Title of Dissertation: CONTENT-BASED INSTRUCTION IN THE CONTEXT OF CHINESE IMMERSION: AN EXPLORATION OF CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK Qin Yao, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016 Dissertation directed by: Professor, Jeff MacSwan, Ph.D., Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership Immersion education encourages students to learn a new language by actually using the language, and has become a popular...

The morphology of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) deposited on a (100) silicon wafer by simple immersion in a solution containing a metal salt and hydrofluoric acid (HF) is altered by HF treatment both before and after deposition. The gold clusters are characterized by the presence of flat regions and quasispherical particles consistent with the layer-by-layer or island growth modes, respectively. T...

A fundamental problem in differential geometry is to characterize intrinsic metrics on a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold M which can be realized as isometric immersions into R. This problem can be formulated as initial and/or boundary value problems for a system of nonlinear partial differential equations of mixed elliptichyperbolic type whose mathematical theory is largely incomplete. In t...

The principles of operation and design immersion ultrasonic transducers developed by the authors for excitation reception elastic vibrations in moving filament-like plane-parallel materials, particular, polymer fibbers films, with an adjustable angle input (reception) probing signals into controlled object – films at normal high temperatures.
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Background Immersion is important for simulation-based education; however, questionnaire-based instruments to measure immersion have some limitations. The aim of the present work is to develop a new instrument to measure immersion among participants in healthcare simulation scenarios. Methods The instrument was developed in four phases: trigger identification, content validity scores, inter-r...