this study investigated the relationship between language learning aptitude (lla) and the use of language learning strategies (llss) among a cohort of iranian efl students at urmia university, iran. the adapted versions of the modern language aptitude test (mlat; carrol & sapon, 1983) and oxford’s (1990) strategy inventory for language learning (sill) were distributed among the participants...

Low oxygen conditions in the modern Baltic Sea are exacerbated by human activities; however, anoxic also prevailed naturally over Holocene. Few studies have characterized specific paleoredox (manganous, ferruginous, euxinic) and their frequency southern sub-basins during these ancient events. Here, we apply a suite of isotope systems (Fe, Mo, S) associated elemental proxies (e.g., Fe speciation...

A large ice-dammed lake drained catastrophically into Lake Tuborg, Ellesmere Island, beginning on 25 July 2003. Limnological, sedimentological, and hydrological parameters were recorded before, during, and after this event. For several weeks prior to the jökulhlaup, water overtopped the ice-dammed lake and flowed into Lake Tuborg’s freshwater basin. A shallow sill separates the freshwater basin...