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Tug-of-war: Seeking help while playing an educational card game
Osvaldo Jimenez, Ugochi Acholonu, and Dylan Arena
This chapter examines motivational aspects that cause students to play educational games and learn their featured content, with particular emphasis on a card game called Tug-of-War. It begins with an overview of help-seeking in technical environments before turning to a discussion of an initial way to measure motivation to learn: by focusing on the type and amount of help students seek from others in the classroom while playing the game. It then describes the design and development of Tug-of-War and how it has improved learning outcomes with respect to traditional academic measures.
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Analyzing and Interpreting Historical Sources
Matthias Kipping, R. Daniel Wadhwani, and Marcelo Bucheli
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Historicism and Industry Emergence: Industry Knowledge from Pre-Emergence to Stylized Fact
David Kirsch, Mahka Moeen, and R. Daniel Wadhwani
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Bearing Witness at the International Criminal Court: An Interview Survey of 109 Witnesses
Alexa Koenig, Stephen Smith Cody, Eric Stover, and Robin Mejia
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Inflammasomes and danger signals in the immune system
Hsin-Chih Lai, Mufadhal Al-Kuhlani, David M. Ojcius, and Matthew A. Pettengill
The innate immune system has evolved to recognize both pathogen- and damage-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs and DAMPs), which represent conserved microbial structures or generic markers of stress or damage, respectively, and to generate an appropriate response. One such response is the production of the critical cytokines interleukin-1β and interleukin-18, which follows incorporation of PAMP and DAMP signals, and requires the activation of protein complexes termed inflammasomes to generate mature cytokines.
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Divination, Politics, and Ancient Near Eastern Empires
Alan Lenzi and Jonathan Stökl
This collection examines the ways that divinatory texts in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East undermined and upheld the empires in which the texts were composed, edited, and read. Nine essays and an introduction engage biblical scholarship on the Prophets, Assyriology, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the critical study of Ancient Empires.
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The Book of Exodus: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation
Joel N. Lohr, Thomas B. Dozeman, and Craig A. Evans
Written by leading experts in the field, The Book of Exodus: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation offers a wide-ranging treatment of the main aspects of Exodus. Its twenty-four essays fall under four main sections. The first section contains studies of a more general nature, including the history of Exodus in critical study, Exodus in literary and historical study, as well as the function of Exodus in the Pentateuch. The second section contains commentary on or interpretation of specific passages (or sections) of Exodus, as well as essays on its formation, genres, and themes. The third section contains essays on the textual history and reception of Exodus in Judaism and Christianity. The final section explores the theologies of the book of Exodus.
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The Abingdon Introduction to the Bible: Understanding Jewish and Christian Scriptures
Joel N. Lohr, Joel S. Kaminsky, and Mark Reasoner
This comprehensive introduction to the various collections of biblical literature used by Jews, Catholics, and Protestants gives the beginner clear, concise, and engaging entries into each book while covering major controversies. The authors show how various biblical books have influenced and continue to have an impact upon western ethics, politics, and, of course, religion. Using artistic renderings and charts, this book is student-friendly but communicates a depth of learning in a responsible and balanced fashion.
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Banking Law and Regulation
Michael P. Malloy
The second edition of this study, supplemented three times a year, brings into sharp focus a cascading series of events that have transformed the financial services industry in ways that would have seemed close to incredible when the first edition was published in 1994. Many dramatic developments in the twenty-first century have reshaped the regulation of banks, savings associations, credit unions, and other financial services firms. This exhaustive work provides discussion and analysis of financial services regulation, including extensive treatment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act—not just an isolated discussion of the Dodd-Frank Act but a fully integrated treatment of the impact of the act on all topics covered in this study. In addition, the work offers detailed discussion of all major regulatory developments of the past two decades, affecting regulatory structures, formation, branching, management, control transactions, corporate powers, securities regulation and securities activities, holding company activities, mergers and acquisitions, conversions, troubled and failing institutions, systemic risks, and international regulatory policy.
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Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision: New Concepts and Challenges
Michael P. Malloy
Michael P. Malloy, Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision: New Concepts and Challenges, in Selected Legal Issues in Economics 11 (David A. Frenkel, ed., Athens Inst. for Educ. and Res. 2014).
This paper examines certain fundamental issues raised by the existence and application of the newly revised Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision. First, what expectations are imposed upon jurisdictions that adopt the Core Principles? Second, are the Core Principles an effective response to the international financial crisis? Third, what is the legal status of the Core Principles–mere guidelines, a significant new source of law in international practice, or something in between? The paper argues that the Core Principles represents a distinctive and highly effective approach to the coordination of legal norms across borders that, in the context of international banking practice, may operate as a set of functionally binding norms – and possibly a new source of law in international practice.
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Shaping the root canal system to promote effective disinfection
Ove A. Peters and Frank Paque
Root canal shaping serves two main purposes in canal disinfection: direct mechanistic elimination of intracanal tissue and pathogens and providing optimal space for irrigant and medicament delivery. The process of root canal preparation should be considered a main driver of clinical success in endodontics. Mechanical canal preparation does not create contact with the full radicular surface and therefore all mechanical preparation is incomplete. Mechanical instrumentation, alone or in combination with an inert flushing solution such as saline, is effective in significantly reducing bacterial load. Two basic concepts govern a numerical approach to root canal shaping procedures: working length (WL) and apical size, recently also described as working width (WW). This chapter discusses the potential negative effects of shaping on disinfection and clinical data to support specific shaping paradigms.
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Engaging First-Year Law Students by Treating Them Like Colleagues
Michael Hunter Schwartz and Scott Abbott
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Information experiences in the workplace: Foundations for an Informed Systems Approach
Mary M. Somerville and Anita Mirijamdotter
Informed learning can be enlivened through explicit and persistent attention to using information to learn during collaborative design activities. The resulting information experiences and accompanying information practices in the workplace, when combined with systems principles, can produce transferable individual and group (and, ultimately, organizational) capacity to advance knowledge in ever expanding professional contexts.
In development in North America since 2003, the Informed Systems Approach incorporates principles of systems thinking and informed learning though an inclusive, participatory design process that fosters information exchange, reflective dialogue, knowledge creation, and conceptual change in workplace organizations. It also furthers expression of collaborative information practices that enrich information experiences by simultaneously advancing both situated domain knowledge and transferable learning capacity. Integrated design activities support participants’ developing awareness of the conceptions of information experience and informed learning, in a cyclical and iterative fashion that promotes and sustains continuous learning.
A shared learning focus evolves through intentional use of information to learn, including collective reflection on information sources, collaborative practices, and systems functionalities, which further participants’ topical understandings and enrich their information experiences. In addition, an action-oriented intention and inclusive participatory disposition ensures improvements of real world situations.
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The International Law of Property
John G. Sprankling
This is the first book to explore the subject of international property law. While traditionally viewed as a national concern, identifiable areas of property law have emerged at the international level; the foundation is now being laid for a comprehensive regime. The evolution of international property law was influenced by major economic, political, and technological changes, including the embrace of private property by former socialist states after the Cold War; globalization of investments and trade; the birth of new technologies for exploiting the global commons; and increasing recognition of the human right to property. The first section of the book analyzes how international law impacts rights in specific types of property. It creates property rights in certain situations, such as rights in aboriginal lands and satellite orbits. In other areas, it harmonizes property rights that arise at the national level, such as rights in intellectual property and security interests in personal property. Finally, it sometimes restricts or prohibits the property rights that may be recognized at the national level, such as rights in celestial bodies, contraband, and humans. The second section of the book develops the thesis that a global right to property should be recognized as a general matter as to all types of property, not merely as a moral precept but rather as an entitlement that all states must honor. It examines five components of the global right: the rights to (a) acquire; (b) use; (c) destroy; (d) exclude; and (e) transfer.
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