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    The Influence of Smartphone Use on Undergraduate Students’ Self-Directed Learning

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    Abstract Date Presented 4/1/2017 This study explores smartphone use in undergraduate students’ self-directed learning. The factors were identified, providing an understanding of how undergraduate students could be more motivated and effective in their short-term, self-directed learning under the influence of smartphone use. Primary Author and Speaker: Ya-chun Chang Additional Authors and Speakers: Kuan-Chen Chen, Wen Ting Chen, Ya-syuan Cai Contributing Authors: Chang-Chih Robin Kuo</jats:p

    The political role of the people's liberation army 1949-1973

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    This thesis is to study the political role of the People's Liberation Army from the approach of structure and function. The framework of the thesis consists of three major parts, first, the influence of Chinese traditional political culture on, and the formation of, the political role of the PL A; second, the influence of domestic political struggles and external military conflicts on the development of the political role of the PLA; and the third, the analysis of the transition of the PLA's political role from the structure and personnel arrangements of the CCPCC Within the above-mentioned three scopes, this thesis make a thorough discussion on the following: (1) The relationship between the structure of the PRC and the formation of the PLA's political role; (2) How has ideology influenced the army's political role; (3) What is Mao's viewpoint and his influence on the development of the army's political role; (4) What is the link between the army and the party, and how has this developed; (6) What accounts for the expansion of the PLA's political functions; (7) What is the influence of political factional struggles on the PLA's political role; (8) Is it political institution or military institution that controls the recruitment of the military elite; (9) What are the disparities between the military elite in handling international conflicts and what are their political considerations; (10) What is the Party's position in the army; (11) How have the Party’s important meetings and personnel arrangements influenced the rise and fall of the PLA's political role

    Interview with YA mystery author, Valerie Sherrard

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    An interview with Valerie Sherrard, a YA author, which focuses on her process of writing the Shelby Belgarden mystery series.         

    Interview with YA author Vicki Grant

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    We feature an interview with Nova Scotian YA author Vicki Grant. Vicki is a prolific author who has written 14 books and has written over 100 episodes of children‘s TV. Vicki discusses her thoughts on reading positively and the meaning behind positivity, her favorite bad-day books, and how we as a community can promote reading positively. She makes us realize the importance of realism in writing and how important it is to connect with young readers

    Tu shuo Yinxu jia gu wen

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    Ben shu fen wei si bu fen: Jia gu cang sang; Jia gu zhan bu yu ke ci; Jia gu wen zi; Jia gu ke ci tuo ping jing pin shang xi si bu fen, bao kuo: Gu wen zi de "que huan" ; Zhong yao li de da fa xian; Xiao tun! Xiao dun; Heng He zai zhe li zhuan wan den

    Interview with YA author and Children‘s Editorial Assistant Suzanne Sutherland

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    An interview with Young Adult author Suzanne Sutherland. The interview focuses on Toronto, the straight edge scene, music and subculture, Sutherland\u27s first book, When We Were Good and the importance of queer representation in YA books. Sutherland also recommends a number of YA novels

    Primulina tiandengensis F. Wen & K. F. Chung 2012, comb. nov.

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    Primulina tiandengensis (F.Wen & H.Tang) F.Wen & K.F.Chung, comb. nov. Basionym:— Chirita tiandengensis F.Wen & H.Tang in Tang & Wen (2011: 233). Type:— CHINA. Guangxi: Tiandeng County, Longming Town. Growing on some crevices in a piece of cliff of a limestone hill, under evergreen bushes, 458 m, 16 April 2008, Tang & Wen C 08041601, C08062001 (holotype IBK!, isotypes IBK!). Notes:—Although no molecular data are available for this species, Chirita tiandengensis is similar to C. napoensis Li in Weitzmann et al. (1997: 424), C. lunglinensis Wang (1981b: 53), and C. obtusidentata Wang (1981b: 57) that have all been transferred to Primulina (Weber et al. 2011c). Nevertheless further molecular confirmation is needed.Published as part of Xu, Wei-Bin, Zhang, Qiang, Wen, Fang, Liao, Wen-Bo, Pan, Bo, Chang, Hsuan & Chung, Kuo-Fang, 2012, Nine new combinations and one new name of Primulina (Gesneriaceae) from South China, pp. 1-8 in Phytotaxa 64 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.64.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/506197

    New species of Thelepodidae (Terebelliformia, Polychaeta) from Taiwan

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    Hsueh, Pan-Wen, Li, Kuo-Rong (2016): New species of Thelepodidae (Terebelliformia, Polychaeta) from Taiwan. Zootaxa 4170 (3): 510-524, DOI: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4170.3.
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