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Teachers\u27 Strategies in The Identification, Change and Retention of Deviant Students
This paper is about assisting teachers to identify and help to change and retain deviant students. The major focus is on the instruction and training of teachers on how alcohol and drugs affect a person\u27s body and behavior, and the effective methods for helping to change that behavior. In order to accomplish this objective, the paper is divided into following separate, but interrelated, sections: introduction; teachers can make a difference; a theoretical reverberation on alcohol, drugs and deviant behavior; the physiology of alcohol and drug abuse; politeness strategies for communicating with deviant students; the teacher as decision-maker; the teacher as leader; the teacher as conflict resolver; then conclusion
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Isolation of Angola-like Marburg virus from Egyptian rousette bats from West Africa.
Marburg virus (MARV) causes sporadic outbreaks of severe Marburg virus disease (MVD). Most MVD outbreaks originated in East Africa and field studies in East Africa, South Africa, Zambia, and Gabon identified the Egyptian rousette bat (ERB; Rousettus aegyptiacus) as a natural reservoir. However, the largest recorded MVD outbreak with the highest case-fatality ratio happened in 2005 in Angola, where direct spillover from bats was not shown. Here, collaborative studies by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Njala University, University of California, Davis USAID-PREDICT, and the University of Makeni identify MARV circulating in ERBs in Sierra Leone. PCR, antibody and virus isolation data from 1755 bats of 42 species shows active MARV infection in approximately 2.5% of ERBs. Phylogenetic analysis identifies MARVs that are similar to the Angola strain. These results provide evidence of MARV circulation in West Africa and demonstrate the value of pathogen surveillance to identify previously undetected threats
Evolution of the Fermi surface of BaFe_2(As_{1-x}P_x)_2 on entering the superconducting dome
Using the de Haas-van Alphen effect we have measured the evolution of the
Fermi surface of BaFe_2(As_{1-x}P_x)_2 as function of isoelectric substitution
(As/P) for 0.41<x<1 (T_c up to 25 K). We find that the volume of electron and
hole Fermi surfaces shrink linearly with decreasing x. This shrinking is
accompanied by a strong increase in the quasiparticle effective mass as x is
tuned toward the maximum T_c. It is likely that these trends originate from the
many-body interaction which give rise to superconductivity, rather than the
underlying one-electron bandstructure.Comment: 4 page
Advances in single crystal growth and annealing treatment of electron-doped HTSC
High quality electron-doped HTSC single crystals of and have been
successfully grown by the container-free traveling solvent floating zone
technique. The optimally doped and crystals have transition temperatures
of \,K and \,K, respectively, with a transition width of less than
\,K. We found a strong dependence of the optimal growth parameters on the Ce
content . We discuss the optimization of the post-growth annealing treatment
of the samples, the doping extension of the superconducting dome for both
compounds as well as the role of excess oxygen. The absolute oxygen content of
the as-grown crystals is determined from thermogravimetric experiments and is
found to be . This oxygen surplus is nearly completely removed by a
post-growth annealing treatment. The reduction process is reversible as
demonstrated by magnetization measurements. In as-grown samples the excess
oxygen resides on the apical site O(3). This apical oxygen has nearly no doping
effect, but rather influences the evolution of superconductivity by inducing
additional disorder in the CuO layers. The very high crystal quality of
is particularly manifest in magnetic quantum
oscillations observed on several samples at different doping levels. They
provide a unique opportunity of studying the Fermi surface and its dependence
on the carrier concentration in the bulk of the crystals.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Eur. Phys. J.
Thermal conductivity across the metal-insulator transition in single crystalline hyperkagome NaIrO
The hyperkagome antiferromagnet NaIrO represents the first
genuine candidate for the realisation of a three-dimensional quantum
spin-liquid. It can also be doped towards a metallic state, thus offering a
rare opportunity to explore the nature of the metal-insulator transition in
correlated, frustrated magnets. Here we report thermodynamic and transport
measurements in both metallic and weakly insulating single crystals down to 150
mK. While in the metallic sample the phonon thermal conductivity
() is almost in the boundary scattering regime, in the insulating
sample we find a large reduction over a very wide temperature
range. This result can be ascribed to the scattering of phonons off nanoscale
disorder or off the gapless magnetic excitations that are seen in the
low-temperature specific heat. This works highlights the peculiarity of the
metal-insulator transition in NaIrO and demonstrates the
importance of the coupling between lattice and spin degrees of freedom in the
presence of strong spin-orbit coupling.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Superconductivity and Pseudogap in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Metals around the Antiferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point
Spin fluctuations (SF) and SF-mediated superconductivity (SC) in
quasi-two-dimensional metals around the antiferrromagnetic (AF) quantum
critical point (QCP) are investigated by using the self-consistent
renormalization theory for SF and the strong coupling theory for SC. We
introduce a parameter y0 as a measure for the distance from the AFQCP which is
approximately proportional to (x-xc), x being the electron (e) or hole (h)
doping concentration to the half-filled band and xc being the value at the
AFQCP. We present phase diagrams in the T-y0 plane including contour maps of
the AF correlation length and AF and SC transition temperatures TN and Tc,
respectively. The Tc curve is dome-shaped with a maximum at around the AFQCP.
The calculated one-electron spectral density shows a pseudogap in the
high-density-of-states region near (pi,0) below around a certain temperature T*
and gives a contour map at the Fermi energy reminiscent of the Fermi arc. These
results are discussed in comparison with e- and h-doped high-Tc cuprates.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
13C NMR study of superconductivity near charge instability realized in beta"-(BEDT-TTF)4[(H3O)Ga(C2O4)3]C6H5NO2
To investigate the superconducting (SC) state near a charge instability, we
performed ^{13}C NMR experiments on the molecular superconductor
beta"-(BEDT-TTF)_{4}[(H_{3}O)Ga(C_{2}O_{4})_{3}]C_{6}H_{5}NO_{2}, which
exhibits a charge anomaly at 100 K. The Knight shift which we measured in the
SC state down to 1.5 K demonstrates that Cooper pairs are in spin-singlet
state. Measurements of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation time reveal strong
electron-electron correlations in the normal state. The resistivity increase
observed below 10 K indicates that the enhanced fluctuation has an electric
origin. We discuss the possibility of charge-fluctuation-induced
superconductivity.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
The fermi arc and fermi pocket in cuprates in a short-range diagonal stripe phase
In this paper we studied the fermi arc and the fermi pocket in cuprates in a
short-range diagonal stripe phase with wave vectors , which
reproduce with a high accuracy the positions and sizes of the fermi arc and
fermi pocket and the superstructure in cuprates observed by Meng et
al\cite{Meng}. The low-energy spectral function indicates that the fermi pocket
results from the main band and the shadow band at the fermi energy. Above the
fermi energy the shadow band gradually departs away from the main band, leaving
a fermi arc. Thus we conclude that the fermi arc and fermi pocket can be fully
attributed to the stripe phase but has nothing to do with pairing.
Incorporating a d-wave pairing potential in the stripe phase the spectral
weight in the antinodal region is removed, leaving a clean fermi pocket in the
nodal region.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figure
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