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30 Years of Lithium-Ion Batteries.

Over the past 30 years, significant commercial and academic progress has been made on Li-based battery technologies. From the early Li-metal anode iterations to the current commercial Li-ion batteries (LIBs), the story of the Li-based battery is full of breakthroughs and back tracing steps. This review will discuss the main roles of material science in the development of LIBs. As LIB research progresses and the materials of interest change, different emphases on the different subdisciplines of material science are placed. Early works on LIBs focus more on solid state physics whereas near the end of the 20th century, researchers began to focus more on the morphological aspects (surface coating, porosity, size, and shape) of electrode materials. While it is easy to point out which specific cathode and anode materials are currently good candidates for the next-generation of batteries, it is difficult to explain exactly why those are chosen. In this review, for the reader a complete developmental story of LIB should be clearly drawn, along with an explanation of the reasons responsible for the various technological shifts. The review will end with a statement of caution for the current modern battery research along with a brief discussion on beyond lithium-ion battery chemistries.

Interrelationship between the History and Archaeology, Islamic City of Qalhāt: Case Study

This study aims to clarify the relationship between archaeology and history. Archaeological evidence can bear witness to historical events. Such events can be discovered, studied, and classified by archaeologists and presented to historians as authentic material, especially in the absence of written sources. Thus, the joint work between archaeologists and historians could help to reformulate past events into coherent historical records. The Islamic city of Qalhat is taken as an example in this study. It is almost absent from historical sources although it was a very important port city during the 13th to 17th century. On a very few occasions, it was mentioned by some travelers who visited the city and described it as a living and flourishing city. However, so few and such short records do not provide enough evidence of the history of the city. Only archaeology can narrate the complete story of the city where the earliest and latest phases of occupation were fully uncovered. Archaeological excavations revealed in detail the high level of architecture that the inhabitants of Qalhat had and how the city was well organized and divided into different quarters as well as the fortification system and an international network of trade relations. All of this archaeological evidence will enable historians to rewrite the history of the Islamic city of Qalhat based on solid grounds.

Interrelationship between the History and Archaeology, Islamic City of Qalhāt: Case Study

This study aims to clarify the relationship between archaeology and history. Archaeological evidence can bear witness to historical events. Such events can be discovered, studied, and classified by archaeologists and presented to historians as authentic material, especially in the absence of written sources. Thus, the joint work between archaeologists and historians could help to reformulate past events into coherent historical records. The Islamic city of Qalhat is taken as an example in this study. It is almost absent from historical sources although it was a very important port city during the 13th to 17th century. On a very few occasions, it was mentioned by some travelers who visited the city and described it as a living and flourishing city. However, so few and such short records do not provide enough evidence of the history of the city. Only archaeology can narrate the complete story of the city where the earliest and latest phases of occupation were fully uncovered. Archaeological excavations revealed in detail the high level of architecture that the inhabitants of Qalhat had and how the city was well organized and divided into different quarters as well as the fortification system and an international network of trade relations. All of this archaeological evidence will enable historians to rewrite the history of the Islamic city of Qalhat based on solid grounds.

The Keystone of the Neighbourhood: Gender, Collective Action, and Working-Class Heritage Strategy in Pointe-Saint-Charles, Montreal

In 1973, in the deindustrializing, impoverished Montreal neighbourhood of Pointe-Saint-Charles, neighbourhood activists—normally preoccupied with jobs, housing, and food security—made the fate of an 82-year-old fire station their top concern. Pointe-Saint-Charles was the proposed site for a new highway construction: le Projet Georges-Vanier. If built, this artery would have sliced the working-class community in half, destroying the fire station as well as a much-loved public park, and displacing about 140 families in turn. In their organized resistance to this plan, Comité Action-Boulevard recognized and mobilized around the fire station as the keystone without which the plan could not proceed. This article situates an important but under-studied moment in Montreal’s preservation struggles in the pivotal early 1970s. It proposes this story as a powerful illustration of the idea that heritage is not an object but rather a social, cultural, and political process, and considers the fragility of collective memory about how this building was saved. Part of that fragility arises from a conundrum: the women who were largely behind this action worked collectively under organizations rather than under their own names, as individuals. The action to save the fire station coincided with a period in the neighbourhood’s history in which women were gradually emerging from restrictive gender norms. In searching for the complete story of how the community of Pointe-Saint-Charles saved their fire station, I have encountered a partial, but compelling story of how the women of an impoverished neighbourhood took power over their own built environment, activating what Iain J.M. Robertson calls a “heritage from below.”

Towards a Transforming Constructivism: Understanding Learners' Meanings and the Messages of Learning Environments

This article is based on the ideas and material presented at the invitation to deliver the 17 u, Annual University of Calgary Faculty of Education Annual Distinguished Lecture. This lecture honors the work of a member of Faculty whose research contributions have been judged to contribute significant new insight in the field of Education. The article presents the foundations of research and thinking that have inspired work to deepen knowledge about the value and use of constructivist approaches in research, teaching, and learning. The article deepens the discussion by presenting additional ideas designed to produce a transforming constructivism. A transforming constructivism goes beyond taking into account learner conceptions or ideas in the teaching/learning dialogue. It incorporates thinking about the cultural and social messages presented within the environments of learning that also must be taken into account to build a more complete story of the ways that the learner constructs meaning. illustrative dialogue on children learning about the topic light is presented from my book, What Children Bring to Light: A Constructivist Perspective on Children's Learning in Science, (1994). The article presents findings and further work that has extended and deepened understanding by featuring the messages of science learning environments in the account of learner construction of ideas.

Can Graphics Tell Lies? A Tutorial on How To Visualize Your Data.

Visualizations are a powerful tool for telling a story about a data set or analysis. If done correctly, visualizations not only display data but also help the audience digest key information. However, if done haphazardly, visualization has the potential to confuse the audience and, in the most extreme circumstances, deceive. In this tutorial, we provide a set of general principles for creating informative visualizations that tell a complete and accurate story of the data.

Global Best Practice or Regulating Fiction? Street Vending, Zero Tolerance and Conflicts Over Public Space in New York, 1980–2000

AbstractIn global urban studies, different cities often serve as stand‐ins for various policy approaches. New York is closely associated with zero tolerance/quality of life policing—specifically the ways this crime‐fighting technique was used to manage and regulate public space in support of broader urban redevelopment goals. Whether celebrated or criticized, the image of New York as a city that was successful in ‘cleaning up’ public space has been exported across the globe, and has been invoked by a number of cities as they embark on their own projects to clear street vendors and other unwanted actors from public space. This article will challenge this established narrative through an examination of struggles over street vending and public space in New York during the 1980s and 1990s. It will show how the revanchist project of public space management was challenged and ultimately limited by vendors using discourses of free market populism and entrepreneurship. It demonstrates the ways in which the image of New York as a city of settled and well‐regulated public space does not tell the complete story, and how New York, like many other ordinary cities across the globe, is a city of contested spaces and uncertain regulatory effectiveness.

Habsburg Studies within Central European History: The State of the Field

Habsburg studies stand at a crossroads. We have come a long way since C. A. Macartney published his magisterial history, The Habsburg Empire, in 1968. He began his story with the death of Joseph II in 1790—and thus, for him and his narrative, with the beginning of the end of the monarchy. Macartney's narrative represented the best and most complete traditional story of decline and fall, according to which the ever-present push of modernity put the Habsburg Monarchy in the larger story of modern Europe as an entity doomed to dissolution. Moreover, its leaders, embodied in the clever Prince Clemens von Metternich, foresaw the decline of the empire and did their best to resist change and forestall the future.

“In The End, God Helped Me Defeat Myself”: Autobiographical Writings by Camilla Battista da Varano1

Camilla Battista da Varano (1458–1524), a mystic and Franciscan nun, spent most of her life in Camerino in east-central Italy. Now a saint—since 17 October 2010—she composed two autobiographical treatises across a ten-year period mid-way through a literary career that spanned the end of the fifteenth and the early part of the sixteenth centuries. In one, La vita spirituale (My spiritual life, 1491), she delivered a complete spiritual life story, tracing her religious devotion from the ages of eight to thirty-three. She described her relationship with a number of men, including her father and several clerics who—to one degree or another—inspired and guided her devotional life. By the time she wrote, she had been a professed Franciscan nun for seven years. She presented herself at that point as one who had undergone visionary, mystical experiences and as a woman who had both benefitted and suffered under the control of men like her father and her spiritual directors. In the other, Istruzioni al discepolo (Instructions to a disciple, 1501), she told the story of her affectionate relationship with a male disciple she was directing spiritually but used a literary conceit to hide her own identity. She wrote about the spiritual director the male disciple loved and admired in the third person, apparently in a self-deprecating manner inspired by humility but thinly veiling her obvious self-confidence. In these texts, and in other of her devotional treatises, she claimed the ability to provide spiritual direction of her own and wrote in bold imagery, creatively manipulating scripture at times. She exercised a do-it-yourself approach to discernment of God’s will and even to the process of confession. She criticized inattentive spiritual directors and asserted that both her visions and the impetus for her devotional writings came directly, unmediated, from God. But Camilla also exhibited deferential attitudes and strong connections to traditional Franciscan theology while including female authors in that tradition she apparently admired, like Caterina da Bologna (1413–1463). She also wrote at times with vivid expressions of obedience to the variety of men who held some authority over her. She was, apparently, not an individual easily understood through the standard images usually associated with late medieval and early modern women. A fuller portrait of Camilla is emerging as scholars today seek to recover her original voice.

UTAUT for HSS: initial framework to study health IT adoption in the developing countries.

Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) is an integrative concept that has been used widely to measure IT adoption. However, a recent study in a developing country concluded that UTAUT is not adequate in predicting IT adoption within the context of health system strengthening (HSS). It has been suggested that context-specific dimensions to modify UTAUT should be considered. The objective of this paper is to propose an extension of the theory, called UTAUT for HSS, as a reference for contextualizing health system variables for health IT adoption studies in the developing countries. We combined the multi-level framework of UTAUT with WHO health system building blocks. Modification of the original multi-level framework was performed on the 3 levels. i.e: the higher-level contextual factors, middle-level, and individual-level contextual factors. Based on this, we propose a modified multi-level framework of technology acceptance and use for health system strengthening setting (UTAUT for HSS). Given the complexities of health systems, more thoughts regarding the methodologies will be useful to enrich this initial framework. Commentaries and discussions are invited for improvement, before implementation to obtain more complete story of health IT adoption in the low resources setting.

Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic by Alice Kaplan

Reviewed by: Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic by Alice Kaplan Adele King Kaplan, Alice. Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic. University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp 296. ISBN: 978-0-226-24167-8. $26.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0-226-56536-1. $18.00 (paper). ISBN: 978-0-226-24170-8. $18.00 (eBook). This book is undoubtedly the most complete story of how L'étranger was written, perhaps one of the best stories of how any novel was written. Alice Kaplan has studied seemingly every moment of Albert Camus's life during the period between 1924 to 1942. Initially, Camus was living in a small working-class apartment in Algiers with his deaf mother, and by 1930, he was suffering from tuberculosis. His teacher, Louis Germain, was shocked at the way the family lived, but persuaded his grandmother to allow him to enroll in a lycée, a rare chance for a boy from his background. He lived for a time with his uncle where he had the opportunity to read books. By 1935, Camus had obtained the equivalent of a master's degree and, had he not been suffering from tuberculosis, might have entered the French academic system. He had various amorous attachments and in 1934, he married Simone Hié and was supported by her mother. Unhappy in their bourgeois life, he was unable to describe in depth his relationship to his own mother. He suggested that his mother was in Oran with relatives, making up a false history, because of "secret resentment. Pride especially" (18). He only gradually realizes that what he wants is to find "more power in showing than in telling, more emotion in silence than in speech" (19). In 1938, Pascal Pia hired him to work as a journalist with Alger-Républicain. Then he moved to Oran to live with the family of Francine Faure, the woman to whom he became engaged. These were the years when he was gradually working on L'étranger which he would be able to complete when he arrived in Paris at the time of the German occupation. In October 1939, although the French authorities were unhappy with this appointment because of his political opinions, Camus was made editor-in-chief of a newssheet, Soir-Républicain, using the small amount of paper available. The same month, he burned his papers, removing his earlier writing from his mind. He was by then working on what would be his two other Absurdist books, Le mythe de Sisyphe and Caligula. Camus travelled to France, arriving in Paris on March 16, 1940; Pascal Pia helped him find a job as a typesetter, not a journalist. He spent all possible time writing. After Paris-Soir began publishing in Lyon, Camus moved there, leaving drafts of his manuscript in a Parisian hotel that did not keep them. When his divorce from Hié was finalized, Francine arrived in France for their marriage, on December 3, 1940. Camus was dismissed from the newspaper at the end of 1940, and the couple returned to Oran where his life was difficult. Francine had to take [End Page 174] care of him when he faced a relapse of tuberculosis. There were anti-Jewish measures; all native Algerians were no longer French citizens. Camus could only do odd jobs, but he finished Le mythe de Sisyphe, as he noted on February 21, 1941. Kaplan quotes letters from many people whom Camus knew. Especially important is the correspondence with Jean Grenier, Camus's professor from Algiers, whom Kaplan thinks is "fussy" (26) and whom she judges unable to help the young man in his initial worries about his ability as a writer. Pascal Pia, the journalist, however, was always encouraging. He had earlier introduced Camus to André Malraux, whose enthusiastic letters were another influence on Camus's state of mind. When he had been working for Alger-Républicain, Camus had used details of the trials he observed (which were often of considerable interest) as background for what he now realized would be a novel. Kaplan describes herself as looking over Camus's shoulder...

The Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae: The Complete Story of Reggae Told through Its Greatest Songs, Famous and Forgotten by Michael Garnice

Reviewed by: The Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae: The Complete Story of Reggae Told through Its Greatest Songs, Famous and Forgotten by Michael Garnice Paul Kauppila The Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae: The Complete Story of Reggae Told through Its Greatest Songs, Famous and Forgotten. By Michael Garnice. (Popular Music History.) Sheffield, UK: Equinox, 2016. [vi, 604 p. ISBN 9781781790953 (hardback), $49.99; ISBN 9781781794012 (e-book), $49.99.] Acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography, index of names, index of songs. The Ultimate Guide to Great Reggae takes a highly subjective but very informative look at what the author considers to be the best reggae songs ever recorded. In some cases, the author uses reggae as an umbrella term to cover the myriad of subgenres of Jamaican music, while at other times he uses it to refer to the classic 1970s-era reggae style perhaps most familiar to American listeners. A writer for numerous reggae Web sites and magazines (including articles on Bob Marley for Reggae Beat magazine), Michael Garnice is also known for his Web site devoted to mento, a Jamaican folk style that was an early precursor to reggae. Since the 1950s, the island of Jamaica, with a population of less than three million, has produced a truly mind-boggling number of recordings relative to its population size. The author's stated mission is to help readers discover the highest-quality examples of all the various reggae subgenres he describes. [End Page 116] The author begins with a brief introduction, in which he addresses his reasons for writing the book and the challenges he sees as common misconceptions about reggae. This section also includes a list of frequently asked questions and a very helpful "Jamaican Music Roadmap," which provides a useful graphic detailing the history of Jamaican popular music from the 1920s through the first decade of the twenty-first century (p. 4). Garnice is upfront about the subjective nature of the book, declaring in the first few sentences of the introduction, "This book will write about the great songs amidst the tremendous amount of reggae that has been released, and won't waste time on anything less" (p. 1). The first chapter provides a minihistory of reggae and all its variants, including mento, calypso (not strictly Jamaican but still important in the development of reggae), Jamaican R & B, ska, rocksteady, reggae proper, dub, instrumentals, Nyabinghi (a sort of Rastafarian religiously themed folk music), DJ style, and dancehall, among others. Other chapters examine specific performers and producers, such as Bob Marley, whose work consumes seven of the fifty-plus chapters in this book. The chapters are arranged in roughly chronological order. Although the book focuses on certain songs, performers, producers, labels, and studios, taken together it serves as a highly informative history of Jamaican music in the twentieth century and the first few years of the twenty-first. Very apparent throughout the book are the author's deep love for and knowledge of this music, though the level of detail can be slightly overwhelming at times. Among the notable features of the book are the early chapters on mento and calypso. Mento, an indigenous Jamaican folk style, was particularly influential on the development of Jamaican R & B and, later, ska and reggae. Garnice accurately points out that reggae histories have tended to give short shrift to this crucial period, though this situation has changed somewhat in recent years with the reissue of a number of mento recordings, usually with informative liner notes and vintage photos. The author performs a valuable service by highlighting this sometimes-overlooked genre. While there is a broad discussion of the history of Jamaican music (specifically in the first chapter, "Jamaica's History of Great Records"), the heart of the book is the extremely detailed discussion of individual songs and artists. It lacks specific information on obtaining recordings, but between online retailers and digital music services, the vast majority of the songs included in the text should be easy to find (though there may be a few instances in which an original vinyl copy of the record is the only version available). Within the text of the individual song entries, the author provides many key details about...

Charles Dickens and Joseph Parkinson: Disentangling Composite Authorship in All the Year Round

Charles Dickens and Joseph Parkinson: Disentangling Composite Authorship in All the Year Round Leon Litvack (bio) and Hugh Craig (bio) The extent of Dickens’s written output is legendary. In his relatively short lifetime he completed fourteen and a half novels, as well as an impressive array of short fiction, travel books, plays, poems, and major and minor works of prose. The complete extent of his published works may never be known, partly on account of the convention of anonymity that dominated early and mid-Victorian publication – especially journalism (see Drew 117–8, 151, 183). The most recent attempt to produce a “Complete listing of Dickens’s known journalism” was undertaken by Michael Slater and John Drew, in the final volume of their Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens’ Journalism (Slater and Drew 436–46). Yet this inventory, featuring 370 items, is only as reliable as the supporting evidence, which comes from a variety of sources, including Dickens’s correspondence, the discovery of manuscripts, and the Office Book for his journal Household Words (Collins, “Dickens on Ghosts”; Brice; and Lohrli). It is rare nowadays for a new piece of journalism by Dickens to be authenticated; yet such breakthroughs are possible, given the right circumstances and effective modes of investigation. In the spring and summer of 2015 a set of fortuitous events culminated in a public announcement that the “Rosetta Stone of Victorian Studies” had been found (Dugan). In May of that year a group of academics met a scholar and antiquarian book dealer named Jeremy Parrott, to authenticate a series of carefully inscribed annotations in a recently purchased, handsomely bound set of the first series of All the Year Round (Fig. 1), the journal that Dickens edited from 1859 until his death in 1870. The scholars came away convinced that the marginalia, which identified by name the authors of each of the individual pieces, were genuine. These findings were confirmed by Leon Litvack, who observed in an interview with the Independent newspaper that This is probably the most important find for [Dickens] scholars in [End Page 303] my lifetime. It gives us an insight into the links between Dickens and other authors, whose names have been all too often lost in the mists of time. It will be of inestimable value to scholars. (Milmo) The annotations – not in Dickens’s hand (Parrott, “George Holsworth,” and Litvack, “Letters”) – confirmed the authorship of previously anonymous pieces; among the most notable revelations were works by Elizabeth Gaskell, Eliza Lynn Linton, Lewis Carroll and Wilkie Collins, together with a host of lesser-known figures. The complete story of the discovery was recounted in an article by Litvack in the Dickens Quarterly, in December 2015 (Litvack, “Dickens”). Since then Parrott has been working to compile and publish a Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Contributors to All the Year Round, based on the marginalia in what has now come to be called the “Parrott set” of the journal (Parrott, “The Annotated Set” 14). There was further excitement when it was revealed that new writing by Dickens had been uncovered. In July 2015 an article appeared in the Independent, carrying the title “The unseen Charles Dickens: read the excoriating essay on Victorian poverty that no-one knew he had written.” It identified Dickens as the lead author of an All the Year Round article entitled “What is Sensational?”, a diatribe focusing on conditions in workhouse infirmaries (Wills). The Independent boasted that the piece, previously attributed to “one Joseph Parkinson” (1833–1908), had been “presumed to be only a commission from [Dickens]. But from the newly studied margin notes, it now seems that Dickens not only supplied the idea but was chief author of the polemic” (Wills). The previous attribution to Parkinson alone was based largely on a memorandum written by Dickens, which provided Parkinson with a detailed set of instructions about what to include in the article (Figs. 2, 3); now the shared authorship is confirmed by the marginal annotation in the Parrott set (Fig. 4). Before examining the content of “What is Sensational?”, and whether Dickens was indeed the “chief author,” it would be useful to consider the career of his lesser-known collaborator. Joseph Charles Parkinson (Fig...

A Study of the 「Jukdojuin-jeon」 :-Focused on Contents of Work Product and Background of Creative Work -

In this study, it introduces the contents of the newly discovered work product, Jukdojuin-jeon , and discusses narrative structure, background of creative work, consciousness of writer and so forth. Jukdojuin-jeon is a story of 7 seamen of Juk-do drifting around and eventually arrived in an island where a giant was living. Two of them were killed and only 5 of them returned alive. The narrator listened to the experience of those seamen and conveyed the story with its record. This work uses the structure of ‘Jeon (story)’ superficially, but the actual story is closer to short-story novel written in Chinese letters. In the process of escaping, they poke the eyes of the giant and cover themselves with the sheep skin to deceive the giant and it has the same story with the adventure of Odysseus that it may be considered as the story transitioning from the west to the east. However, in Asia, Taeyanggwanggi has the story related to a giant. Jukdojuin-jeon is about the story of Korean style man-eating (cannibal) giant with the mixture of western legend coming through the sea onto the eastern story tale. When it compares with the same type of work in Daeindo Sanggak Dojanmyeong or Giheukdoinsa , it has much more complete story structure. All these three works had the style to deliver the stories heard around by taking the frame-style structure, but Jukdojuin-jeon involved the imagination of the recorder with excellent detailed expression for a difference. The recorder describes the incident with the point of view as third-party observer by using the dialogue to enhance the objectivity of narrative. When seamen encounter any desperate situation, they are involved with their emotion to talk about the thought and feeling of seamen. This story has close relationship with the island and coastal area. It depicts on island near to Juk-do as the spatial background in the introduction part and this is the scheme to enhance the credibility while it is proven that the story has been delivered mouth to mouth around the island and coastal areas. The place most effective to narrate the drifting experience would be island and the material that is best imagined with the fear on sea would be the story on the man-eating giant. Also, there is the ‘Youngdong Harbang’ legend that has been handed down in Jeju-do as the similar story theme shared around and it seemed to disperse and expand through the sea routes that were used by convoys and merchants.

Human drivers, biophysical changes, and climatic variation affecting contemporary cropping proportions in the northern prairie of the U.S

ABSTRACTGrassland to cropland conversion in the northern prairie of the United States has been a topic of recent land use change studies. Within this region more corn and soybeans are grown now (2017) than in the past, but most studies to date have not examined multi-decadal trends and the synergistic web of socio-ecological driving forces involved, opting instead for short-term analyses and easily targeted agents of change. This paper examines the coalescing of biophysical and socioeconomic driving forces that have brought change to the agricultural landscape of this region between 1980 and 2013. While land conversion has occurred, most of the region’s cropland in 2013 had been previously cropped by the early 1980s. Furthermore, the agricultural conditions in which crops were grown during those three decades have changed considerably because of non-biophysical alterations to production practices and changing agricultural markets. Findings revealed that human drivers played more of a role in crop change than biophysical changes, that blending quantitative and qualitative methods to tell a more complete story of crop change in this region was difficult because of the synergistic characteristics of the drivers involved, and that more research is needed to understand how farmers make crop choice decisions.

“Scripts Are Beautiful”: Managers’ and Agents’ Views of Script Use in Call Centers

Some recent studies have reported how call centers employ low-skilled workers and how agents work robotically using scripts when assisting customers on the phone; other studies have focused on how they need to be “native speaker”–like in their language fluency when serving customers; and yet others talk of the repressive nature of the industry where agents become emotionally, culturally, and linguistically exhausted, exacerbated by the prescriptive and highly regulated use of scripts at work. While acknowledging that the use of scripts in call centers can result in agent disengagement and customers feeling they are talking to robots, this is not the complete story. This study aims to report on the use of scripts in the global call center industry, which may place their use in a more positive light. After first defining what is meant by “scripting” in this context, two case studies are reported on where line managers and agents found script use to be helpful in a number of ways. The first case study uses data gathered in an offshored monolingual call center in Manila, and the second study uses data gathered in a multilingual call center in London. How both managers and agents use scripts and how they perceive them are the focus areas of this study, and while arguably there are a number of problems with this practice, there are also self-reported benefits in supporting effective communication and positive business outcomes in the call centers.

And Still They Persisted: A Discussion of Indigenous Students Perspectives on a Year in Pre-Nursing Transitions

Access and Transitions Programing has been a focus in Canadian Educational reform for over fifty years. Though made smaller through transitions and access supports, the gap between non-Indigenous and Indigenous students’ attainment in higher education, remains large. One has to ask why? Evaluation of said programs in current literature is dominated with Eurocentric approaches and bias based in institutional needs such as retention, attrition and graduation rates. However, the statistics do not tell a complete story about how Indigenous students are navigating post-secondary experiences. Through the lens of the Medicine Wheel the experiences of four women participating in a Pre-Nursing Transitions Program (PNT) at a western Canadian University will be discussed. The results of this case study which was conducted during the 2013-14 academic year identify clashes between the Eurocentric paradigm of the University and students’ values. At face value, conflicts centered around prioritisation of family, types of knowledge valued and the way information was presented. However, these conflicts speak to larger issues around the construction and intention of transitions programming and this article aims respond with a word of caution for post secondary institutions however well intentioned aiming to respond to the 2015 Truth and reconciliation call for indigenization of the academy. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.16.10.9

A temporal correlation and traffic analysis approach for APT attacks detection

Advanced persist threat (APT for short) is an emerging attack on the Internet. Such attack patterns leave their footprints spatio-temporally dispersed across many different type traffics in victim machines. However, existing traffic analysis systems typically target only a single type of traffic to discover evidence of an attack and therefore fail to exploit fundamental inter-traffic connections. The output of such single-traffic analysis can hardly detect the complete APT attack story for complex, multi-stage attacks. Additionally, some existing approaches require heavyweight system instrumentation, which makes them impractical to deploy in real production environments. To address these problems, we present an automated temporal correlation traffic detection system (ATCTDS). Inspired by anomaly traffic analytics research in big data network analysis, we model multi-type traffic analysis as a detection problem. Our evaluation with 36 well-known APT attack dataset demonstrates that our system can detect attack behaviors from a spectrum of cyber attacks that involve multiple types with high accuracy and low false positive rates.

Inward H+ pump xenorhodopsin: Mechanism and alternative optogenetic approach.

Generation of an electrochemical proton gradient is the first step of cell bioenergetics. In prokaryotes, the gradient is created by outward membrane protein proton pumps. Inward plasma membrane native proton pumps are yet unknown. We describe comprehensive functional studies of the representatives of the yet noncharacterized xenorhodopsins from Nanohaloarchaea family of microbial rhodopsins. They are inward proton pumps as we demonstrate in model membrane systems, Escherichia coli cells, human embryonic kidney cells, neuroblastoma cells, and rat hippocampal neuronal cells. We also solved the structure of a xenorhodopsin from the nanohalosarchaeon Nanosalina (NsXeR) and suggest a mechanism of inward proton pumping. We demonstrate that the NsXeR is a powerful pump, which is able to elicit action potentials in rat hippocampal neuronal cells up to their maximal intrinsic firing frequency. Hence, inwardly directed proton pumps are suitable for light-induced remote control of neurons, and they are an alternative to the well-known cation-selective channelrhodopsins.

The Relationship Between Narrative Language Skills and Ideational Praxis in Children

Abstract Date Presented 3/31/2017 This study found relationships among generation of ideas for motor action, the ability to complete narrative story retelling, and components of narrative language in children with dyspraxia and those with ideational praxis deficits. Results inform understanding of ideational skills in children. Primary Author and Speaker: Teresa A. May-Benson Additional Authors and Speakers: Sarah Friel