent of their range

Is GPS and satellite telemetry an option for grouse research?

GPS satellite telemetry …

Aerobic Treatment Of Oily Wastewater: Effect Of Aeration And Sludge Concentration To Pollutant Reduction And Phb Accumulation, B. Primasari, S. Ibrahim, M.S.M. Annuar, L.X.I. Remmie

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

This study is aimed to investigate feasibility of the aerobic biological process to treat oily wastewater from palm oil food industry. Effect of aeration and sludge concentrations are studied. Raw sludge and raw wastewater was mixed and acclimatized for five days in a stirred tank reactor. The aeration rate (no aeration, low; 1.5L/min and high rate; 2L/min) and sludge concentration (3675, 7350, and 11025mg/L of VSS) were varied. Responses of process were pH, COD, oil and grease, VSS, and PHB content. It was found that the treatment can remove 85.1 to 97.1 of COD and remove 12.9 to 54.8 of …

Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis Device: Measurement Of Bioelectrical Tissue Conductivity In Dengue Patients, H. Abdul Rahim, M.N. Taib, F. Ibrahim, Z. Abdul Rahim

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

This paper describes and introduces a new approach to monitor dengue hemorrhagic fever using BIA technique. This technique is an in vivo technique where an approximately a small average constant current of 460 μA at single frequency, 50 kHz is applied through human body, and measure the body's resistance and reactance to that current via four-surface electrode. These measurements are combined with the patient data (i.e. age, sex, height and weight) to estimate mass and water compartments. The dengue's clinical studies in correlation with the BIA measurement have been conducted on 119 male and 91 female who are the DHF …

Ian Proudfoot, J. Sinnasamy

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

No abstract provided.

News Framing Of Google’S Withdrawal From China: A Comparison Between American And Chinese Newspaper, Yezi Hu

Research Papers

To compare how different Chinese newspapers and American newspapers frame the issue of Google’s withdrawal from China, I choose China Daily and the New York Times as representatives, adopting an inductive framing analysis method in this research. I systematically choose twenty percent of articles covering the issue from their official website and analyze metaphors, exemplars, catchphrases, depictions in the articles. Moreover, I discuss how ideology, ownership, economic structures, and shareholders influence the framing process as crucial factors.

Knowledge Transfer Project Annual Report 2011/2012, Asia-Pacific Institute Of Ageing Studies, Lingnan University, Office Of Service-Learning, Lingnan University

APIAS Research Report 研究報告

The Knowledge Transfer (KT) Project as operated by the Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies (APIAS) and the Office of Service-Learning (OSL) of Lingnan University has successfully reached its third year of implementation. Over the past three years Knowledge Transfer has established a unique position in Lingnan’s teaching and research, as well as building of institutional capacity. As a liberal arts university, Lingnan takes pride in its humanistic approach to knowledge transfer on campus as well as off campus in building community capacity.

Since 2009, we have made significant advances in the implementation of Knowledge Transfer with guidance and comments from …

Adhd And Criminality: A Primer On The Genetic, Neurobiological, Evolutionary, And Treatment Literature For Criminologists, Catrina M. Schilling, Anthony Walsh, Ilhong Yun

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper is a primer on ADHD and its major comorbidities for criminologists unfamiliar with the genetic, neurobiological, and evolutionary literature on the subject. With Unnerver, Cullen & Pratt (2003) we are surprised that criminologists do not pay sufficient attention to a disorder that is found at rates in prisons around the world greatly exceeding in prevalence in the general population. Unnerver, Cullen & Pratt (2003) believe that it is because ADHD research has been carried out primarily by biomedical researchers and that criminologists tend to shy away from anything smacking of biology. We believe that the special expertise of …

Description Of A New Species Of Eriococcidae (Hemiptera:Coccoidea) From Turkey, Lerzan Erkiliç, Mehmet Bora Kaydan, Ferenc Kozar

Turkish Journal of Zoology

A new species of Eriococcidae (Hemiptera: Coccoidea), Proteriococcus lauri Erkılıç sp. nov., collected on Laurus nobilis in Turkey is described and illustrated based on the adult female, and first-instar nymph.

First Records Of Late Devonian Entomozoacean Ostracods In North-Western Turkey, Ati̇ke Nazi̇k, Helga Groos-Uffenorde

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Entomozoacean ostracods (pelagic socalled fingerprint-ostracods) have recently been observed for the first time in Upper Devonian sediments of the Darlık B Section from the İstanbul region, north-western Turkey. These new assemblages consist of Entomoprimitia nitida, Entomoprimitia sartenaeri, Entomoprimitia concentrica, Franklinella calcarata, Waldeckella erecta?, Rabienella n. sp. c, aff. reichi sensu Rabien & Rabitz 1958, Rabienella reichi, Richterina (Volkina) zimmermanni and Nehdentomis pseudorichterina and can be dated as Late Frasnian Entomoprimitia sartenaeri Zone (= variostriata Zone sensu Rabien 1954). These entomozoacean ostracods indicate a faunal relationship with Germany (Rhenish Schiefergebirge, Harz Mountains, Thuringia), Poland (Holy Cross Mountains), N France-Belgium (Ardennes), Volgo-Ural …

Geodynamic Significance Of The Early Triassic Karaburun Granitoid (Western Turkey) For The Opening History Of Neo-Tethys, Cüneyt Akal, Osman Ersi̇n Koralay, Osman Candan, Oberhaensli Roland, Fukun Chen

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The Karaburun Peninsula, which is considered part of the Anatolide-Tauride Block of Turkey, contains clastic and carbonate sequences deposited on the northern margin of Gondwana. The Palaeozoic clastic sequence, which is intruded by the Early Triassic granitoid and tectonically overlies a Mesozoic mélange sequence, can be divided into three subunits: a lower clastic subunit consisting of a sandstone-shale alternation, an upper clastic subunit consisting of black chert-bearing shales, sandstone and conglomerate, and a Permo-Carboniferous carbonate subunit. The lower Triassic Karaburun I-type granitoid has a high initial ^8^7Sr/^8^6Sr ratio (0.709021-0.709168), and low ^1^4^3Nd/^1^4^4Nd ratio (0.512004-0.512023) and \epsilonNd (-5.34 to -5.70) isotopic …

Autonomy In The Workplace: An Essential Ingredient To Employee Engagement And Well-Being In Every Culture, Marylène Gagne, Devasheesh P. Bhave

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The nature of organizational life requires questioning the role of worker autonomy. An impressive amount of management research has been devoted to autonomy issues in organizations. Autonomy is at the forefront of research on job design and the management of employees. Therefore, we review evidence in the area of job design and management practices that deeply affect worker autonomy. Throughout this discussion, we evaluate the cross-cultural applicability of research and practice and offer future directions based on self-determination theory.

Allotetraploid Origin And Divergence In Eleusine (Chloridoideae, Poaceae): Evidence From Low-Copy Nuclear Gene Phylogenies And A Plastid Gene Chronogram, Qing Liu, Jimmy K. Triplett, Jun Wen, Paul M. Peterson

Research, Publications & Creative Work

Background and Aims: Eleusine (Poaceae) is a small genus of the subfamily Chloridoideae exhibiting considerable morphological and ecological diversity in East Africa and the Americas. The interspecific phylogenetic relationships of Eleusine are investigated in order to identify its allotetraploid origin, and a chronogram is estimated to infer temporal relationships between palaeoenvironment changes and divergence of Eleusine in East Africa.

Methods: Two low-copy nuclear (LCN) markers, Pepc4 and EF-1a, were analysed using parsimony, likelihood and Bayesian approaches. A chronogram of Eleusine was inferred from a combined data set of six plastid DNA markers (ndhA intron, ndhF, rps16-trnK, rps16 intron, rps3, and …

2011-2012 Student Handbook, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Student Handbooks

No abstract provided.

Social Support Networks On International Assignments, Erika Spieß, Christina Stroppa

Papers from the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conferences

This study presents the role of social support and of networks for staff of small- and medium-sized enterprises and large corporations on foreign assignment. We used both, a qualitative and quantitative approach: qualitative interviews of staff of small- and medium-sized enterprises revealed the special need of support within the scope of the assignment and the immense significance of a well-functioning, supportive network. A quantitative survey with 143 respondents examined the relation between the phases of an assignment for satisfaction, stress, and company support. The outcome was that critical phases of foreign assignment were the sojourn and the return phases, marked …

Review Of The Interactions Between Catfishes And Freshwater Mollusks In North America, Jeremy S. Tiemann, Stephen E. Mcmurray, M. Christopher Barnhart, G. Thomas Watters

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

Catfishes are important in freshwater ecosystems not only as consumers, but also as essential partners in symbiotic relationships with other organisms. Freshwater mollusks are among the many organisms that have interactions with catfishes. For example, ictalurids are hosts for larvae of several native freshwater mussel species. The larvae, which attach briefly to gills or fins of fish to complete their development to the free-living juvenile stage, disperse via upstream and downstream movement of host fish. In turn, freshwater mussels serve as a food source for some catfish species while other catfish species may use spent mussel shells for habitat. Ictalurids …

The Church Going Glocal Mission And Globalisation, Tormod Engelsviken, Erling Lundeby, Dagfinn Solheim

Edinburgh Centenary Series

This phenomenon, which, as this book will show, is not unique for our time, is nevertheless more widespread, more pervasive and more rapidly changing the world in which we live than ever before.

The Soviet State As Imperial Scavenger: "Catch Up And Surpass" In The Transnational Socialist Bloc, 1950-1960, Austin Jersild

History Faculty Publications

THE BIGGEST PRIZE SOUGHT by the Soviet Union in its newly acquired postwar territory was the bomb itself—or initially the defense‐related industries, research specialists, and scientists in the German zone deemed useful to achieving this goal.1 The Soviets similarly made arrangements to benefit from uranium deposits in Jáchymov, Czechoslovakia, from the fall of 1945.2 The effort to develop the bomb, however, was merely the most visible expression of the Soviet state at work in what would eventually become the socialist bloc. The Soviet technical and managerial elite routinely engaged in a similar search for useful forms of industrial …

Scholarship In International Technical Communication, 1950-1989: A Historical Study, Xiaoyan Huang

Masters Theses

"This thesis is a study of the published scholarship in international technical communication from 1950 to 1989. It provides insight into the four decades' worth of scholarship as well as a resource for the development of present and future scholarship in international technical communication. It attempts to answer the following research questions: What did scholars of international technical communication study in each decade? What are the similarities and differences among the four decades in terms of scholarship in international technical communication? What are the strengths and weaknesses of the relevant scholarship in the four decades? What can we learn from …