The weakly coupled vacuum of E8⊗E8 heterotic string theory remains an attractive scenario for particle physics. The particle spectrum and the issue of dilaton stabilization are reviewed. A specific model for hidden sector condensation and supersymmetry breaking, that respects known constraints from string theory, is described, and its phenomenological and cosmological implications are discussed...

this study is an attempt to adapt a post-structural approach for the analysis of ‘trans-relational’ episodes prevalent in the study of workplace discourse analysis. to do this, the talk between three employees working at the same office was recorded and analyzed based on a discourse analytic framework. the results of data analysis revealed that five type of relational episodes are frequent in t...

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