James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is founder of the Sociocultural Theory...

I enthusiastically welcome the paper by Saeed Karimi-Aghdam [2016] for many reasons, but especially because it makes an important contribution to and serves to invigorate debates about theoretical and, more broadly, philosophical underpinnings of our contemporary approaches to human development, with crucial implications for applied fields including education. Such debates are sorely needed tod...

Trees are among the most fundamental and ubiquitous structures in mathematics. Tree languages and automata on trees have been studied extensively since the 1960s from both a purely mathematical and application point of view. When trees are defined as terms, universal algebra becomes directly applicable to tree automata and, on the other hand, the theory of tree automata suggests new notions and...

Biographical notes: Faisal Saeed is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia. He received his BSc in Computers (Information Technology) from Cairo University, Egypt, MSc in Information Technology Management and PhD in Computer Science from UTM, Malaysia. His research interests are machine learning, data minin...

Arthralgias and spondyloarthropathies of the peripheral and axial joints are common in inflammatory bowel disease. Evidence for a strong association between these clinical manifestations and diseases of the joints has been provided by several clinical and epidemiological studies. Immunological studies have shown the presence of shared inflammatory cells both in the gut and the synovium in spond...

Nadeem ur Rehman MBBS Faran Emmanuel MBBSMSc Saeed Akhtar PhD Country Office for Pakistan, UNODC; Department of Community Health Sciences, Aga Khan University, Stadium Road, Karachi, Pakistan; Epidemiology, Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, PO Box 24923, Safat 13110, Kuwait Correspondence to: Saeed Akhtar Email: [email protected]...

This paper discusses the study of Abdullah Saeed's contextual interpretation by using a philosophical-contextual approach. Departing from two major camps in understanding Qur'an, namely textualist and contextualist camps, this is present to discuss how views, methodology, application interpretation. thinking on idea approach that he offers result influence his predecessor, Fazlur Rahman with do...

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Title: Cellular adaptation through fitness-directed transcriptional tuning Authors: Peter L. Freddolino, Jamie Yang, and Saeed Tavazoie Affiliations: Department of Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York City, NY, 10032, USA *Correspondence: Saeed Tavazoie, [email protected] † Current address: Department of Biological Chemistry, Univ...