Despite the general findings that address the positive contribution of teaching pragmatic features to interlanguage pragmatic development, the question as to the most effective method is far from being resolved. Moreover, the potential of literature as a means of introducing learners into the social practices and norms of the target culture, which underlie the pragmatic competence, has not been...

A method to decompose a 3D object into simple parts starting from its curve skeleton is described. Branches of the curve skeleton are classified as meaningful and non-meaningful by using the notion of zone of influence of the points where skeleton branches meet. Meaningful branches are associated to subsets of the object, which are obtained by subtracting from the input object suitably expanded...

We formulate general guidelines to extend an explicit code with a great variety of implicit and semi-implicit time integration schemes. The discussion is based on their speciic implementation in the Versatile Advection Code, which is a general purpose software package for solving systems of non-linear hyperbolic (and/or parabolic) partial diierential equations, using standard high-resolution sh...

this study investigated the relative effects of deductive and inductive form-focused instruction (ffi) on the acquisition of 4 non-generic definite article uses(cultural, situational, structural, and textual) as assessed by explicit and implicit outcome measures. the tests utilized to assess efl learners' acquisition of definite article uses were timed and untimed grammaticality judgment t...

block copolymer nano-micelles are especially important in cancer treatment because of their fine dimensions. in this article, three systems of amphiphilic copolymers with similar lengths and different ratios of the hydrophobic and hydrophilic chains are studied using implicit-solvent coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. the factor fphil is defined as the ratio of the number of hydroph...

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the experiential avoidance, explicit and implicit attraction beliefs in obese and normal body mass index (BMI) females. Materials and Methods: This was an analytic cross sectional study. About 400 females (between 20-43 years old) were selected from nutrition and obesity clinics by convenience sampling method. The 40 items avoidance questionnaire...

this study was an attempt to explore the beliefs of iranian efl teachers about the role of grammar in english language teaching in both state schools and private language institutes. data were collected through a questionnaire developed by burgess and etherington (2002), which consisted of 11 main subscales and was divided into two sections. the first section dealt with approaches to grammar te...

in this paper, a class of semi-implicit two-stage stochastic runge-kutta methods (srks) of strong global order one, with minimum principal error constants are given. these methods are applied to solve itô stochastic differential equations (sdes) with a wiener process. the efficiency of this method with respect to explicit two-stage itô runge-kutta methods (irks), it method, milstien method, sem...

The convergence of an alternating direction implicit method for Maxwell’s equations on product domains is investigated. Unlike the classical Yee scheme and most other integrators proposed in the literature, this method is both unconditionally stable and computationally cheap. We prove second-order convergence of the time-discretization in the framework of operator semigroup theory. In contrast ...

We analyze the interaction of explicit and implicit contracts in a model with selfish and fair principals. Fair principals are willing to honor implicit agreements, whereas selfish principals are not. Principals are privately informed about their types. We investigate a separating equilibrium in which principals reveal their type through the contract offer to the agent. If this equilibrium is p...