What are the facilitating conditions that support teaching as inquiry (TaI) for secondary technology teachers who are middle leaders in greater Christchurch?

This study aims to propose ideal conditions for Technology teachers to develop effective philosophies enabling them to focus on activities that promote successful learning. This research examines how selected secondary Technology educators, exemplify aspects of Teaching as Inquiry (TaI) effective pedagogies, that support the generation and development of successful philosophies. By identifying five common traits or characteristics, this study enquires what it is they do that supports successful teacher philosophy, generating positive outcomes for learners. It explores how and why Technology teachers have developed this approach, how these traits are connected and inter-related to attitudes and the resulting dispositions they hold, and the philosophies they have developed. In the quest for sustainable conditions, enabling and inhibiting influences are also investigated. To be fully inclusive of all aspects influencing TaI practice, aspects outside the location of individual inquiry are explored: How individual TaI exists within school culture, faculty, senior administrative and management philosophies within systems where the teacher is employed, and how TaI practice exists within wider national policy. It explains how TaI in New Zealand, appears to flourish within a foundation of Culturally Responsive Pedagogies. It also suggests a simple re-consideration around the nature of individual learners, and how their needs to develop responsive and effective pedagogies, seeing a different ‘new construct, end-goal’ of future focussed schooling, could conflict with immediate current assessment, and compliance needs. This study concludes by suggesting a set of ideal facilitating conditions that together could enable the development of philosophies supporting the effective pedagogies of Teaching as Inquiry

Developing credit risk score using SAS programming

Объектом исследования являются данные о кредитоспособности заемщиков. Предмет исследования: модель кредитного риска и системный интерфейс (GUI). Цель проекта - разработать систему на основе модели кредитного риска с использованием программирования SAS, чтобы помочь банку в принятии решений, контролировать риск и выбирать более хороших заемщиков и удалять плохих заемщиков из банка.The object of the study is data on the creditworthiness of borrowers. The subject of the research the credit risk model and make a system interface (GUI). The objective of the project is to develop the system from credit risk model by using SAS programming to help the bank in decision-making, control the risk and choose more good borrowers and delete bad borrowers from the bank. In the research project, to learn how to develop credit scoring using SAS programming and create program calculate credit risk score using Python . As a result of the study, it is show that to improves the accuracy of the assessment of creditworthiness by using logistic regression (selection variables method, evaluation dataset). The conclusion is the program calculator is made

Немецкий язык как компонент языковой ситуации в Чаинском районе Томской области

Настоящая статья актуализирует промежуточные результаты социолингвистического анкетирования на территории Чаинского района Томской области, являющейся одним из мест дисперсного проживания потомков этнических немцев, подвергнутых принудительной депортации из различных населенных пунктов Саратовской области в Сибирь в 40-ые годы 20 века

Deciphering Histone Modifications in Rice by Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP): Applications to Study the Impact of Stress Imposition

The spatial organization of chromatin, the methylome, and histone modifications represents epigenetic layers that greatly intersect each other, influencing genome regulation and allowing high flexibility in stress response. Although changes in specific histone modification marks could be extensively associated with transcriptional regulation of stress-responsive genes, a link between specific epigenetic signatures and plant stress tolerance has not yet been established. This chapter includes some examples of the associations found between fluctuations in these marks and regulation of plant stress-responsive genes. Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) has been widely used to uncover the landscape of histone modifications. However, ChIP involves multiple steps and requires optimizations targeting the tissue and the plant species. Here, we detail the ChIP procedure currently used in our laboratory, for leaf tissues of young rice seedlings, to decipher the dynamic feature of specific chemical modifications of histones that may influence the expression of stress-responsive genes. We show the success achieved after introducing specific optimizations and highlight the key critical steps and trouble shootings that may occur. A thorough understanding of stress-induced fluctuations of specific histone modifications may unveil new strategies to improve plant adaptation and performance in suboptimal conditions

Разработка устройства сканирования пучков используемых для производства изотопов

Expression of the C(4)-specific phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (C(4)-PEPC) gene in maize (Zea mays) is regulated in a tissue-specific manner, but affected by light and nutrient availability. We manipulated these stimuli in a combinatorial manner and analyzed concomitant changes in histone acetylation of the nucleosomes associated with the C(4)-PEPC gene in relation to transcriptional activity and steady-state mRNA levels. Whereas the transition from the lowest activity to an intermediate activity was observed in the absence of histone acetylation, the light-induced boost to full activity was associated with strong enhancement of the acetylation of both histones H3 and H4 limited to the gene region. Once activated by light, prolonged darkness was necessary to reduce both transcription and, in parallel, histone acetylation. Unexpectedly, histone acetylation was also induced in bundle sheath cells, although the transcriptional activity did not respond to illumination in this tissue. Furthermore, we were able to down-regulate the promoter by nitrogen depletion in the light without any decrease in the hyperacetylation of histone H4. When plants kept in prolonged darkness were nitrogen depleted and then exposed to light, transcription was not induced, but the promoter chromatin became hyperacetylated. We suggest a model where inhibition of a histone deacetylase in the light triggers H4 hyperacetylation at the C(4)-PEPC gene promoter regardless of the transcriptional activity of the gene. Our data indicate that an understanding of the interplay between histone modification and transcription requires analysis of signal integration on promoters in vivo