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Connecting Theory and Practice in Initial Teacher Training in Italy. The University of Bari Experience of the Multimodal Laboratory.
No full textThis chapter presents the multimodal-pedagogical model and initial teacher training organization aimed at preparing primary school teachers at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro.” The work centers on how the components of curriculum are balanced and how theory meets practice in school and university classrooms. We specifically focus on the epistemic function of didactic-disciplinary laboratories as experiences promoting and advancing multimodal learning essential to teacher preparation
Salt Tolerance of Barak Cenana Rice (Oryza sativa L cv. Barak Cenana) EMS Derived M1 Putative Mutants
No full textBarak Cenana (Oryza sativa L cv. Barak Cenana) is a native red rice cultivar of Tabanan
regency, Bali. We have previously created first generation putative mutants (M1) lines
of Barak Cenana using EMS. In this study, we aim to evaluate M1 lines tolerance to
salt stress. Three-leaf seedlings of WT Barak Cenana and M1 lines were cultured in
hydroponic system containing Yoshida solution and 100 mM NaCl for 7 days. The salt
tolerance level of each seedling was evaluated using SES standard and the survived
seedlings were transferred into the pot-containing soil growth for maturation. All WT
were died when treated with 100 mM NaCl for 7 days. In contrast, some M1 lines were
survived where 0.5% were highly tolerance (II2A-4) and 4.06% (1F-4, 1F-3, II2A-8, IID-1,
IID-4, IID-6 and 1B-6) were tolerance to salt stress. This variation of salt tolerance level
among M1 lines is likely due to the random mutation caused by EMS. Furthermore,
all survived mutants were fertile and able to produce mature seeds. As characters in
M1 generation are not stable, future studies are required to establish stable mutant lines
Some Antipyretic Ethno-medicinal Plants of Manipuri Community of Barak Valley, Assam, India
No full textThis ethnobotanical survey was carried out to collect the information on the use of some antipyretic activity plants used by Manipuri community of Barak valley, Assam. A total of 26 nos. of antipyretic plant species belonging to 20 families and 23 genera have been recorded through structured questionnaires in consultations with the community practitioners. For curing fever the use of aboveground plant parts was higher (65.38%) than the underground plant parts (15.38%). Of the aboveground plant parts, leaf was used in the majority of cases (13 species), followed by whole plant part (5 species), fruit (1 species), bark (1 species), flower (2 species), root (2 species ), and rhizome (2 species ), were also found to be in use by the Manipuri community of Barak valley, Assam having antipyretic activity plants. The present paper implies the potential of the traditional knowledge for the mankind.Some of the interesting plants are Canna indica L., and Dactyloctenium aegyptium (L) P.Beauv
Barak Yöresi Uzun Havalarının Karakteristik Yapısını Oluşturan Yerel ve Müzikal Unsurların İncelenmesi
No full text<p><span>Barak havaları, tarihsel bakımdan değerlendirildiğinde Anadolu'nun en kadim müzikal ögelerini bünyesinde barındıran, geleneksel halk müziğine ait uzun havalardır. Barak havaları için “yüzlerce yıllık bir göçün hikayesi” demek, yerinde bir tabir olacaktır.<span> </span>Çünkü barak barak havalarının sözel içeriğe dayalı, kendine özgü bir yapısı vardır. Ve bu sözel içerik çok önemli bir boyutta binlerce yıllık göçer yaşantısının bir ürünüdür. Sözel içerik, barak havalarının müzikal yapısının belirlenmesinde en önemli unsur olmuştur. Bu sözel içeriğe bakıldığında, Göçebe Türkmen yaşantısının binlerce yıllık tarihinde yaşadığı acıların, göçlerin, kahramanlıkların, sevgilerin ve aşiret kavgalarının konu edildiği görülür. </span></p>
<p><span>Diğer yörelerin uzun hava tavırlarından farklı olarak, barak havalarının müzikal yapısına, yaşanmış hikayelerin ve yörenin aşiret kültürüne dair yaşam biçiminin direkt etki ettiğini görürüz. Bozlaklara, hoyratlara, mayalara ve diğer serbest karakterli halk müziği eserlerine baktığımızda, sözel içeriklerini barak Barak havalarında olduğu kadar kahramanlık ve savaşlar değil, daha çok yaşanılan acılar ve sevgi temalarının oluşturduğu görülür. Bu sebeple de bu uzun havaların icralarında, barak havalarında olduğu gibi çığırtkan ve savaşçı bir okuma üslubu, sert ve keskin hançereler görülmemektedir. Bu hançere biçimi ve okuma üslubu, barak havalarının kendine özgü bir tavır olarak ortaya çıkmasını sağlamıştır. Bu çalışmanın amacı ise barak havalarının icra üslubuna ve melodik yapısına doğrudan etki etmiş olan yerel unsurları ve melodilerin yapısal özelliklerini incelemek suretiyle barak yöresi uzun havalarının bugünkü biçiminin daha sağlıklı değerlendirilip anlaşılmasına katkı sağlamaktır. </span></p>
Remaking imperial power in the city: The case of the William Barak building, Melbourne
No full textWhen the enormous drapes that had been covering a new building in central Melbourne were thrown off in early 2015, an extraordinary sight was revealed: a colossal image of a face staring down the city’s civic spine. This moment of unveiling marked a fascinating moment for Indigenous–settler relations in Australia, but especially urban, densely settled Melbourne. For the face is that of William Barak, ancestor and leader of the Wurundjeri people, whose country was stolen and remade into what we now know as Melbourne. That an early land rights champion is represented in the built form at such a pivotal location in the city that dispossessed his people offers an opportunity to consider the forms of violence, appropriation and misrepresentation that are perpetually constitutive of settler-colonial cities. Drawing together critical Indigenous scholarship, settler-colonial studies and geographies of memorialization, the paper analyses the building to demonstrate the contemporary workings of settler-colonial urbanization. The paper analyses the representational politics the building performs, the history of land sales since contact and the role of the site in a wider imperialist planning project to reveal the intimate nexus of land, property and recognition politics that work to continuously secure white possession of Indigenous lands.Full Tex
Geochemical Signature of Arsenic-Contaminated Groundwater in Barak Valley (Assam) and Surrounding Areas, Northeastern India
No full textAbstractHigh arsenic (As) concentrations (12-97μg/l) have been detected in the groundwater of the Barak Valley region (Assam), northeastern India. The main source of As is traced to the litho-facies of the Tipam formation
The Quest for Citations: Drivers of Article Impact
No full textWhy do some articles become building blocks for future scholars, while many others remain unnoticed? We aim to answer this question by contrasting, synthesizing and simultaneously testing three scientometric perspectives – universalism, social constructivism and presentation – on the influence of article and author characteristics on article citations. To do so, we study all articles published in a sample of five major journals in marketing from 1990 to 2002 that are central to the discipline. We count the number of citations each of these articles has received and regress this count on an extensive set of characteristics of the article (i.e. article quality, article domain, title length, the use of attention grabbers and expositional clarity), and the author (i.e. author visibility and author personal promotion). We find that the number of citations an article in the marketing discipline receives, depends upon “what one says†(quality and domain), on “who says it†(author visibility and personal promotion) and not so much on “how one says it†(title length, the use of attention grabbers, and expositional clarity). Our insights contribute to the marketing literature and are relevant to scientific stakeholders, such as the management of scientific journals and individual academic scholars, as they strive to maximize citations. They are also relevant to marketing practitioners. They inform practitioners on characteristics of the academic journals in marketing and their relevance to decisions they face. On the other hand, they also raise challenges towards making our journals accessible and relevant to marketing practitioners: (1) authors visible to academics are not necessarily visible to practitioners; (2) the readability of an article may hurt academic credibility and impact, while it may be instrumental in influencing practitioners; (3) it remains questionable whether articles that academics assess to be of high quality are also managerially relevant.Impact;Citation Analysis;Referencing;Scientometrics;Cite
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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