The aim of this study was to investigate the level of effectiveness and initial oral English communication needs of Indonesian learners when using OEC to perform the learning activities in the business administration department of Porliteknik Negri Ujung Pandang in Makassar. Conceptually, the needs of learners cover aspect of want, lack and necessity that will be developed as the indicators of ...

Fair cake-cutting is the division of a cake or resource among N users so that each user is content. Users may value a given piece of cake differently, and information about how a user values different parts of the cake can only be obtained by requesting users to “cut” pieces of the cake into specified ratios. One of the most interesting open questions is to determine the minimum number of cuts ...

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In this study, a circulating fluidized bed of 125 mm diameter and 1800 mm height was used to find the combustion characteristics of olive cake (OC) produced in Turkey. Olive cake alone and olive cake+lignite coal mixtures were burned separately. Various olive cake/lignite coal ratios were tried. A suitable feeding mechanism of olive cake to the bed was developed. On-line concentrations of O2, S...

Fair cake-cutting is the division of a cake or resource among N users so that each user is content. Users may value a given piece of cake differently, and information about how a user values different parts of the cake can only be obtained by requesting users to “cut” pieces of the cake into specified ratios. Many distributed computing problems which involve resource sharing can be expressed as...

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to clarify the analgesic effect of toad cake and toad-cake-containing herbal drugs. METHODS We counted the writhing response of mice after the intraperitoneal administration of acetic acid as a nociceptive pain model and the withdrawal response after the plantar surface stimulation of the hind paw induced by partial sciatic nerve ligation of the mice as a n...