Debates have been used as an instructional tool since 1999 in the Program in Dental Hygiene and are currently used by the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. The debate format is designed to present a thought-provoking and uncomplicated teaching tool that uses key elements of adult education, such as emphasis on self-learning and its process. The objective of this article...

this study was an attempt to investigate the effect of lexicon-based debates on the felicity of lexical equivalents in translating literary texts by iranian efl learners.  to fulfill the purpose of this study, 59 university students, majoring in english translation, were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups from a total of 73 students based on their performance on a mock toe...

Rising income inequality has been a defining trend of the past generation, yet we know little about its impact on social policy formation. We evaluate two dominant views about public opinion on rising inequality: that Americans do not care much about inequality of outcomes, and that a rise in inequality will lead to an increase in demand for government redistribution. Using time series data on ...

We study the behavior of quark and diquark condensates in dense quark matter under the influence of a gravitational field adopting as a simple model the static D−dimensional Einstein Universe. Calculations are performed in the framework of the extended Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model at finite temperature and quark density on the basis of the thermodynamic potential and the gap equations. Quark and di...

The result says that convolutions are somewhat ‘continuous’ objects: one can find lots of translates that leave f ∗ g virtually unchanged in L; furthermore, there is a lot of structure to the set of translates. For the reader unfamiliar with Bohr sets, we give the definition and the relevant properties in the next section; the general idea to take away is that B can be considered a ‘large’ and ...

We investigate the distribution of the Riemann zeta-function on the line Re(s) = σ. For 1 2 < σ ≤ 1 we obtain an upper bound on the discrepancy between the distribution of ζ(s) and that of its random model, improving results of Harman and Matsumoto. Additionally, we examine the distribution of the extreme values of ζ(s) inside of the critical strip, strengthening a previous result of the first ...

N. Bobrovska, M. Matuszewski, T. C. H. Liew, and O. Kyriienko Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotnikow 32/46, PL-02668 Warsaw, Poland Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, Singapore 637371 The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhag...

M. Leijnse,1 M. R. Wegewijs,2,3,4 and K. Flensberg1 1Nano-Science Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark 2Institut für Theoretische Physik A, RWTH Aachen, 52056 Aachen, Germany 3Institut für Festkörper-Forschung—Theorie 3, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany 4JARA-Fundamentals of Future Information Technology Received 26 April 2010; revise...

Global health networks—webs of individuals and organizations linked by a shared concern for a particular condition—have proliferated over the past quarter century. In a recent editorial in this journal, I presented evidence that their effectiveness in addressing four challenges—problem definition, positioning, coalitionbuilding and governance—shapes their ability to influence policy. The editor...