Re-thinking context and reflexive mediation in the teaching of writing

This paper calls for a renewed focus on the teaching of writing. It proposes a conceptual model, based on a social realist perspective, which takes account of the ways in which teachers reflexively mediate personal, professional and political considerations in enacting their writing pedagogies. This model extends understanding of the factors contextualising the teaching of writing. It also provides a useful guide for research into the teaching of writing and a prompt for reflexivity in professional development

A Follow-Up Study of the 1970-1974 Graduates of Campbell High School who Completed Two Years of Shorthand

A thesis presented to the Business Education Graduate Committee at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Masters in Business Education by Margaret A. Ryan on June 19, 1975

The prediction of fathers\u27 child support compliance from the quality of the former spouse relationship and psychological presence

The purpose of this study was to examine the prediction of fathers\u27 child support compliance from the quality of the former spouse relationship and psychological presence on fathers\u27 child support compliance. The sample consisted of 109 divorced fathers. Child support compliance was measured by data from fathers\u27 self-reports and court data. The concept quality of the former spouse relationship included four dimensions: conflict, cooperation, direct competition, and indirect competition. Two dimensions of psychological presence were measured: child and former wife. As hypothesized, cooperative former spouse relations predicted the likelihood of child support compliance. Also as hypothesized, coparental conflict did not predict the likelihood of child support compliance. Contrary to hypothesis, neither direct nor indirect coparental competition predicted the likelihood of child support compliance, and the likelihood of fathers complying with child support orders was not predicted by either psychological presence of child or former wife

Investigating the immunomodulatory properties of the hookworm recombinant secretome

Stephanie generated over 100 hookworm proteins, assessed their anti-inflammatory properties in a murine colitis model and further validated the top leads in a human peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) assay. This work produced a novel, rapid drug discovery pipeline and a comprehensive library of hookworm derived immunotherapeutics for treating inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

Coeds are Veterans, Too

A diploma is the target of Iowa State\u27s women veterans, reports Mary Margaret Rya

A parametric study for the design of an optimized ultrasonic-percussive planetary drill tool

Traditional rotary drilling for planetary rock sampling, in situ analysis, and sample return are challenging because the axial force and holding torque requirements are not necessarily compatible with lightweight spacecraft architectures in low-gravity environments. This paper seeks to optimize an ultrasonic percussive drill tool to achieve rock penetration with lower reacted force requirements, with a strategic view toward building an ultrasonic planetary core drill (UPCD) device. The UPCD is a descendant of the ultrasonic/sonic driller/corer technique. In these concepts, a transducer and horn (typically resonant at around 20 kHz) are used to excite a toroidal free mass that oscillates chaotically between the horn tip and drill base at lower frequencies (generally between 10 Hz and 1 kHz). This creates a series of stress pulses that is transferred through the drill bit to the rock surface, and while the stress at the drill-bit tip/rock interface exceeds the compressive strength of the rock, it causes fractures that result in fragmentation of the rock. This facilitates augering and downward progress. In order to ensure that the drill-bit tip delivers the greatest effective impulse (the time integral of the drill-bit tip/rock pressure curve exceeding the strength of the rock), parameters such as the spring rates and the mass of the free mass, the drill bit and transducer have been varied and compared in both computer simulation and practical experiment. The most interesting findings and those of particular relevance to deep drilling indicate that increasing the mass of the drill bit has a limited (or even positive) influence on the rate of effective impulse delivered

A study of the sociological and environmental factors in the primary behavior disorders of twenty-one children committed by the courts for observation to the Metropolitan State Hospital, Waltham, Massachusetts

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University, 1948. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

The European Ultrasonic Planetary Core Drill: Preliminary Results from Field Trials at the Haughton Mars Project

This paper presents the findings of a recent field trip by the Ultrasonic Planetary Core Drill team to the Mars analog site at the Haughton Mars Project. Results of this trip are compared to results obtained drilling permafrost simulant in the lab