The Islamist movement in Sudan : the impact of Dr Hassal al-Turabi's personality on the movement.

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A Functional Analysis of EFL Students' Discourse in the Social Practice of Learning to Play a Board Game

How do second language (L2) students learn a social practice in their target language? This paper reports on some of the findings of a qualitative study that took a sociocultural approach (e.g., Bruner, 1983; Rogoff, 1990; Schieffelin & Ochs, 1986) to examine how a group of five EFL students learned the social practice of board gaming. A social practice theory analysis (Mohan, 2007) showed that the students worked together to help each other participate in the game and to create a shared understanding of its rules and procedures, revealing how action and reflection discourses were woven together. The analysis also illustrated how the students as active agents altered one of the rules of the game as well as how a relatively novice player, after receiving assistance from more experienced players and observing other players’ actions, assumed a more active role as the play progressed. These findings highlight the important co-construction of actions, roles, and understanding that takes place through L2 collaborative discourse in learning to play a game

Challenges in studies on flowering time: interfaces between phenological research and the molecular network of flowering genes

Flowering time is a well-studied subject in ecology, evolution and molecular biology. Long-term phenological studies have shown relationships between flowering time and environmental and endogenous factors in many species. In contrast, molecular studies using model plants have revealed a complex regulatory network of flowering. We propose that flowering would be a model trait for the integrated study of ecology, evolution and molecular biology. We introduce briefly the flowering regulatory pathways of Arabidopsis thaliana, followed by molecular techniques such as transgenic manipulation, quantitative real-time PCR and detection of differentially expressed genes that could facilitate the study of ‘nonmodel' species of ecological interest but with little available genome information. Application of the flowering gene network to wild species will be illustrated by two examples: modeling and prediction of the expression of flowering genes in Arabidopsis halleri, and the latitudinal cline of bud set and cessation in Populus. Finally, we discuss the challenges in integrating knowledge of the regulatory network on flowering into ecologically unique flowering phenomena such as synchronous intermittent mass flowering—the topic of this special issu

Structure Based Compact Model for Output Capacitance of Trench Field-Plate MOSFET to Enable Power Loss Prediction

We propose a structure based compact model for out-put capacitance (Coss) of trench Field-Plate MOSFET. Ap-propriate equations were considered for Coss curves in three regions. Output charge (Qoss) and stored energy (Eoss) that were calculated by the proposed model corre-sponded very well to TCAD results. In assumption of 10 A and 2 MHz operation, conduction loss of 1.0 W and out-put charge loss of 1.26 W were estimated.2017 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM2017), Sendai International Center, Sendai, Japan, September 19-22, 201