l2 research has shown that instruction in l2 pragmatics is necessary. the current study evaluated the impact of explicit instruction on efl learner's awareness and production of three speech acts of request, apology, and complaint. it also probed whether learners’ language proficiency plays any role in incorporating pragmatic instruction into the l2 classroom. iranian undergraduate student...

Current knowledge acquisition practices place undue restrictions on the issues placed under consideration when they are applied in an organisational context. This paper reviews a number of such techniques and explores their limitations for many `real world' business problems. Managerial and administrative problem solving, in particular, predicate a less obtrusive and more interpretive methodolo...

this study was inspired by vanpatten and uludag’s (2011) study on the transferability of training via processing instruction to output tasks and mori’s (2002) work on the development of talk-in-interaction during a group task. an interview was devised as the pretest, posttest, and delayed posttest to compare four intervention types for teaching the simple past passive: traditional intervention ...

Newborns have poor thermal stability and therefore infants are extremely vulnerable to body temperature variations. The purpose of choosing a temperature site in neonates is to minimise the effect of extraneous variables such as environment, on the readings. Moreover, the most accurate, least invasive and obtrusive method should be chosen. Traditional, low-tech mercury-glass thermometers are no...

This paper is essentially a treatment of the theoretical and practical aspects of the new IPTV service. The central part of the paper constitutes a detailed presentation of analysis scenarios and results, and addresses the following issues in particular: What influence does the encoding rate have of on QoE values? What effect does the most obtrusive impairment factor in a network, i.e. packet l...

FRANS MEULENEIRE Wound Care Specialist, AZ St Elisabeth, Wound Care and Diabetic Foot Centre, Zottegem, Belgium The Avance Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) system (Mölnlycke Health Care) is easy to use, lightweight, and portable. The system promotes patient mobility and is minimally obtrusive. In this series of case studies, the author looks at the use of the Avance NPWT system, using eit...

In medicine and industry, there is a need for flexible multirobot platforms that allow for independent placement of multiple robotic manipulators. The Computer Aided Medical Procedures research group at Johns Hopkins University has developed a multi-robot surgical platform with two KUKA iiwa robotic manipulators. Each KUKA system is built into a mobile workstation, which makes them easy to tran...