This paper describes the Omphalos Context-Free Grammar Learning Competition held as part of the International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference 2004. The competition was created in an effort to promote the development of new and better grammatical inference algorithms for context-free languages, to provide a forum for the comparison of different grammatical inference algorithms and to gain in...

The composition of a defined nongrowth medium used in stage II development of competence of Haemophilus influenzae affects the course of this development. The development of competence in two nongrowth media, M-IV and M-V, is rapid, logarithmic, and independent of the cell concentration. This last property indicates that there is probably no transfer of a competence factor from competent to non...

Purpose: Today, without having competent and efficient human resources, organizations will not be able to create transformation, development and excellence, achieve a strategic model and achieve the set goals. The way to achieve this is to develop the management and leadership of the organization and create an efficient structure for the human resources organization. Therefore, the main purpose...

This study is a mixed method research that investigated the effect of electronic collaborative discussion forum on Iranian EFL teachers' engagement and professional identity and their development in terms of teachers‘ competences as they were engaged in collaborative teacher inquiry. For this purpose, 5 EFL teachers participated in 11 online forum discussion sessions. Before participating in di...

This study sought to examine the type and frequency of tasks in the Iranian high school English course books (Prospect 1, 2, 3 & English Book 1, 2, 3). The corpus was analyzed based on Nunan’s (1999) framework composed of five main task types, namely cognitive, interpersonal, linguistics, affective, and creative. To this end, the whole content of the aforementioned course books went through con...

in this study an adaptation of halliday and hasan's (1976) description of cohesion in english was applied to the spoken narratives of typical developing children. regarding the development in grammatical cohesion, narrations of 3 groups of children 4;00 to 7;00 years of age, 5 in each age group, were analyzed and compared with each other. this research applies an experimental method.to evaluate...