The earth’s changing climate     

P. K. Das 《Resonance》1996,1(3):54-65

Various human activities have contributed to an increase in the levels of greenhouse gases. The contribution that these make to global warming requires further investigation, because there are several negative feedback mechanisms which inhibit the warming process.  相似文献   

Polymorphonuclear leukocytic sialic acid and sialidase activity in obesity     

Raj K. Das  M. G. Muddeshwar 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》1997,12(2):114-118

The level of sialic acid in the obese polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNL) was found to be significantly reduced as compared to normal. Activity of sialic acid degrading enzyme, sialidase, was found to be increased in the obese state. Restoration in both sialic acid content and sialidase activity was also evidenced in the PMNL of treated obese patients.  相似文献   

The madelung constant of the sodium chloride crystal lattice     

Sourav Das 《Resonance》2003,8(10):76-84

An analysis of the Madelung constant of the sodium chloride crystal lattice has been made, in an effort to supplement information available in undergraduate textbooks. A method of approximation of the constant using the personal computer is presented. An erratum to this article is available at .  相似文献   

Cognitive performance of dysphasic students     

J. P. Das  Seija M. Äystö 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》1994,9(1):27-39

The cognitive abilities of a group of dysphasic children in a special school in Finland were examined in this study to answer the following questions: Can we categorize their cognitive processing as planning, arousal-attention, simultaneous and successive processing (PASS)? The second question was concerned with detecting subgroups within the dysphasic sample in terms of PASS processes. The subjects were 60 dysphasic children in a special school. Their ages ranged from 7 to 19 years. All subjects were administered tests of planning, arousal-attention as well as simultaneous and successive processing. They were also administered the Wechsler test of intelligence for children and adults according to their ages, two sub-scales of Wechsler memory scale, as well as three ad hoc tests, cancellation task, KS persons and Rey Osterrieth copy task. The results of the factor analysis generally confirmed the emergence of the four PASS factors. As a results of cluster analysis, two subtypes of dysphasics emerged categorized as clearly high and low in the successive factor as well as relatively high and low on the simultaneous factor scores. The low-simultaneous/low-successive group was significantly lower in WISC verbal IQ the Wechsler memory scale for logical memory, and the ad hoc test of KS persons. The results were discussed, in terms of the importance of understanding the language problems typically associated with the two subtypes as well as the remedial program which will take into account their cognitive differences in spite of the fact that both groups had significant language impairment.  相似文献   

Efficient Degumming of Rice Bran Oil by Immobilized PLA1 from Thermomyces lanuginosus     

Tripti Singhania  Harsh Sinha  Paulomi Das  Amit Kumar Mukherjee 《Food Technology and Biotechnology》2015,53(1):91-95

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Assessment of attention in school children: teachers' ratings related to tests of attention     

Timothy C. Papadopoulos  J. P. Das  H. M. Nelly Kodero  Veronica Solomon 《欧洲特需教育杂志》2013,28(1):15-32

The paper provides (1) a teacher-administered rating instrument for inattention without confounding the rating with hyperactivity and conduct disorder, and (2) evidence that the ratings correlate with the scores obtained from cognitive tests of attention. In Study I, the first objective was to investigate the construct validity and the inter-rater reliability of the Attention Checklist (ACL) by factor analysing the teacher ratings of 110 Grade 4 children, obtained by using the ACL. The second objective was to investigate the predictive validity of the ACL by examining the relationship between the scores obtained for the participants from teachers' ratings using the ACL and the scores obtained by participants in the lab-type attention tests. The results of factor analysis showed that a single factor labelled ‘inattention’ underlies the 12 items in the ACL. Examining the differences in performance on attention tests, the ‘low attention’ children as rated by the teachers on the ACL scored lower than the ‘high attention’ children on the objective tests of attention. These findings were replicated in Study II, which was conducted to test further the construct validity and predictive validity of the ACL. This time, only those two tests (Auditory Attention and Visual Attention) that had shown relatively poor discrimination between the high and low attention groups in Study I were, again, administered to another cohort of 97 Grade 4 children, as it was our intention to further challenge the reliability of the ACL. Overall, the results of both studies suggest that comprehensive assessment of attention skills should include both ACL and objective measures of selective attention.  相似文献   

Behavioural inhibition and hyperactivity: a commentary from alternative perspectives     

J. P. Das  Timothy Papadopoulos 《欧洲特需教育杂志》2013,28(2):183-195

Attention disorders in the school population include attention deficit, hyperactivity and conduct disorders. A key concept for distinguishing hyperactive from attention disorders is behavioural inhibition as advocated by Barkley, a prominent American researcher. However, the concept itself needs to be understood because, as argued in this paper, there are two kinds of inhibition: Pavlov's original concept and the American one. These should be differentiated if the abnormal conditions associated with attention and hyperactivity are to be rationally connected to cognitive characteristics, rather than to be solely based on clinical symptoms and behavioural ratings. We suggest a consensus on the concept of inhibition and a unified view of attention disorders integrating cognitive and behavioural manifestations. Finally, the importance of basing remediation on a theoretically supported and rationally derived set of cognitive training tasks for the amelioration of inattention and hyperactivity is offered.  相似文献   

UNIVERSITY‐BASED ADULT DAY CARE CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND TRAINING: DESIGN,FUNDING, AND PROGRAMMATIC ISSUES     

Shirley S. Travis  Puspa Das 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(6):557-565

In the early 1980s, the College of Human Resources at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University began a visioning process to plan its educational agenda for the 21st century. One of the more pressing issues targeted for educational intervention was community‐based long‐term care. Ten years later, a licensed, Medicaid‐certified adult day health center is fully operational on the university campus, providing a myriad of research, teaching, and public service opportunities for faculty and students. Center design, funding, and programmatic issues are discussed.  相似文献   

注意:概念、测验和教师等级评定     

J.P.Das 《华东师范大学学报(教育科学版)》2002,20(3):68-76,96

本文的理论部分探讨注意的性质、注意的测验和测量，以及注意缺陷的鉴定。注意具有选择性，它包含着对冲动反应的抑制和对分心的克服。第二部分讨论三项经验研究，这些研究探索了注意等级评定量表的使用，该量表由教师对儿童在课堂情境下的注意情况进行等级评定。研究发现，教师的等级评定可以预测课外情境中儿童在注意测验上的表现。这些等级评定具有显著的预测性，正如该测验的结果所表明的，教师一直关注着儿童注意的一个重要方面，即对分心的抵制。在结论性评述中，讨论了可能导向注意缺陷改善的动态测试。第三部分是附录部分，例举了若干注意力测验。  相似文献   

What is a Species? An endless debate     

Uttam Saikia  Narayan Sharma  Abhijit Das 《Resonance》2008,13(11):1049-1064

Everybody is familiar with the ubiquitous term ‘species’. But what is a species? Undeniably, this is one of the most complex dilemmas in the history of biology. There is no other concept in biology as elementary yet controversial as the concept of species. In practice, a species is regarded as the fundamental unit of comparison in all biological disciplines like systematics, evolution, ecology, ethology, physiology, and genetics. However, little agreement exists in the scientific community regarding the nature of species, whether it is a real entity or a cultural artifact, its biological significance or how to delineate a species. This article is a review of the seemingly endless debate on the species concept and its implications.  相似文献