... evident in and of themselves
with minimal positioning on the part ofthe authors.
The demonstrable increase inthe use of adjectives with
the potential to bias the reader may indicate thatthe inter-
pretation ... the writing and
submission of articles, the mounting impact ofthe impact
factor and the pressures currently facing authors seeking
publication.
The Rising Impact ofthe Impact Factor
Changing attitudes ... generally agreed
that one ofthe distinguishing virtues of science is its
objectivity. The scope of science is the objective world and
the limits of science are determined by the limits of the
objective...
... ADAPTING THE DIALOGUE TO THEIR LIVES.
(Using prompts)
Explain tothe students that they are going to do the dialogue again in pairs, using their own
information. This time the teacher is going to ... good The teachers would like to find out more
knowledge ofthe following topics and about the following topics for their
use them regularly in their teaching: teaching:
TOPICS %
Testing grammar ... 4
They find it difficult to speak English. 0 1 2 3 4
They find it difficult to listen to English. 0 1 2 3 4
They find it difficult to read English. 0 1 2 3 4
They find it difficult to write English. ...
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements iv
List of abbreviations v
Part 1: Introduction
1. Rationale ofthe study 1
2. Aims ofthe study 2
3. Methods ofthe study 2
4. Scope ofthe study 2
5. ... Performance ofEnglish Teaching and
Learning in Junior High Schools in Quang Ngai Province 7
2.1. Introduction 7
2.2. The Junior High School Community in Quang Ngai Province 7
2.3. Students and learning ... An overview of communicative language teaching 5
1.3.1. Definition 5
1.3.2. Principles 5
1.3.3. Techniques for language teaching 6
1.4. Summary 6
Chapter 2: An Investigation into the Current...
... know the grammar ofthelanguagein
the sense that this (largely) subconscious knowledge ofthe rules allows
them to produce an infinite number of sentences. And of course they have
lexical knowledge ... you to open that window?' and so on.
In deciding what languageto teach when working with functions we
need to bear in mind the level of difficulty, the level of transparency
(is the meaning ... however, the structure of The
Practice ofEnglishLanguage Teaching remains essentially the same. In
Part A: Background Issues, we look at some ofthe theoretical concerns
which influence the teaching...
... fact
supposed to be the main thrust ofthe Act. It drafters intended the CDA to introduce new
criminal offences of knowingly creating, sending, transmitting or displaying obscene or
indecent materials to ... made of them during the term of copyright? Other
difficulties arise not in terms of ownership ofthe content, but rather in terms ofthe legality of
the content itself - to what extent is the ... editorial role in publishing on the Internet, the law of libel applies just as it does to
the print medium.
The application ofthe law to an Internet web archive suggests the following points:
ã...
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originated from products of proinsulin. Two insulin variants
are expressed in mouse, insulin 1 and 2 [30]. Masses cor-
responding to these two peptides were detected (Fig. 1b).
The masses ofthe ... 60–80% ofthe islets and as insulin makes up almost
20% ofthe proteins inthe b-cells, proinsulin-derived
peptides can be expected to constitute quantitatively pre-
dominant components ofthe extracts. ... [35]. Detailed studies on the
processing of proinsulin to insulin and C-peptides have been
performed [36].
Previously, the C-peptide was thought to be merely a
by-product of insulin biosynthesis....
... time, they
must monitor their word recognition to make sure thatthe words activated
in their minds fit with the meaning ofthe context. In addition, they must link
new information to what they ... the
children in integrated activities related tothe topic at hand—getting to know about you, me,
and others; getting to know about amphibians; getting to know about things that scare us; and
getting to ... components of
incidental tasks that are conducive tothe kind of elaborate processing crucial to learning. The
authors attempt to operationalize the general labels of “attention” and “elaboration” into
concrete,...
... printout are the scheme's main
features.
One ofthe most discussed problems inthe automatic
translation of Russian documents into English is the
insertion ofEnglish articles inthe ... research into the question of
consumer reaction to it.
With these thoughts in mind, a close examination of
several texts, in English, was undertaken to determine
something about the patterns of occurrence ... question is meaningful only
in terms ofthe incrementing of consumer appeal ofthe
product, and it would be difficult to answer without
research inthat very area. From the point of view of
an MT...
...
English. The aim ofthe specialization module is to give students the
opportunity to build up a personal profile according to their interests or the
career they hope to pursue. However, the Governing ... Board ensures thatthe
content is to some extent related tothe specialized focus ofthe MIME. The
Governing Board puts together a list of courses inthe medium-term
curriculum that can be attended ... ability to use such
knowledge to find solutions to practical problems.
The examinations for each course will be held in accordance with the
examination system at the institution teaching that...
... (3.2)
The above identity has an interesting interpretation inthe context of labelled counting,
e.g. the enumeration of labelled graphs. In our discussion we will adopt the terminology
introduced in ... by setting
U
k
=
d
k
(k − 1)!
y.
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The rest ofthe proof is similar to, but somewhat more involved than the proofs of the
preceding two ... L
q
disjointly partition {1, ,n−1}.
Now let us turn tothe proof of Theorem 1.1. As was mentioned inthe introduction, this
Theorem is equivalent tothe assertion thatthe coefficients of
Y (t)=
n−1
j=1
(1...
...
reduce
competition
from
other
seedlings.
The
data
obtained
in
this
experiment
indi-
cate
that
low
concentrations
of
ash
neither
stimulate
nor
inhibit
germination
in
P.
pinaster,
P.
radiata ...
treated
with
ash
obtained
from
the
biomass
of
individu-
als
of
their
own
species.
Ash
solutions
were
obtained
by
diluting
the
corresponding
amount
of
ash
in
distilled
water
and ...
but
the
germinative
behaviour
of
many
species
in
the
presence
of
ash
is
still
unknown.
The
aim
of
this
experiment
was
to
anal-
yse
the
effect
of
ash
on
the
seed
germina-
tion...
... pathophysiology of SLE-associated atherosclerosis is
unknown, but the emerging picture is that many of the
same risk factors as those observed in normal individuals
are also involved. This has ... computed tomography, and thal-
lium perfusion scanning, and one autopsy study, suggest
that symptomatic disease might be the tip ofthe iceberg.
The true incidence could be as high as 74% [3–10].
The ... up to
36.4% of deaths in SLE. High rates of atherosclerotic vas-
cular disease (ASVD) are particularly striking in young
women with SLE, normally at low risk. The incidence of
myocardial infarction...