Helen George

• Open University Malaysia

There is a large body of research showing that people selectively prefer information that supports their decisions and opinions, and avoid conflicting information (selective information processing). Three studies were conducted to examine how the different leadership styles of supervisors influence subordinates’ selective information processing (i....

Navajo is one of the comparatively few languages in the world in which there are said to be four vowel qualities, [i,e,ɑ ,o]. Data from nine speakers of Navajo show that when the vowels are represented in terms of their formant frequencies, they are not approximately equidistant as predicted by Lindblom’s dispersion hypothesis, in that [i] and [e]...

Recent results indicate the possibility of imaging an object using ambient noise in the frequency region of 5 to 45 kHz [Buckingham et al., Nature 356, 327–329 (1992)]. For lower frequencies, numerical simulations have been performed to determine whether an object submerged in an ocean waveguide and insonified by surface noise can be detected. An o...

The renin-encoding genes have been cloned from high (Ren-1d, Ren-2d)- and low (Ren-1d)-renin-producing strains of mice (DBA/2J and C57BL/10). Each of the genes is approx. 9.6kb in length and consists of nine exons and eight introns. The entire nucleotide sequence of the Ren-1d gene has been determined and the 5'-flanking regions of the three genes,...

We have demonstrated the use of the Escherichia coli LexA repressor-operator system to down-regulate gene expression in mouse cells. The LexA gene was placed downstream of the RSVLTR promoter with polyadenylation and splice signals from SV40. This expression unit was introduced into mouse Ltk- cells by calcium phosphate transfection and stable tran...

cDNA libraries have been constructed from mRNAs isolated from mature male DBA/2 mouse submaxillary glands. Several recombinant plasmids have been assigned to particular mRNA species and their in vitro translation products by HART and hybrid selection. Clones containing copies of two abundant mRNA species that showed no sexual dimorphism were select...

Two cDNA libraries were constructed, using respectively the 12S and the 16S sucrose gradient fractions of polysomal poly (A)+ RNA from mouse C243 cells induced with Newcastle disease virus. Screening of a part of both libraries by mRNA selection hybridization assays revealed the presence of two plasmids hybridizing to an mRNA, whose translation pro...

We report the molecular cloning of cDNA copies of DBA/2 mouse submaxillary gland (SMG) renin mRNA, which were used to probe Southern transfers of mouse genomic DNA. The results suggested either that there is a single renin gene containing a large intron in that part of the gene corresponding to the probe, or that there are two distinct renin genes....

This case study describes and discusses the experience of embedding employability into the curriculum of the Business Programme at London South Bank University. The study starts at a point where the Business Programme underwent a major review/revalidation in 1996 and ends with the intended module revisions planned for 2005/06. It outlines what we w...

This poster argues that an evidence-informed approach can be appropriate for ensuring accountability and validity of change initiatives in Higher Education (HE) in general and e- learning specifically, if recognition is made of the local context and the evidence-base gathered and used in situ. We describe how this model of evidence-informed practic...

This is a MacIntosh Hypercard stack of the sounds of the Navajo language developed for Diné College, Shiprock New Mexico for use in language instruction by Helen George and Joyce McDonough in April 1994 at the UCLA Phonetics Lab. This is based on UCLA’s Hypercard SOWL (Sounds of the World’s Languages) stacks.