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WAC in FYW: building bridges and teachers as architects
Students entering the first-year writing classroom directly out of high school often tell me that they had to 'write differently for each teacher and class.' Imagine their confusion and apprehension when they are told that one of the objectives of FYW is to prepare them for academic writing across all disciplines! How can teachers incorporate cross-curricular skills into their lessons? More importantly, amongst the already-complex demands on the purposes and goals of FYW courses, how do students learn these techniques that teachers deem 'easily-transferrable'?
I argue, first, that the FYW classroom is an ideal location to present students with the individual tools for writing in any discipline. We discuss elements of writing like organization, idea development, thesis statements, citation, and the writing process within our courses as part of the standard curriculum. Therefore, I argue that the multi-faceted roles of FYW teachers include the characteristic of architect, and assert that transforming our lessons into WAC lessons involves the incorporation of examples, standards, and formats from outside disciplines. Mentioning how thesis statements tie together English and Religion papers or how dividing a paper into sections enhances the organization of Biology lab reports and Business reports establishes connections for students. With some simple additions to teachers' lessons, students will find that the writing techniques they learn are just as crucial and useful in both core and major classes. Building these bridges reinforces the lifelong importance of writing and helps students continue to develop their writing skills across and through the college curriculum
Resolving Conflicts of Rights: Russ Shafer-Landau and Judith Jarvis Thomson Revisited
This manuscript examines two accounts that discuss rights disputes. On the one hand, Russ Shafer-Landau argues for specificationism (or what is referred to here as SA), which deems rights as having innate limitations. One the other, Judith Jarvis Thomson defends infringement theory (or what is referred to here as IVA), which views rights to be competing factors. Shafer-Landau in âSpecifying Absolute Rightsâ endeavored to discredit Thomsonâs IVA and promote his favored theory. This material responds to and criticizes the claims Shafer-Landau pressed in his article. First part of the thesis addresses his concerns and finds them unconvincing. Using tools of logic, it is demonstrated that Shafer-Landauâs demands on compensation are without warrant. More than this, his demands on the tripartite are misguided. Second part tackles some shortcomings of SA. One of which is the finding that two of the three arguments Shafer-Landau posited for SAâs superiority run counter to each other. Should Shafer-Landau save one, it would remain untenable for the foundations therein rest on a mistake. Finally, his position of SA being sufficiently explanatory is in itself wanting. Though this material does not go as far as proving which theory is practically better, the project is not bereft of purpose. By the end, IVA would already have been relieved of the criticisms whereas SA would be confronted with multiple challenges
The Electronic Structure of NiO by means of Electron Spectroscopies and theoretical calculations
We report experimental and theoretical evidence of surface effects in the Ni 2p x-ray photoemission spectra XPS of NiO. The Ni 2p3/2 surface-enhanced XPS of a NiO sample show a relative enhancement of the intensity of the known satellite at 1.5 eV higher binding energy from the main line, indicating a considerable surface contribution of this satellite. The results are discussed in terms of bulk-octahedral and surfacepyramidal Ni symmetries. Other contributions, like nonlocal screening effects, cannot be neglected.Universidad de MĂĄlaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional AndalucĂa Tech
Seminormal forms and Gram determinants for cellular algebras
This paper develops an abstract framework for constructing ``seminormal
forms'' for cellular algebras. That is, given a cellular R-algebra A which is
equipped with a family of JM-elements we give a general technique for
constructing orthogonal bases for A, and for all of its irreducible
representations, when the JM-elements separate A. The seminormal forms for A
are defined over the field of fractions of R. Significantly, we show that the
Gram determinant of each irreducible A-module is equal to a product of certain
structure constants coming from the seminormal basis of A. In the non-separated
case we use our seminormal forms to give an explicit basis for a block
decomposition of A.
The appendix, by Marcos Soriano, gives a general construction of a complete
set of orthogonal idempotents for an algera starting from a set of elements
which act on the algebra in an upper triangular fashion. The appendix shows
that constructions with "Jucys-Murphy elements"depend, ultimately, on the
Cayley-Hamilton theorem.Comment: Final version. To appear J. Reine Angew. Math. Appendix by Marcos
Sorian
Multi-resolution two-sample comparison through the divide-merge Markov tree
We introduce a probabilistic framework for two-sample comparison based on a
nonparametric process taking the form of a Markov model that transitions
between a "divide" and a "merge" state on a multi-resolution partition tree of
the sample space. Multi-scale two-sample comparison is achieved through
inferring the underlying state of the process along the partition tree. The
Markov design allows the process to incorporate spatial clustering of
differential structures, which is commonly observed in two-sample problems but
ignored by existing methods. Inference is carried out under the Bayesian
paradigm through recursive propagation algorithms. We demonstrate the work of
our method through simulated data and a real flow cytometry data set, and show
that it substantially outperforms other state-of-the-art two-sample tests in
several settings.Comment: Corrected typos. Added Software sectio
Glassy and liquid metals, from microscopic to macroscopic dynamics
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Modeling Sensor Knowledge of a National Hydrologic Information System
In this paper we describe our experience in modeling and using sensor knowledge of a national hydrologic information system in Spain. We developed a web application called VSAIH supported by a knowledge-based system to analyze sensor data and to generate explanations that help users to make decisions based on hydrologic behavior. In the paper, we describe the characteristics of the infrastructure of hydrologic sensors and the representa-tion we used to model sensor knowledge to provide support to the VSAIH application. We also describe semi-automatic procedures that we applied to construct the final model
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