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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, July 1, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2012

No abstract provided.

End Matter, Religious Educator

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

No abstract provided.

Perspectives, Problems, And Processes In Contemporary Spanish Adaptations, Vinodh Venkatesh

Hipertexto

No abstract provided.

Abram, Elijah And Alberta, Elija Abram, Alberta Abram, Damien Johnson

Video Collection

No abstract provided.

Using L1 Culture To Acquire L2 Culture: Zpd Framework, Amjad Taha

MA TESOL Collection

Teaching the target language culture has been recently receiving much attention and focus in the fields of second/foreign language teaching. This paper examines the importance of using the learners’ L1 culture as a tool to teach the target language culture. In addition, the paper stresses the idea that the learners develop a dynamic, hybrid identity and space that represents both their L1 and L2 culture. These manifestations are presented in a profound framework that shows the development stages that the learners go through in developing their third spaces by using their L1 culture.

This paper includes four main sections: an …

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, July 1, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2012

No abstract provided.

The Frequency Of Ch /ʧ/ In Contemporary Mexican Highland Spanish, Daniel Nappo

Hipertexto

That particular sounds are characteristic of different languages is widely understood. For example, studies of Amerindian languages of the Amazon basin have discovered sounds as unique as a ―voiced, lateralized apical-alveolar/sublaminal-labial double flap with egressive lung air‖ [L,], exhibited only in Pirahã, an isolated language spoken by approximately one hundred people (Everett 92). English has an apparent proclivity for the phoneme /ʃ /, which, as Baugh and Cable point out, may be produced by twelve different spellings (14). This paper argues that the phoneme /ʧ /, represented exclusively in Spanish by the digraph ch, may be viewed as one of …

What Kind Of #Communication Is Twitter? A Psycholinguistic Perspective On Communication In Twitter For The Purpose Of Emergency Coordination, Hemant Purohit, Andrew Hampton, Valerie L. Shalin, Amit P. Sheth, John Flach

Kno.e.sis Publications

The present research aims to detect coordinated citizen response within social media traffic to assist emergency response. We use domain-independent linguistic properties as the first step in narrowing the candidate set of messages for domain-dependent and computationally intensive analysis.

Julh2012, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From July 2012 Robert Kelly Archives

Reading Horizons Vol. 51, No. 4

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 51, issue 4.

The Classic, Summer 2012, Public Relations

The Classic, 2010-2019

Zwemer View: Planning Progress; In Box; From the Classic website: Be Vigilant, Embarrassed; Around the Green: Traveling Mercy; Cheerful Servant; Summer Research; Building Enthusiasm; A Graduate's Wisdom; Purposeful Integration; A Write Legacy; New Academic Options; Thinking Ahead; Of Course: Old Art Made New; Perfect Score; Winning; Serving in the City; Mentor with Passion; Ugly Art; The Soul of an Institution; Face Value: Jeff Guthmiller; Red Zone; Home for Learning; 1000 Words: International Flavor; Gotta Be God's: Californian rap artist finds soul-saving rhythm; The Extended Interview; Heading in a Northwestern Direction; Red Ties; Listening to God's Call; Dog Days; All in …

Footnotes, Issue 11, Spring-Summer 2012, Department Of English

Footnotes: Department of English Newsletter (2008-2012)

No abstract provided.

Evaluation And Assessment Of Recommenders Using Monte Carlo Simulation, Renato Costa, Luiz Fernando Capretz

Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications

There have been various definitions, representations and derivations of trust in the context of recommender systems. This article presents a recommender predictive model based on collaborative filtering techniques that incorporate a fuzzy-driven quantifier, which includes two upmost relevant social phenomena parameters to address the vagueness inherent in the assessment of trust in social networks relationships. An experimental evaluation procedure utilizing a case study is conducted to analyze the overall predictive accuracy. These results show that the proposed methodology improves the performance of classical recommender approaches. Possible extensions are then outlined.

The Genre Of Instructor Feedback In Doctoral Programs: A Corpus Linguistic Analysis, Kelley Jo Walters, Michael Vinella

2010-2016 Archived Posters

Providing transparent written feedback to doctoral student may be essential to the learning process and preparation for the capstone. It may be even more critical in an online environment where face to face interaction is limited or confined to academic residencies. The researchers examined instructor feedback provided to online doctoral students on scholarly writing assignments throughout their program. The Corpus for this Analysis includes 237 doctoral level written assignments that include feedback from approximately 50+ faculty members.

Café Culture: Promoting Empowerment And Pleasure In Adolescent Literacy Learning, Brandi Gribble Mathers, Amanda J. Stern

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The 160 third, seventh, and eleventh-graders involved in this study agreed, almost unanimously, that reading was“important.” Participants cited the empowering benefits of reading as they justified this opinion. However, with regards to the enjoyment of reading, fewer middle and high school participants reported “liking” reading than their elementary counterparts and fewer reported reading in their free time.

One solution to this dilemma involves providing adolescent students with a context devoted solely to pleasure reading. In doing so, educators can look to an institution that boasts both an historical link to literate culture and current-day pop culture appeal: the coffeehouse. When …

2012 Walden University Summer Research Symposium, Walden University

2010-2016 Archived Programs

Welcome to the 2012 Walden University Summer Research Symposium, which is being held during the university faculty meeting for the first time. This positioning provides an opportunity for more of our academic community to experience the symposium and makes it more convenient for some of our newest researchers to participate. The topics for this symposium remain as interesting and varied as in the past and include some of our evaluation studies and thought leadership efforts. Speaking of new researchers, we have presentations on capstone projects representing nearly all the doctoral programs at Walden University—and in spite of the variety, each …

State Health Insurance Exchange Laws: The First Generation, Sara J. Rosenbaum, Nancy Lopez, Taylor Burke, Mark Dorley

Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Three Rivers As Transitional Zone: Considering A Collective Metanarrative In Pueblo Prehistory, Heather Kline

Art & Art History ETDs

The Three Rivers petroglyph site in what is presently south central New Mexico represents important concepts for the study of southwestern prehistory. This site has been studied to a limited degree from the perspective of archaeological site surveys that have categorically classified the motifs represented on the petroglyphs, but at this point very little is known about the cultures that lived and created art in the Three Rivers area. The iconography of these images is remarkably similar to that represented on ceramics at both Mimbres during the Classic period (ca. AD 1000-1150), as well as Casas Grandes during the Medio …

Between Theory And Reality: Cosmopolitanism Of Nodal Cities In Paweł Huelle’S Castorp, Ania Spyra

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

FIVE YEARS BEFORE the publication of his novel Castorp, the Gdansk writer Pawel Huelle published a short piece of the same title in the essay collection Inne historie (1999), the title of which-translated as either "other stories" or "other histories"-consciously plays with the difficulty of writing a history of Gdansk, a theme to which almost all of the short pieces in this collection somehow return. The essay tells the story of a literary correspondence between a Lvov pastor and the writer Thomas Mann, in which Mann voices regret over some unelaborated ideas and abandoned storylines in The Magic Mountain. …

Marketing Vermont As A Multicultural Brand, Shambulia Gadsden Sams

Capstone Collection

Considered one of the most ethnically diverse countries, race diversity is at its highest and most rapid growth in the United States due to the increase in the minority population. Vermont has long been the U.S.’s least diverse state, being the 2^nd whitest state in the U.S., yet, according to the 2010 census, the racial and ethnic population has increased. However, the visibility of that growth amongst the minority population in Vermont is stagnating in only marketing to a Caucasian-centric base. This capstone paper will examine the Marketing of Vermont as a Multicultural Brand and how it has and …

Land Is Life: A Policy Advocacy Case Study Of The Northern Thailand Land Reform Movement, Jason Lubanski

Capstone Collection

This case study provides an in-depth examination of the work of the Thailand Northern Land Reform Movement using the framework of Jeff Unsicker's "Policy Advocacy Circles". Due to increasing population pressures, the liberalization of land markets, and agribusiness pressures, Thailand has experienced an increase in land ownership inequality and a growing number of landless and nearly landless small-scale farmers. In order to address this situation, agricultural communities have joined together at local and national levels to fight for the legislation of land reform policies, including Community Land Titles, progressive land taxes, and a National Land Bank to assist with land …

Paul's Witness To Biblical Monotheism As Isaiah's Servant In Acts, William Kurz

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

The influence of the book of Isaiah on Luke and Acts has been widely discussed and generally admitted.' It has also become a consensus that Luke used the Septuagint (LXX) Isaiah rather than pre-Masoretic Hebrew texts. The Greek translations of Luke's time had already applied and modified the theology of Hebrew Isaiah in usually small but sometimes significant ways.' It is also important to realize that the Lukan author was not aware that the especially influential section, "Second Isaiah;' was a separate writing by a later author. Rather, Luke read the canonical Isaiah as a unified biblical book.

Vocational Update (No. 1) -- July 2012

Vocational Update

Inside...

Language, literacy and numeracy

• Building capacity: The inaugural ACER National Adult LLN Assessment Conference
• It's time: Language, literacy and numeracy and the Vocational Indicator
• PIAAC: Monitoring adult literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills
• Countdown: Adult numeracy developments in two key standards frameworks

Continuous improvement

• AQJS: The new VET benchmark
• Working with RTOs to understand the 'business' of the VET provider
• Supporting the advancement of disadvantaged learners
• Measuring workforce capability with CATs

Funding

• Financing TVET in the Pacific
• Upcoming events
• More than match stats: Language, literacy and numeracy workshops for VET practitioners
• Profiling adults' core skills

Exile On Main Street: Competing Traditions And Due Process Dissent, Colin Starger

Marquette Law Review

Everybody loves great dissents. Professors teach them, students learn from them, and journalists quote them. Yet legal scholars have long puzzled over how dissents actually impact the development of doctrine. Recent work by notable empirical scholars proposes to measure the influence of dissents by reference to their subsequent citation in case law. This Article challenges the theoretical basis for this empirical approach and argues that it fails to account for the profound influence that uncited dissents have exerted in law. To overcome this gap in the empirical approach, this Article proposes an alternative method that permits analysis of contextual and …

Inquiry- Without Posing Questions?, Helle Alrø, Marit Johnsen-Høines

The Mathematics Enthusiast

This article discusses what inquiry conversations could mean when learning mathematics.³ Referring to Gadamar’s distinction of true and apparent questions it is discussed what it takes to be inquiring and if this attitude necessarily includes posing questions. Which qualities are expressed in inquiring questions, and what other ways of communicating may have an inquiring function in learning conversations? The intention is to develop and frame the concept of ’inquiry’ in learning conversations, and this is the focus of analysis of an authentic classroom situation, where teacher and pupils are exploring the concept of ’volume’. Further, this analysis informs a …

The Role Of Theory When Studying Epistemological Characterizations Of Mathematics Lecture(R)S, Magnus Österholm

The Mathematics Enthusiast

The study presented in this paper is a contribution to the scientific discussion about the role and use of theory in mathematics education research. In particular, focus is here on the use of and comparison between different types of theories and frameworks, which is discussed primarily through the example of an empirical study examining what types of messages about mathematics are conveyed in lectures. The main purpose of this paper is to examine how different types of theories and frameworks can affect different parts of the research process.

Evidence, W. Randall Bassett, Geoffrey M. Drake, Madison H. Kitchens

Mercer Law Review

The 2011 term of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit did not signal any new trends in the interpretation and application of the Federal Rules of Evidence, which comes as no surprise given that the Rules have been in effect since 1975. The 2011 term, however, did include a case of first impression for the court and several cases applying well-established law to new and unique factual scenarios. Several of these cases resulted in unpublished opinions bearing no precedential weight but, nevertheless, offering guidance to the practitioner in future cases.

While the admissibility of hearsay testimony …

University Library Annual Report Fy 2011-12, Tara Lynn Fulton

Library Annual Reports & Strategic Plans

No abstract provided.

Spanish I Resumen/ Overview [9th-12th Grades], Jonelle Bailey

Understanding by Design: Complete Collection

This unit is designed to encourage students to comprehensively synthesize all previously learned content knowledge to show mastery. The performance assessment includes the evaluation of previous work completed by the student as well as the application of multiple curriculum components to show active and consistent use of the target language in various contexts and real life situations. The understanding for students to attain, as stated within the unit, is that the information they have learned throughout Spanish I can be applied in various settings to effectively and successfully communicate using the target language.

Legal Models For The Recognition Of Cultural Arguments In Criminal Law: A Normative Viewpoint, Guy Ben-David

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

Recognizing the cultural background of a defendant who belongs to a minority culture is known as “cultural defense,” meaning that the minority member’s cultural background is accepted as a form of “defense” in a criminal trial. In general, the term “defense” is not only applicable in the functional sense as a formal defense against criminal liability, but rather can be applied in its literal linguistic sense, meaning that the defendant’s cultural background may grant them different types of special considerations during the criminal procedure.

This article aims to examine several legal models for the recognition of the cultural background of …