The current study investigated the effectiveness of genre-based instruction on the development of EFL learners’ writing skills. Participants were 34 undergraduate students majoring in textile engineering at an Iranian state university, and they had enrolled in the English for specific academic purposes course. Participants were taught how to write 4 types of business letters, highlighting the p...

Given a sequence of letters generated independently from a finite alphabet, we consider the case when more than one, but not all, letters are generated with the highest probability. The length of the longest run of any of these letters is shown to be one greater than the length of the longest run in a particular state of an associated Markov chain. Using results of Foulser and Karlin (19...

183. Evaluating Multidrug Resistance Prevalence and Antimicrobial Stewardship Preparedness in the Largest Not-For-Profit Healthcare System in the United States: Taking the First Step to Optimize Antimicrobial Use Roy Guharoy, PharmD, MBAS; Mohamad G. Fakih, MD, MPH; Gail Fraine, RN; Michelle Heavens, BSN, MHA; Ann Hendrich, RN, PhD; Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worceste...

D URING 1958 and 1959 at Northwestern Universitv (Chicago). we developed transplantation of the canine liver alone. I parallel to similar independent investigations in Boston hy Francis Moore.:'" The liver also was transplanted as a component of abdominal multivisceral grafts. 4 At the beginning. these were technical and physiologic exercises. because long-term survival of an organ allograft ha...

The article is devoted to the images of flowers, gardens and Chinese literary reminiscences in work Finnish poetess Katri Vala, one most prominent members group «Tulenkantajat» («The Flame Bearers»). purpose explore for first time Russian criticism poetry Vala relation throughout entire career poetess. subject study lyrics which contains an alternation poetic landscapes, sometimes overlapping, ...