In a scholarly convention, ESP has bilaterally focused on “academic” and “occupational” arenas leaving the symbiosis between the two almost untouched. The present study, thus, aims to weigh the concordance between what is taught in universities as EAP courses for B.A. students in Business and Economics and what English skills and abilities are, actually, required from them on the job. A...

areas in India and the Far East, but the dis| tribution of" troops over wide areas in the Last during the second world war revealed the widespread nature ofthe endemic foci of typhus of this type. Bengal which was supposed to be free of such a disease was soon shown to. possess many endemic foci, some immediately around Calcutta. Investigations in these foci revealed that rats were infected wit...

Environmental factors can determine which group size will maximize the fitness of group members. This is particularly important in cooperative breeders, where group members often serve different purposes. Experimental studies are yet lacking to check whether ecologically mediated need for help will change the propensity of dominant group members to accept immigrants. Here, we manipulated the pe...

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This paper explores how inductive machine learning can guide the breeding process of evolutionary algorithms for black-box function optimization. In particular, decision trees are used to identify the underlying characteristics of good and bad individuals, using the mined knowledge for wise breeding purposes. Inductive learning is complemented with statistical learning in order to define the br...

Alfalfa is an autotetraploid, allogamous and heterozygous forage legume, whose varieties are synthetic populations. Due to the complex nature of the species, information about genetic diversity of germplasm used in any alfalfa breeding program is most beneficial. The genetic diversity of five alfalfa varieties, involved in progeny tests at Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, was characteriz...

—Yaqui topminnow Poeciliopsis occidentalis sonoriensis and Yaqui chub Gila purpurea, two federally endangered fishes from the Rio Yaqui basin (Arizona, USA, and Sonora, Mexico), were propagated by various methods. Propagation of Yaqui topminnow was attempted in aquaria and wading pools; the greatest number of offspring was produced in 556-L, plastic wading pools. We added substrate, artificial ...