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"Who are ""we""?: Social relationships and peer interactions in a multilingual/multicultural preschool classroom"
No full textThis study explores the peer social world of preschool children in a multilingual/multicultural classroom. Using an ethnographic approach, I focus on the following aspects: how do children organize themselves into groups given the boundaries of language and culture; how do children interact with each other across the group boundaries; and how is the construction and the operation of the peer world influenced by the routines and rules planned by the adults? Methods included participant observation, video and audio taping, interviews of adults and children.I found that the children form small groups very early in the year and their relationships are maintained throughout the year. Gender and language/culture are the two major boundaries in the peer grouping structure. With minor changes, the children organized themselves into a Russian boys' group, a Chinese boys' group, a Chinese girls' group, a Pakistani girls' group, and an African girls' group. In addition to these stable groups, some children had difficulty in gaining entry into a group and stayed on the edge throughout the year.I also found that the children protect their interactive space and maintain group boundaries by switching code, pretending to be furious dinosaurs or dogs, labeling another child as the bad guy or the enemy, building walls in the block center, or simply by avoiding or ignoring."Finally, I described how the children interpret and operate the adult-planned routines of name-singing and name-tag-hanging, the limited-number rule, and the social rule of ""everybody has to be friends."" I found that the meanings the children constructed for these routines and rules were quite different from what the adults intended. The children's peer relationships and group boundaries shaped and, at the same time, were shaped by the enactment of these routines or rules.""In the conclusion, issues related to peer relationships are discussed, including the influences of school Discourse, gender segregation, the stable status of the ""edge children,"" and identity socialization. It is suggested that the multilingual/multicultural education should seek a balance between the emphasis on the small group ""We"" and the development of the larger group ""WE."""Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:50:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Low frequency light scattering in fused silica and rubidium silver iodide
No full textWe have measured the low frequency Raman spectra and the Rayleigh-Brillouin spectra of an amorphous solid,silicon dioxide, and
a crystalline electrolyte, rubidium silver iodide. In fused silica the Raman spectra from 2K to 600K are independent of frequency shift from 4 to 10 cm-I• The scattering is attributed
to the relaxation by thermal activation at high temperatures of
the excess low frequency two-level states that are responsible for the anomalous magnitude and temperature dependence of the specific heat observed in fused silica and many other amorphous solids. The integrated intensity of the excess scattering is 10-2 times the Brillouin intensity at room temperature, consistent with the density of excess states deduced from specific heat studies. No decrease in scattering was observed in the highest temperature spectra. A double grating monochromator was used for analyzing these spectra.
In RbAg I at 90C the longitudinal acoustic phonon was observed
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by Brillouin scattering at a frequency shift consistent with known and measured physical properties of the crystal. The absolute intensity was determined by comparison with fused silica. The Rayleigh Ratio is 8xlO-7 cm-I and the Pockels coefficient is estimated to be 0.1. The Brillouin linewidth was instrumental and therefore less than 0.3 GHz. A triple-pass Fabry-Perot interferometer was used to analyze these spectra.
The Rayleigh-Brillouin spectra of our RbAg I crystals were
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dominated by an intense Rayleigh peak of width less than 10 MHz and Rayleigh Ratio of .06 cm -1 . Removal of this feature with an iodine filter enabled us to observe a dynamic central peak wider than the
350 MHz half-width of the iodine filter. An analysis and comparison of data from an interferometer and from a double monochromator lead to
the conclusion that the central peak was best fit by two Lorentzians. The broader peak has a halfwidth of 40±6 GHz and a Rayleigh Ratio of
4x10-7 cm-(one-half of the value for the Brillouin peak). The narrower peak has a halfwidth of roughly 9±3 GHz and a Rayleigh Ratio of
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1.6xI0-6 cm-(twice the value for the Brillouin peak). The intensities and widths of these two features are consistent with the motions of mobile silver ions that dwell at a site 80% of the time and fly between sites 20% of the time.Submitted by Carolyn Mead ([email protected]) on 2011-05-31T18:43:03Z
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Previous issue date: 1978Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Carolyn Mead ([email protected]) on 2011-05-31T18:43:03Z
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I. Valence Stabilization Through Lake Formation. Ii. Stereochemistry of Complex Inorganic Compounds
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Long Term Food Regulation in the Obese and Non-Obese
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Caging the Rainbow: The Effects of Center-Periphery Conflict on a Major Adult Education Program in India (Planning, Charisma, Bureaucracy)
No full textIn October, 1978, the Government of India launched the National Adult Education Programme (NAEP) for 100 million illiterate adults ages 15 to 35. The program was intended, in five years, to provide 10-month courses in literacy as well as in the development of occupational skills and social awareness to the target population. That goal grew out of the Janata Government's charismatic vision of a renewed, restructured, and revolutionized India. Local implementation of the program was to be through the colleges and through voluntary agencies involved in adult education.Similar, though more localized, purposes were envisioned by Service to Urban Poverty (SUP), a local voluntary agency which operated an NAEP center, and by the people of the basti (slum) in which SUP was working. In this dissertation a qualitative case study method was used to develop an analytic description of the NAEP, SUP, and basti visions as parts of a series of interacting visions, each having charismatic origins, each routinized in a different manner and then institutionalized in accordance with that manner of routinization, and each centered in a different group or institutional system. Edward Shils' concept of center and periphery was used as the basis for a discussion of the effects of centers, peripheries, charisma, and bureaucracy on the development of adult education programs.Data, derived from interviews with adult education functionaries, observations of adult education programs in operation, and conferences of adult educators, were collected for this study by the author during a three and a half year residence in New Delhi, India.Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-15T18:50:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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A Multifaceted Approach to Smoking Modification: Training in Alternate Response Strategies
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Unsteady Shallow Water Flow on Porous Media
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Previous issue date: 1976Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 66993
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Non-Life Insurance Company Activity in the Municipal Bond Market
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Enzymes Involved in the Utilization of the Galactomannan, Guar Gum, by Bacteroides Ovatus
No full textWhen Bacteroides ovatus is grown on guar gum, a galactomannan, it produces an (alpha)-galactosidase (I) which is different from the (alpha)-galactosidase (II) it produces when it is grown on galactose, melibiose, raffinose or stachyose. I have purified both of these enzymes to apparent homogeneity. Both enzymes appear to be trimers and have similar pH optima (5.9-6.4 for I, 6.3-6.5 for II). However, (alpha)-galactosidase I has a pI of 5.6 and a monomeric molecular weight of 85,000 whereas (alpha)-galactosidase II has a pI of 6.9 and a monomeric molecular weight of 80,500. Alpha-galactosidase I has a lower affinity for melibiose, raffinose and stachyose (K(,m) values of 20.8 mM, 98.1 mM and 8.5 mM, respectively) than (alpha)-galactosidase II (K(,m) value of 2.3 mM, 5.9 mM and 0.3 mM, respectively). Neither enzyme was able to remove galactose residues from intact guar gum, but both were capable of removing galactose residues from guar gum which had been degraded into large fragments by mannanase.Bacteroides ovatus, when it utilizes guar gum, also produces two cell-associated galactomannanases. Cell-associated galactomannanase activity was inducible by guar gum. Approximately 30% of the total cell-associated galactomannanase activity partitioned with cell membranes. Seventy percent of this membrane-associated activity was associated with the outer membrane fraction. The enzyme activity was released when membrane proteins were treated with 3- 3 cholamido-propyl) dimethylammonio -1-propane sulfonate (CHAPS) or with Triton X-100 at a detergent to protein ratio of 1.0. The CHAPS-solubilized galactomannanase was partially purified by chromatography on a FPLC Mono Q column. The enzyme has a pI of 6.9. 60-70% of the cell-associated galactomannanase activity was soluble. I have purified this enzyme from the soluble fraction. The soluble galactomannanase has a pI of 4.9-5.0 and a monomeric molecular weight of 61,000. This enzyme appears to be different from the outer membrane-associated galactomannanase.Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-16T06:12:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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Controller Design for Linear Stochastic Systems with Uncertain Parameters
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