the role of attitudes and motivation in second foreign language learning

... accumulating school savings may have effects apart from financing school. Conley (2001) finds that a doubling of net worth results in an 8.3% increase in the probability of attending college. Further, ... for their youth. Youth savings. Youth were asked in 2002 whether they had a savings or bank account in their name. If they had an account, they were also asked whether they were saving some of ... None of the existing research examines the effect of youth savings on college attendance, and only one study examines the relationship between parent school savings and college attendance. Theoretical...

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... suggested by the lack of coincidence of the changes in relative fluorescence intensity and in  k and by the hysteresis of the reversibility process (Fig. 4). At the end of the transition, the intrinsic ... that of the wild-type; however, the integrity of the calcium bind- ing site formed by Asp287 and Glu53 is essential for interaction with the cation in 7.9 m GdmCl. An interesting finding of the ... observed for the wild-type, indicating the involvement of Glu53 and Asp287 in the interaction with the cation (Fig. 1E,F). The regain of aromatic chirality at 295 nm and in the 260–270 nm region for...

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... for the central role of ADAM10 and confirming that TACE has a minor role in the a-secretase cleavage of APP in human cells. During the course of the present study it was reported using an RNA interference ... critically involved in blood pressure regulation due to its action in generating angiotensin II and in inactivating bradykinin [1]. The enzyme also has a role in the development of vascular pathology and ... cells in the absence or presence of APMA. Following this second incubation, the level of sAPPa in the medium was examined (Fig. 4A,B). There was no significant difference in the level of sAPPa in the...

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... & Lynch, K. (1999).Offeringa hand to pragmatic understanding: The role of speech and gesture in comprehension and memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 577–592. Lansing, C. R., & McConkie, ... presence of a visual /r/ and /f/ significantly increased 664 Language Lea rning Vol. 55, No. 4 Conclusion The results of the present study suggest the need for further investigations of the role of ... explanations of one ESL teacher: A microanalytic inquiry. Language Learning, 54, 79–117. Long, M. H. (1996). The role of the linguistic environment in second language acquisition. In W. C. Ritchie...

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... (1973) examined the frequency of all gift-giving occasions in the U.S and found that the most popular occasion is birthday (35 percent) and the second one is Christmas (29 percent). The other ... giving in Hongkong and the continuum of social ties”, Journal of Consumer Research , Vol. 28, 2001, p.239-255. 18. Krugman, Herbert E., The impact of television advertising: learning without involvement ... including this study. However, managers can gain insights by understanding the psychological mechanism of changing consumers’ attitudes in gift receiving to establish appropriate marketing...

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... not interact with R124 in the ternary complex [20]. Hence, the mechanism of binding of fosfomycin by reinforcement of an initial binding site (mainly K22 and R397) through recruit- ment of secondary ... in fosfomycin binding, and in view of the multitude of interactions, it was assumed that deletion of a single interaction would not lead to a complete loss of fosfomycin binding. Therefore it ... form of the protein. The results obtained with the K22V/R120K double mutant protein point toward a central role of arginine 120 in the conformational process occurring during catalysis. Therefore,...

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... University Regional Learning Alliance – workforce development and training/collaborations with business and industry; meeting the training and education needs of businesses within 60 mile radius in Northern ... Programs and Initiatives Business accelerators and/ or entrepreneurial initiatives Linking teaching and research to business opportunities Collaboration with local business and industry Small Business ... substance Stimulate intellectual growth and individual productive capacity Ensure a stable supply of knowledge and skills in high need areas Increase the size, diversity of skills and productivity of the labor...

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... recruiting large enterprises with tax breaks, financial incentives, and other induce- ments. Instead, they are relying on building businesses from the ground up and supporting the growth of existing ... well. They include constraints on the supply of labor and other inputs, upward pressure on wages and rents, congestion of infrastruc- ture, and (if fiscal incentives are provided to the locating ... than at the end of the period. Table A1 decomposes job growth from the second quarter of 2000 into job classes using beginning size of firm, mean size of firm over the period, and end size of firm....

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... domain is one of the few ACPs in which valine replaces isoleucine (I) or leucine (L) in the conserved sequence. To determine whether DptF is the putative partner of DptE, we expressed dptF using ... dptF using the pQTev vector in E. coli and purified the resulting ACP as an N-terminal His7 fusion protein (Fig. 3) with a yield of 9.5 mgặL )1 of culture. The identity of the protein was proven ... [37]. Interestingly, in the case of the lipopeptide surfactin, neither an acyl CoASH ligase-like domain nor an ACP could be identified within the biosynthetic gene cluster using bioinformatic tools...

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... OS-fitness of the clone, the ratio of the specic absorbance in the presence of 10 lgặmL )1 HEL to that in the absence of HEL was taken as an index. To analyze the effect of the type of each FR2 ... antigen in itself [7,20]. At least for these antibodies, the role of the V L domain might be to increase the affinity by supporting the V H domain. The phenomenon may also be observed in the chain ... correlation between the antigen- binding affinity and the V H ⁄ V L interaction, especially in the presence of a set of particular V L residues. The effect of the H39 mutation on the wild- type variable...

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... mainly individuals and small businesses, the traditional target client group of savings banks. By capturing and channelling more of the remittances into the financial system and intermediating ... out of the savings banks movement, have done a   Bringing the Hidden Giants to the Footlight: the Role of Savings and Retail Banks in Increasing the Level of Access to Financial Services Chris ... for disbursing of loans and collecting loan repayments. Another promising track for savings banks is to invest their savings deposits in microfinance institutions by specialising  in wholesale...

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... documents and find that the fea- ture vectors corresponding to some of these docu- ments (particularly the short ones) have all zeroes in them. In other words, none of the bigrams from the training ... Making large-scale SVM learning prac- tical. In Advances in Kernel Methods - Support Vector Learning, pages 44–56. MIT Press. S M. Kim and E. Hovy. 2004. Determining the sentiment of opinions. In ... one in which the author himself likes the movie, and in the other, the author’s cousin likes the movie. The over- generalization resulting from these “stemmed” re- lations renders dependency information...

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... bridging the A’ and G b-strands of the I27 protein during the main unfold- ing barrier. [39] To further validate this view and gain insight into the role of solvent hydrogen bonds in protein unfolding, ... rapidly, causing the unfolding of one of the I27 modules in the chain. Unfolding then extends the over- all length of the protein, relaxing the pulling force to a low value. As the slack in the length ... Snapshot of the b-strands A’ and G of the I27 protein showing the protein backbone only for simplicity. C) Snapshot of the b- strands A’ and G of the I27 protein showing 4 D 2 O molecules bridging the protein...

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... (glycero-)sphingolipids. In addition the fatty acid chains of the phospholipids composing these rigid domains are generally more saturated than those in the lipids of the surrounding membrane. In fact, this ... cluster in response to extracellular stimuli and the size of the domains containing those clusters has been estimated. In summary, multiple lines of evidence have helped to argue in favour of the ... carefully. Isolation of lipid rafts ⁄ caveolae is very often the first step in the biochemical analysis of the role of these domains in cellular signalling. After disruption of cells, lipid rafts...

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... 484–487. 23. Brines, R.D. & Brock, J.H. (1983) The effect of trypsin and chy- motrypsin on the in vitro antimicrobial and iron-binding proper- ties of lactoferrin in human milk and bovine colostrum. ... Berkel* and Jan H. Nuijens Pharming, Archimedesweg, Leiden, the Netherlands Lactoferrin (LF) is an iron-binding glycoprotein of the innate host defence system. To elucidate the role of N-linked glycosylation ... 2004 Tryptic susceptibility of lactoferrin variants (Eur. J. Biochem. 271) 683 The role of N-linked glycosylation in the protection of human and bovine lactoferrin against tryptic proteolysis Harrie...

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