How Neutral is Neutral Perspectives on Interpreting Clueb 2002

Daniel Born, editor, The Essential Dale Suderman Reader: Journals, Essays, Letters, Interpretations, 2024

Dale Suderman (1944-2020) was a dear friend of mine from 1992 until his death in 2020, just prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. He was a gifted but unconventional addictions therapist, voracious reader, and writer on a host of topics ranging from men's studies to urban history to politics. I am grateful for Daniel Born for editing this volume of his writings and for inviting me along with a number of other friends of Dale's to contribute essays.

Environmental Archaeology, 2024

185 pairs of δ 13 C and δ 15 N values for aurochs, cattle and sheep bones from the northern Netherlands were studied to establish the influence of salt marsh grazing on bone δ 13 C and δ 15 N values. The observed values proved significantly increased compared to livestock that grazed inland. The δ 13 C and δ 15 N values of animals grazing former salt marshes were significantly less increased than those grazing the unembanked salt marsh. Absent regular salt marsh flooding may explain the reduced δ 13 C increase in bones of animals grazing there. The δ 15 N values of ruminants grazing the embanked salt marshes continued to be increased, presumably due to persisting saline water at shallow depths. The δ 13 C values of the salt marsh grazing ruminants correspond with a δ 13 C increase of 5‰ compared to eleven modern salt marsh plants from Schiermonnikoog studied in this paper. The δ 15 N values of the eleven Schiermonnikoog salt marsh plants proved variable, on average too low to explain the observed 3.5‰ increase in δ 15 N values. This suggests that vegetation δ 15 N values cannot be the only cause of the high δ 15 N values observed in salt marsh ruminants. Other processes may be responsible for the high δ 15 N values of salt marsh grazing ruminants as well.

Performance in Mathematics by students has persistently been poor. This study sought to investigate the factors contributing to the poor performance and to establish the strategies that can be adopted to improve performance in Mathematics by students in secondary schools in Baringo County in Kenya. The study to determine the school based factors that affect students' performance in Mathematics in secondary schools, socio-cultural factors that affect them and their personal factors that affect performance in Mathematics, and established the strategies that can be adopted to improve performance in Mathematics. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The target population was 1876 respondents which comprised of Form Three secondary school students in Koibatek District, 132 Mathematics teachers and 9 head teachers. The data for the research was collected by use of three questionnaires; student, teachers and head teachers questionnaires. Factors contributing to poor performance include under staffing, inadequate teaching/ learning materials, lack of motivation and poor attitudes by both teachers and students, retrogressive practices. Improving on these factors and sensitization of the local community to discard practices which prohibit student's effective participation in learning mathematics could improve performance in Mathematics. It is anticipated that the findings of this study will give curriculum developers new insights into emerging issues on performance and influence the Ministry of Education on policy formulation. Students are also expected to benefit from the findings; because improved mathematics performance will give them opportunities to pursue science related courses in higher institutions of learning and middle level colleges.

2010

prof. ssa Donatella Calabi prorettore prof. Giancarlo Carnevale preside della facoltà di architettura prof. Medardo Chiapponi preside della facoltà di design e arti prof. ssa Matelda Reho preside della facoltà di pianificazione del territorio prof. Renzo Dubbini mandatario del rettore/esce alle ore 13, 15 prof. Roberto Sordina mandatario del rettore prof. Salvatore Russo rappresentante dei professori e dei ricercatori di ruolo prof. Armando Dal Fabbro rappresentante dei professori e dei ricercatori di ruolo prof. Augusto Cusinato ...

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006

This study explored language shift and accommodation among bilingual Mandarin and Tai-gi (also called Hokkien, Holo, Tai-gu, Taiwan Min, Taiwanese) families in Taiwan. From the 1940s until the 1980s the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) on Taiwan promoted Mandarin Chinese. Recent years have witnessed a shift in policy: since 2001 elementary schools throughout Taiwan offered mother-tongue education as a way to preserve and maintain Taiwan's mother tongues. This paper is based upon interviews with 58 parents who lived in both urban and rural locations and whose children were enrolled in mother-tongue classes. Interview responses were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Quantitative analysis found significant language shift occurring from Tai-gi to Mandarin among parents and children, and a faster shift in urban versus rural environments. Qualitative analysis examined the perceived processes and meanings of language shift. Many parents spoke of accommodation as affecting language shift: they spoke Tai-gi to elders, mixed Tai-gi and Mandarin to peers, and Mandarin to children. Most parents perceived Tai-gi as more intimate than Mandarin and the source of tradition, while Mandarin was the language of public discourse. The perceived link between language and identity varied across location as most rural parents linked Tai-gi with a Taiwanese identity while urban parents did not.

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Journal of electrical engineering, 2019

This paper presents the results of research on the application of inverter in the grid connected solar photovoltaics (PV) system. The main content of the article is to control the three-phase grid connected inverter to meet the requirement of controlling the reactive power to zero at a node of the distribution network while maximizing the active power transmitted to the grid. The control circuits are synthesized on the dq coordinate system and verified on the simulation model by Matlab/Simulink. Both simulation and experimental prototype on 5 kW inverter, being connected to low voltage grid, have been built to show the good results and the practical readiness for implementation.