Similar Settings, Different Story Lines: The Positioning of ESL Teachers in Two Middle Schools

As the need to better support English learners’ achievement in academically rigorous content area classes increases, so does the call for expanded ESL teacher – content area teacher collaboration. However, the nature and outcomes of such collaboration depend on how these professionals are positioned within their school settings. Using positioning theory as an analytic lens, this article investigates the collaborative interactions of two ESL teachers in two separate, but demographically similar suburban middle schools. It examines the impact of these ESL teachers’ collaborations on ELLs’ opportunities for academic language and content area learning, and it calls for the field to purposefully consider issues of culture and agency in teacher partnerships. Overall, this article informs educators’ and teacher educators’ efforts to optimize school-based, ELL--focused teacher collaboration

A Case Study of Reading Instruction in a Philippine Classroom

In this article, we describe the reading practices in a public and high-achieving 6th grade English classroom in the Philippines. By utilizing a four resources model, we discuss the different roles that students assume in this classroom. Students in this class are mainly code breakers and text users and have limited opportunities to assume the other two roles of the four resources model. This case study provides a different view of reading, specifically a view of a culture of reading wherein higher status is given to oral reading performance rather than comprehension. We describe the way a high-achieving 6th grade Philippine classroom perceives reading. Through this article, we would like to contribute to the research literature on Philippine education and increase our knowledge of reading practices as they are conceived and practiced in this particular classroom

A Case Study of Reading Instruction in a Philippine Classroom

In this article, we describe the reading practices in a public and high-achieving 6th grade English classroom in the Philippines. By utilizing a four resources model, we discuss the different roles that students assume in this classroom. Students in this class are mainly code breakers and text users and have limited opportunities to assume the other two roles of the four resources model. This case study provides a different view of reading, specifically a view of a culture of reading wherein higher status is given to oral reading performance rather than comprehension. We describe the way a high-achieving 6th grade Philippine classroom perceives reading. Through this article, we would like to contribute to the research literature on Philippine education and increase our knowledge of reading practices as they are conceived and practiced in this particular classroom

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Influencia del clima organizacional en la gestión pedagógica en instituciones educativas de secundaria–Moquegua

La presente investigación tiene como objetivo determinar en qué medida influye el clima organizacional en la gestión pedagógica en instituciones educativas de secundaria del cercado de Moquegua en el año 2016, para ello se planteó la hipótesis, el clima organizacional influye significativamente en la gestión pedagógica. Es un estudio de tipo correlacional explicativo, con un diseño transeccional correlacional causal, se desarrolló sobre una población de 127 docentes y la muestra estuvo integrada por 55 profesores de Educación secundaria de instituciones educativas del cercado de Moquegua. Para recoger datos se emplearon la técnica de la encuesta, los instrumentos utilizados fueron el cuestionario sobre clima organizacional y el cuestionario sobre gestión pedagógica. Los resultados obtenidos señalan que el clima organizacional influye significativamente en la gestión pedagógica bajo la percepción de docentes en instituciones educativas secundaria del cercado de Moquegua, en el año 2016, con un Rho Spearman r=0.998, un Sig. = 0,00, y un coeficiente de determinación de R2= 0,963, indicando que el variable clima organizacional influye a la gestión pedagógica en un 96,3% en una correlación positiva muy fuerte

The fundamental re-thinking and redesign of the Military Pay Document Processing System

All organizations, both private and public, must improve, streamline, and automate their business practices to adjust to rigorous demands of a highly volatile marketplace, austere financial resources, and manpower reductions. This thesis analyzes the potential of business process reengineering (BPR) to dramatically improve the Military Pay Document Process (MPDP) for the United States Army and the United States Coast Guard financial communities. Based on Nissen's methodology the MPDP is analyzed and three redesign alternatives are developed, which are capable of yielding order of magnitude improvements in cycle time and cost. This thesis includes process simulation and intelligent systems analysis of the Army and Coast Guard's baseline MPDP to generate and evaluate the three redesign alternatives. Simulation runs demonstrate that cycle time and cost can be reduced substantially by redesigning the MPDP. The redesign alternatives take a comprehensive look at transformation enablers and information technology (IT) capable of eliminating the Personnel Administrative Clerks (PAC) and the finance office functions as they pertain to pay transaction processing. The research concludes that the Army and Coast Guard's MPDP can be dramatically improved by eliminating middlemen functions (PAC and finance office) and shortening the value chain using IT along with other transformation enablershttp://www.archive.org/details/fundamentalrethi00zellCaptain, United States Army.Lieutenant, United States Coast GuardApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited

La demanda de revisión judicial y su incidencia en el procedimiento de ejecución coactiva en el SAT de Lima, 2021

El objetivo de este trabajo investigativo fue explicar de qué manera la presentación de la demanda de revisión judicial incide en el procedimiento de ejecución coactiva en el SAT de Lima, periodo 2021. Teniendo en cuenta el objetivo señalado, se recurrió al enfoque cualitativo, por ser el más apropiado para describir las categorías objeto de estudio, utilizando técnicas como la entrevista y análisis documental aplicado a la doctrina y jurisprudencia. El tipo de investigación es básico, toda vez que es una investigación teórica, limitándonos a describir si se afecta el procedimiento coactivo con la presentación de la demanda de revisión; el diseño investigativo corresponde a una teoría fundamentada, dado que se buscó probar los supuestos planteados. Los resultados encontrados nos permitieron establecer que la interposición de la demanda de revisión judicial incide en el procedimiento de ejecución coactiva, paralizando su continuación, además que levanta inmediatamente las medidas cautelares trabadas por el ejecutor. Se concluyó que este mecanismo legal de la demanda de revisión judicial, no ha sido objeto de mayor desarrollo, existiendo vacíos legales, el mismo que está siendo desnaturalizado y utilizado por los obligados para desvincularse del procedimiento y liberar sus fondos, afectando los ingresos de la entidad recaudadora

Crystal structure of the N‐terminal region of human Ash2L shows a winged‐helix motif involved in DNA binding

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/102216/1/embr2011101-sup-0001.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/102216/2/embr2011101.reviewer_comments.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/102216/3/embr2011101.pd

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices on leprosy among dermatology residents in the Philippines

Introduction: leprosy is a chronic bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis, primarily affecting the skin and peripheral nerves. Dermatologists play an important role in diagnosing and treating patients affected with leprosy and are equipped with adequate knowledge about the clinical presentation and management of patients with leprosy. Methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of leprosy among dermatology residents in the Philippines using a selfadministered online questionnaire. The study was conducted in two phases: Phase I was the development of the questionnaire, and Phase II was the survey proper, where the questionnaire was administered to dermatology residents in the Philippines via convenience sampling. Descriptive statistics appropriate for the study variables were used. Results: in Phase I of the study, a questionnaire was validated by three leprosy and infectious disease experts and pilot-tested on ten dermatology graduates in the year 2022, showing that items had high scores for validity and reliability. Phase II involved administering the survey to dermatology residents. Data showed that overall, 46 of 118 participants (38.98%) obtained a satisfactory score of 80% and higher on knowledge, 101 of 118 (85.59%) exhibited a positive attitude, and 116 of 118 (98.31%) had adequate practices. Moreover, first-year residents exhibit lower attitude scores than those in higher years, and no significant differences in knowledge and practices were found based on the practice setting. Conclusion: results of the study show that less than half of the included resident dermatologists had satisfactory knowledge of leprosy. However, we identified gaps in these physician’s knowledge, mainly in peripheral assessment nerve function, doses, and duration of treatment for leprosy peoples. On the other hand, participants were noted to have an overall positive attitude towards leprosy and adequate practices

Single-Nucleosome Mapping of Histone Modifications in S. cerevisiae

Covalent modification of histone proteins plays a role in virtually every process on eukaryotic DNA, from transcription to DNA repair. Many different residues can be covalently modified, and it has been suggested that these modifications occur in a great number of independent, meaningful combinations. Published low-resolution microarray studies on the combinatorial complexity of histone modification patterns suffer from confounding effects caused by the averaging of modification levels over multiple nucleosomes. To overcome this problem, we used a high-resolution tiled microarray with single-nucleosome resolution to investigate the occurrence of combinations of 12 histone modifications on thousands of nucleosomes in actively growing S. cerevisiae. We found that histone modifications do not occur independently; there are roughly two groups of co-occurring modifications. One group of lysine acetylations shows a sharply defined domain of two hypo-acetylated nucleosomes, adjacent to the transcriptional start site, whose occurrence does not correlate with transcription levels. The other group consists of modifications occurring in gradients through the coding regions of genes in a pattern associated with transcription. We found no evidence for a deterministic code of many discrete states, but instead we saw blended, continuous patterns that distinguish nucleosomes at one location (e.g., promoter nucleosomes) from those at another location (e.g., over the 3′ ends of coding regions). These results are consistent with the idea of a simple, redundant histone code, in which multiple modifications share the same role