Writing assessment literacy (WAL) constitutes an integral part of language teachers’ professional competence, and yet insufficient attention has been paid to the WAL English as a foreign (EFL) teachers from non-English-speaking countries. This study surveyed knowledge, beliefs practices in writing 219 tertiary EFL China. Data were collected through Likert-scale Survey (Crusan et al., 2016), ana...

Wal-Mart is one of the most extraordinary success stories in business history. Started in 1962 by Sam Walton, Wal-Mart has grown to become the world's largest corporation. In the financial year ending January 31, 2004, the discount retailer whose mantra is " every day low prices " had sales of nearly $256 billion, five thousand stores in ten countries (almost three thousand are in the United St...

We analyze the effect of Wal-Mart’s entry into the grocery market using a unique store-level price panel data set. We use OLS and two IV specifications to estimate the effect of Wal-Mart’s entry on competitors’ prices of 24 grocery items across several categories. Wal-Mart’s price advantage over competitors for these products averages approximately 10%. On average, competitors’ response to entr...

Most database systems use ARIES-like logging and recovery scheme to recover from failures and guarantee transactional consistency. ARIES relies on Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) protocol which requires that log records be durably written prior to the corresponding data changes. Database systems use the write-through capability of the storage media to enforce write-ahead logging. While SCSI disks tha...

Artikel ini memberi fokus kepada pemikiran Islam Muhammad Uthman El-Muhammady, seorang tokoh Nusantara. Beberapapandangan dan sumbangan dalam konteks sosial, masyarakat kebudayaan akan di analisis artikel ini. Kajianini mengunakan metode kajian kualitatif menganalisis kandungan karya-karya beliau secara diskriptif. Dapatan mendapati bahawa El-Muhammady adalah pejuang Ahli Sunnah Wal-Jamaah kala...

BACKGROUND Stem cell enrichment is generally believed to be of crucial importance for success in lipofilling for cosmetic breast augmentation. No comparative clinical studies have been reported to support this. METHODS A total of 18 women underwent breast augmentation with water-assisted lipotransfer (WAL). In 10 of the cases, transferred lipoaspirate was enriched with stromal stem cells usin...

Objective: Although research increasingly underlines the theoretical importance of adipose-derived stem cells (ASC) for successful fat transplantation, we could not prove this notion in cosmetic breast augmentation. Stem-cell-enriched breast fat transplantation did not yield better results than grafting based on the WAL (water-jet assisted liposuction) technique in terms of volume persistence. ...