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National Vs. International Schools: Factors Influencing School Choice In Egypt; The Voices Of Parents And Students., Yasmine Alaa Khorshed Dec 2014

National Vs. International Schools: Factors Influencing School Choice In Egypt; The Voices Of Parents And Students., Yasmine Alaa Khorshed

Theses and Dissertations

There are many national and international schools in Cairo today, and every year lots of parents make educational choices for their children. Those choices are based on various factors. This research explores the factors that influence parents to select a certain school type and not the other. It is an initial step into school research as an attempt to help educators and administrators understand parents’ and students’ priorities, needs and expectations when choosing a school. The research questions are: (1) What are the most and least important factors that parents consider when choosing a national/ international school for their children? …

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May V. State Respondent's Brief Dckt. 41676 Dec 2014

May V. State Respondent's Brief Dckt. 41676

Not Reported

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State V. Dotts Respondent's Brief Dckt. 42058 Dec 2014

State V. Dotts Respondent's Brief Dckt. 42058

Not Reported

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Modeling, Fabrication, And Characterization Of Memristors, Anas Mazady Dec 2014

Modeling, Fabrication, And Characterization Of Memristors, Anas Mazady

Doctoral Dissertations

The term “memristor” was coined by L. Chua from its two distinct functional characteristics, memory and resistor. From the symmetry argument of the circuit element and circuit variable matrix, memristor is deemed as the fourth fundamental circuit element, after resistor, capacitor, and inductor. Memristor switching and observed I-V characteristics are explained utilizing the underlying physics of the device in terms of the formation and rupture of filaments. Three different conduction mechanisms, namely - filament assisted tunneling current, bulk tunneling current and currents flowing through low and high conductivity filaments give rise to the total current in memristive systems. DC and …

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The Paradox Of Immigration Politics: Revisiting The Dynamics Of Philippine Nikkeijin Labor Migration, Ron Bridget Vilog Dec 2014

The Paradox Of Immigration Politics: Revisiting The Dynamics Of Philippine Nikkeijin Labor Migration, Ron Bridget Vilog

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

Under the 1990 Immigration Control Act, nikkeijin or descendants of Japanese nationals who were born in foreign countries were granted limited rights to reside and work in Japan. Notwithstanding the contradictions of the policy framework, nikkeijin migration remains dynamic and robust. Impelled by socio-economic and cultural factors, Filipino nikkeijin have demonstrated an enduring cycle of migration, indicating socio-economic and cultural embeddedness within the host society. Thus, this paper discussed how Filipino nikkeijin acquired their nikkei recognition, initiated the migration process, and sustained massive flow despite Japan’s problematic immigration policies. Exploring the notion of Tsuda’s (1999) “structural embeddedness,” the paper highlights …

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Cultural Concept: Is Silence Golden?, Jessica Mico-Wentworth Dec 2014

Cultural Concept: Is Silence Golden?, Jessica Mico-Wentworth

Communication & Leadership Dissertations and Theses

This research examined how some of the graduate students and instructors from a small western university interpreted the meaning of online silence and how this concept affected their overall online academic experience. This thesis used an organizational ethnographic study in which the graduate students and instructors formed subcultures in the overall online graduate program. The Cultural Approach to Organizations was used as the theoretical basis to discover the meanings attributed to this topic from the perspective of the members of this community. Previous research of this topic primarily focused on comparing online educational classes to face-to-face classrooms. These perspectives focused …

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Measurement Of Tooth Brushing Frequency, Time Of Day And Duration Of Adults And Children In Jakarta, Indonesia, Anton Rahardjo, Diah A. Maharani, Bramma Kiswanjaya, Erik Idrus, Julie Nicholson, Paul J. Cunningham, Fred Schäfer Dec 2014

Measurement Of Tooth Brushing Frequency, Time Of Day And Duration Of Adults And Children In Jakarta, Indonesia, Anton Rahardjo, Diah A. Maharani, Bramma Kiswanjaya, Erik Idrus, Julie Nicholson, Paul J. Cunningham, Fred Schäfer

Journal of Dentistry Indonesia

Epidemiological study of tooth brushing is essential to evaluate dental health of a country. Objective: To obtain data on tooth brushing frequency, time of day and duration from adults and children in Jakarta, Indonesia. Methods: Toothbrushes containing data loggers were distributed to 120 random families in Jakarta to record how many times a day, when and for how long subjects brushed their teeth. The families were each composed of a mother, father and two children aged between 6 and 15 years. Results: The mean brushing frequency of the population was 1.27 times per day. The majority of the tooth brushing …

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Zinc Oxide Eugenol-Formocresol Root Canal Treatment Fails To Treat A Deciduous Tooth With Dentoalveolar Abcess, Arifa Pediarahma, Mochamad F. Rizal Dec 2014

Zinc Oxide Eugenol-Formocresol Root Canal Treatment Fails To Treat A Deciduous Tooth With Dentoalveolar Abcess, Arifa Pediarahma, Mochamad F. Rizal

Journal of Dentistry Indonesia

Irreversible pulp infection can lead to dentoalveolar abscess. Root canal treatment in deciduous teeth is indicated in irreversible pulp infection to maintain children’s health and deciduous teeth until its exfoliation period. Success rate of endodontic treatment in deciduous teeth can be enhanced by using antimicrobial root canal filling material. Combination of ZOE-formocresol as root canal filling material has a superior antimicrobial property. Unfortunately, based on some research it is also toxic to the tissue. This case report will discuss about failure of root canal treatment in deciduous tooth with dentoalveolar abscess using combination of ZOE-formocresol as obturating material. There are …

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Blurring Group Boundaries: The Impact Of Subgroup Threats On Global Citizenship, Stephen Reysen, Iva Katzarska-Miller, Phia S. Salter, Caroline Hirko Dec 2014

Blurring Group Boundaries: The Impact Of Subgroup Threats On Global Citizenship, Stephen Reysen, Iva Katzarska-Miller, Phia S. Salter, Caroline Hirko

Cultural Encounters, Conflicts, and Resolutions

We examined the outcomes of an extinction threat (possible discontinuation of a group’s symbolic or actual existence) to one’s nation on global citizenship identification and related prosocial values. In Study 1, participants showed a drop in global citizenship identification when America was threatened (vs. absence of threat). In Study 2, participants reported lower global citizenship identification when America was threatened (vs. absence of threat) and the perception that one’s normative environment did not support a global citizen identity mediated the relationship between threat and identification. Furthermore, the threat was shown to indirectly predict lower endorsement for prosocial values and behaviors …

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The Liturgical Dramas For Holy Week At Barking Abbey, Anne Bagnall Yardley, Jesse D. Mann Dec 2014

The Liturgical Dramas For Holy Week At Barking Abbey, Anne Bagnall Yardley, Jesse D. Mann

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Media Sosial Dan Demokrasi Di Era Informasi, Devie Rahmawati Dec 2014

Media Sosial Dan Demokrasi Di Era Informasi, Devie Rahmawati

Jurnal Vokasi Indonesia

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Efek Fraksi N-Heksana Kulit Hylocereus Polyhizus Terhadap Kadar Malondialdehida Tikus Stres Oksidatif, Wirna Maya Sari, Sri Wahdaningsih, Eka Kartika Untari Dec 2014

Efek Fraksi N-Heksana Kulit Hylocereus Polyhizus Terhadap Kadar Malondialdehida Tikus Stres Oksidatif, Wirna Maya Sari, Sri Wahdaningsih, Eka Kartika Untari

Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research

Excessive free radical production will lead to oxidative stress. One of the indicators used to determine stress oxidative is malondialdehyde (MDA). Hylocereus polyhizus peel is potential used natural exogenous antioxidant. The aim of this research was to study the effect of n-hexane fraction of H.polyhizus peel on MDA level and to determine the dose that could reduce the MDA level. H.polyhizus peel was macerated with chloroform, fractionated with n-Hexane. Rats were divided into 7 groups : normal, negative, positive control vitamin E (18 mg/ kgbw), positive control quercetin (4 mg/200gbw), H.polyhizus peel extract group treated with dose I (10mg/ 200gbw), …

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Elite Competition And Economic Reform In Cuba And Vietnam: A Comparative Study Of Policy Legitimation, Anthony Lawrence A. Borja Dec 2014

Elite Competition And Economic Reform In Cuba And Vietnam: A Comparative Study Of Policy Legitimation, Anthony Lawrence A. Borja

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

Cuba and Vietnam, as survivors of the Cold War entered the post-Soviet Era with a myriad of economic woes. These eventually served as incentives for these countries to implement economic reforms that bolstered not only their economic performance, but also the survival of their respective states. However, due to variations in the dynamics of elite competition in these cases, their respective reform programs differed in consistency and their outputs differed in attributes. This is especially true for Cuba and Vietnam wherein the former, initiating market reform programs as early as 1970, experienced two policy reversals during the 80s and the …

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Effects Of Educational News Stories On The Beliefs Of Taiwanese Teacher Education Students, Shih-Hsiung Liu Dec 2014

Effects Of Educational News Stories On The Beliefs Of Taiwanese Teacher Education Students, Shih-Hsiung Liu

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

Educational news stories are likely to provide teacher education students with opportunities to understand the educational situation in the real world. However, in the case of Taiwan, most of local newspapers present negative coverage that may induce teacher education students to generate pessimistic opinions and further negatively affect the formation of their beliefs regarding the nature of education. This study determines the effects of reading educational news stories by teacher education students on their beliefs regarding education after controlling for factors like pre-existing beliefs and perceptions of news story credibility. An experimental research method with a two-group pretest-posttest design, consisting …

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From The Editor, Romeo B. Lee Dec 2014

From The Editor, Romeo B. Lee

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

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Examining The Global Financial Crisis From A Virtue Theory Lens, Aliza D. Racelis Dec 2014

Examining The Global Financial Crisis From A Virtue Theory Lens, Aliza D. Racelis

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

As the financial crisis of 2008-9 has continued to affect the global economy, many wonder whether the proposed solutions contribute to a more stable financial system as well as to better human behaviour. While the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) Report (2011) identified the factors essential to explaining the causes of the financial crisis as having included credit and housing bubbles, nontraditional mortgages, credit ratings and securitization, financial institutions concentrated correlated risk, leverage and liquidity risk, contagion risk, shock and panic, failure in virtue has also been very patent in the crisis, foremost of them being: excessive leverage and imprudent …

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Comparing The Child-Rearing Goals Of Women In Taiwan And In Its Marriage-Based Immigrants’ Countries Of Origin, Shou-Lu Lee Dec 2014

Comparing The Child-Rearing Goals Of Women In Taiwan And In Its Marriage-Based Immigrants’ Countries Of Origin, Shou-Lu Lee

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

This study compares the child-rearing goals of women in Taiwan and in Taiwanese immigrant women’s countries of origin. The logit regression results clearly show distinct cultural variations in child-rearing goals in different countries, even when differences in socio-economic status are considered. Despite their complex historical links, Chinese women do not appear to be more similar to Taiwanese women than are Indonesian, or Vietnamese women in terms of child- rearing goals. These findings have implications for the socio-economic policies of the Taiwanese government and effective communication and instruction in schools. In addition, the findings also have implications for Asian countries affected …

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Lives In Fiction: Auto/Biographies As Theoretical Narratives, Dennis S. Erasga Dec 2014

Lives In Fiction: Auto/Biographies As Theoretical Narratives, Dennis S. Erasga

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

Sociological imagination is an open invitation to theorize from the stories we tell about ourselves and others. More than self-expression, the sociological ethos of auto/biographical narration is to extend the reality of a solipsistic and exclusive existence into a common and public experience. In order to achieve this, the narrator must convert biographies into scribed realities. The narrating process, however, has unique epistemic anchorage (memory-based) and stylistic requirement (literary) that encage lived lives in a fictional genre, giving this mode of writing a unique interpretive lens that projects new visions of the social. Consequently for theorizing purposes, auto/biographies are meaning-claims …

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The Filipino Social Imagination In Regional Context, Niels Mulder Dec 2014

The Filipino Social Imagination In Regional Context, Niels Mulder

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

Whereas the theme of this essay consists of a summary comparison and evaluation of the contents of social studies in Thai, Indonesian, and Philippine schools, it centers on the Philippine curriculum in order to identify the principles underlying the general perception of things social that seem to hold in the former two nation-states, too. As it appears that said contents obscure rather than clarify social life, the predominant imagination remains rooted in the practice of everyday life, and so the question is asked whether Thai and Indonesian nationalistic indoctrination leads to a clearer picture of wider society and a relatively …

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Climate Change Affects National Security, Raymond L. S. Wang Dec 2014

Climate Change Affects National Security, Raymond L. S. Wang

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

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Of Economic Bubbles And Economic Miracles: Notes And Reflections From A Non-Expert, Dennis V. Blanco Dec 2014

Of Economic Bubbles And Economic Miracles: Notes And Reflections From A Non-Expert, Dennis V. Blanco

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

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Master And Servant: Contradictory Roles Of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers, Mary Ann B. Bolante Dec 2014

Master And Servant: Contradictory Roles Of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers, Mary Ann B. Bolante

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

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Cal Poly Institute For Advanced Technology And Public Policy Secures $1.2 Million To Build Online Transparency Platform For California Legislature, Public Affairs Office Dec 2014

Cal Poly Institute For Advanced Technology And Public Policy Secures $1.2 Million To Build Online Transparency Platform For California Legislature, Public Affairs Office

Press Releases

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2014 December 29 -- Minutes Dec 2014

2014 December 29 -- Minutes

Agendas and Minutes

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2014 December 29 -- Agenda Dec 2014

2014 December 29 -- Agenda

Agendas and Minutes

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Authenticity In Constructivist Inquiry: Assessing An Elusive Construct, Patrick Shannon, Elyse Hambacher Dec 2014

Authenticity In Constructivist Inquiry: Assessing An Elusive Construct, Patrick Shannon, Elyse Hambacher

Education

Methodological rigor in constructivist inquiry is established through an assessment of trustworthiness and authenticity. Trustworthiness parallels the positivistic concepts of internal and external validity, focusing on an assessment of the inquiry process. Authenticity, however, is unique to constructivist inquiry and has no parallel in the positivistic paradigm. Authenticity involves an assessment of the meaningfulness and usefulness of interactive inquiry processes and social change that results from these processes. However, the techniques for ascertaining authenticity are in the early stages of development. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to describe a process for assessing authenticity in a constructivist inquiry. A …

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State V. Walker Clerk's Record Dckt. 42655 Dec 2014

State V. Walker Clerk's Record Dckt. 42655

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

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Amylin Structure, Aggregation, And Pancreatic Β Cell Toxicity, Sharadrao Patil Dec 2014

Amylin Structure, Aggregation, And Pancreatic Β Cell Toxicity, Sharadrao Patil

MCB Articles

In most type 2 diabetes patients, amyloid plaques have been found juxtaposed with membranes of pancreatic β-cells. These plaques are composed of amyloid fibrils of the 37 residue endocrine hormone amylin and cause distinct changes in cell membrane morphology associated with the destruction of β-cells. Research is still ongoing to identify the toxic species involved and the mechanisms by which mature fibrils or oligomers cause cytotoxicity. The projects undertaken were designed to study the molecular structural features of amylin, mechanism of amyloid aggregation and, to develop cytotoxicity inhibitors. We determined the structure of human amylin bound to SDS micelles using …

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Center Pivot Sprinkler Distribution Uniformity Impacts On The Spatial Variability Of Evapotranspiration, Daniel Howes, Sean Ellenson, Lucas Hoffmann, Franklin Gaudi Dec 2014

Center Pivot Sprinkler Distribution Uniformity Impacts On The Spatial Variability Of Evapotranspiration, Daniel Howes, Sean Ellenson, Lucas Hoffmann, Franklin Gaudi

BioResource and Agricultural Engineering

Understanding variable evapotranspiration (ET) throughout a field can help maximize yield on a per-acre basis, as well as assist with proper irrigation scheduling. The results from this study indicate that irrigation system distribution uniformity (DU) has a significant effect on the uniformity of ET during water-stressed periods. The study site involved intensely managed forage (alfalfa and winter grain hay) irrigated by center pivots being supplied with reclaimed water near Palmdale, California. During spring and early summer 2007 the center pivots were operating under deficit irrigation. In 2010, after the installation of reservoirs, water was applied to meet full evapotranspiration (ETc) …

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Abortion Access Restriction. Parental Notification And Waiting Period For Females Under 18. Initiative Constitutional Amendment. Dec 2014

Abortion Access Restriction. Parental Notification And Waiting Period For Females Under 18. Initiative Constitutional Amendment.

Initiatives

Changes California Constitution to prohibit abortion for unemancipated minor until 48 hours after physician or other trained and licensed medical professional notifies her parent/legal guardian in writing. Provides exceptions for medical emergency, parental waiver, or parental abuse documented by notarized statement from law enforcement or relatives. Permits judge to waive notice if minor appears personally in court and proves maturity or waiver is in her best interest. Requires reporting of specific abortion information to State. Physicians/medical professionals subject to suit for 12 years. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local …

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