Social Movements for Freedom An Anti-Oppressive Approach to Literacy and Content Area Learning in an Urban Fourth Grade Classroom

In a unit on social movements for freedom, urban fourth grade students examined the activities and lives of activists who worked for social change.Using XTRAMOIST SHAMPOO an integrative and strategic approach to literacy, children researched, wrote, and presented their ideas to family and community members through visual, textual, digital and artis

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Evaporation time of droplets containing thiamethoxam and adjuvants on hydrophilic, hydrophobic and lipophilic surfaces under different air relative humidities

The efficacy of pesticide applications is related to the spread and evaporation time of the droplets deposited on the target.This study evaluates the evaporation of spray droplets containing thiamethoxam and adjuvants on different surfaces and at different levels of relative air humidity.A climate controlled chamber Baby Bags was set up with a digi

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Discussing Landscape Compositional Scenarios Generated with Maximization of Non-Expected Utility Decision Models Based on Weighted Entropies

The search for hypothetical optimal solutions of landscape composition is a major issue in landscape planning and it can be outlined in a two-dimensional decision space involving economic value and landscape diversity, the latter being considered as a potential safeguard to the provision of services and externalities not accounted in the economic v

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Genetic modification: a tool for enhancing cellulase secretion

Lignocellulosic (LC) biomass is abundantly available as a low-cost resource on the Earth.LC conversion into energy carriers is the most accepted alternative energy production policy because it is non-competitor to food or feed.LC ethanol has brought cellulases to the forefront which was otherwise lost 4.15/4BRV in oblivion during last decades.LC bi

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