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Explicitly teaching five technical genres to English first-language adults in a multi-major technical writing course

Description: In this article, the author reports the effects of explicitly teaching five technical genres to English first-language students enrolled in a multi-major technical writing course. Previous experimental research has demonstrated the efficacy of explicitly teaching academic writing to English first-language adults, but no comparable study on technical writing exists.
Date: 2014
Creator: Boettger, Ryan K.
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Introducción a la Sección Especial de Revista Bosque. Avances de una red de sitios de estudios ecológicos a largo plazo en el suroeste de Sudamérica

Description: This article is the forward to a special section on long-term ecological research in Chile. It briefly introduces the main topics and ideas of each of the articles and comment on their relevance in the context of research and monitoring of Chilean ecosystems and in the perspective of global change research.
Date: 2014
Creator: Armesto, Juan J., 1953-; Nuñez-Avila, Mariela; Donoso, Pablo & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
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Latino Attitudes Toward Abortion and Marriage Equality: Examining the Influence of Religiosity, Acculturation, and Non-Response

Description: This article seeks to extend literature on Latinos' policy preferences by examining the influence of multiple dimensions of acculturation and religiosity on two contemporary moral policy issues: abortion and same-sex marriage.
Date: 2014
Creator: Branton, Regina; Franco, Ana B.; Wenzel, Jim & Wrinkle, Robert D.
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Wnt Antagonist, Secreted Frizzled-Related Protein 4 (sFRP4), Increases Chemotherapeutic Response of Glioma Stem-Like Cells

Description: Article on the effect of secreted frizzled-related protein 4, a Wnt signaling antagonist, in chemosensitizing the glioma cell line U138MG and glioma stem cells enriched from U138MG to chemotherapeutics.
Date: 2014
Creator: Warrier, Sudha R.; Balu, Senthil Kumar; Kumar, Alan Prem; Millward, Michael & Dharmarajan, Arunasalam
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Loss of Rare Fish Species from Tropical Floodplain Food Webs Affects Community Structure and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in a Mesocosm Experiment

Description: Article on the loss of rare fish species from tropical floodplain food webs and how this affects community structure and ecosystem multifunctionality in a mesocosm experiment.
Date: January 8, 2014
Creator: Pendleton, Richard M.; Hoeinghaus, David; Gomes, Luiz C. & Agostinho, Angela A.
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On The Performance of Quasar Reverberation Mapping in the Era of Time-Domain Photometric Surveys

Description: This article quantitatively assesses, by means of comprehensive numerical simulations, the ability of broadband photometric surveys to recover the broad emission line region size in quasars under various observing conditions and for a wide range of object properties.
Date: February 2, 2014
Creator: Chelouche, Doron; Shemmer, Ohad; Cotlier, Gabriel I.; Barth, Aaron J. & Rafter, Stephen E.
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