237 research outputs found
The Effect of English Video Songs and English Movies on the Mastery of Vocabulary of Class X Students of SMA Angkasa Adisutjipto Yogyakarta
No full textThis study is aimed to know the effect of teaching English vocabulary using video songs, movies, and no video songs or movies; video songs and movies; video songs, and no video songs or movie; movies, and no video songs or movie in improving the English vocabulary mastery of class X of SMA Angkasa Adisutjipto Yogyakarta.
This research was a quasi experiment using pretest and posttest to collect the data. The population comprised class X students of SMA Angkasa Adisutjipto Yogyakarta of the academic year of 2012/2013. The researcher used random sampling. The first class experiment used video songs. The second class experiment used movies. The third class experiment did not use video songs or movies. The data from the score of the pretest and the posttest were analyzed using covariance (ANACOVA).
The results of the study show that the significance is less than 0.05. It means that there is a difference in effect of teaching methods using video songs, using movies and without video songs or movies on the vocabulary mastery of class tenth of SMA Angkasa Adisutjipto Yogyakarta. The teaching methods using video songs and using movies improve the students’ vocabulary mastery of class X of SMA Angkasa Adisutjipto Yogyakart
A gallery of reflections the nativity of Christ ; [devotional reflections on the Christmas story in art]
No full text"Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford, brings together his love of art and his Christian faith in a book that takes readers deeper into the Christmas story. Over 30 paintings, icons and sculptures are included, representing many different ages and cultures. The author shares his insights - artistic, historical, spiritual - in a way which captures the mystery and wonder of the nativity."--Publisher's descriptio
Parodic imagination and resistant form in historical fiction: A study of Ann Harries' manly pursuits
Get PDFMasters of ArtIn this dissertation, the author examines the historical novel Manly pursuits (1999), by Ann Harries. The novel deals with the late nineteenth century in Oxford, England, and inparticular the year 1899 in Cape Town. The focus of the novel is on Cecil John Rhodes and his entourage, and their obsession with empire, which culminates in the South African war in 1900. Featured characters include Chamberlain, Jameson, Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dodgson, John Ruskin and Olive Schreiner. Harries novel is interpreted as showing resistance to the Victorian society which is the framework which is seen to developed the class and gender-based valued and imperialist thinking of Rhodes and his following. as such the novel is showing resstance to imperialist thinking, the Anglo-Boer war, apartheid and all the resulting legacies for South Africa.South Afric
Parodic imagination and resistant form in historical fiction: A study of Ann Harries' manly pursuits
No full textMasters of ArtIn this dissertation, the author examines the historical novel Manly pursuits (1999), by Ann Harries. The novel deals with the late nineteenth century in Oxford, England, and inparticular the year 1899 in Cape Town. The focus of the novel is on Cecil John Rhodes and his entourage, and their obsession with empire, which culminates in the South African war in 1900. Featured characters include Chamberlain, Jameson, Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dodgson, John Ruskin and Olive Schreiner. Harries novel is interpreted as showing resistance to the Victorian society which is the framework which is seen to developed the class and gender-based valued and imperialist thinking of Rhodes and his following. as such the novel is showing resstance to imperialist thinking, the Anglo-Boer war, apartheid and all the resulting legacies for South Africa.South Afric
Detection and prevention of financial abuse against elders
Get PDFThis article is made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund. Copyright @ The Authors. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 3.0) licence. Anyone
may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both
commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication
and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/
by/3.0/legalcode.Purpose – This paper reports on banking and finance professionals' decision making in the context of elder financial abuse. The aim was to identify the case features that influence when abuse is identified and when action is taken.
Design/methodology/approach – Banking and finance professionals (n=70) were shown 35 financial abuse case scenarios and were asked to judge how certain they were that the older person was being abused and the likelihood of taking action.
Findings – Three case features significantly influenced certainty of financial abuse: the nature of the financial problem presented, the older person's level of mental capacity and who was in charge of the client's money. In cases where the older person was more confused and forgetful, there was increased suspicion that financial abuse was taking place. Finance professionals were less certain that financial abuse was occurring if the older person was in charge of his or her own finances.
Originality/value – The research findings have been used to develop freely available online training resources to promote professionals' decision making capacity (www.elderfinancialabuse.co.uk). The resources have been advocated for use by Building Societies Association as well as CIFAS, the UK's Fraud Prevention Service.The research reported here was funded by the UK cross council New Dynamicsof Ageing Programme, ESRC Reference No. RES-352-25-0026, with Mary L.M. Gilhooly asPrincipal Investigator. Web-based training tools, developed from the research findings, weresubsequently funded by the ESRC follow-on fund ES/J001155/1 with Priscilla A. Harries asPrincipal Investigator
Reference-free damage classification based on cluster analysis
No full textFiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials have been widely used for retrofitting civil infrastructure systems. The ultimate goal of this study was to develop an in-site non-destructive testing (NDT) technique that can continuously and autonomously inspect the bonding condition between a carbon FRP (CFRP) layer and a host reinforced concrete (RC) structure, when the CRFP layer is used for strengthening the RC structure. The uniqueness of this reference-free NDT is two-fold: First, features, which are sensitive to CFRP debonding but insensitive to operational and environmental variations of the structure, have been extracted only from current data without direct comparison with previously obtained baseline data. Second, damage classification is performed instantaneously without relying on predetermined decision boundaries. The extraction of the reference-free features is accomplished based on the concept of time reversal acoustics, and the instantaneous decision-making is achieved using cluster analysis. Monotonic and fatigue load tests of large-scale CFRP-strengthened RC beams are conducted to demonstrate the potential of the proposed reference-free debonding monitoring technique. Based on the experimental studies, it has been shown that the proposed reference-free NDT technique may minimize false alarms of debonding and unnecessary data interpretation by end users.This research was supported by an NSF Grant No. CMS-
0529208 and Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology
Alliance (PITA) program, and Smart Infra-Structure
Technology Center (SISTeC). The authors also like to
thank Chiwon In, Seung Bum Kim, Kelly Cronin, and
Dena E. De Iuliis for assisting our experiments. The
second author would like to acknowledge the Electric
Power National Scholarship Program at the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE) in Gwachon,
SouthKorea.The beam testing was assisted by Andrew
Zorn and Benjamin Reeve in theWatkins-Haggart
Structural Engineering Laboratory at the University of
Pittsburgh
Species-specific differences in the expression of the HNF1A, HNF1B and HNF4A genes
No full textaddresses: Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom. [email protected]: PMCID: PMC2773013types: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov'tCopyright: © 2009 Harries et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.The HNF1A, HNF1B and HNF4A genes are part of an autoregulatory network in mammalian pancreas, liver, kidney and gut. The layout of this network appears to be similar in rodents and humans, but inactivation of HNF1A, HNF1B or HNF4A genes in animal models cause divergent phenotypes to those seen in man. We hypothesised that some differences may arise from variation in the expression profile of alternatively processed isoforms between species
Julian as author: letters and legislation
No full textArgues that Julian the legislator had three personae; his own as personally the author of laws and letters; his legislative image as filtered by observers; and the truncated version preserved in the legal extracts of the Theodosian Code. Although the fist is more vivid (and perverse), the last is also important as a reminder of the routine duties of an emperor and the power of the Theodosian compilers to edit and thus change the past
Julian as author: letters and legislation
No full textArgues that Julian the legislator had three personae; his own as personally the author of laws and letters; his legislative image as filtered by observers; and the truncated version preserved in the legal extracts of the Theodosian Code. Although the fist is more vivid (and perverse), the last is also important as a reminder of the routine duties of an emperor and the power of the Theodosian compilers to edit and thus change the past
Abortion services in South Africa : challenges and barriers to safe abortion care : health care providers' perspectives
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 199-213).Unsafe abortion is a preventable phenomenon and continues to be a major public health problem in many countries especially in the developing world. Despite abortion being legally available in South Africa after a change in legislation in 1996, barriers to accessing safe abortion services continue to exist. These barriers include provider opposition to abortion, and a shortage of trained and willing abortion providers. The dearth of abortion providers undermines the availability of safe, legal abortion, and has serious implications for women's access to abortion services and health service planning
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