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Letter dated 21 April 1908 from Emery W. Ellis to his classmates
No full textLetter of Emery W. Ellis to former classmates, reporting plans to fully reopen Lintsing Station; Purchase of old merchant home for Boys\u27 School; History of old merchant home; Emary W Ellis-author; Apr 21, 0
The mainstream primary classroom as a language-learning environment for children with severe and persistent language impairment - implications of recent language intervention research
No full textMany UK children with severe and persistent language impairment (SLI) attend local mainstream schools. Although this should provide an excellent language-learning environment, opportunities may be limited by difficulties in sustaining time-consuming, child-specific learning activities; restricted co-professional working, and the complex classroom environment. Two language intervention studies in mainstream Scottish primary schools showed children with SLI receiving intervention from speech and language therapists (SLTs) or their assistants made more progress in expressive language than similar children receiving intervention from education staff. Potential reasons for this difference are sought in the amount of tailored language-learning activity undertaken; how actively school staff initiated contact with SLTs; and the language demands of the classroom. Tailored language learning appears to be a differentiating factor. A language support model, reflecting views of teachers and SLTs about encouraging language development for children with SLI within the ecology of the mainstream primary classroom, is also outlined
Alexander J. Ellis on Modern Icelandic pronunciation
No full textThe paper reviews the description of the pronunciation of Modern Icelandic as contained in Alexander J. Ellis' influential treatise on early English pronunciation. This description, first ever attempted in English, is shown to be remarkably accurate in recording phonetic detail even if the system of transcription devised by its author is, from today's perspective cumbersome and inefficient. The phonetic and phonological regularities contained in the description are reviewed and compared with the views found in contemporary studies of Icelandic. Flaws of the description are seen as basically due to the atomistic and letter-based nature of the approach. Ellis' concern with the relevance of the Modern Icelandic phonetics for Old English and the history of English in general is taken to reflect his conviction about the universality of the mechanisms of phonological change
Modern Germany; her political and economic problems, her policy, her ambitions, and the causes of her success,
No full textThe author afterwards adopted the name J. Ellis Barker. cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue, Accessions, 2 March, 1907.Mode of access: Internet
FAI-19-0538-ReportedAuthorDisclosures-final – Supplemental material for Imaging of Bone Perfusion and Metabolism in Subjects Undergoing Total Ankle Arthroplasty Using 18F-Fluoride Positron Emission Tomography
No full textSupplemental material, FAI-19-0538-ReportedAuthorDisclosures-final for Imaging of Bone Perfusion and Metabolism in Subjects Undergoing Total Ankle Arthroplasty Using 18F-Fluoride Positron Emission Tomography by Jonathan P. Dyke, Jonathan H. Garfinkel, Lauren Volpert, Austin Sanders, Meghan Newcomer, Silvina P. Dutruel, Carolyn M. Sofka, Scott J. Ellis and Constantine A. Demetracopoulos in Foot & Ankle International</p
Effects of climate on intra- and interspecific size variation in bumble-bees
No full text1. In contrast to other social bees, bumble-bees exhibit considerable size variation within the worker caste. This size variation has not been adequately explained, although it is known that larger workers tend to be foragers and smaller bees spend more time in the nest. We quantify size variation and mean size for foragers of 22 bumble-bee species inhabiting climates ranging from arctic and montane to the lowland tropics.2. Mean size was larger in bee species from cold climates compared with temperate bumble-bees. Within species, individuals from Scotland tended to be larger than those from southern England. However, tropical bumble-bees (mostly belonging to the subgenus Fervidobombus) were largest of all. We suggest that although a lower limit to size may be imposed by inhabiting cold climates, overheating does not constrain large size in bumble-bees from hot climates, perhaps because they have efficient mechanisms for heat loss through shunting heat to their extremities.3. Tropical bees had shorter thoracic setae than species from cooler climates, while B. terrestris from Greece had shorter setae than those from southern UK. Presumably shorter setae enhance heat loss in warm climates.4. Larger workers of B. terrestris were found to have smaller extremities, in proportion to their size, than small workers. We suggest that heat retention is more important in large bees that spend more of their time foraging, than in small bees which spend much of their time in the nest where incubation of the brood requires them to lose heat.5. In the temperate climate of southern UK, we found no evidence for ambient temperature having a differential effect on activity of workers of B. terrestris according to their size. We suggest that, at least in temperate climates, size variation in bumble-bee foragers is probably not an adaptation to temperature variation. Instead it may improve colony foraging efficiency since foragers of different sizes are suited to, and tend to visit, different flower species
A wonderful week
No full textFive-page description of a week at Techow and Lintsing, during which the Nursing school saw its graduation exercises, a new doctor arrived at Techow, and the Lintsing mission station celebrated its 40th anniversary; content suggests author was Minnie Case Ellis, wife of Emery W. Ellis and year was 192
Portmerion, Proportion and Perspective
No full textThe holiday village of Portmerion was created by Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis (1883 1978) over a period of fifty-one years, starting in 1926. It was grade II listed in 1971.
However, Portmerion has become a part of western popular culture rather than of mainstream architectural history. Its use as the setting for the cult 1967 television series “The Prisoner” ensures continued worldwide interest and a constant stream of visitors.
Williams Ellis’ design methods were empirical, initial designs being adjusted by eye on site in close collaboration with trusted builders.
This paper analyses the development of Portmerion as a gesamtkunstwerk; considering the experience of movement through the village as a dynamic composition of shifting vistas, focussing the visitor on a series of constructed views. Through this analysis, Portmerion is revealed as both a manifestation of the architecture of pleasure and an exercise in the pleasure of architecture
Post card dated 21 April 1934 from Grace to Minnie Case Ellis
No full textPost card signed Grace in Portland, Oregon, to Minnie Case Ellis in Farmdale, Ohio, mentioning death of writer\u27s mother on March 27th.; author may be Grace Breck or Grace Wagne
Predicting protein kinase specificity: Predikin update and performance in the DREAM4 challenge.
No full textPredikin is a system for making predictions about protein kinase specificity. It was declared the "best performer" in the protein kinase section of the Peptide Recognition Domain specificity prediction category of the recent DREAM4 challenge (an independent test using unpublished data). In this article we discuss some recent improvements to the Predikin web server--including a more streamlined approach to substrate-to-kinase predictions and whole-proteome predictions--and give an analysis of Predikin's performance in the DREAM4 challenge. We also evaluate these improvements using a data set of yeast kinases that have been experimentally characterised, and we discuss the usefulness of Frobenius distance in assessing the predictive power of position weight matrices
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