Providing learner control opportunities, such as making individual choices and using preferred learning styles, is a difficult task in the tertiary ESP classroom. Curricular courses can be supplemented with integrative CALL experiences in Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) to overcome classroom constraints. ESP course design in these environments should, however, focus on key aspects which a...

Recent advances in ocean observing systems and genomic technologies have led to the development of the deep-sea environmental sample processor (D-ESP). The D-ESP filters particulates from seawater at depths up to 4000 m and applies a variety of molecular assays to the particulates, including quantitative PCR (qPCR), to identify particular organisms and genes in situ. Preserved samples enable la...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to evaluate the results of spinal cord protection based on selective reconstruction of the segmental arteries. METHODS Twenty-one patients who underwent repair of aneurysms (nine descending thoracic and 12 thoracoabdominal: three type I, six type II, and three type III) were analyzed. Ten patients had postdissection aneurysms. Operative techniques consiste...

Despite sharing many common features, adenine-binding and guanine-binding sites in proteins often show a clear preference for the cognate over the non-cognate ligand. We have analyzed electrostatic potential (ESP) patterns at adenine and guanine-binding sites of a large number of non-redundant proteins where each binding site was first annotated as adenine/guanine-specific or non-specific from ...

As the core issue of blockchain, the mining requires solving a proof-of-work puzzle, which is resource expensive to implement in mobile devices due to high computing power needed. Thus, the development of blockchain in mobile applications is restricted. In this paper, we consider the edge computing as the network enabler for mobile blockchain. In particular, we study optimal pricing-based edge ...

This paper considers the calculation of a Euclidean shortest path (ESP) in a three-dimensional (3D) polyhedral space Π . We propose an approximate κ(ε) · O(M |V |) 3D ESP algorithm (excluding preprocessing), with preprocessing time complexity O(M |E| + |S| + |V | log |V |), for solving a special, but ‘fairly general’ case of the 3D ESP problem, where Π does not need to be convex, V and E are th...

Partial charges of atoms in a molecule and electrostatic potential (ESP) density for that molecule are known to bear a strong correlation. In order to generate a set of point-field force field parameters for molecular dynamics, Kollman and coworkers have extracted atomic partial charges for each of all 20 amino acids using restrained partial charge-fitting procedures from theoretical ESP densit...

Most bacterial source tracking (BST) methods are too expensive for most communities to afford. We developed targeted sampling as a prelude to BST to reduce these costs. We combined targeted sampling with three inexpensive BST methods, Enterococcus speciation, detection of the esp gene, and fluorometry, to confirm the sources of fecal contamination to beaches on Georgia's Jekyll and Sea Islands ...

High Performance Computing (HPC) technology is being used to provide scalable and cost-eeective solutions to many Embedded Signal Processing (ESP) applications. Such applications are computationally intensive and require real-time performance. To meet such requirements, algorithmic techniques are needed to eeectively utilize available HPC platforms. In this paper, we address the design issues i...

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