The purpose of this study is to offer a multi-disciplinary framework to examine the continuing digital participation divide and within-group use variance among millennials. We focus on millennials due to the size of their population segment. We further critically examine assumptions of homogeneous adoption of emerging Information and communication technologies (ICTs) among “digital natives.” We...

Tree Substitution Grammar rules form a large and expressive class of features capable of representing syntactic and lexical patterns that provide evidence of an author’s native language. However, this class of features can be applied to any general constituent based model of grammar and previous work has done little to explore these options, relying primarily on the common Penn Treebank annotat...

In this paper we investigate how teaching programming to the modern generation of students, “digital natives” who grew up with Google and Facebook and do not know the world before the Internet, can be improved through a highly visual game-like approach. Many programming teachers report that modern programming students have short attention span, lack concentration and have poor motivation to lea...

The two-dimensional blue native/sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2D BN/SDS-PAGE) is a method of choice for the investigation of protein complexes. This highly resolvent separation method is unique in that it facilitates the identification of many protein complexes simultaneously. Because of its simplicity and suitability, the 2D BN/SDS-PAGE can be now applied to a wide...

conclusion according to our findings, it is recommended to use ferula gummosa extract, as a herbal alternative treatment, in more investigations to prove its treatment effects on infections. objective ferula gummosa grows as a native plant in different parts of iran and has been used for treatment of some infections such as uti since ancient times. present study is planned to show the antibacte...

objective(s): several beneficial effects have been attributed to the probiotic lactic acid bacteria. it was determined that lactobacilli can exert antiproliferative effects on the various cancer cell lines including colon cancer. effects of lactic acid bacteria on colon cancer may vary from strain to strain and there is a need to find the new probiotic strains with tumor suppressing properties ...

This work was aimed at evaluating the activity of native phosphate solubilizing bacteria on growth and development of radish (Raphanus sativus L.) plants. Bacteria were isolated from the Departament of Sucre (Colombia) soil using selective media (NBRIP), further identifi ed by macroscopic and microscopic observation and biochemically characterized using the API System. Their ability to solubliz...

I examined the resistance of 2 competing estuarine mudsnails, Cerithidea californica (native) and Batillaria attramentaria (exotic), to mortality from microbes and associated alteration of the abiotic environment (i.e., hypoxia). B. attramentaria is displacing C. californica from salt marshes of northern California where the 2 species overlap. I first examined the mortality and distribution of ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate how acetamiprid, a new insecticide, affects the activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), and ATPase and the SOD isozyme patterns in two G bacteria, E. coli K12 and Pse.FH2, and one G+ bacterum, B. subtilis. METHODS The SOD, CAT, and ATPase specific activities of cell lysates were determined spectrophotometrically at 550 nm, 240 nm, and 660 nm, respectiv...

Microevolution and origins of Bradyrhizobium populations associated with soybeans at two field sites (A and B, 280 km apart in Canada) with contrasting histories of inoculation was investigated using probabilistic analyses of six core (housekeeping) gene sequences. These analyses supported division of 220 isolates in five lineages corresponding either to B. japonicum groups 1 and 1a or to one o...