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Preservice Teachers' Beliefs, Attitudes, and Motivation about Technology Integration
(Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2011-07-01)
The Theory of Planned Behavior was used as a framework, along with Self-Determination Theory, to examine preservice teachers' motivation to include technology in their future teaching. We modified instruments to measure ...
Building Social Capital Through Rhetoric and Public Relations
(Management Communication Quarterly, 2011-08-01)
When the focus is on meaning making, language, rhetorical argument, and persuasion, there is enormous potential to see how public relations theory and practice in external organizational rhetoric can serve community ...
Identification and Characterization of NF-Y Transcription Factor Families in the Monocot Model Plant Brachypodium distachyon
(PLos One, 2011-06-30)
Background Nuclear Factor Y (NF-Y) is a heterotrimeric transcription factor composed of NF-YA, NF-YB and NF-YC proteins. Using the dicot plant model system Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis), NF-Y were previously ...
Tactical Self-Enhancement in China: Is Modesty at the Service of Self-Enhancement in East Asian Culture?
(Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2011-01-01)
Huajian Cai is a professor at the Institute of Psychology at Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests involve culture and the self.
Adolescent Male Attitudes About Singing in Choir
(Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2011-11-01)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that influence adolescent males to enroll in school choir as an elective class and to assess their attitudes about singing in general, self-concept of their own ...
A Grammatical Approach for Customization of Laminated Composite Materials
(Concurrent Engineering, 2011-06-01)
The wide range of properties covered by the manufacturable fiber—matrix combinations of composite materials, along with their directional property characteristics, provides designers with material selection flexibility ...
A Genome-Wide Survey of Imprinted Genes in Rice Seeds Reveals Imprinting Primarily Occurs in the Endosperm
(PLos Genetics, 2011-06-23)
Author Summary The expression of maternal or paternal alleles in either a preferentially or exclusively uniparental manner, termed imprinting, is prevalent in the transient endosperm of seeds in the model plant ...
The theory and method of comparative area studies
(Qualitative Research, 2011-02-01)
Though many now downplay the tension between area studies and disciplinary political science, there has been little substantive guidance on how to accomplish complementarity between their respective approaches. This article ...
The Thermoanaerobacter Glycobiome Reveals Mechanisms of Pentose and Hexose Co-Utilization in Bacteria
(PLos Genetics, 2011-10-13)
Author Summary Renewable liquid fuels derived from lignocellulosic biomass could alleviate global energy shortage and climate change. Cellulose and hemicellulose are the main components of lignocellulosic biomass. ...
The Torpedo Effect: Myth or Reality?
(Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, 2011-04-01)
General evidence indicates that managers manage earnings at three common earnings thresholds: analyst forecasts, prior period earnings, and zero earnings. We examine one market-based motivation suggested for this behavior. ...