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The First Year Experience (FYE) and the Basic Communication Course: Insights from Theory and Practice
Institutions of higher learning increasingly focus on the first year experience (FYE), given the twin needs of persistence and retention. In view of this renewed emphasis, this essay provides insights from theory and practice exploring how the basic oral communication course (BOCC) can adapt existing basic course content and pedagogy, as informed by the standards established by the National Communication Association, to more effectively address the FYE. Specifically, this essay summarizes FYE scholarly literature, reviews representative FYE textbooks, and discusses apparent connections between FYE, basic communication content, and the ways in which the BOCC can practically and naturally link to FYE initiatives
Botanical and Ecological Aspects of Coastal Raised Peatlands in Maine : and Their Relevance to the Critical Areas Program of the State Planning Office
Botanical and Ecological Aspects of Coastal Raised Peatlands in Maine : and Their Relevance to the Critical Areas Program of the State Planning Office.
by Ian A. Worley
A Report Prepared for the Maine Critical Areas Program, State Planning Office, 184 State Street, Augusta, Maine 04333.
Planning Report No. 69 (January 1980)
Contents: Foreword / Abstract / Table of Contents / List of Figures / List of Tables / Acknowledgements / Introduction / Natural History and Ecology of the Coastal Raised Peatlands / Selection of Coastal Peatlands Recommended for Evaluation by the Critical Areas Program / General Evaluation of Coastal Raised Peatlands for Inclusion on the Register of Critical Areas / Recommendations / Glossary / Literature Cited.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/me_collection/1165/thumbnail.jp
Comparing symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorders using the current DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria and the proposed DSM-V diagnostic criteria
Children diagnosed with Autistic Disorder (AD), Asperger’s Disorder (AS), and Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) share overlapping diagnostic criteria. As a result, there has been an enduring debate regarding the appropriateness of the current categorical classification system used to diagnose this group of disorders, commonly referred to as Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Ongoing research examining the boundaries of the disorders comprising the spectrum have yielded inconsistent findings in symptom differences; therefore, the American Psychiatric Association has proposed revisions for the upcoming version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (i.e., DSM-5). Revisions include dropping all subcategories of ASD and including one dimensional category that is all encompassing. Thus, the aim of the current study was to compare symptoms of ASD in children and adolescents who met criteria for ASD according to only the DSM-IV-TR (i.e., DSM-IV-TR group) to those who met criteria according to the forthcoming version of the DSM (i.e., DSM-5 group) and to those that were typically developing (i.e., control group). Using the Autism Spectrum Disorders – Diagnosis for Children, participants in the DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5 groups did not score significantly different from each other on overall autism symptoms, but both groups scored significantly different from the control group. Upon further investigation, the DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5 groups scored significantly different in the core domain area of Nonverbal Communication/Socialization. Additionally, different symptom profiles predicted group membership when participants were classified as ASD or typically developing according to the DSM-IV-TR versus the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. Implications of these findings and the implications of the proposed changes to the ASD diagnostic category for the DSM-5 are discussed
The AMBRE Project: Stellar Parameterisation of the ESO:UVES archived spectra
The AMBRE Project is a collaboration between the European Southern
Observatory (ESO) and the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur (OCA) that has been
established in order to carry out the determination of stellar atmospheric
parameters for the archived spectra of four ESO spectrographs.
The analysis of the UVES archived spectra for their stellar parameters has
been completed in the third phase of the AMBRE Project. From the complete
ESO:UVES archive dataset that was received covering the period 2000 to 2010,
51921 spectra for the six standard setups were analysed. The AMBRE analysis
pipeline uses the stellar parameterisation algorithm MATISSE to obtain the
stellar atmospheric parameters. The synthetic grid is currently constrained to
FGKM stars only.
Stellar atmospheric parameters are reported for 12,403 of the 51,921 UVES
archived spectra analysed in AMBRE:UVES. This equates to ~23.9% of the sample
and ~3,708 stars. Effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity and alpha
element to iron ratio abundances are provided for 10,212 spectra (~19.7%),
while at least effective temperature is provided for the remaining 2,191
spectra. Radial velocities are reported for 36,881 (~71.0%) of the analysed
archive spectra. Typical external errors of sigmaTeff~110dex,
sigmalogg~0.18dex, sigma[M/H]~0.13dex, and sigma[alpha/Fe]~0.05dex with some
reported variation between giants and dwarfs and between setups are reported.
UVES is used to observe an extensive collection of stellar and non-stellar
objects all of which have been included in the archived dataset provided to OCA
by ESO. The AMBRE analysis extracts those objects which lie within the FGKM
parameter space of the AMBRE slow rotating synthetic spectra grid. Thus by
homogeneous blind analysis AMBRE has successfully extracted and parameterised
the targeted FGK stars (23.9% of the analysed sample) from within the ESO:UVES
archive.Comment: 19 pages, 16 figures, 11 table
METHODOLOGY FOR TREND ANALYSIS AND PROJECTION OF PRODUCTION, MARKET SHARES, AND CONSUMPTION
Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,
Causes and explanation of ''breakthrough phenomenon'' when LEM cooling system sublimator is fed with chlorinated feedwater
Comparison of chlorine or iodine use as feedwater bactericides in lunar excursion module cooling system sublimato
Cortical pain responses in human infants
Despite the recent increase in our understanding of the development of pain processing, it is still not known whether premature infants are capable of processing pain at a cortical level. In this study, changes in cerebral oxygenation over the somatosensory cortex were measured in response to noxious stimulation using real-time near-infrared spectroscopy in 18 infants aged between 25 and 45 weeks postmenstrual age. The noxious stimuli were heel lances performed for routine blood sampling; no blood tests were performed solely for the purpose of the study. Noxious stimulation produced a clear cortical response, measured as an increase in total hemoglobin concentration [HbT] in the contralateral somatosensory cortex, from 25 weeks (mean Delta[HbT] = 7.74 mu mol/L; SE, 1.10). Cortical responses were significantly greater in awake compared with sleeping infants, with a mean difference of 6.63 mu mol/L [95% confidence interval (CI) limits: 2.35, 10.91 mu mol/L; mean age, 35.2 weeks]. In awake infants, the response in the contralateral somatosensory cortex increased with age ( regression coefficient, 0.698 mu mol/L/week; 95% CI limits: 0.132, 1.265 mu mol/L/week) and the latency decreased with age (regression coefficient, -0.9861 mu mol/L/week; 95% CI limits: -1.5361, -0.4361 mu mol/L/week; age range, 25-38 weeks). The response was modality specific because no response was detected after non-noxious stimulation of the heel, even when accompanied by reflex withdrawal of the foot. We conclude that noxious information is transmitted to the preterm infant cortex from 25 weeks, highlighting the potential for both higher-level pain processing and pain-induced plasticity in the human brain from a very early age
Magnesium oxide doping reduces acoustic wave attenuation in lithium metatantalate and lithium metaniobate crystals
Single crystals of lithium metatantalate and lithium metaniobate, grown from melts having different stoichiometries and different amounts of magnesium oxide, show that doping lowers temperature-independent portion of attenuation of acoustic waves. Doped crystals possess optical properties well suited for electro-optical and photoelastic applications
DEVELOPMENT OF A SCHEME TO EVALUATE CONSUMER APPLE VARIETY PREFERENCES
Consumer/Household Economics,
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