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View article: Assessing the Learning Potential of Second Language Student Interaction in Collaborative Writing
Assessing the Learning Potential of Second Language Student Interaction in Collaborative Writing Open
This study examines peer interaction in collaborative writing in second language (L2) learning and assesses how interaction may allow students to learn about correct language use from each other as they write. A small number of studies hav…
View article: Florida’s Extension Programs Prepare Produce Growers for Produce Safety Rule Inspection
Florida’s Extension Programs Prepare Produce Growers for Produce Safety Rule Inspection Open
View article: Ex Vivo Expansion of Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs)
Ex Vivo Expansion of Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs) Open
Circulating tumour cells (CTCs) are a critical intermediate step in the process of cancer metastasis. The reliability of CTC isolation/purification has limited both the potential to report on metastatic progression and the development of C…
View article: ImmGen at 15
ImmGen at 15 Open
View article: Cloud Computing for MATLAB and R Users: Part II – Transferring Data and Cloud Storage
Cloud Computing for MATLAB and R Users: Part II – Transferring Data and Cloud Storage Open
Cloud-based computing has tremendous potential for academia in general and researchers in particular. The ability to store, read and manipulate large dataset is increasingly important to be on the cutting-edge of research. While most resea…
View article: Cloud Computing for MATLAB and R Users: Part III – Multicore Virtual Machine Parallel Computing Environment
Cloud Computing for MATLAB and R Users: Part III – Multicore Virtual Machine Parallel Computing Environment Open
Part III narrates instructions on harnessing the power of multicore virtual machine parallel computing environments, suitable for large dataset and heavy computational needs. Also, presents guidance to use the storage cloud (S3) along with…
View article: Circulating tumour cell enumeration does not correlate with Miller-Payne grade in a cohort of breast cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Circulating tumour cell enumeration does not correlate with Miller-Payne grade in a cohort of breast cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy Open
Background: Detection and enumeration of Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs) has been evaluated in many cancers such as breast cancer. However, the full prognostic and predictive power of CTCs for cancer cannot currently be harnessed, and the …
View article: Voice audio methods
Voice audio methods Open
This paper explores the potential of voice audio in qualitative research, as data in its own right rather than only as a precursor to transcription. Building on critiques of voice in qualitative research, I argue that audio can enable rese…
View article: Cloud Computing for MATLAB and R Users: Part I – Creation of Virtual Computing Instance Using Amazon Web Services
Cloud Computing for MATLAB and R Users: Part I – Creation of Virtual Computing Instance Using Amazon Web Services Open
Cloud-based computing has tremendous potential for academia in general and researchers in particular. The ability to store, read and manipulate large dataset is increasingly important to be on the cutting-edge of research. While most resea…
View article: Cloud Computing for MATLAB and R Users: Part IV – How to Use MATLAB in the Cloud
Cloud Computing for MATLAB and R Users: Part IV – How to Use MATLAB in the Cloud Open
Cloud-based computing has tremendous potential for academia in general and researchers in particular. The ability to store, read and manipulate large dataset is increasingly important to be on the cutting-edge of research. While most resea…
View article: Had enough of experts?
Had enough of experts? Open
Could it be that postmodernism is not dead but undead? As evidence, consider two contrasting statements made in 2016 by leading figures who campaigned for the UK to leave the EU.The first came from...
View article: Media Ecologies of Plant Invasion
Media Ecologies of Plant Invasion Open
In popular conservation discourse, Rhododendron ponticum is portrayed as an alien invader let loose on the British countryside by misguided gardeners. In Scotland, eradication campaigns tend to be favored over more pragmatic approaches to …
View article: Vibrations in Place: Sound and Language in Early Childhood Literacy Practices
Vibrations in Place: Sound and Language in Early Childhood Literacy Practices Open
This article explores how close attention to sound can help to rethink literacy in early childhood education. Through an analysis of text, audio, video and photographic data from a sound walk undertaken with a parent and a child, we make t…
View article: Tuition and Outcomes for BRC Versus Non-BRC Schools: An Empirical Analysis
Tuition and Outcomes for BRC Versus Non-BRC Schools: An Empirical Analysis Open
This paper is an empirical analysis of the rise in tuition costs across the United States.Schools of the Business Research Consortium of Western New York are compared to similar universities and national averages.In nominal terms, tuition …
View article: Changing Course: Making the Case (Old and New) for American Seapower
Changing Course: Making the Case (Old and New) for American Seapower Open
There is a moment in the 2001 comedy Zoolander when the villain Mugatu, portrayed by a whitehaired Will Ferrell, screams as his plan disintegrates: “I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!” One year into my first term in Congress, this capture…
View article: Listening differently: A pedagogy for expanded listening
Listening differently: A pedagogy for expanded listening Open
Mainstream education promotes a narrow conception of listening, centred on the reception and comprehension of human meanings. As such, it is ill‐equipped to hear how sound propagates affects, generates atmospheres, shapes environments and …
View article: Cloud Computing for MATLAB and R Users
Cloud Computing for MATLAB and R Users Open
View article: Listening geographies
Listening geographies Open
This paper argues for expanded listening in geography. Expanded listening addresses how bodies of all kinds, human and more-than-human, respond to sound. We show how listening can contribute to research on a wide range of topics, beyond en…
View article: The Coupon Quandry: Restructuring Incentives in CAFA Coupon Settlements
The Coupon Quandry: Restructuring Incentives in CAFA Coupon Settlements Open
This Note proceeds in five parts. Part I provides a background of coupon settlements with special attention paid to the incentives of class counsel. Part II outlines CAFA’s relevant statutory provisions and examines them in light of the “P…
View article: Book review: Celia Lury and Nina Wakeford (eds), <i>Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social</i>
Book review: Celia Lury and Nina Wakeford (eds), <i>Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social</i> Open
View article: Audio Methods: Analysing Field Recordings of Electronic Voices in Athens andGlasgow
Audio Methods: Analysing Field Recordings of Electronic Voices in Athens andGlasgow Open
View article: Changing Course: The Sources of Strategic Adjustment
Changing Course: The Sources of Strategic Adjustment Open