: Point Hope: An Eskimo Village in Transition . James W. VanStone.

James W. Valentine

Jim Valentine went to college on the GI Bill (a WWII veterans privilege) and has been there ever since; at present he is Professor of Integrative Biology, Emeritus, at UC Berkeley. His early research was on what is now called macroecology, working with fossil marine faunas, leading to a book, Evolutionary Paleoecology of the Marine Biosphere. Those studies continue today, chiefly with colleague...

Cold Acclimatization in Eskimo

0 N EXPOSURE to cold the body has a complicated physiological problem to solve. There is a limit to the heat it can produce to provide for an increased heat loss and during exposure of much severity a heat deficit is incurred. While peripheral tissues are cooling, the central body temperature must be kept within a very narrow range if the function of vital organs is to be maintained. If the acc...

Book Review: The Teaching Gap by James W. Stigler and James Hiebert

efl learners identity transition styles in an iranian context سبک های تغییر هویتی زبان آموزان خارجی در بافت ایران

چکیده در این بررسی وضعیت هویت کلی، هویت موقعیتی و زیرمجموعه های هویت ملی دانشجویان ایرانی فراگیر رشته زبان انگلیسی و دانشجویان ایرانی غیر فراگیر زبان انگلیسی (دانشجویان رشته های علوم انسانی) مقایسه میشود. در این بررسی مقطعی 90 نفر فراگیر زبان انگلیسی و 90 نفر فراگیر غیر زبان انگلیسی از دو دانشگاه دولتی ایران (دانشگاه تهران و دانشگاه خوارزمی) به پرسشنامه گسترده سنجش منزلت هویت عینی من (eomeis-2...

eskimo: EXPERIMENTING WITH SKELETONS

We discuss the lack of expressivity in some skeleton-based parallel programming frameworks. The problem is further exacerbated when approaching irregular problems and dealing with dynamic data structures. Shared memory programming has been argued to have substantial ease of programming advantages for this class of problems. We present the eskimo library which represents an attempt to merge the ...