Excavating Culture: Summary of Results.

Natural Diet of Coral-Excavating Sponges Consists Mainly of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC)

Coral-excavating sponges are the most important bioeroders on Caribbean reefs and increase in abundance throughout the region. This increase is commonly attributed to a concomitant increase in food availability due to eutrophication and pollution. We therefore investigated the uptake of organic matter by the two coral-excavating sponges Siphonodictyon sp. and Cliona delitrix and tested whether ...

Excavating Culture: Disentangling Ethnic Differences from Contextual Influences in Parenting.

Historically, much of the research on parenting has not disentangled the influences of race/ethnicity, SES, and culture on family functioning and the development of children and adolescents. This special issue addresses this gap by disentangling ethnic differences in parenting behaviors from their contextual influences, thereby deepening understanding of parenting processes in diverse families....

Information Archeology: Excavating Lessons from past Successes

Current trends of space occupation by encrusting excavating sponges on Colombian coral reefs

Sponges are a significant component of coral reefs, their bottom cover and density often being similar to or higher than those of stony corals (Rützler 1978; Zea 1993). Among the various morpho-functional types of reef sponges, those that excavate the calcium carbonate reef framework play a key role in the balance between reef accretion and erosion (reviews in Wilkinson 1983; Glynn 1997). Addit...

THE IMPACT OF TEACHING SUMMARIZING ON EFL LEARNERS’ MICROGENETIC DEVELOPMENT OF SUMMARY WRITING

Summary writing is associated with lots of cognitive and metacognitive complexities that necessitates instruction (Hirvela & Du, 2013). Contrary to majority of studies carried out on summarization instruction, the present study addressed the underlying processes or microgenetic developments of the Iranian EFL learners’ summary writing. To this end, 41 male and female undergraduate students rece...