The performances of two continuously monitoring mycobacterial culture systems-ESP Culture System II (ESP II; Trek Diagnostics, Inc. , Westlake, Ohio) and BACTEC MGIT 960 (BD Biosciences, Sparks, Md. )-were compared. In addition to both liquid media, all specimens were plated onto Middlebrook 7H11/7H11 selective agar. A total of 3, 151 specimens of all types (56.3% were respiratory specimens) we...

Forty participants from an introductory Psychology course were recruited based upon their self-reported beliefs in ESP (High, Medium, Low). Participants answered a packet of self report questionnaires, then underwent electroencephalographic (EEG) recording during eyes open and eyes closed resting baseline. Participants then completed "traditional" and "novelty enhanced" formats, of a multimodal...

ESP is a language for programmable devices. Unlike C which forces a tradeoff that requires giving up ease of programming and reliability to achieve high performance, ESP is designed to provide all of these three properties simultaneously. This paper measures the performance impact on applications of using ESP to implement VMMC firmware. It compares the performance of an earlier implementation o...

One of the steps in creating a course that delivers validity and relevance for all design activities is analyzing needs students. Need analysis helps teachers to identify students’ learning English based on their daily future needs. This study intends evaluate textbook appropriateness students school’s ESP office administration program at SMK Setiabudhi Semarang. Hutchison Waters (1987) propose...

In the Sociology of Education Course, problems that occur for students require a combination learning resources into one such as an E-Book. So researchers developed E-Book Educational Courses. This study aims to: 1) describe level need E-Book, 2) design development 3) validity and practicality research used R&D approach was using ADDIE model. Data collection needs identification questionnai...

<p>This study investigates the perceptions and practices of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students regarding learning strategies for Specific Purposes (ESP) in context Political Education. The focuses on six (6) Oxford (1990)'s classification, including (1) memorization strategies, (2) cognitive (3) compensation (4) metacognitive (5) affective social strategies. A mixed-methods appr...

Correspondence: ciaccio@columbia. edu Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, USA Abstract This article is a review of the book: ‘Biomedical Image Processing’, by Thomas M. Deserno, which is published by Springer-Verlag. Salient information that will be useful to decide whether the book is relevant to topics of interest to the reader, and whether it might be suitable as a course ...