Designing appropriate materials and activities to enhance vocabulary learning is one of the primary goals of language courses. Among the claims about efficient pedagogical tasks is the Involvement Load Hypothesis (Laufer & Hulstijn, 2001) according to which vocabulary development is contingent on the amount of cognitive process a task involves. Building on the previous research on this hypothes...

predicates are words or groups of words which are considered as the most important semantic elements of the sentence. following manouilidou, almeida, schwartz and nair, this research investigates the nature of verb disorder in persian alzheimer patients. to this end, the property of thematic role assignment by three kinds of predicates has been focused upon. the first kind of predicates include...

A tournament T is a pair (A,≻), whereA is a set of alternatives and ≻ is an asymmetric and complete (and thus irreflexive) binary relation on A, usually referred to as the dominance relation. The dominance relation can be extended to sets of alternatives by writing X ≻ Y when x ≻ y for all x ∈ X and y ∈ Y . For a tournament (A,≻), an alternative x ∈ A, and a subset X ⊆ A of alternatives, we den...

It has recently been shown that triply periodic two-phase bicontinuous composites with interfaces that are the Schwartz primitive (P) and diamond (D) minimal surfaces are not only geometrically extremal but extremal for simultaneous transport of heat and electricity. The multifunctionality of such two-phase systems has been further established by demonstrating that they are also extremal when a...

this paper presents new sensitivity-based methods for detection of structural damage using incomplete noisy modal data. these methods are based on the first-order derivative of modal parameters. changes of natural frequency do not usually provide spatial information on the structural damage. they are also not sensitive to the local damage. in this paper, a new sensitivity function is proposed u...

Expected backgrounds in the final accelerator-to-target region of the European Spallation Source, to be built in Lund, Sweden, have been calculated using the MCNPX program. We consider the effects of losses from the beam, both along the full length and localised at the bending magnets, and also backsplash from the target. The prompt background is calculated, and also the residual dose, as a fun...