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...

One of the most innovative genres in today’s business communication is product pitch (PP), mainly characterised by its multisemiotic nature (Daly & Davy, 2016), which makes it essential to take a multimodal approach analysis and teaching this genre (Tamarit Skorczynska, 2014; Valeiras-Jurado, 2017). However, despite increasing importance oral field, little research has been conducted on PPs...

Motivation has long been identified as one of the main factors affecting English language learning. The study examines type and level ESP learning motivation (extrinsic intrinsic) 148 first-year undergraduate students Klaipeda University well their attitudes towards language. Identification kind students’ to will help formulate measures for improvement subject quality.

Along with the growing practice of teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in non-English departments tertiary education, it is essential to investigate challenges faced by ESP teachers. It can be a basis proposing policies improvement practice. This study was driven fact that classes are allocated limited credit hours, and teachers generally General no experience training ESP. Thus, this ...

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...

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce bicycle injuries among rural middle school students in China. A one-year cluster-randomized controlled trial was conducted with seventh grade students from six middle schools in two towns in rural Chaoshan, China. The two towns were randomly assigned to either the intervention or control group. Road safety education mat...

Closures of higher educational institutions and cancellation in-person classes caused by COVID-19 made ESP teachers in Montenegro find alternative ways to transform the serious emergency into an important opportunity foster innovation area teaching online. Doing so, sought enhance experience already place many countries round world. This paper deals with students’ responsiveness employing new m...

This study aimed to investigate the problems faced by ESP lecturers when teaching low English proficiency students during online Maritime lessons and their strategies in dealing with problems. A questionnaire six open-ended questions was distributed 9 from 6 different Polytechnics Indonesia. follow-up interview conducted four obtain more detailed information regarding practices, especially diff...

INTRODUCTION Because of increasing difficulty in treating enterococcal infections, effort is being devoted to understanding factors that are responsible for causing nosocomial infection, with a focus toward targeting these factors with new therapeutics. Evidence has emerged that the esp gene mediates biofilm formation in vitro, which helps the organism colonize and cause infection. METHODOLOG...