Second Language Teaching Strategies for Teaching the Human Body to Fourth Graders

In a country filled with pressure for high academic achievement at the state and federal levels, it is necessary to implement best practice teaching strategies for student success. Best practice teaching strategies are strategies that are research based and have proven to be essential in increasing academic achievement. Among using best practices, there are a variety of programs that focus on teaching second language learners English, one of them being dual language. Dual language is an additive bilingual program in which the second language is taught through the content areas as the native language continues to be developed. However, the necessary materials and resources are not always available to the minority language teacher. The focus of this project was to develop a unit of science lessons on the human body that were aligned with national and state standards and that encompassed second language teaching strategies to maximize student learning and achievement. The development and research of the project are further discussed in the report

Predicting the Law Area and Decisions of French Supreme Court Cases

In this paper, we investigate the application of text classification methods to predict the law area and the decision of cases judged by the French Supreme Court. We also investigate the influence of the time period in which a ruling was made over the textual form of the case description and the extent to which it is necessary to mask the judge's motivation for a ruling to emulate a real-world test scenario. We report results of 96% f1 score in predicting a case ruling, 90% f1 score in predicting the law area of a case, and 75.9% f1 score in estimating the time span when a ruling has been issued using a linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier trained on lexical features.Comment: RANLP 201

How can identity assert a claim to citizenship? In search of a safeguard against statelessness

There are currently 10 million stateless persons in the world, many of which have been rendered stateless due to the state with which they feel a bond of attachment refusing to acknowledge their claim to citizenship. The “genuine link” required for having access to citizenship is currently determined by certain principles. This paper aims to determine how identity can help an individual assert a claim to citizenship and whether this can provide individuals with a safeguard against statelessness

On the Galois embedding problem associated to the universal central extension of the alternating group of degree 6

© 2013. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/We obtain an explicit expression for the obstruction to the solvability of the Galois embedding problem associated to the universal central extension of the alternating group of degree 6.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft

Preparación y caracterización físicoquímica de sistemas biomiméticos sobre superficies lisas y nanoestructuradas. Estudio de sus interacciones con moléculas y nanopartículas

Transport and interaction of nanoparticles (NPs) with biological membranes is a relevant aspect in its employment in the field of nanomedicine; in diagnosis of diseases and other applications of nanotechnology. The huge variety of designs of NPs in terms of shapes, sizes and surface modifiers opens numerous questions about how they modify membranes in terms of possible formation of pores, defects or phenomena of permeation of water or ionic species. In this presentation we report the synthesis and characterization of silver nanoparticles capped with 4- mercaptobenzoic acid which constitute adequate probes to study by Raman spectroscopy the interaction of NP with supported lipid bilayers as model system for membranes. As a first stage, we have studied the interaction of Ag NPs with alkanethiol monolayers self-assembled on goldEl estudio del transporte y la interacción de nanopartículas (NPs) con membranas biológicas es un aspecto relevante en su empleo en el campo de la nanomedicina, en diagnóstico de enfermedades y otras aplicaciones de la nanotecnología. La variedad enorme de diseños de NPs en cuanto a formas, tamaños y modificadores superficiales abre numerosas preguntas acerca de cómo es la interfaz y cómo se modifican las membranas en cuánto a posible formación de poros, defectos o fenómenos de permeación de agua o especies iónicas. En esta presentación se muestra la síntesis y caracterización de nanopartículas de plata recubiertas con ácido 4-mercaptobenzoico las cuales constituyen sondas adecuadas para el estudio mediante espectroscopía Raman de la interacción de NPs con bicapas lipidicas soportadas como sistema modelo de membranas. En esta primera etapa se estudió su interacción con monocapas autoensambladas de alcanotioles sobre sustratos de oro.Fil: Maya Giron, Julie Viviana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas; ArgentinaFil: Vela, Maria Elena. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas; Argentin

Ciencias para el mundo contemporáneo : diferentes maneras de ver y entender una asignatura

En este trabajo analizamos la visión del profesorado sobre la asignatura «Ciencias para el Mundo Contemporáneo» en su primer año de implementación. Los resultados muestran cuatro maneras de percibir el currículo potencial tres de ellas comparten una visión competencial, mientras que hay una visión que distorsiona la propuesta del currículo potencial

Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia (CLTI) in Diabetic Patients: Looking at the Big Picture beyond Wound, Ischemia and Foot Infection (WIfI) Classification System

During the 1990s, most diabetic ulcers were considered neuropathic, but the Eurodiale study showed that more than 50% of these were non-plantar (neuro-ischaemic and ischaemic). According to the International Guidelines, the neuro-ischaemic and ischaemic diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) outcomes are connected to factors related to the wound, leg-associated factors and patients’ comorbidities. We used wound, ischaemia and foot infection (WIfI) classification system; Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus-II (TASC-II) arterial lesion score; and Kaiser Permanente pyramid (stratification of patients according to their complexity) for assessing these parameters. From February 2011 to June 2012, we collected 124 episodes of neuro-ischaemic and ischaemic active ulcer in 100 patients: 18 required major amputation, 14 of them were in WIfI stage 4 and 4 in WIfI stage 3. Ten patients (over 14 in WIfI stage 4) were classified as TASC-II D. Eight patients (over the same 14) were classified as the higher risk of Kaiser Permanente pyramid. In line with other studies, our data support that the WIfI classification correlates well regarding risk of amputation at 1 year. However, when adding TASC-II and Kaiser Permanente pyramid assessment, the outcome is even more accurate not only for limb salvage but also for patients’ survival

Content Management System for Personally Driven Web Site

The goal of the project was to develop a simple content management system that could be easily used both as a standalone web application and as a part of a more complex system. The application was supposed to consist of several key modules: commentary engine, search engine, navigation system and authentication system. To create a content management system the implementations of the most common design patterns provided by PHP Zend Framework were used. The application was developed and tested on Ubuntu Linux with Apache web server and MySQL database server. The final version of the project represented a content management system with a navigation system based on item categorization. The application consisted of multiple classes: the ones provided by Zend Framework and the ones created to fulfill application-specific requirements. The system extensively used the benefits of object oriented programming and the model-view-controller design pattern. The results of the project allowed making several conclusions. First, although it is faster to develop the application using the agile programming model, such a technique leads to less optimized code then, if the design of the application was supported by a unified modeling language. Second, object-oriented programming provides the application with a high level of reusability and also makes it possible to employ only certain parts of the software