In view of native/nonnative language teacher dichotomy, different characteristics have been assigned to these 2 groups. The dichotomy has been the source of different actions and measures to clarify the positive and negative points of being (non)native teachers. In recent years, many researchers have revisited this dichotomy. The challenge to the dichotomy can be a source of motivation to explo...

Although many cancers are associated with infectious agents (Ewald and Swain Ewald 2015), only four naturally occurring transmissible cancers have so far been identified in dogs, soft-shell clams and Tasmanian devils (DFT1 and DFT2) (Pye et al. 2015). The recent discovery of DFT2 (Pye et al. 2015) provides an intriguing story to the evolution of transmissible cancers and poses several questions:

Biomarkers of Lipid Peroxidation? To the Editor: Isoprostanes are currently used as biomarkers of lipid peroxidation in humans.1 Minuz et al2 recently showed that urinary levels of 15-F2t-IsoP were increased in hypertensive patients suffering from renovascular disease, confirming the experimental data showing that renovascular hypertension and activation of the renin-angiotensin system in gener...

The purpose of this study was to determine the importance of eleven professional competencies related to needs assessment and program development; a secondary purpose was to identify the best time these competencies should be learned. The study followed a survey research design, in which 441 randomly selected extension educators in the North Central Region of the United States responded to a qu...

The paramer mismatch-based spectral gamut mapping framework is an approach which optimizes the spectral reproduction colorimetrically for multiple viewing conditions. Unfortunately, due to the pixelwise nature of this method, almost similar neighboring pixels might be mapped to completely different colorants which yield disturbing banding artifacts. The previous proposed solution for this probl...

This paper reports marketplace developments for consumer-driven health plans in spring 2002. Findings are from interviews with executives from start-up and health insurance firms, benefit consultants, employee benefit managers, Wall Street analysts, consumer organizations, thought leaders, and policymakers. We detail available evidence about the performance of consumer-driven health plans conce...

Global navigation satellite systems such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) is one of the most important sensors for movement analysis. GPS is widely used to record the trajectories of vehicles, animals and human beings. However, all GPS movement data are affected by both measurement and interpolation errors. In this article we show that measurement error causes a systematic bias in distanc...