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“I Own My Life Now”: Implications of Trauma Survivors' Language Acquisition for a Pedagogy of Empowerment in TESOL

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the language experiences of refugees and asylum seekers who survived sex trafficking, domestic slavery, and sexuality‐based persecution. Drawing on a longitudinal study of 15 respondents followed across two time points separated by 6 years, all members of an England‐based therapeutic community, we focus here on four ...
Sally Rachel Cook, Jean Marc Dewaele
wiley   +1 more source

Perspectives on Vicarious Trauma in TESOL

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This conceptual paper explores the concept of vicarious trauma of second language teachers of multilingual learners who have experienced trauma. We reflectively engage with and critique dominant discourses in the existing literature that examines the impact of this work.
Victoria E. Wilson, Rachel Burke
wiley   +1 more source

Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

Determine the Compressive Strength of Calcium Silicate Bricks by Combined Nondestructive Method

open access: yesThe Scientific World Journal, 2014
The paper deals with the application of combined nondestructive method for assessment of compressive strength of calcium silicate bricks. In this case, it is a combination of the rebound hammer method and ultrasonic pulse method.
Jiri Brozovsky
doaj   +1 more source

Tensile Strength Modeling of Limestone Rocks in Sulaymaniyah City, Iraq Using Simple Tests

open access: yesPolytechnic Journal, 2019
Tensile strength of rocks is one of the mechanical properties of intact rock that is a significant parameter for designing geotechnical structures includes dam foundations and tunnels.
Diyari Abdalrahman Mohammed   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impacting device for testing insulation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1984
An electro-mechanical impacting device for testing the bonding of foam insulation to metal is descirbed. The device lightly impacts foam insulation attached to metal to determine whether the insulation is properly bonded to the metal and to determine the
Redmon, J. W.
core   +1 more source

Universities as the Next Counterintelligence Battleground in Geopolitical Contests

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globally, universities are increasingly becoming the target of foreign national security actors, engaging in espionage, sabotage, foreign interference and intellectual property theft. Despite that, there has been no examination of the utilisation of counterintelligence approaches by universities to the threats they face from the subordination ...
Brendan Walker‐Munro   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geological and Geomorphological Context and Characterization of Constructive Materials from the Iberian–Roman Archaeological Site at La Vispesa (NE Spain)

open access: yesHeritage
La Vispesa is an archaeological settlement occupied from the First Iron Age to the Imperial Roman Period. The objectives of this study were to (i) perform a geomorphological characterization of the site; (ii) place it in its regional context; (iii ...
José Luis Peña-Monné   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Renormalization group study of the four-body problem

open access: yes, 2010
We perform a renormalization group analysis of the non-relativistic four-boson problem by means of a simple model with pointlike three- and four-body interactions.
H. Gies   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Modeling the distribution of the volcanic aerosol cloud from the 1783–1784 Laki eruption [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
We conducted simulations of the atmospheric transformation and transport of the emissions of the 1783–1784 Laki basaltic flood lava eruption (64.10°N, 17.15°W) using the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies modelE climate model coupled to a sulfur ...
Alan Robock   +62 more
core   +1 more source

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