the present study on politeness is an attempt to examine (dis)agreeing strategies utilized by efl learners while chatting on the internet. subjects of the study were forty male and thirty-three female iranian natives whose internet relay chat (irc) interactions, composed of 400 excerpts, were collected between december 2007 and september 2008. data analysis was based on the general taxonomy of ...

We determined the dose-response curves to inhaled methacholine (MCh) in 16 asthmatic and 8 healthy subjects with prohibition of deep inhalations (DIs) and with 5 DIs taken after each MCh dose. Flow was measured on partial expiratory flow-volume curves at an absolute lung volume (plethysmographically determined) equal to 25% of control forced vital capacity (FVC). Airway inflammation was assesse...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Explore characteristics of nonrestorative sleep (NRS) in prospectively defined subgroups of individuals with NRS symptoms, investigate whether NRS can occur independently of difficulties initiating and maintaining sleep (DIS/DMS), and determine its effect on waking function. DESIGN Cross-sectional and longitudinal population-based study comparing patterns of daytime symptoms,...

• Charged Multiplicities in DIS and diffractive DIS (DDIS). The use of W and Ecurrent and a unified approach to DIS and DDIS. • Inclusive photoproduction of non-strange mesons. Universal rate curve as a function of (pT +m). • Strange Particle Production and polarisation, looked at as a function of pT , η,Q , x. • Charm fragmentation. Universality in DIS, photoproduction and ee annihilation. • B...

A new approach to handling battle simulation lethality is presented. In this approach, a single vulnerability/lethality server provides standard distributed interactive simulation (DIS) damage states to entities fast enough for most real-time applications. Benefits include DIS simulations being freed from the burden of maintaining damage state tables and DIS exercises being easier to configure ...

In this paper, we dis uss the relationship between mediatorbased systems for servi e dis overy in multi-agent systems, and the te hnique of query routing used for resour e dis overy in distributed information systems. We then onstru t a model of the query routing task whi h we use to examine the omplexity and s alability hara teristi s of a number of ommonly en ountered ar hite tures for resour...

This paper presents a brief instructions to nd geodesics equa-tions on two dimensional surfaces in R3. The resulting geodesic equations are solved numerically using Computer Program Matlab, the geodesics are dis-played through Figures.