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Learning Chinese characters: A comparative study of the learning strategies of students whose native language is alphabet-based and students whose native language is character-based.
(2004)
The study revealed that both groups used memory and cognitive strategies approximately equally, but that the groups emphasized different subcomponents of those strategies. Both groups reported usage of metacognitive ...
Evaluative organization of self-knowledge: The hidden vulnerability of compartmentalization.
(2004)
Three studies explored the possibility that the structure of the self-concept is associated with fragile self-esteem. The model of self-concept structure examined in the present studies is evaluative organization, especially ...
Sociedad y poder en cuatro novelas cortas de Elena Garro: "Ines", "Busca mi esquela", "Primer amor" y "Un traje rojo para un duelo".
(2004)
This dissertation studies the representation of contemporary societies, and the conflict and the power relations among its members in four short novels published in the 1990's. My dissertation concentrates on the works ...
Cell-cell interactions in Myxococcus xanthus.
(2004)
Myxococcus xanthus, a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, nonpathogenic soil bacterium has been used as a model organism for many years for research on developmental behavior such as multicellular morphogenesis, signal transduction. ...
Modeling and formulation of microemulsions: The net-average curvature model and the combined linker effect.
(2004)
Microemulsions are phases that contain both oil and water which coexists in thermodynamic equilibrium due to the presence of surfactant films that segregate at the oil - water interface. These systems can be used in numerous ...
Bacillus mojavensis and Bacillus subtilis require DNA or deoxyribonucleosides for anaerobic growth.
(2004)
Bacillus mojavensis strain JF-2 grows to an A600 of 0.8 to 1.0 in aerobic medium E but growth in this medium under strict anaerobic conditions is difficult to establish and replicate. Anaerobic growth of JF-2 was not ...
Expert system for evaluation of nutrient pollution potential in groundwater from land application of manure.
(2004)
In recent years, groundwater contamination from animal husbandries has become a growing concern for the regulatory agencies and farmers. The animal husbandries usually dispose off the manure produced in the facility to the ...
Transporting the subject: The fiction of nationality in an era of transnationalism.
(2004)
My work focuses on the representation of South Asian life in works by four contemporary Anglophone writers: V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Anita Desai. Of course, I also refer to works by other writers, ...
The impact of leader-group value similarity and organizational culture on group performance.
(2004)
Little research has focused on why followers follow their leaders. The current study extends the Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) model to show how positive social exchange produced by leader-group value similarity can influence ...
Effects of moral intensity and self-evaluation on ethical propensity: A cross-level analysis.
(2004)
An empirical study examined the relationships between Jone's (1991) moral intensity and self-evaluation bias with ethical propensity. Results suggested that individuals with a self-enhanced tendency in their own ethical ...