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On The Transmission Of Tacit Skills In Science: Notes On And Observations Of Japanese Doctoral Science Research Training Laboratories, Marcus Antonius Ynalvez, Yoshinori Kamo, Noriko Hara, Ruby Ynalvez Dec 2015

On The Transmission Of Tacit Skills In Science: Notes On And Observations Of Japanese Doctoral Science Research Training Laboratories, Marcus Antonius Ynalvez, Yoshinori Kamo, Noriko Hara, Ruby Ynalvez

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

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Minimising Risks In Research-Informed Teaching, Ka Gresty, T Heffernan, W Pan, A Edwards-Jones Dec 2015

Minimising Risks In Research-Informed Teaching, Ka Gresty, T Heffernan, W Pan, A Edwards-Jones

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

Reported benefits of research-informed teaching include enhanced student engagement and graduates that are better prepared for employment in an uncertain world. However, there are a number of academic risks that can have both positive and negative impacts on staff and students when implementing research-informed teaching. Mitigating such risks could smooth the way for, or even encourage, wider exploration of innovative teaching methods with associated benefits. This paper presents findings of an empirical study that identifies what risks were encountered or perceived from both student and staff perspectives when adopting a research-informed teaching approach. Risks were identified through semi-structured interviews with …

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Discourse, Identity And International Development Cooperation: China, Africa And Focac, Daniel Lemus Delgado Dec 2015

Discourse, Identity And International Development Cooperation: China, Africa And Focac, Daniel Lemus Delgado

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

This article analyses the relationship between discourse and identity in the case of the People’s Republic of China in Africa. It assumes that the interests of the Chinese government in Africa can be understood from a theoretical constructivist approach. So, the activities of International Development Cooperation of China into Africa are a result of material and ideational aspirations. Thus, the ties of China in Africa have been boosted by the identity of the Chinese state in the international arena. To understand how identity and interest are linked, this article analyses the official discourse of China in Forum on China Africa …

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Culture, Structure, And Co-Ethnic Relations Of Indonesians Migrant Entrepreneurship In Taiwan, Paulus Rudolf Yuniarto Dec 2015

Culture, Structure, And Co-Ethnic Relations Of Indonesians Migrant Entrepreneurship In Taiwan, Paulus Rudolf Yuniarto

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

Migrant entrepreneurship prompts a series of fascinating research questions on the nature, culture, and interconnectedness of migrant situations within host settlements. The rise of migrant entrepreneurship is the outcome of the integration of these cultural-structural elements in order to mobilize resources to fulfill the demands of entrepreneurship and to obtain competitive advantages in business. This paper describes how the symbiotic relations between migrants and their socio-cultural conditions shape the patterns of Indonesian entrepreneurship in Taiwan. In practice, Indonesian migrant entrepreneurship in Taiwan involves entrepreneurs applying local values or customs in the host society and then (re) produce them in their …

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Experiences Of Coming Out In Japan: Negotiating “Perceived Homophobia”, Kotona Motoyama Dec 2015

Experiences Of Coming Out In Japan: Negotiating “Perceived Homophobia”, Kotona Motoyama

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

Heteronormative society requires non-heterosexuals to come out in order to be recognized. Coming out is often the most challenging experience for non-heterosexuals and heteronormativity and homophobia are two powerful obstacles that they have to deal with. This paper considers how non-heterosexuals come out to themselves and to heterosexual others under the effect of Japanese cultural norms. Interviews with 24 non-heterosexuals and their experiences revealed that they have to deal with not only heteronormativity and homophobia like non-heterosexuals in the Western culture, but also “perceived homophobia,” which is created by the expectation of “respectable Japanese selves.” Thus, coming out in Japan …

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Socioeconomic Disparities In Physical Activity Participation: An Exploratory Study Using Malay Sample, Yong Kang Cheah Dec 2015

Socioeconomic Disparities In Physical Activity Participation: An Exploratory Study Using Malay Sample, Yong Kang Cheah

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

The objective of the present study is to examine the effects of socioeconomic factors on participation in physical activity among Malays in Malaysia. Drawing on a nationally representative sample that contains 17,515 respondents, a logit model is developed to estimate the likelihood of adopting a physically active lifestyle. The results of the present study show that income, age, sex, education, house locality, and employment status are significantly related to the levels of physical activity. In particular, there are negative relationships between higher-income earners, the elderly, females, the less-educated, urban dwellers, and the non-working adults, and the likelihood of being physically …

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Reconciliation As Free-Floating Signification: Reconciliation After 2014 Coup In Thailand, Siwach Sripokangkul Dec 2015

Reconciliation As Free-Floating Signification: Reconciliation After 2014 Coup In Thailand, Siwach Sripokangkul

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

The word reconciliation has become common throughout Thai society since the aftermath of the massacres of Red Shirt protesters in the heart of Bangkok in the months April and May 2010, which killed around a hundred people and injured 2,000 more. The word came into use by the government since the massacres, and has become an even more regular part of government discourse since the military’s successful May 22, 2014 coup d’état against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. The need for reconciliation stems from the incidents of national unrest created by protesters demanding Shinawatra’s resignation and the dissolution of her government …

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Ethics Of Thai Politicians, Wariya Chinwanno, Thitarree Sirisrisornchai Dec 2015

Ethics Of Thai Politicians, Wariya Chinwanno, Thitarree Sirisrisornchai

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

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All That Is Holy Profaned? The Disenchantment Of Romantic Love Under Global Capitalism, Yellowbelle Duaqui Dec 2015

All That Is Holy Profaned? The Disenchantment Of Romantic Love Under Global Capitalism, Yellowbelle Duaqui

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

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National Identity And Social Resilience In The Case Of South Korea, Pál Koudela Dec 2015

National Identity And Social Resilience In The Case Of South Korea, Pál Koudela

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

No abstract provided.

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‘Tell Your Own Story’: Manhood, Masculinity And Racial Socialization Among Black Fathers And Their Sons, Quaylan Allen Dec 2015

‘Tell Your Own Story’: Manhood, Masculinity And Racial Socialization Among Black Fathers And Their Sons, Quaylan Allen

Education Faculty Articles and Research

This study examines how black fathers and sons in the U.S. conceptualize manhood and masculinity and the racial socializing practices of black men. Drawing upon data from an ethnography on Black male schooling, this paper uses the interviews with fathers and sons to explore how race and gender intersect in how Black males make meaning of their gendered performances. Common notions of manhood are articulated including independence, responsibility and providership. However, race and gender intersect in particular ways for black men. The fathers engaged in particular racial socializing practices preparing their sons for encounters with racism. Both fathers and sons …

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Thermophilic Phosphatases And Methods For Processing Starch Using The Same, Matthew S. Gentry, Craig W. Vander Kooi Dec 2015

Thermophilic Phosphatases And Methods For Processing Starch Using The Same, Matthew S. Gentry, Craig W. Vander Kooi

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry Faculty Patents

The presently-disclosed subject matter includes thermophilic glucan phosphatase polypeptides. In some embodiments the polypeptide includes non-native laforin polypeptides, or fragments and/or variants thereof, and in some instances the polypeptide can alter the biophysical properties of starch in vitro or in planta. The presently-disclosed subject matter also includes isolated polynucleotides encoding the present polypeptides, methods for processing starch by exposing starch to the present polypeptides, and methods for making the present polypeptides.

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2016 Sugar Bowl: An Ole Miss Fan's Guide, Christina Steube Dec 2015

2016 Sugar Bowl: An Ole Miss Fan's Guide, Christina Steube

University of Mississippi News

Celebrate the Rebels' trip back to the Sugar Bowl in style

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State V. Kelley Respondent's Brief Dckt. 43403 Dec 2015

State V. Kelley Respondent's Brief Dckt. 43403

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

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A Data Science Course For Undergraduates: Thinking With Data, Benjamin Baumer Dec 2015

A Data Science Course For Undergraduates: Thinking With Data, Benjamin Baumer

Mathematics Sciences: Faculty Publications

Data science is an emerging interdisciplinary field that combines elements of mathematics, statistics, computer science, and knowledge in a particular application domain for the purpose of extracting meaningful information from the increasingly sophisticated array of data available in many settings. These data tend to be nontraditional, in the sense that they are often live, large, complex, and/or messy. A first course in statistics at the undergraduate level typically introduces students to a variety of techniques to analyze small, neat, and clean datasets. However, whether they pursue more formal training in statistics or not, many of these students will end up …

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Debris Flow Susceptibility Map For Mount Rainier, Washington Based On Debris Flow Initiation Zone Characteristics From The November, 2006 Climate Event In The Cascade Mountains, Kassandra Lindsey Dec 2015

Debris Flow Susceptibility Map For Mount Rainier, Washington Based On Debris Flow Initiation Zone Characteristics From The November, 2006 Climate Event In The Cascade Mountains, Kassandra Lindsey

Dissertations and Theses

In November 2006 a Pineapple Express rainstorm moved through the Pacific Northwest generating record precipitation, 22 to 50 cm in the two-day event on Mt. Rainier. Copeland (2009) and Legg (2013) identified debris flows in seven drainages in 2006; Inter Fork, Kautz, Ohanapecosh, Pyramid, Tahoma, Van Trump, and West Fork of the White River. This study identified seven more drainages: Carbon, Fryingpan, Muddy Fork Cowlitz, North Puyallup, South Mowich, South Puyallup, and White Rivers. Twenty-nine characteristics, or attributes, associated with the drainages around the mountain were collected. Thirteen were used in a regression analysis in order to develop a susceptibility …

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Campus Offices To Close Jan. 1 And 2 For New Year's Day, Lindenwood University Dec 2015

Campus Offices To Close Jan. 1 And 2 For New Year's Day, Lindenwood University

Archived Lindenwood Press Releases

No abstract provided.

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Design Of Automatic Grading Control System Of Crab And Its Control Program Based On Image Recognition, Zhu Yan, Cao Yuanjun, Li Shusheng Dec 2015

Design Of Automatic Grading Control System Of Crab And Its Control Program Based On Image Recognition, Zhu Yan, Cao Yuanjun, Li Shusheng

Food and Machinery

Traditional classification method for crab by artificial to distinguish its gender and by eyes to estimate its weight, so the classification efficiency and accuracy are lower. The gender identification base on image recognition technology is implemented with the LABVIEW software platform. The identification result is transmitted to the S7-200 controller by OPC communication technology, at the same time the weight of the calibration of crab is implemented by weighing sensor. The control system of automatic classification is finally implemented with the classification indexes of weight and gender, the recognition accuracy of this system is about 95%.

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Applications Of Carbon Materials In Electrochemical Energy Storage, Ji Liang, Lei Wen, Hui-Ming Cheng, Feng Li Dec 2015

Applications Of Carbon Materials In Electrochemical Energy Storage, Ji Liang, Lei Wen, Hui-Ming Cheng, Feng Li

Journal of Electrochemistry

An electrode material for electrochemical energy storage is one of the key components for high performance devices. In a variety of electrochemical energy storage systems, carbon materials, especially the lately emerged carbon nanomaterials including the carbon nanotube and graphene, have been playing a very important role and brought new vitality to the development and demonstration of the broad application prospects. In this review, we summarize the applications of various carbon materials in the typical electrochemical energy storage devices, namely lithium/sodium ion batteries, supercapacitors, and lithium-sulfur batteries, as well as flexible electrochemical energy storage and electrochemical catalysis. A perspective of novel …

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Electrodeposition Of Lanthanum In Deep Eutectic Solvents, Li Wang, You-Jun Fan, Lu Wei, Hai-Xia Liu, Shi-Gang Sun Dec 2015

Electrodeposition Of Lanthanum In Deep Eutectic Solvents, Li Wang, You-Jun Fan, Lu Wei, Hai-Xia Liu, Shi-Gang Sun

Journal of Electrochemistry

With the choline chloride/urea deep eutectic solvents (DESs) as the medium, the olive-like lanthanum particles with uniform shape and size were successfully prepared through a potentiostatic deposition method. The prepared samples were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). At the same time, the effect of deposition potential, temperature and time on the size and morphology of samples was investigated. The results demonstrated that the optimum conditions for the preparation of olive-like lanthanum particles were as follows: deposition potential of -1.7 V, temperature of 80 °C and …

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Alan Hoskins, Jr., Plaintiff/Appellant, Vs. Ogden Auto Body, Utah Court Of Appeals Dec 2015

Alan Hoskins, Jr., Plaintiff/Appellant, Vs. Ogden Auto Body, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Appeal from the Second District Court,Weber County, State of Utah the Hon. Ernie W. Jones, Civil No. 130904256

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West-Strum Honored For Commitment To Pharmacy Quality, Gabrielle Gero Dec 2015

West-Strum Honored For Commitment To Pharmacy Quality, Gabrielle Gero

University of Mississippi News

Chair of pharmacy administration receives Duncan Neuhauser Award

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In The News: December 28, 2015, Michael Duricy Dec 2015

In The News: December 28, 2015, Michael Duricy

Marian Library Blog Archive

Read recent items about Mary in both Catholic and secular news. Also see International Marian Research Institute news and updates.

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Laparoscopic Treatment Of Hydatid Cyst Of Liver: Local Experience, Samir I. Hasan Al-Saffar Dec 2015

Laparoscopic Treatment Of Hydatid Cyst Of Liver: Local Experience, Samir I. Hasan Al-Saffar

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Hydatid cyst disease remains a real health problem in many parts of the world. Surgery remains the mainstay of treatment of liver hydatid disease. Laparoscopic hydatid surgery (LHS) is gaining acceptance all over the world with promising early results. OBJECTIVE: To present our experience of laparoscopic management of liver hydatid disease in our locality. PATIENTS AND METHODS: All patients presented with liver hydatid disease to our department in Al-Jumhori Teaching Hospital were planned to undergo laparoscopic hydatid surgery (LHS). The diagnosis was made by abdominal ultrasonography and/or computed tomography. Surgical treatment was decided for cysts larger than 4 …

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Serum Her-2/Neu A Potential Biomarker In Breast Cancer Patients: Correlation With The Clinico-Pathological Parameters, Nada A.Al-Alwan, Manar Abed Al-Kreim Abed Oun, Hedef Dhafir El-Yassin Dec 2015

Serum Her-2/Neu A Potential Biomarker In Breast Cancer Patients: Correlation With The Clinico-Pathological Parameters, Nada A.Al-Alwan, Manar Abed Al-Kreim Abed Oun, Hedef Dhafir El-Yassin

Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women, and a major cause of mortality and morbidity despite the advances in diagnosis and treatment. There is evidence that changes in HER2 protein expressions are associated with breast cancer progression. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether measuring this tumour marker in serum of breast cancer patients before and after treatment might also be useful markers in the diagnosis, screening and monitoring the malignant tumour progression and response to therapy. METHODS: Serum samples were obtained from (28) apparently healthy women (Control Group) with a mean age of 40.9 ± 7.6 years and …

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Progress Of Self-Supported Supercapacitor Electrode Materials Based On Carbon Substrates, Shui-Jian He, Wei Chen Dec 2015

Progress Of Self-Supported Supercapacitor Electrode Materials Based On Carbon Substrates, Shui-Jian He, Wei Chen

Journal of Electrochemistry

Self-supported electrode materials have been widely used in supercapacitors. Carbon materials are promising substrates in building self-supported electrode materials attributed to their diverse structures, rich resource, relatively low cost and high stability. Combined with our own research in this field, we summarize here the recent progress on the synthesis of self-supported electrode materials and their supercapacitance properties. The overall synthetic strategy could be divided into two categories: “top-down” and “bottom-up”. We hope this review is helpful for the development and application of renewable sources in self-supported electrode materials.

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Synthesis Of Porous Carbon Nanosheets And Its Application In Sodium-Ion Battery, Jing-Fei Zhang, Jing Lu, Xiao-Yu Yang, Yun-Di Huang, Lin Xu, Dong-Mei Sun, Ya-Wen Tang Dec 2015

Synthesis Of Porous Carbon Nanosheets And Its Application In Sodium-Ion Battery, Jing-Fei Zhang, Jing Lu, Xiao-Yu Yang, Yun-Di Huang, Lin Xu, Dong-Mei Sun, Ya-Wen Tang

Journal of Electrochemistry

Owning to sodium’s high abundance, relatively low cost, similar chemical properties to Li and very suitable redox potential of E0(Na+/Na) = -2.71 V versus SHE which is only 0.3 V above that of lithium, rechargeable sodium ion battery hold much promise as potential alternatives to current lithium ion batteries for energy storage applications. Carbon material is regarded as the most promising anode candidate for sodium ion battery. Particularly, carbon nanosheet with porous structure and high conductivity is expected to have improved sodium ion storage properties. In this paper, we present a two-step pyrolysis-based method for facile …

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Intercalation Of Clo4- Into Hopg Investigated By Ec-Stm, Xiao-Yan Hu, Alice Aliwowe, Jia-Wei Yan, Bing-Wei Mao Dec 2015

Intercalation Of Clo4- Into Hopg Investigated By Ec-Stm, Xiao-Yan Hu, Alice Aliwowe, Jia-Wei Yan, Bing-Wei Mao

Journal of Electrochemistry

The electrochemical intercalation and surface morphology of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) electrode in 2 mol⋅L-1 HClO4 were studied by in situ scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and cyclic voltammetry (CV). Based on the step-height changes observed before and after the intercalation, the effects of different step sites on intercalation are compared. The feasibility, reversibility and speed of intercalation are discussed. The intercalation ofClO4- into HOPG can be divided into three types depending on the number of graphite layers at the step site: When the layers of graphite are more than three, the intercalation becomes feasible; when …

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Electrochemical Properties Of Graphene/Porous Nano-Silicon Anode, Chun-Li Li, Guang Yang, Ping Zhang, Zhi-Yu Jiang Dec 2015

Electrochemical Properties Of Graphene/Porous Nano-Silicon Anode, Chun-Li Li, Guang Yang, Ping Zhang, Zhi-Yu Jiang

Journal of Electrochemistry

Porous nano-silicon (Si) was prepared by acid etching Al-Si alloy powder method, and used as an active material for fabricating a grapene/porous nano-Si electrode. The results of SEM and TEM measurements indicated that porous nano-Si powder was uniformly mixed with graphene by emulsification dispersion-ultrasonication method. As an anode for lithium ion battery, the graphene/porous nano-Si electrode presented relatively high performance in 1 mol•L-1LiPF6/EC:DMC = 1:1(by volume) + 1.5% (by mass) VC solution. At the charge and discharge current densities of 0.5A•g-1, the first discharge capacity was 1768.6mAh•g-1with coulombic efficiency of 68.3%. The discharge capacity …

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Relationship Of Specialty Diets To The Severity Of Symptoms Associated With Autism, Rachele Lee Dec 2015

Relationship Of Specialty Diets To The Severity Of Symptoms Associated With Autism, Rachele Lee

Nursing Capstones

No abstract provided.

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