Identifying student and teacher difficulties in interpreting atomic spectra using a quantum model of emission and absorption of radiation

Our study sets out to identify the difficulties that high school students, teachers, and university students encounter when trying to explain atomic spectra. To do so, we identify the key concepts that any quantum model for the emission and absorption of electromagnetic radiation must include to account for the gas spectra and we then design two questionnaires, one for teachers and the other for students. By analyzing the responses, we conclude that (i) teachers lack a quantum model for the emission and absorption of electromagnetic radiation capable of explaining the spectra, (ii) teachers and students share the same difficulties, and (iii) these difficulties concern the model of the atom, the model of radiation, and the model of the interaction between them.

The Influence of Geological Process on Interpreting Ediacaran Fossils in the Catalina Formation, Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland

Understanding the nature of the earliest complex fossils has presented many challenges over the past century since Billings first described Ediacaran fossils from Newfoundland in 1872. Previous studies have documented abundant Ediacaran fossils in the Bonavista Peninsula of Newfoundland. This thesis focuses on the H14 surface north of Catalina, which contains a nearly monospecific assemblage that includes hundreds of specimens of the rangeomorph, Fractofusus andersoni. Three factors need to be considered when trying to interpret these organisms. The first of these three factors is structural deformation. The area has undergone deformation during the formation of the Appalachian orogenic belt. This has distorted both fossil shape and orientation, requiring retrodeformation to restore the shapes and relationships of fossils to their original form. Two additional taphonomic factors influencing fossil visibility are: partly or completely ash covered fossils and the removal of fossil impressions from the bedding plane by modern weathering. These processes hinder acceptance of some previously published interpretations.

Organizing and Interpreting Unstructured Qualitative Data

In the last several years there has been an increase in the amount of qualitative research using in-depth interviews and comprehensive content analyses in sport psychology. However, no explicit method has been provided to deal with the large amount of unstructured data. This article provides common guidelines for organizing and interpreting unstructured data. Two main operations are suggested and discussed: first, coding meaningful text segments, or creating tags, and second, regrouping similar text segments,or creating categories. Furthermore, software programs for the microcomputer are presented as away to facilitate the organization and interpretation of qualitative data

Fluency in interpreting: a native-like quality factor

Lo studio si occupa di fluency e analizza alcuni aspetti che la definiscono (pause vuote, pause piene, segnali discorsivi, riformulazioni). Si analizzano frequenza e durata di tali fenomeni, attraverso due corpora di produzioni orali di due gruppi di parlanti della lingua inglese: gli studenti italiani del corso di Mediazione Linguistica Interculturale della Scuola di Lingue, Letterature, Interpretazione e Traduzione di Forlì, Università di Bologna, e partecipanti britannici di un programma radiofonico. Si è ritenuto utile comparare le produzioni orali di studenti della lingua inglese a quelle di oratori pubblici madrelingua. Si è cercato di bilanciare i due corpora in termini di genere. Sono stati utilzzati i software Praat, per identificare la morfologia e la durata delle variabili, e Notetab Light, per l'annotazione dei corpora. I risultati della ricerca mostrano che le differenze maggiori tra i due gruppi risiedono nella durata delle pause vuote e nella frequenza, durata e e varietà di suoni delle pause piene, oltre a sillabe aggiuntive, sillabe allungate e riformulazioni. Le sillabe aggiuntive appaiono tipiche della produzione orale degli studenti italiani, in quanto, per la maggior parte, le parole della lingua italiana terminano con un suono vocalico. E' inoltre emersa una questione di genere. Le parlanti di sesso femminile, in entrambi i corpora, impiegano maggiormente le variabili della fluency prese in esame, rispetto ai parlanti di sesso maschile. Sulla base di questa ricerca e ricerche future si potranno ideare moduli di insegnamento dell'inglese basati sulla fluency come fattore primario di competenza linguistica. Il Capitolo 1 introduce lo studio. Il Capitolo 2 presenta lo stato dell'arte sul tema. Il Capitolo 3 presenta la metodologia dello studio. Il Capitolo 4 è dedicato a illustrare e discutere i risultati della ricerca. Il Capitolo 5 presenta considerazioni conclusive e future prospettive per l'insegnamento dell'inglese e per la ricerca.

Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from DODO Expedition stations

The cores and dredges described in this report were taken on the DODO Expedition in May 1964 until December 1964 by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from the R/V Argo. A total of 290 cores and dredges were recovered and are available at Scripps for sampling and study.

Sedimentological and geophysical investigation of sediment cores from the Amundsen Sea

Ice loss from the marine-based, potentially unstable West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) contributes to current sea-level rise and may raise sea level by up to 3.3 to 5 meters in the future. Over the past few decades, glaciers draining the WAIS into the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) have shown accelerated ice flow, rapid thinning and grounding-line retreat. However, the long-term context of this ice-sheet retreat is poorly constrained, limiting our ability to accurately predict future WAIS behaviour. Here we present a new chronology for WAIS retreat from the inner continental shelf of the eastern ASE based on radiocarbon dates from three marine sediment cores. The ages document a retreat of the grounding line to within ~93 km of its modern position before 11.7±0.7 kyr BP (thousand years before present). This early deglaciation is consistent with ages for grounding-line retreat from the western ASE. Our new data demonstrate that, other than in the Ross Sea, WAIS retreat in the ASE has not continued progressively since the Last Glacial Maximum. Furthermore, our results suggest that the grounding-line position in the ASE was predominantly stable throughout the Holocene, and that any episodes of fast retreat similar to that observed today must have been short-lived. Alternatively, today's rapid retreat was unprecedented during the Holocene. Therefore, the current ice loss must originate in recent changes in regional climate, ocean circulation or ice-sheet dynamics. Incorporation of these results into models is essential to produce robust predictions of future ice-sheet change and its contribution to sea-level rise.

Annotated record of the detailed examination of Mn deposits from the FANFARE Expedition stations

The cores described in this report were taken on the FANFARE Expedition in July 1959 by Scripps Institution of Oceanography from the R/V H. M. Smith and the R/V Spencer F. Baird. A total of 49 cores and dredges were recovered and are available at Scripps for sampling and study. The coring sites, all in the eastern tropical central Pacific.

Dam for Flooding Logs

From the series "Scenes at L. B. Curtis & Co.'s Camp, Midland County, Michigan"

1978 Atlantic 3800-meter radioactive waste disposal site survey : sedimentary, micromorphologic and geophysical analyses /

"Prepared June 1979."