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Motivation<i>for</i>or<i>from</i>bilingual education? A comparative study of learner views in the Netherlands
No full textContent and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has been said to increase not only foreign language proficiency but also learner motivation (Coyle, D., P. Hood, and D. Marsh. 2010. CLIL: Content and Language Integrated Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). In contexts where CLIL is elective, however, the question can be raised as to whether its motivational effects can be distinguished from the pre-existing motivation that may have influenced the learner?s choice of educational route. The current study examined motivational differences between learners in Dutch-English bilingual and mainstream education. The aim was to establish whether the learner groups were differently motivated and whether their motivation appeared to be diachronically related to their chosen educational format. 581 learners in the first three years of general secondary education completed a questionnaire exploring their views on (language) learning. Results were analysed in terms of differences between bilingual and mainstream learners and across year-groups. Learners in bilingual education displayed more motivation in nearly all of the areas examined. There was little evidence, however, of this being a result of exposure to bilingual education, reinforcing the idea that motivation may be inherent to this group of CLIL learners
Lawrence D. Longley & Walter J. Oleszek. — Bicameral Politics. Conference Committees in Congress
No full textCoyle Dauphin Joanne. Lawrence D. Longley & Walter J. Oleszek. — Bicameral Politics. Conference Committees in Congress. In: Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, N°45, juillet 1990. Classiques américains : anciens et nouveaux. pp. 200-201
D. C. Coyle, Le système politique des Etats-Unis et son fonctionnement
No full textD. C. Coyle, Le système politique des Etats-Unis et son fonctionnement. In: Revue internationale de droit comparé. Vol. 8 N°1, Janvier-mars 1956. pp. 161-162
The Challenges of Nuclear Non-Proliferation by Richard D. Burns and Philip E. Coyle III
No full textBurns, Richard D. and Philip E. Coyle III, The Challenges of Nuclear Non-Proliferation. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. Review by Paul J. Magnarella
D. C. Coyle, Le système politique des Etats-Unis et son fonctionnement
No full textD. C. Coyle, Le système politique des Etats-Unis et son fonctionnement. In: Revue internationale de droit comparé. Vol. 8 N°1, Janvier-mars 1956. pp. 161-162
Southern Mountain Weavers
No full textThis article about the rise of mountain industries in western North Carolina was written by Anna Coyle and published in "The Farmer's Wife" in February, 1923. Coyle writes about the revival of weaving in the mountains and how it has sparked sales of old-time crafts at shops such as Allanstand Cottage Industries and Tryon Mountain Industries. Coyle quotes Allanstand founder Frances Goodrich and Allanstand store manager, Laura E. Merchant as to the purpose of the shop and Craft Revival in general. The article mentions Mrs. Almeda [Elmeda] Walker, a Tennessee weaver, and Mrs. G. D. Bradley, an Asheville, N.C. basket maker. The article features photographs of craft items and the mountain region
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
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
Euclid commissioning results: the near infrared spectrometer and photometer (NISP) signal detection chain
No full textEuclid, the M2 mission of the ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 program, aims to explore the Dark Universe by conducting a survey of approximately 14 000 deg2 and creating a 3D map of the observable Universe of around 1.5 billion galaxies up to redshift z ∼ 2. This mission uses two main cosmological probes: weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering, leveraging the high-resolution imaging capabilities of the Visual Imaging (VIS) instrument and the photometric and spectroscopic measurements of the Near Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP) instrument. This paper details some of the activities performed during the commissioning phase of the NISP instrument, following the launch of Euclid on July 1, 2023. In particular, we focus on the calibration of the NISP detectors’ baseline and on the performance of a parameter provided by the onboard data processing (called NISP Quality Factor, QF) in detecting the variability of the flux of cosmic rays hitting the NISP detectors. The NISP focal plane hosts sixteen Teledyne HAWAII-2RG (H2RG) detectors. The calibration of these detectors includes the baseline optimization, which optimizes the dynamic range and stability of the signal acquisition. Additionally, this paper investigates the impact of Solar proton flux on the NISP QF, particularly during periods of high Solar activity. Applying a selection criterion on the QF (called NISP QF Proxy), the excess counts are used to monitor the amount of charged particles hitting the NISP detectors. A good correlation was found between the Solar proton flux component above 30 MeV and the NISP QF Proxy, revealing that NISP detectors are not subject to the lower energy components, which are absorbed by the shielding provided by the spacecraft
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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