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Human bilingualism and the dual communication system of bacterial cells: a constructive opportunity
No full textIndividuals use two or more languages to communicate both with those who speak their language, but also with those who speak a different one. Bacterial cells use two or multisignaling systems to communicate both with their species, but also different strains. This truth encapsulates the width of this study, which presents an initial comparative opportunity between both communication structures, aiming to initiate an innovative discourse in bilingual education research. Such bold argument could be a very long stretch in the minds of many, but we must be clear: this paper’s purpose is to be constructive in the interdisciplinary communication protocol, simply an attempt to see beyond the visible. Furthermore, this document offers an original perspective on the communication system in bacterial cell strains and that of humans by presenting certain parallel communicative realities
Bruno Wolf Family Collection
No full textBruno Wolf and his son, Karl Wolf, descendants of Blas de la Garza, father of the Nueces County's first settler, his namesake, and a captain who explored much of South Texas and Northern Mexico, have preserved and guarded Spanish colonial documents for almost 300 years. The collection includes official correspondence to Spain from Mexico, then known as New Spain. Original land grants, research supporting their authenticity, letters that document events of the day, a genealogical accounting of the Garza Falcon family tree and 18th century surveys of areas in what is now Northern Mexico and South Texas. Also included in the collection are legal land dispute transcripts, marriage and birth certificates and many photographs of the Wolf Ranch near Laredo. Bruno Wolf Jr. served in the army during Worth War II; photographs document his time in France
Universities Archives Collection El Rancho Annuals
No full textCopies of El Rancho, annuals published by the South Texas State Normal School, the South Texas State Teachers College, the Texas College of Arts & Industries, and Texas A&I University, between 1926 - 1992
Investigation on the possibility of extracting wave energy from the Texas Coast
No full textDue to the great and growing demand of energy consumption in the Texas Coast area, the generation of electricity from ocean waves is considered very important. The combination of the wave energy with offshore wind power is explored as a way to increase power output, obtain synergies, maximize the utilization of assigned marine zones and reduce variability. Previously literature has assessed the wave energy generation, combined with wind in different geographic locations such as California, Ireland and the Azores Island. In this research project, the electric power generation from ocean waves on the Texas Coast was investigated, assessing its potential from the meteorological data provided by five buoys from National Data Buoy Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, considering the Pelamis 750 kW Wave Energy Converter (WEC) and the Vesta V90 3 MW Wind Turbine. The power output from wave energy was calculated for the year 2006 using Matlab, and the results in several locations were considered acceptable in terms of total power output, but with a high temporal variability. To reduce its variability, wave energy was combined with wind energy, obtaining a significant reduction on the coefficient of variation on the power output. A Matlab based interface was created to calculate power output and its variability considering data from longer periods of time
Molina Family Collection
No full textThe Tomas H. (Hinojosa) Molina Collection consists of .5 linear feet of documents including correspondence, personal, political, and religious papers about activities in which members of the family were involved, or discovered in their study of Duval County history. The collection also contains 379 images of family activities and historic events, most prominently, baseball teams from the early 1900s.
Five photographs of Lyndon Johnson while he taught at Cotulla, TX in the early 1930s are included
Sue Ford Photograph Collection
No full textJulia Sue Runnels Ford was a writer for the "Kingsville Record and Bishop News" in 1922 when she married Ernest A. Ford Sr in Riviera at her mother's home. The couple farmed, ranched, and were of service to their community in many ventures. The collection consists of Sue's photographs, negatives, two weekly columns published by the paper, "Farm Notes" and "These are Your Neighbors," and correspondence. The photographs and negatives are images of South Texas, during the middle of the twentieth century. Country and ranch life are depicted along with images of the people and culture of a small, growing community. The towns of Kingsville, Ricardo, and Corpus Christi are highlighted, along with the livestock and crops of the farms. King’s Ranch and the famous Santa Gertrudis breed of cattle are included
The Tennessee Valley Authority
No full textMuscle sholas is a broad, shallow stretch of the Tennessee River in northern Alabama, some thirty-six miles long, which is full of rocks, islands, and rapids, with a fall of 135 feet in that short distance. This river is one of the tributaries of the lower Ohio, and flows in a great arc of some 650 miles from its junction with the Holston River near Knoxville, Tennessee. This stream flows to the southwest through a portion of Tennessee, due west across northern Alabama and then turns sharply north through Tennessee and Kentucky, flowing into the Ohio River at Paducah, forty-seven mile from the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississipp
A study of two remedial methods used in the teaching of typewriting
No full textThis study was made in attempt to discover the better method of teaching remedial typewriting to typing students. The experience of the author as a typewriting teacher has shown that transposition of letters and similar errors are the most common mistakes of typists. It appears that the traditional method of continued practice on errors does not produce satisfactory learning effects, and that the time for proving a new and better method of remedial teaching has arrived
Effects of degree of handedness in left-handed individuals on semantic and syntactic skills used for sentence comprehension
No full textPurpose: Research in adult language has focused on right-handed individuals. In the language area of auditory processing, Townsend, Carrithers, and Bever (2001) demonstrated that syntax processing has a relationship to a strong right-handedness. The purpose of the current study was to determine if a strong handedness in left-hand individuals correlates with either semantic or syntactic information based on response times in aurally presented sentence stimuli. Method: The participants included 16 self-reported, left-handed college students, ages 18-25. Participants were given the Edinburgh handedness inventory (EHI), and a familial inventory to classify degree of handedness. The participants were binaurally presented with 48 sentences with semantic and syntactic stimuli as described by Townsend et al. (2001). Results: There were no significant results found for correlations between degree of lefthandedness and semantic and syntactic processing at the p > 0.05 level, when measuring handedness with two different assessments. Results of the t test for syntactic probes demonstrated a marginally significant difference at a 0.07 significance level. Conclusions: In this study, strong degrees of left-handedness did not demonstrate the relationship to syntax or semantic processing, as previously found in right-handed individuals