LANGUAGE ACROSS THE CURRICULUM & CLIL IN ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE (EAL) CONTEXTS

Language Across the Curriculum & CLIL in English as an Additional Language (EAL) Contexts Lin, A. M. Y.Singapore: Springer, 201

Analysis of Program Development, Benefits, and Challenges of Implementing "Kampus Mengajar" in Improving Teaching Skills of Muhammadiyah Makassar University Students

The purpose of this study is to analyse the development of the Kampus Mengajar programme and its role in improving the teaching skills of students at the University of Muhammadiyah Makassar, as well as the opportunities, benefits, and challenges of the program. This research uses a qualitative case study approach, with the participants being students of Muhammadiyah University of Makassar and the school staff, including the principal, teachers, and staff of SDI Bontoramba in Gowa Regency, South Sulawesi. The results showed that the Kampus Mengajar programme plays a very important role in developing and improving student teaching abilities and skills obtained through implemented programmes and teaching assistance in terms of increasing student literacy and numeracy. In addition, other programmes such as technology adaptation and administrative assistance also provide great benefits to the school, especially training on the implementation of online learning and the development of learning media. Teachers in the school are also able to practise directly and develop the ability to use technology in the teaching and learning process with the help of students at Kampus Mengajar. The role of universities also has a major impact on improving students' teaching abilities through evaluation and student teaching feedback. The program's challenges for students are related to a lack of student ability in terms of using technology during learning, as well as some students' low literacy and numeracy skills, requiring more intensive assistance, and also requiring creativity and innovation in creating learning media that are fun, useful, and on target

Perfect powers in Smarandache n-Expressions

Is studied the concept of Smarandache n-expressions, for example I proposed formulas, found solutions, proposed open questions, and conjectured, but all for the fixed 3, and 2 numbers, but what will happen if these equations have diferent fixed numbers such as 7? This paper will answer this question

Gas Rich Dwarfs from the PSS-II III. HI Profiles and Dynamical Masses

We present Arecibo neutral hydrogen data on a sample of optically selected dwarf galaxies. The sample ranges in HI mass from 10^6 M_sun to 5x10^9 M_sun, with a mean of 7.9x10^8 M_sun. Using estimated HI radii, the HI surface densities range from 0.6 to 20 M_sun pc^-2, all well below the critical threshold for star formation (Kennicutt 1998). M_HI/L values of the LSB dwarfs range from 0.3 to 12 with a mean value of 2.0. Dynamical masses, calculated from the HI profile widths, range from 10^8 M_sun to 10^11 M_sun. There is a strong correlation between optical luminosity and dynamical mass for LSB dwarfs implying that the dark matter (whether baryonic or non-baryonic) follows the detectable baryonic matter.Comment: 53 pages, AASTeX v4.0, 8 figures, to be published in ApJ Suppl, images, tables and referee report can be found at http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~j

A genome-wide association study suggests contrasting associations in ACPA-positive versus ACPA-negative rheumatoid arthritis.

BackgroundRheumatoid arthritis (RA) can be divided into two major subsets based on the presence or absence of antibodies to citrullinated peptide antigens (ACPA). Until now, data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have only been published from ACPA-positive subsets of RA or from studies that have not separated the two subsets. The aim of the current study is to provide and compare GWAS data for both subsets.Methods and resultsGWAS using the Illumina 300K chip was performed for 774 ACPA-negative patients with RA, 1147 ACPA-positive patients with RA and 1079 controls from the Swedish population-based case-control study EIRA. Imputation was performed which allowed comparisons using 1,723,056 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). No SNP achieved genome-wide significance (2.9 × 10⁻⁸) in the comparison between ACPA-negative RA and controls. A case-case association study was then performed between ACPA-negative and ACPA-positive RA groups. The major difference in this analysis was in the HLA region where 768 HLA SNPs passed the threshold for genome-wide significance whereas additional contrasting SNPs did not reach genome-wide significance. However, one SNP close to the RPS12P4 locus in chromosome 2 reached a p value of 2 × 10⁶ and this locus can thus be considered as a tentative candidate locus for ACPA-negative RA.ConclusionsACPA-positive and ACPA-negative RA display significant risk allele frequency differences which are mainly confined to the HLA region. The data provide further support for distinct genetic aetiologies of RA subsets and emphasise the need to consider them separately in genetic as well as functional studies of this disease

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Stress redistribution due to creep in nimonic 90 ministry of aviation contract no. PD/28/021 report for the period June, 1965 to July, 1966: part 2

Part I of this report, dated September 1965, deals mainly with the design and construction of the special apparatus to simulate the stress redistribution occurring during the creep of a cooled turbine blade. It reported some preliminary experiments using aluminium alloy test specimens. During the past year, the period covered by this report, a series of experiments have been completed using specimens machined from nimonic 90 alloy. Experience gained in operating the apparatus, have resulted in several modifications both to the apparatus and the associated instrumentation. These are detailed within this report