The notion of genre has received a great deal of attention both in discourse analytic studies as well as in the field of ESP/EAP course design. The present paper has attempted to use genre analysis to account for the rhetorical features of research article introductions written by Iranian academics in two disciplinary fields of Education and Economics. The corpus comprised 40 research article i...

Eap is a multifunctional Staphylococcus aureus protein and broad spectrum adhesin for several host matrix and plasma proteins. We investigated the interactions of full length Eap and five recombinant tandem repeat domains with host proteins using surface plasmon resonance (SPR; BIAcore®) and ligand overlay assays. In addition, agglutination and host cell interaction, namely 5 adherence, invasio...

One of the main concerns of scholars working in the field of EAP over the last 2decades has been raising the awareness of EAP students and publishers of genreconventions in academic journals. In line with the above concern, many studies haveaimed at exploring the general characteristics of research articles (RAs) in the field.Among these features, it seems that the generic moves and textuality ...

The pathogenic bacterium Staphylococcus aureus actively evades many aspects of human innate immunity by expressing a series of small inhibitory proteins. A number of these proteins inhibit the complement system, which labels bacteria for phagocytosis and generates inflammatory chemoattractants. Although the majority of staphylococcal complement inhibitors act on the alternative pathway to block...

OBJECTIVE Staphylococcus aureus can induce platelet aggregation. The rapidity and degree of this correlates with the severity of disseminated intravascular coagulation, and depends on platelet peptidoglycans. Surface-located thiol isomerases play an important role in platelet activation. The staphylococcal extracellular adherence protein (Eap) functions as an adhesin for host plasma proteins. T...

BACKGROUND Wound infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The staphylococcal extracellular adherence protein (Eap) has been shown to delay wound healing by interfering with host defense and angiogenesis, yet the expression of Eap in the human wound is required to exert these functions. METHODS A protocol was developed to determine eap...

The extracellular adhesion protein (Eap) secreted by the major human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus is known to have several effects on human immunity. We have recently added to knowledge of these roles by demonstrating that Eap enhances interactions between major histocompatibility complex molecules and human leukocytes. Several studies have indicated that Eap can induce cytokine production by...

the applicability of second language instruction to various situations including academic settings provides great opportunities for students and researchers to access fresh sources of knowledge. this is extended to the majority of iranian students receiving courses such as english for specific purposes (esp) and english for academic purposes (eap) who may not find instruction compatible with th...

This memo provides information for the Internet community.I tdoes not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document describes a set of state machines for Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) peer,EAP stand-alone authenticator (non-pass-through), EAP backend authenticator (for use on Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA...

1 2 The cell surface-associated extracellular adherence protein (Eap) mediates adherence of 3 Staphylococcus aureus to host extracellular matrix components, and inhibits inflammation, 4 wound healing and angiogenesis. A well-characterized collection of S. aureus and non5 S. aureus staphylococcal isolates (n = 813) was tested for the presence of the Eap-encoding 6 gene (eap) by PCR to investigat...