Before the advent of computing, a standard science and mathematics curriculum emerged in secondary education, supported and expanded by first-year college courses, that serves as the technical basis for every student in science and engineering. For whatever reason, we have seen two unfortunate developments at the dawn of the new millennium. First, many computer science students have somehow bee...

There is great interest in explaining how beneficial microbiomes are assembled. Antibiotic-producing microbiomes are arguably the most abundant class of beneficial microbiome in nature, having been found on corals, arthropods, molluscs, vertebrates and plant rhizospheres. An exemplar is the attine ants, which cultivate a fungus for food and host a cuticular microbiome that releases antibiotics ...

the focus of this paper lies on abu ali farsi's general views on the development of linguistic phenomena including synonymity, antonymity, parallelism, lexical assimilation, and metathesis. the paper sheds light on the views erroneously attributed to abu ali farsi, somehow analyzing and rectifying misinterpretations given to his views.

Second language learning involves affective factors such as interactions with the dominant linguistic and cultural group, and related problems of self-concept, identity, and self-esteem. Substantial attention has not been paid to these categories in the field of earlier studies of second language acquisition. In recent years however, there has been increasing research on the relationship betwee...

Introduction/Purpose: Aircraft present one of the safest and most frequently used means transport. However, despite taking many security measures, accidents happen. No matter a damage level, if aircraft somehow manages to land, important is evacuate passengers from aircraft, fast safely. Evacuation very complex depends on different factors such as degree, presence fire, speed passengers, panic ...

In statistics it is often assumed that sample observations are independent. But sometimes in practice, observations are somehow dependent on each other. Spatiotemporal data are dependent data which their correlation is due to their spatiotemporal locations.Spatiotemporal models arise whenever data are collected across bothtime and space. Therefore such models have to be analyzed in termsof thei...

Polymorphism, complexity, and selective forces operating on the HLA system were reviewed. Re~ combinational and functional data indicated a complex genetic region with many loci whose functions were correlated with the immune system and cellular differentiation and were also somehow interrelated with the immunoglobulins. frhe SCJ~indicates that this paper has been cited in over 325 publications.)

Polymeric templates favour the self-organisation of liquid crystal materials doped with metallic nanoparticles. A first spectroscopical characterization of the fabricated samples is reported. The plasmonic response obtained from the structures is polarization sensitive and can be somehow tuned by applying external fields. The research is oriented to the fabrication of devices with metamaterial ...