... An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 37(4) Stake, R E (1995) The Art ofCaseStudy Research Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications Van Lier (1988) The classroom ... http://www.russcomm.ru/eng/rca_biblio/m/matveev01_eng.shtml Merriam, S (1998) Qualitative Research andCaseStudy Applications in Education San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc Publishers Nunan, D (1999) Second language teaching ... for data collection and analysis Chapter presents the findings of the study with reference to the teacher written feedback strategies and students’ preferences and response to feedback and also...
... Klabin and Aracruz that present data for years 2003, 2004 and 2005 and Cenibra which data are available only for 2005 ** The companies not have this value calculated All plants, excepting Aracruz and ... lower than Cenibra in all parameters Votorantim, Suzano Bahia Sul, Ripasa and International paper are integrated producers of the writing and printing paper By calculating the average of the three ... This article aims to contribute to this debate with acasestudyof the Brazilian pulp and paper industry, comparing the performance between transnational and national companies concerning sustainable...
... zero to the threshold of yielding, it was possible to evaluate the elastoplastic behaviour of stress and strain as well as to evaluate the parameters involved for situations near the generalized ... Glinka were used to verify the validity of the local strain approach and evaluate the strain levels and its relation with the nominal stress applied toa geometrical discontinuity section ofa plate ... and loading apparatus The system was prepared for analysis in dark field using circular polarized light with incident white light Several levels of loading were uniaxially applied The material...
... pairs The event pair INIT-INITO is used to trigger a state change at the ECC and therefore the execution of the initialisation algorithm by occurring of an event at INIT andto send an information ... data anda request for new data is signaled If there is new data available, the function block will set the boolean input and output Flag again By converting to IEC 61499, this boolean input and ... instead This makes it possible to have the ECCinitialstate always activated andto associate one successor with the stopping and another successor with the starting algorithm To control a start-up...
... temperature The climate data were available in GIS along with data of latitude, longitude and elevation The soil type database of China covered a total of 2,444 counties, containing a series of vector soil ... type databases of China which were used to generate distribution models and the database of resource survey which was used to assess the quality ofa model The geographic database of China was a ... the standard deviation and μ is the mean We employed one-way analysis of variance (one-way ANOVA) to analyze the differences in the abiotic factors responding to different native habitats (Table...
... made notable achievements and contributions award the goals of the Singapore Packaging Agreement.” 3R Packaging Awards 2008 Communication Folder The Singapore Star Award The Asia Star Awards are ... economic factors (Ny et al 2006, Abstract) Several frameworks and tools have been developed as simplified approaches to such complex analysis of social, ecological, and economic factors of 30 products ... environment) and green (preserving greenery, waterways and our natural heritage) (URA, 2008) “I want to develop Singapore in a sustainable way so that future generations of Singaporeans can also enjoy...
... Enright and colleagues measured MIP and MEP in ambulatory subjects ages greater than or equal to 65; normal values for women ages greater than or equal to 65 and males ages greater than or equal to ... resistance Peripheral airways contribute marginally to the total resistance of the airways and, therefore, changes in the peripheral airways are not reflected by changes in airway re- Changes in arterial ... 5201 ambulatory elderly participants of the Cardiovascular Health Study; estimation of annual decline for FEV1 was 32 mL/ year in women and 27 mL/year for men and, for FVC, 33 mL/year in women and...
... hundreds of millions of hectares of land worldwide according to the FAO, and much farmland globally is assigned to non-food crops, suggesting that land availability is not as great a constraint as offered ... Finally, reducing transport offers some additional, if smaller, potentialfor E and GHG gains (and again data for the Canadian food system is lacking) anda significant body of literature has ... farm approach and compared one organic and one conventional arable farm on clay soil (both growing potato, sugar beet, wheat, carrot, onion and pea) and one organic and conventional vegetable farm...
... urban hazard Impactsof sea level rise on Vietnam urban areas Costal and near - coastal low-lying urban areas are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise related hazards, including: - Total ... Schelling has development MONRE argued that the best way for developing actually is preparing a national targeted countries to adapt toclimatechange is program to cope with climatechangeandto develop ... purpose many institutions of researchers degradation and intergovernmental organizations For can andand As sea level rise is global, there is a Variations in river and coastal flow, storm quarters...
... initiatives andadaptationtoclimatechangeOf particular notice, the research finds that in spite of institutional support foradaptationtoclimatechange at the national, regional and municipal levels ... encourage architects in their role to incorporate adaptive measures tofutureclimatechange into housing design and thus to act as channels for communicating climatechangeand as catalysts ofadaptation ... cities and municipality: City of Manila, Caloocan, Las Piñas, Makati, Malabon, Mandaluyong, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Pasay, Pasig, Parañaque, Quezon, San Juan, Taguig, Valenzuela and the...
... and technology (KNUST) generates a colossal amount of waste (solid and liquid) The solid waste is dumped at a site far away from the inhabited part of campus and the liquid waste is sent toa ... biogas potentialof the sewage at the Primary Sedimentation Tank (PST) at the KNUST sewage treatment plant and its potential power production Feedstock analysis 2.1 Wastewater handling at KNUST ... Poliafico M Anaerobic Digestion Support Software, Cork Institute of Technology, 2007 [7] Barelli D., Csambalik L., Mestas C and Santos D Economical and Environmental Analysis ofa Biogas Plant...
... Pennington (1989), Jones and Evans (1995), Dalton and Seidlhofer (1994) are Approaches of Bottom-up and Top-down 1.3.3 Approach of Bottom-up Approach of Bottom-up has close relationship with accuracy ... the teacher’s halls at breaking time In addition, formal and informal discussions and free talks with all the teachers and the administration staff to collect data for this study were also carried ... understand, serves the learner's individual needs, and allows a positive image of himself as a speaker ofa foreign language The learner needs to develop awareness and monitoring skills that will allow...
... increased floods, such as increased occurrences of flash-floods, that may be alleviated by storage capacities of reservoirs; (3) Climatechangeadaptation related to changes of the hydrological pattern ... stated above 3.3.2 Effects of hydropower projects on climatechangeadaptationand mitigation Effects of hydropower projects on climatechangeadaptationand mitigation can be summarized as follows: ... and Atmospheric-Ocean Global Circulation Models, are used to assess climatechangeimpacts in Lao Cai Province, namely: Baseline scenario using the historical data and simulating the climate...
... summarize the evolution of the HSF gene family and HSF-mediated mechanisms of cellular adaptationto stress in vertebrates by comparing mammalian and avian cells, and also review HSF-mediated ... reagents, 17-allylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin (17-AAG) and geranylgeranylacetone (GGA), also ameliorated disease progression in a Drosophila model of spinocerebellar ataxias [101] or in a ... chicken heat shock transcription factor, heat shock factor 3, suggests a new regulatory pathway Mol Cell Biol 13, 1983–1997 Nakai A, Tanabe M, Kawazoe Y, Inazawa J, Morimoto RI & Nagata K (1997)...
... [N] and [C] analyses, D Tissue and N Gestel for assistance with carbohydrate analyses, and K Etcheverry and G Lyon for assistance with sample and data preparation This work was supported by a fellowship ... a F-values are from repeated-measures ANOVA Fig The average diurnal course of photosynthesis (A) , stomatal conductance (gs), and leaf vapor pressure deficit (VPD) for Erythronium grandiflorum and ... 5; Table 3) Effects of warming on plant size and on costs of reproduction Plants had lower total leaf area in the warming treatment relative to control plots Both leaf area and floral area were...
... two annotation standards are naturally denoted as source standard and target standard, while the classifiers following the two annotation standards are respectively named as source classifier and ... the classification results of several successive characters We leave them as future research Table 2: An example of basic features and guide features of standard -adaptation for word segmentation ... Take segmentation for example, a character assigned a tag s or a subsequence of words assigned a tag sequence bm∗ e indicates a word Automatic Annotation Adaptation From this section, several...
... countries formulate and implement national policies 23 17 2.2 ADAPTATION The global cost ofadaptationtoclimatechange is difficult to estimate, largely because climatechangeadaptation measures ... not provide for an estimate of total cost ofclimatechange mitigation or of the total cost ofadaptationtoimpactsofclimatechange Unless otherwise specified, all monetary values have been converted ... Comparison of current diarrhoeal disease, malnutrition, and malaria cases with estimated climatechangeimpacts in 2030 for the 750 ppmv and 550 ppmv stabilization scenarios (thousands of cases)...
... on average) The first Storm-related message we are aware of was received on December 29, 2006: It contained best wishes for the year 2007 and as an attachment a copy of the Storm binary An analysis ... here are (1) to find out the infection vector and (2) to simulate vulnerable applications While (1) may take some time and is hard to automate, (2) can be efficiently automated, e.g., using sandbox ... tables are called contacts and are organized as an unbalanced routing tree Each contact consists of the node’s DHT ID, IP address, and UDP port A peer a stores only a few contacts to peers that...
... Coastal savannah Coastal savannah Eastern Suhum Kraboa Yilo Krobo West Akim Fanteakwa Forest Transition Forest Forest Greater Accra Tema Coastal savannah Volta Adidome Jasikan Coastal savannah ... Koranteng and Mark Mostovac of CIDA-Ghana Helpful comments were also contributed by Diana McLean of CIDA-Canada and S T wumasi-Afriyie of CIMMYT Adriana Rodríguez and David Hodson of CIMMYT’s Natural ... proposal to carry out the studyand offered the use of CRI staff and facilities Nana Koranteng and Mark Mostovac of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA-Ghana) were instrumental in...