What We Mean When We Talk About Reading: Rethinking the Purposes and Contexts of College Reading

This study illuminates faculty beliefs about reading by closely examining their attitudes toward assigned readings and faculty professional reading practice. Drawing upon interview data from instructors teaching in a range of disciplines at a two-year college, we suggest that conversations about reading would benefit from greater awareness of the various contexts and purposes for reading. Rather than talk about reading as something students either do or don’t do , or do well or poorly, we draw attention to the ways that different purposes for reading shape reading behaviors for students and faculty alike

I Bought the Book and I Didn\u27t Need It : What Reading Looks like at an Urban Community College

Based on a qualitative study of students’ experiences, we offer a new typology of student reading behaviors across the disciplines at a community college

Enhanced Photoluminescence with Dielectric Nanostructures: A review

Abstract Resonant dielectric subwavelength structures made of high-refractive-index materials are an emerging powerful platform with unique advantages compared to plasmonic based nanostructures. Owing to the low ohmic losses, to their ability to localize optical near-field at nanoscale, and exciting both electric and magnetic resonant modes, high-index dielectric materials are being used in various applications. Starting from the first principles, we aim at showing how resonant dielectric nanostructures can be efficiently used to enhance photoluminescence signal from an excited molecule, and we review the most recent results present in the Literature

THERAPY-RELATED MYELOID NEOPLASMS: CONSIDERATIONS FOR PATIENTS’ CLINICAL EVALUATION

Therapy-related myeloid neoplasms (t-MNs) encompass a specific sub-group of myeloid malignancies arising after exposure to radio/cytotoxic agents for the treatment of unrelated diseases. Such malignancies present unique features, including advanced age, high comorbidities burden, and unfavorable genetic profiles. All these features justify the need for a specific diagnostic work-up and dedicated treatment algorithms. However, as new classification systems recognize the unique clinical characteristics exhibited by t-MN patients, how to assess fitness status in this clinical setting is largely unexplored. Optimizing fitness assessment would be crucial in the management of t-MN patients, considering that factors usually contributing to a worse or better outcome (like age, comorbidities, and treatment history) are patient-specific.In the absence of specific tools for fitness assessment in this peculiar category of AML, the aim of this review is to describe all those factors related to patient, treatment, and disease that allow planning treatments with an optimal risk/benefit ratio

Incidencia de procesos de recursos humanos en calidad del servicio de inversiones agrícolas Paramonga, 2017

La investigación tuvo como propósito determinar la incidencia de los procesos de recursos humanos en la calidad en los servicios de la empresa de Inversiones Agrícolas Paramonga SAC en el año 2017. La metodología de la investigación fue descriptiva y aplicativa con un diseño no experimental de corte transversal, la técnica que se aplico fue de la entrevista y el instrumento la guía. La población estuvo enfocada en 16 clientes, siendo uno de los resultados obtenidos en el tiempo de entrega del servicio a los clientes de la empresa de Inversiones Agrícolas Paramonga SAC, indica que el 62% en bueno, 19% regular y malo 19%, para esto se recomienda mejorar el procedimiento de reclutamiento y selección; asimismo, entrenar a los supervisores del servicio y puedan planificar mejor su trabajo con su equipo encomendado.Tesi

A pulsational distance to Omega Centauri based on Near-Infrared Period-Luminosity relations of RR Lyrae stars

We present new Near-Infrared (J,K) magnitudes for 114 RR Lyrae stars in the globular cluster Omega Cen (NGC 5139) which we combine with data from the literature to construct a sample of 180 RR Lyrae stars with J and K mean magnitudes on a common photometric system. This is presently the largest such sample in any stellar system. We also present updated predictions for J,K-band Period-Luminosity relations for both fundamental and first-overtone RR Lyrae stars, based on synthetic horizontal branch models with metal abundance ranging from Z=0.0001 to Z=0.004. By adopting for the Omega Cen variables with measured metal abundances an alpha-element enhancement of a factor of 3 (about 0.5 dex) with respect to iron we find a true distance modulus of 13.70 (with a random error of 0.06 and a systematic error of 0.06), corresponding to a distance d=5.5 Kpc (with both random and systematic errors equal to 0.03 Kpc). Our estimate is in excellent agreement with the distance inferred for the eclipsing binary OGLEGC-17, but differ significantly from the recent distance estimates based on cluster dynamics and on high amplitude Delta Scuti stars.Comment: 24 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication on The Astrophysical Journa

Synthetic properties of bright metal-poor variables. II. BL Her stars

We investigate the properties of the so-called BL Her stars, i.e., Population II Cepheids with periods shorter than 8 days, using updated pulsation models and evolutionary tracks computed adopting a metal abundance in the range of Z=0.0001 to Z=0.004. We derive the predicted Period-Magnitude (PM) and Period-Wesenheit (PW) relations at the various photometric bands and we show that the slopes of these relations are in good agreement with the slopes determined by observed variables in Galactic globular clusters, independently of the adopted M_V(RR)-[Fe/H] relation to get the cluster RR Lyrae-based distance. Moreover, we show that also the distances provided by the predicted PM and PW relations for BL Her stars agree within the errors with the RR Lyrae based values. The use of the predicted relations with W Vir stars, which are Population II Cepheids with periods longer than 8 days, provides no clear evidence for or against a change in the PM and PW slopes around P~10 days.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, 6 tables, accepted for publication in A&A on date 16/05/200

The use of platelet rich plasma in the management of medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaws: a cohort study

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