Pathogenic splicing alterations caused by point mutations in both splice sites and auxiliary cis-regulatory elements are increasingly recognized as an important mechanism through which gene mutations cause human disease. Unfortunately, in routine…
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Network sites like MySpace and Facebook emerged, American teenagers began adopting them as spaces to mark identity and socialize with peers. Teens leveraged these sites for a wide array of everyday social practices - gossiping, flirting, joking…
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This paper examines the video record of a segment of Oliver North's testimony before joint Congressional committees investigating the Iran-Contra Affair during the summer of 1987 and analyzes the constitutive relationship between the testimony and…
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The effects of perceptual learning of talker identity on the recognition of spoken words and sentences were investigated in three experiments. In each experiment, listeners were trained to learn a set of 10 talkers' voices and were then given an…
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Selected byChoicemagazine as an Outstanding Academic Book Argues that anyone-anthropologist, psychologist, or policeman-who uses what people say to find out what people think had better know how speech itself is organized.
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In this study, we compare the first and the last sessions from an online oral proficiency course aimed at doctoral students conducted in the virtual world Second Life. The study attempts to identify how supportive moves made by the teacher encourage…
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This vol in the Studies in International Sociolinguistics series contains 7 Chpts & presents a contribution to both linguistic & literary analysis. Conversation is viewed as the source for linguistic strategies that are elaborated in literary…
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Teacher efficacy has proved to be powerfully related to many meaningful educational outcomes such as teachers persistence, enthusiasm, commitment and instructional behavior, as well as student outcomes such as achievement, motivation, and…
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This study investigated language teaching strategies, as reported by teachers and students, and the effects of these strategies on students' motivation and English achievement. The participants consisted of 31 English as a foreign language (EFL)…
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This article describes the development and evaluation of a new academic word list (Coxhead, 1998), which was compiled from a corpus of 3.5 million running words of written academic text by examining the range and frequency of words outside the first…
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Many U.S. students speak nonstandard forms of English, yet dialect issues are slighted in teacher education programs and literacy courses. In this study, classroom teachers who spoke Standard American English (SE) were familiarized with seven…
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It is often claimed that working and talking with partners while carrying out maths activities is beneficial to students? learning and the development of their mathematical understanding. However, observational research has shown that primary school…
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A growing body of literature defines a rhetoric of visible text based on page layout, typography, and the various design features afforded by page composition tools buitt into word processors and page design programs. Little has been written,…
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Numerous methodological issues arise when studying teams that span multiple boundaries. The main purpose of this paper is to raise awareness about the challenges of conducting field research on teams in global firms. Based on field re- search across…
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The coverage of sports has formed a key component of media content throughout the different stages of the development of communication technology. This article investigates to what extent the rise of online live text commentary of sporting events…
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Hawaiian educators have made ambitious attempts to use new on-line technologies in language revitalization programs. These efforts have included developing one of the first bulletin board systems in the world to operate completely in an indigenous…
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A field experiment compares the effectiveness and satisfaction associated with technology-assisted learning with that of face-to-face learning. The empirical evidence suggests that technology-assisted learning effectiveness depends on the target…
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The integration of mobile phones into social life is still in its infancy in most parts of the world, triggering a set of sociocultural convulsions as institutions, people, and places adapt to and regulate its use. As is typical with technologies…
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Reviews the motion picture 'Anatomy of a Murder,' starring Joseph Nye Welch, directed by Otto Preminger. Reviews the motion picture 'Anatomy of a Murder,' starring Joseph Nye Welch, directed by Otto Preminger.
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