In this volume, Tarone, Bigelow, and Hansen identify two gaps in current second language acquisition (SLA) research. First of all, they note that illiterate and low-literate second language (L2) learners are rarely the targets of SLA inquiry and thus have been left out of the SLA database. The authors consider this omission as a problem that abates the power of current SLA theories to the conte...

1. Recent work shows that large leaves tend to require higher biomass investments per unit leaf area than small leaves. As a consequence, specific leaf area (SLA), which is a focus trait for a bulk of physiological and ecological research programs, is dependent on leaf size variation. Here, we address whether size dependency alters the outcome of research dealing with SLA responses to environme...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to characterize the osseointegration of the fibronectin-coated implant surface. METHODS Sand-blasted, large-grit, acid-etched (SLA) surface implants, with or without a thin calcium phosphate and fibronectin coating, were placed in edentulous mandibles of dogs 8 weeks after extraction. All dogs were sacrificed forhistological and histomorphometric evaluati...

Please cite this article in press as: Q. He Inform. Sci. (2009), doi:10.1016/j.ins.200 In the web services environment, service level agreements (SLA) refers to mutually agreed understandings and expectations between service consumers and providers on the service provision. Although management of SLA is critical to wide adoption of web services technologies in the real world, support for it is ...

OBJECTIVES The primary objective of this open, retrospective, nonrandomized study was to evaluate survival and success rates for sandblasted, large-grit, acid-etched (SLA) and titanium plasma-sprayed (TPS) implants placed by a single practitioner. The secondary objectives included evaluation of crestal bone loss and adverse events. MATERIALS AND METHODS Implants were placed by a single practi...

OBJECTIVES CpG oligodeoxynucleotides (CpG ODNs) have been shown to have potent immunostimulatory adjuvant activity for a wide range of antigens. Due to susceptibility of phosphodiester CpG ODNs (PO CpG) to nuclease degradation, nuclease-resistant phosphorothioate CpG ODNs (PS CpG) were currently utilized in an in vivo model. In this study, according to some recently reported drawbacks with PS C...

Changes of titanium surface roughness and surface free energy may influence protein absorption that increases cell differentiation through activation of focal adhesion kinase related pathways. However, the influence of titanium surface roughness and hydrophilicity on fibroblast behavior is not well understood. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of topography and hydrophilici...

Cloud service providers mostly offer service level agreements (SLAs) in descriptive format which is not directly consumable by a machine or a system. Manual management of SLAs with growing usage of cloud services can be a challenging, erroneous and tedious task especially for the cloud service users (CSUs) acquiring multiple cloud services. The necessity of automating the complete SLA life cycl...

Autoantibodies against soluble liver antigen (SLA) are specific markers for autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) type 1. In contrast to the determination of other AIH-associated autoantibodies by indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA), detection of anti-SLA relied up to now on ELISA or immunoblot based on bacterially expressed recombinant protein. In order to develop a complementary IFA substrate, SLA i...