Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

2013

Discipline
Institution
Keyword
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 31 - 60 of 24644

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

Regional Cooperation For Antipiracy Measures In South East Asia : Study Of The Malacca Strait, Yuichi Monji Dec 2013

Regional Cooperation For Antipiracy Measures In South East Asia : Study Of The Malacca Strait, Yuichi Monji

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


A Critical Evaluation On The Effective Implementation Of The Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan For The South : A Case Study Of The Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality African Coastline; Eastern Cape; South Africa, Thembani Wilberforce Manyefane Dec 2013

A Critical Evaluation On The Effective Implementation Of The Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan For The South : A Case Study Of The Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality African Coastline; Eastern Cape; South Africa, Thembani Wilberforce Manyefane

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Stepping Up From Green Revolution To Blue Economy : A New Paradigm For Poverty Eradication And Sustainable Development In South Asia, Imali Manikarachchim Dec 2013

Stepping Up From Green Revolution To Blue Economy : A New Paradigm For Poverty Eradication And Sustainable Development In South Asia, Imali Manikarachchim

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Coal As A Marine Pollutant, Jairo Orobio Sanchez Dec 2013

Coal As A Marine Pollutant, Jairo Orobio Sanchez

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Cost And Benefit Analysis Of Shore Side Electricity In The Port Of Tanjung Perak, Indonesia, Oscar Yogi Yustiano Dec 2013

Cost And Benefit Analysis Of Shore Side Electricity In The Port Of Tanjung Perak, Indonesia, Oscar Yogi Yustiano

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Marine Environment Protection From Offshore Oil And Gas : Activities In Sri Lanka, H. T. N. I. Piyadasa Dec 2013

Marine Environment Protection From Offshore Oil And Gas : Activities In Sri Lanka, H. T. N. I. Piyadasa

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Upaya Pengobatan Sendiri Pada Balita Dalam Era Cakupan Semesta Jaminan Kesehatan, Eka Fitria Dec 2013

Upaya Pengobatan Sendiri Pada Balita Dalam Era Cakupan Semesta Jaminan Kesehatan, Eka Fitria

Kesmas

Upaya pengobatan sendiri merupakan perilaku individu dalam mengenali jenis penyakit yang diderita dan memilih sendiri jenis pengobatan. Kriteria yang menentukan pemilihan sumber pengobatan adalah persepsi sakit/pengetahuan akan penyakit, keyakinan akan sumber pengobatan, dan efisiensi waktu yang dipengaruhi oleh keterjangkauan biaya dan jarak. Penelitian ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan upaya pengobatan sendiri pada balita di Aceh dalam era cakupan semesta jaminan kesehatan dan mengetahui faktor-faktor yang memengaruhinya. Penelitian ini merupakan analisis data sekunder hasil KOR-MODUL Susenas 2011 dengan pendekatan potong lintang sebanyak 43.866 responden atau 455.750 rumah tangga di 23 Kabupaten/Kota Provinsi Aceh. Terdapat 5.147 responden balita yang mewakili populasi balita Aceh, sebanyak …


The Processing Of Amyloid Precursor Protein In The Central Nervous System Of Humans And Rhesus Macaques, Justyna Anna Dobrowolska Dec 2013

The Processing Of Amyloid Precursor Protein In The Central Nervous System Of Humans And Rhesus Macaques, Justyna Anna Dobrowolska

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Alzheimer's disease: AD) is the most common dementia, currently afflicting 30 million people worldwide, with prevalence steadily increasing. Over 99% of AD cases are classified as sporadic, in which the major risk factors are age: greater than 65 years) and the ApoE-ε4 allele: in a gene dose dependent manner). The minority of AD cases: less than 1%) are caused by autosomal dominant inheritance of a genetic mutation in one of three genes: Amyloid Precursor Protein: APP), Presenilin-1: PSEN1), or Presenilin-2: PSEN2). Mutation carriers will generally notice cognitive decline starting at a relatively young age, anytime between their 30s-50s, and eventually …


Future War, Future Law, Eric Talbot Jensen Dec 2013

Future War, Future Law, Eric Talbot Jensen

Faculty Scholarship

Advancing technology will dramatically affect the weapons and tactics of future armed conflict, including the “places” where conflicts are fought, the “actors” by whom they are fought, and the “means and methods” by which they are fought. These changes -- including continuing cyber conflict, increased use of autonomous weapon systems, the development of nanotechnology, and evolving virology capabilities -- will stress even the fundamental principles of the law of armed conflict, or LOAC. While it is likely that the contemporary LOAC will be sufficient to regulate the majority of future conflicts, the international community must be willing to evolve the …


"He Got In My Face So I Shot Him": How Defendants' Language Impairments Impair Attorney-Client Relationships, Michele Levigne, Gregory Van Rybroek Dec 2013

"He Got In My Face So I Shot Him": How Defendants' Language Impairments Impair Attorney-Client Relationships, Michele Levigne, Gregory Van Rybroek

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.


Fostering The Human Rights Of Youth In Foster Care: Defining Reasonable Efforts To Improve Consequences Of Aging Out, Ramesh Kasarabada Dec 2013

Fostering The Human Rights Of Youth In Foster Care: Defining Reasonable Efforts To Improve Consequences Of Aging Out, Ramesh Kasarabada

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.


Effect Of Learning Think-Pair-Share Think Through The Combined Pattern Empowerment Question On Metacognitive Skills, Creative Thinking, Understanding Concepts Ipa And Retention As Well As Social Attitudes Students, Maryanti Ekoningtyas Dec 2013

Effect Of Learning Think-Pair-Share Think Through The Combined Pattern Empowerment Question On Metacognitive Skills, Creative Thinking, Understanding Concepts Ipa And Retention As Well As Social Attitudes Students, Maryanti Ekoningtyas

Jurnal Pendidikan Sains

Cooperative learning is a teaching strategy to raise awareness of student thinking, solve problems together by integrating and applying skills and knowledge, empowering metacognitive learning development, a means to teach social skills students need to live and work together. This study aims to determine the effect pattern combined PBMP TPS learning strategy against metacognitive skills, creative thinking skills, understanding of concepts, understanding of the concept of retention, and social attitudes of students. This study used a quasi-experimental approach (quasi experimental) to design non-equivalent pretest-posttest control group design. Analysis of data normality test and homogeneity test, and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). …


Metacognitive Awareness, Process Science And Chemistry Student Learning Outcomes Divergent And Convergent In Pbl, Yusran Khery Dec 2013

Metacognitive Awareness, Process Science And Chemistry Student Learning Outcomes Divergent And Convergent In Pbl, Yusran Khery

Jurnal Pendidikan Sains

The aim of this study are: (1) determine differences in metacognitive awareness and cognitive learning outcomes of students with PBL and conventional strategies; (2) determine differences in metacognitive awareness, science process skills, and cognitive learning outcomes between students with divergent thinking and convergent character that learned by PBL strategy. This study uses three kinds of designs are descriptive study design, quasi-experimental design and pre-experimental design to answer the research objectives. Instruments used in this research are: (1) questionnaire characters divergent thinking and convergent; (2) metacognitive awareness questionnaire; (3) observation sheets science process skills; and (4) tests the cognitive learning. Data …


Influence Of Learning Strategies Stad Using Portfolio Assessment And Academic Ability To Concept Training Junior High School Students In Biology Education, Puspani Puspani Dec 2013

Influence Of Learning Strategies Stad Using Portfolio Assessment And Academic Ability To Concept Training Junior High School Students In Biology Education, Puspani Puspani

Jurnal Pendidikan Sains

This study is a quasi-experimental research (quasi experimental) which aims to: (1) examine the effect of STAD learning strategies using a portfolio assessment to the understanding of concepts and critical thinking skills, (2) test the effect of academic ability to understanding of concepts and critical thinking skills students, (3) test the interaction effect of STAD strategy using portfolio assessment and academic ability to the understanding of concepts and critical thinking skills of students. Research using the draft "non-pretest-posttest control group design equivalent" version 2x2 factorial. Data analysis to test for normality and homogeneity, followed by analysis of covariance (Anacova) and …


Numerical Modeling Of Infrared Thermography Techniques Via Ansys, Hayder Abdulnabi Thajeel Dec 2013

Numerical Modeling Of Infrared Thermography Techniques Via Ansys, Hayder Abdulnabi Thajeel

Masters Theses

"Several inspection techniques have been developed over years. Recently, infrared thermography (IRT) technology has become a widely accepted as a nondestructive inspection (NDI) technique for different fields and various applications as well. Infrared thermography stands as one of the most an attractive and a successful NDI technique that has ability to detect the object's surface/subsurface defects remotely based on observing and measuring the surface's emitted infrared heat radiation by using an infrared camera. The finite element modeling FEM ANSYS was successfully used for the modelling of several IRT techniques; such as Pulsed Thermography (PT) and Lock-in Thermography (LT) that can …


Insect Prey Eaten By Hoary Bats (Lasiurus Cinereus) Prior To Fatal Collisions With Wind Turbines, Ernest W. Valdez, Paul M. Cryan Dec 2013

Insect Prey Eaten By Hoary Bats (Lasiurus Cinereus) Prior To Fatal Collisions With Wind Turbines, Ernest W. Valdez, Paul M. Cryan

Western North American Naturalist

Wind turbines are being deployed all across the world to meet the growing demand for energy, and in many areas, these turbines are causing the deaths of insectivorous migratory bats. One of the hypothesized causes of bat susceptibility is that bats are attracted to insects on or near the turbines. We examined insect remains in the stomachs and intestines of hoary bats (Lasiurus cinereus) found dead beneath wind turbines in New York and Texas to evaluate the hypothesis that bats die while feeding at turbines. Most of the bats we examined had full stomachs, indicating that they fed …


An Arizona Bark Scorpion (Centruroides Sculpturatus) Found Consuming A Venomous Prey Item Nearly Twice Its Length, Michael M. Webber, Matthew R. Graham Dec 2013

An Arizona Bark Scorpion (Centruroides Sculpturatus) Found Consuming A Venomous Prey Item Nearly Twice Its Length, Michael M. Webber, Matthew R. Graham

Western North American Naturalist

Arizona bark scorpions (Centruroides sculpturatus Ewing) are commonly found throughout the Sonoran Desert in southwestern North America, and they are well known for being the most venomous scorpion in the United States. Despite their medical significance, C. sculpturatus remains ecologically understudied, and little is known regarding its natural foraging and feeding behaviors. Here, we present the first documented case of C. sculpturatus feeding on the Sonoran Desert centipede (Scolopendra polymorpha Wood) in the wild.


Los Alacranes de Corteza de Arizona (Centruroides sculpturatus Ewing), por lo general, se encuentran en todo el Desierto de Sonora, en el sudoeste …


Net Primary Productivity Of Subalpine Meadows In Yosemite National Park In Relation To Climate Variability, Peggy E. Moore, Jan W. Van Wagtendonk, Julie L. Yee, Mitchel P. Mcclaran, David N. Cole, Neil K. Mcdougald, Matthew L. Brooks Dec 2013

Net Primary Productivity Of Subalpine Meadows In Yosemite National Park In Relation To Climate Variability, Peggy E. Moore, Jan W. Van Wagtendonk, Julie L. Yee, Mitchel P. Mcclaran, David N. Cole, Neil K. Mcdougald, Matthew L. Brooks

Western North American Naturalist

Subalpine meadows are some of the most ecologically important components of mountain landscapes, and primary productivity is important to the maintenance of meadow functions. Understanding how changes in primary productivity are associated with variability in moisture and temperature will become increasingly important with current and anticipated changes in climate. Our objective was to describe patterns and variability in aboveground live vascular plant biomass in relation to climatic factors. We harvested aboveground biomass at peak growth from four 64-m2 plots each in xeric, mesic, and hydric meadows annually from 1994 to 2000. Data from nearby weather stations provided independent variables …


Interdisciplinary Studies And Comparative Literature In China And The West, Aaron Lee Moore Dec 2013

Interdisciplinary Studies And Comparative Literature In China And The West, Aaron Lee Moore

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Interdisciplinary Studies and Comparative Literature in China and the West" Aaron Lee Moore addresses the arguments on the part of Chinese and Western scholars against and for the full inclusion of interdisciplinary studies within the discipline of comparative literature. Interdisciplinary studies, in general, have been resisted in Chinese scholarship as it once was in the U.S. and other Western countries. Moore discusses the major Chinese arguments for and against interdisciplinary studies in general and interdisciplinary studies within comparative literature. Moore's main argument is that the study of literature by necessity must always cross disciplinary boundaries and the …


Joint Effect Of Multiple Common Snps Predicts Melanoma Susceptibility, Shenying Fang, Jiali Han, Mingfeng Zhang, Li-E Wang, Qingyi Wei, Christopher I. Amos, Jeffrey E. Lee Dec 2013

Joint Effect Of Multiple Common Snps Predicts Melanoma Susceptibility, Shenying Fang, Jiali Han, Mingfeng Zhang, Li-E Wang, Qingyi Wei, Christopher I. Amos, Jeffrey E. Lee

Dartmouth Scholarship

Single genetic variants discovered so far have been only weakly associated with melanoma. This study aims to use multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) jointly to obtain a larger genetic effect and to improve the predictive value of a conventional phenotypic model. We analyzed 11 SNPs that were associated with melanoma risk in previous studies and were genotyped in MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) and Harvard Medical School investigations. Participants with ≥15 risk alleles were 5-fold more likely to have melanoma compared to those carrying ≤6. Compared to a model using the most significant single variant rs12913832, the increase in predictive …


Intermedial Serial Metarepresentation In Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, Asunción López-Varela, Camila Khaski Gaglia Dec 2013

Intermedial Serial Metarepresentation In Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, Asunción López-Varela, Camila Khaski Gaglia

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Abstract: In their article "Intermedial Serial Metarepresentation in Dickens's The Pickwick Papers" Asunción López-Varela and Camila Khaski Gaglia employ a semiotic perspective in order to establish the intermedial features of the genre of the serial novel. Drawing on Marina Grishakova's distinction between "metaverbal" (an attribute of verbal texts which evoke images) and "metavisual" (an attribute of images which reflect on the incomplete nature of visual representation) the authors explore self-reflexive references as threads to storylines which capture the entire series in one emblematic recurrent image.


Complexity, Hybridity, And Comparative Literature, Marina Grishakova Dec 2013

Complexity, Hybridity, And Comparative Literature, Marina Grishakova

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Complexity, Hybridity, and Comparative Literature" Marina Grishakova discusses "implied hybridity" in discourses, aesthetic systems, and media as a form of emergent complexity — as distinct from hybridity resulting from the mixture or blending of heterogeneous elements. Grishakova argues that complexity theories widely used in social sciences and, to a lesser extent, in literary and cultural studies, suggest a possibility to avoid dualistic thinking and offer a flexible conceptual framework for comparative literature studies. Aesthetic systems, as part of society's "imaginary," respond to, and reorganize in response to, impulses received from other domains, but also modify their environments …


National Literature, World Literatures, And Universality In Romanian Cultural Criticism 1867-1947, Andrei Terian Dec 2013

National Literature, World Literatures, And Universality In Romanian Cultural Criticism 1867-1947, Andrei Terian

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "National Literature, World Literatures, and Universality in Romanian Cultural Criticism 1867-1947" Andrei Terian analyzes the relevance of systematizing international literary relationships in current theories of world literatures. Terian criticizes the "naturalist" reductionism that still dominates many contemporary studies in the field of world literatures and asserts that a particular feature of the interliterary processes is that they occur not only at the level of mere "facts," but also at the level of cultural "representations" thus supporting various strategies through which national literatures attempt to acquire more favorable positions within world literatures. Terian presents a systemic classification of …


Major Histories, Minor Literatures, And World Authors, Theo D'Haen Dec 2013

Major Histories, Minor Literatures, And World Authors, Theo D'Haen

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Major Histories, Minor Literatures, and World Authors" Theo D'haen discusses how the idea of world literature has made a remarkable comeback in literary studies. A major feature of this revival has been increased attention from a "world perspective" to literatures until recently little studied beyond disciplinary boundaries, particularly so some "major" literatures such as Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and various Indian-language literatures. As such, these literatures have come to join what has usually been thought of as "European" world literature. What this move, however to be welcomed in itself, obscures is the even further peripheralization of a number …


Gender And Emotion In Comparative Perspective, Raili Marling Dec 2013

Gender And Emotion In Comparative Perspective, Raili Marling

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Gender and Emotion in Comparative Perspective" Raili Marling argues that although the study of affect is anything but new, literary studies can benefit from the creative tension between affect and (feminist) politics. Building on the work of Sara Ahmed and Lauren Berlant, Marling engages with the debates within affect theory and then fleshes out the idea of literature as a gendered intimate public sphere and investigates the political effects of emotions as cultural practices. The resulting — largely Anglophone — theoretical apparatus is then tested in a cross-cultural context by discussing Elo Viiding's negotiation of "happiness duty" …


Ethical Criticism And Literary Studies: A Book Review Article About Nie's Work, Biwu Shang Dec 2013

Ethical Criticism And Literary Studies: A Book Review Article About Nie's Work, Biwu Shang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.


Fiction, Film, Painting, And Comparative Literature, Ramona L. Ceciu Dec 2013

Fiction, Film, Painting, And Comparative Literature, Ramona L. Ceciu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Fiction, Film, Painting, and Comparative Literature" Ramona L. Ceciu proposes a view of comparative literature as a "language in a process of ascertaining its proper grammar." She argues that like any language in order to survive, comparative literature must allow for a constant rejuvenation of its vocabulary and methods it must keep an "open" structure that would accommodate fresh extra-methodological approaches through a procedure of re-invention and expansion. Ceciu posits that in this process the comparatist's "objective creativity" plays a crucial role and draws on Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek's concept of a "new comparative literature" and applies …


Towards A Symbiotic Coexistence Of Comparative Literature And World Literature, Jüri Talvet Dec 2013

Towards A Symbiotic Coexistence Of Comparative Literature And World Literature, Jüri Talvet

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Towards a Symbiotic Coexistence of Comparative Literature and World Literature" Jüri Talvet postulates that comparative literature has really never enjoyed a pivotal or central status in the broad field of literary studies, yet at the same time specialized studies of separate literary traditions have not been able to fill numerous gaps in the understanding of literary creation as a broader cultural phenomenon influencing (although often invisibly) the world-view and axiological attitudes of entire societies and vast communities of people. Developing some ideas presented in his book A Call for Cultural Symbiosis (2005) and in his article " …


Criticism Of The Testamentary Undue Influence Doctrine In The United States: Lessons For South Africa?, François Du Toit Dec 2013

Criticism Of The Testamentary Undue Influence Doctrine In The United States: Lessons For South Africa?, François Du Toit

Journal of Civil Law Studies

This article analyzes undue influence in the South African law of wills in light of scholarly criticism of the testamentary undue influence doctrine in the United States. The article assesses in particular whether the so-called “undue influence paradox” identified in American scholarship is manifest in the South African law of wills: is testamentary undue influence’s role as guardian of testamentary freedom undermined by the judicial pursuit of family protectionism? The article proceeds, with due recognition of the differences between the American and South African legal traditions, from American scholars’ conceptualization of the paradox and their views on other complexities associated …


Trahan V. Kingrey, John H. Leech Jr. Dec 2013

Trahan V. Kingrey, John H. Leech Jr.

Journal of Civil Law Studies

No abstract provided.