Behaviour of concrete under simple and combined stresses

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Gun Control Policy Preference in Context: A Contextually Sensitive Model of Gun Control Policy Preferences

Using data from the 2000 American National Election Study and the Uniform Crime Reports, this research studies the impact of core values and contextual effects on gun control policy preferences. The research seeks to produce a contextually sensitive model of gun control policy preferences that accounts for the nature of the elite message war regarding the issue of gun control and for both long and short-term contextual factors that might sway individual opinions at the point of stimulus (e.g., the survey question). While the analysis does find conditioning effects, the effects do not conform to the theoretical expectations, and they are generally weaker than expected. In contrast, the research demonstrates the strong connections that formed in the public’s mind between ideological, partisan and gender-based core values and gun control policy preferences. These results are consistent with research that found the effects of political messages often vary in counterintuitive ways due to variance in the strength of the message and political awareness (Zaller 1992). Replicating this research across various time periods permits the investigation of the decay rate of impacts on individual policy preferences created by substantial, one-time contextual effects. It may be that contextual effects have a substantial impact in the short-term, but these short-term impacts are mitigated over the longterm by continual reinforcement of the basic themes employed by elites in the message war surrounding the issue

Book Review: Explicit & Authentic Acts. by David Kyvig.

Book review: Explicit & Authentic Acts. By David Kyvig. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. 1996. Pp. 604. Reviewed by: John Vile

Short Story in an ESL Freshman English Course: Bridging the Gap between language and literature

[EN] In recent years, the place of literature in language teaching has regained its impetus and the prominent role it plays in promoting linguistic, cultural, intellectual and academic benefits has been acknowledged. Nevertheless, the place of literature in language teaching context in Turkey is still approached to be an outside source to be assigned as extensive reading rather than to be a classroom worthy material to be utilized in class. This article describes a literature lesson at a Freshman Englih level and outlines the steps to be taken to implement language based activities to promote ‘language awareness’ and to foster ‘meaning construction’ and ‘cultural awareness’ in a process based classroom setting. The steps also show that ESL Freshman students have much to gain from literature when the text is explored through language based activities without losing the literary nature of literature.Keywords: literature; short story; esl; once upon a time; freshman English; turkeyAvci Vile, DE. (2017). Short Story in an ESL Freshman English Course: Bridging the Gap between language and literature. En Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 91-100. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAD17.2017.4960OCS9110

SECC Solar Panels Project Summary

This project addressed WCU-CAP objective #3.1: “Produce Renewable Energy via Installation of Small-Scale Photovoltaics on Campus.” The newly constructed Science & Engineering Center and Commons (SECC) building with dedicated space for an Environmental Health lab, provided an ideal scenario for designing a basic photovoltaic system which can be expanded in the future. The project involves three phases: PHASE I – Shade Study, PHASE II – System Design, PHASE III – System Installatio

Inhibition of adriamycin-promoted microsomal lipid peroxidation by β-carotene, α-tocopherol and retinol at high and low oxygen partial pressures

AbstractIron-dependent peroxidation of rat liver microsomes, enhanced by adriamycin, was measured in the presence of increasing concentrations of α-tocopherol, β-carotene and retinol at low and high pO2. β-Carotene and α-tocopherol inhibited lipid peroxidation by more than 60% when present at concentrations greater than 50 nmol/mg microsomal protein at both high and low pO2. Retinol inhibited peroxidation by 39% at concentrations greater than 100 nmol/mg microsomal protein. This maximal level of inhibition by retinol was unaltered by pO2. However, β-carotene was more effective than α-tocopherol or retinol at a pO2 of 4 mmHg, whereas α-tocopherol was more effective under aerobic conditions. Since adriamycin-dependent lipid peroxidation is maximal at low pO2, β-carotene may play a role in protecting against this process