The development of our ICALL system is supported by the Incomplete Grammar approach, which allows us to model the learner with a cognitively based system of hypotheses held by the Tutor module. An Incomplete Grammar model of a learner’s language performance includes Constituent Productions PC, Constituent Production Errors PCE , Lexical Productions PCL and Lexical Production Errors PLE in the l...

Suttee, a Hindoo coolie, aged 30 years, came to the cliaritable dispensary, on the 27th March last, to have a large tumour on the left side of his neck removed. It hung above from the lower jaw, occupying the space between the symphisis and angle. The anterior attachment corresponded to the mesial line, extending from under the chin for 5? inches. The posterior edge was attached to the sterno-m...

Previous researches have widely demonstrated that the interference from peripheral distractor will decrease when the task load is high. However, no study to date has paid attention to the individual differences in perceptual load effect (PLE) and little is known of spontaneous brain activity associated with PLE during resting state. To investigate this issue, we used resting-state functional Ma...

The purpose of this article is to present a rare case of localized, solitary amyloid tumor of tongue base and emphasize some of the characteristic features of challenging clinical and histopathologic diagnosis. In this paper, we focused on the clinical and pathological specifications of this rare tumor, so any unnecessary examinations or measures may be spared. Negative staining of amyloid mate...

The paper focuses on the potential of a work based Personal Learning Environment. It examines relations, context, actions and learning discourses in line with Vygotsky’s sociocultural approach to cognitive development, working on the assumption that “action is mediated and cannot be separated from the milieu in which it is carried out” (Wertsch, 1991). The key aspect of learning discourses it t...

This study examined the role of parenting styles and parental warmth in moderating relations between exposure to political life events and mental health symptoms among 277 Israeli adolescents aged 12-14 and their parents, who had been exposed to protracted periods of war, missile bombardments, and terrorism. Adolescents completed the Political Life Events (PLE) scale, Brief Symptom Inventory an...

Personal learning environment (PLE) solutions aim at empowering learners to design (ICT and web-based) environments for their activities in different learning contexts and even for transitions between these contexts. Hereby, recommender systems which are highly successful in other application areas comprise one relevant technology for supporting learners in PLE-based activities. In this paper w...

Wood-derived cellulosic fibers prepared in different ways were successfully employed to absorb simulated crude oil, demonstrating their possible use as absorbents in the case of oil spills. When dry fibers were used, the highest sorption capacity (six parts of oil per unit mass of fiber) was shown by bleached softwood kraft fibers, compared to hardwood bleached kraft and softwood chemithermomec...

The advantage of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) is to empower a learner in taking control over his/her own learning process. The shift from just being controlled by a teacher towards taking control by oneself in a selfregulated learning (SRL) way can be basically initialised by providing learning environments that can be personalised and individually adapted or created instead of using '...

Current evidence suggests that there may be significant differences in psychotic symptom prevalence in Africa compared with other cultures. However, there have been few studies evaluating these symptoms in the continent. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) in 2963 Kenyan students from seven tertiary academic institutions spread across Kenya, using a self-a...