Wheat is so important in human affairs that its digestibility has been investigated on many occasions. The literature was summarized and fresh experiments carried out by Borgstrom (1941), Macrae, Hutchinson, Irwin, Bacon & McDougall (1942), Heupke (1943), McCance, Widdowson, Moran, Pringle & Macrae (1945), Brull, Barac, Brakier-Zelkowiecz, Clemens, Crismer, Deltombe, Divry, Dubois, Dumont, Dumo...

This paper introduces the theory of communicative competence by Hymes, the interpretation of communicative competence by Canale & Swain, the elements of efficient communication by Widdowson respectively, and the limitation of the previous application in China with the teaching environment of Classroom plus blackboard, analyzes the necessity and feasibility of creating authentic communicative en...

This book is aimed at first-year students of Phonetics. It is based on a book I wrote which was published in 1992. The book, which had the title Introducing Phonetics, has now been deleted from the publisher's list. The title was misleading: this is not an introduction to Phonetics but a series of short explanations of technical terms used in the subject. I have, in fact, written what I hope is...

It will be abundantly evident from other papers in this symposium that obesity is not a common feature in modem farm animals nor should it be inferred from the inclusion of this paper that nutritional obesity is an inevitable consequence of the consumption of animal products. The justification for including this subject rests entirely on the obsession with human obesity in our overnourished wes...

Introduction Our interest in this subject arises from a desire for information on individual variation in energy requirements, on the proportion of a population needing more and the proportion needing fewer calories than any stated estimate of its average energy requirements. We should like to be able to compare an array of intakes of energy of individuals with a corresponding array of their en...

in recent years, the teaching of grammar and the importance attached to it has become a bone of contention among language teaching professionals. the emergence of the communicative approach (ca) in second or foreign language teaching has been one of the most important factors leading to this controversy. since the advent of ca in the second half of the 1970's grammar which had always occup...

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The aim of this study was to determine whether there was any relationship between body fat and pseudo(or plasma) cholinesterase. Hutchinson, McCance & Widdowson (I~sI), in reporting their studies of undernutrition and feeding, pointed out that, at the end of rehabilitation when men became ‘fat’, the average pseudo-cholinesterase was higher than normal. It therefore seemed of interest to investi...

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