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The Effect of Role-playing Tasks on the Speaking Ability of Iranian Pre- intermediate ESP Learners

This study investigated the effect of role-playing tasks on the speaking ability of Iranian preintermediate ESP learners. To this aim, the researchers examined the students’ speaking ability in two groups: the experimental group and the control group. Twenty four male and female ESP learners at preintermediate level were selected after taking a pre-test. Then, they were randomly assigned into two groups. In the experimental group, role-playing tasks were used for teaching conversation, but the control group was exposed to the conventional method of teaching speaking. After 18 sessions of treatment, a post-test was conducted in order to measure the students’ speaking ability. Regarding the data analysis, two independent and paired sample t-tests were used to analyze the data, collected using three testing instruments: Longman Placement Test (2004); the semi-structured interviews; and SPSS software version 20. Based on the inferential statistics, the participants in the experimental group showed a significantly better performance in the post-test. It was concluded that the treatment provided for the experimental group had a positive effect on the learners’ speaking ability. Furthermore, the participants' attitudes towards role-playing tasks and their roles in language learning were positive. It is expected that ESP teachers and textbook writers, syllabus designers, and material producers will benefit from the findings of this research.
Transition C 2718 T in the AR gene , resulting in generation of a termination codon and truncated form of the androgen receptor , causes complete androgen insensitivity syndrome

The action of testosterone and 5 -dihydrotestosterone are essential to the development of the male phenotype. Patients with karyotype 46,XY, resistant to these hormones, exhibit a wide spectrum of phenotypes: from phenotypic female, through a range of incomplete masculinization, to under-virilized, infertile man. These disturbances are caused by mutations in the androgen receptor gene (AR). We studied a 46,XY fenotypic female with typical symptoms of Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS). Multiple temperature single-stranded conformation polymorphism (MSSCP) and sequence analysis of exon 6 of the AR gene in a patient revealed a C2718T transition causing R786X mutation in the loop between helices VII and VIII of the LBD of the androgen receptor. The R786X mutation has been described in a patient with CAIS only once and no such mutations have been described in Eastern Europe.
The Effect of ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Implementation on SMEs Performance : An Empirical Study in Malaysia

Despite the growing interest in examining ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) implementation and firm’s performance, little attention has been devoted especially among the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. Based upon 61 responses questionnaire survey, this study examines the relationship of ISO 14001 EMS implementation to Malaysian SMEs performances. The findings of this study confirm that ISO 14001 EMS implementation has a positive and significant relationship with SMEs’s performance. This finding is consistent with the environmental management literature mostly published in the developed countries. This study is important as the empirical results provide an indicator to encourage other SMEs which has no EMS in place to consider joining the bandwagon. Since the ISO 14001 standard is still on a voluntary basis in Malaysia, this study able to give empirical evidence on SMEs performance appears to be critical at this juncture noting the fact that SMEs contributes to the largest business establishments in Malaysia.
The Hydrocolloids Potential As Additive Materials To The Qualified Food and Non-Food Products

Hydrocolloids are polymer components derived from vegetables, animals, or microbes that generally have the ability to absorb and bind water. There are various types of potential hydrocolloids that can be extracted and used as an added ingredient to improve product quality. The hydrocolloid extraction method can be done physically, chemically and biochemically. Some types of hydrocolloid can be extracted from several component parts of crops such as roots, seeds, fruits, tubers or shell. Hydrocolloids may have specific characteristics depending on its chain structure and functional groups. Hydrocolloid with many hydroxyl groups can absorb water easily. Hydrocolloids can be used as a component in producing the qualified food and non-food products. There are opportunities to develop hydrocolloids in food products as stabilizers, texture formation and water absorbent. Hydrocolloids have the potential to improve the quality power to release active component and absorption of pharmaceutical products.
Involvement of genes and non-coding RNAs in cancer : profiling using microarrays

VII SUMMARY . VIII LIST OF PUBLICATIONS . IX INTRODUCTION . 1 DNA microarrays . 3 DNA microarraytwo colors . 5 DNA microarrays – one color Affymetrix© . 7 Normalization . 10 Exploratory Analysis . 13 Principal Components and Multi-dimensional scaling . 15 Statistical Tests . 16 Microarray databases . 22 MicroRNAs . 26 Microarrays for miRNA . 26 MiRNA and cancer . 27 MicroRNAs and Colorectal Cancer . 29 Cancer-associated genomic regions (CAGRs) and noncoding RNAs . 31
Food contaminated by pesticides : a Brazilian situation overview

Consumers are becoming increasingly demanding about products quality, including new decision variables at their purchases time. Information on nutritional aspects and the use of pesticides has changed consumer preferences. The new information strategies emerged in response to new consumer’s behavioral characteristics and new competition characteristics of the food market. These strategies privilege the use of quality signals, such as labeling, traceability, certification, brand names and adoption of minimum quality standards. The main feature of Brazilian markets is the lack of minimum standards and strong information asymmetries. The market for fresh food is affected by the indiscriminate use of pesticides. The information analysis gathered by the Program for Pesticide Residue Analysis in Food (PARA) found a very worrying situation in Brazil. In this sense, with this paper, our aim is to bring more information about the pesticides contamination in the fresh food markets in Brazil. Transaction Cost Economics is adopted as a theoretical framework to examine the coordination among the agents on the chain and seek sustainable alternatives to reduce the excessive use of pesticides in food production. Eduardo Luiz Machado Universidade Federal de São Paulo eduluizmachado@yahoo.com. br Priscila Cristini dos Santos Universidade Federal de São Paulo edumach@gmail.com Recebido em: 11/07/2016. Aprovado em: 02/08/2017 Avaliado pelo sistema double blind review Avaliado científico: Renato Silvério Campos DOI: 10.21714/2238-68902017v19n2p075 RESUMO Consumidores estão ficando cada vez mais exigentes quanto a qualidade dos produtos, incluindo novas variáveis de decisão no momento de sua compras. Informações a respeito de aspectos nutricionais e a utilização de pesticidas têm alterado a preferências dos consumidores. As novas estratégias de informação emergiram em resposta às novas características comportamentais do consumidor e às novas características de competição do mercado de alimentos. Essas estratégias privilegiam o uso de sinais de qualidade, como rotulagem, rastreabilidade, certificação, nomes de marcas e adoção de padrões mínimos de qualidade. A principal característica do mercado brasileiro é a falta de padrões mínimos e as assimetrias de informação fortes. O mercado de alimentos frescos é afetado pelo uso indiscriminado de pesticidas. A análise das informações obtidas pelo Programa de Análise de Resíduos de Pesticidas em Alimentos (PARA) encontrou uma situação muito preocupante no Brasil. O objetivo deste trabalho é trazer mais informações sobre a contaminação de pesticidas nos mercados de alimentos frescos no Brasil. A Economia de Custos de Transação é adotada como um marco teórico para examinar a coordenação entre os agentes na cadeia e buscar alternativas sustentáveis para reduzir o uso excessivo de pesticidas na produção de alimentos.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Recent Work Title Measured daylighting potential of a static optical louver system under real sun and sky conditions : Permalink

Side-by-side comparisons were made over solstice-to-solstice changes in sun and sky conditions between an optical louver system (OLS) and a conventional Venetian blind set at a horizontal slat angle and located inboard of a south-facing, small-area, clerestory window in a full-scale office testbed. Daylight autonomy (DA), window luminance, and ceiling luminance uniformity were used to assess performance. The performance of both systems was found to have significant seasonal variation, where performance under clear sky conditions improved as maximum solar altitude angles transitioned from solstice to equinox. Although the OLS produced fewer hours per day of DA on average than the Venetian blind, the OLS never exceeded the designated 2000 cd/m threshold for window glare. In contrast, the Venetian blind was found to exceed the visual discomfort threshold over a large fraction of the day during equinox conditions. Notably, these peak periods of visual discomfort occurred during the best periods of daylighting performance. Luminance uniformity was analyzed using calibrated high dynamic range luminance images. Under clear sky conditions, the OLS was found to increase the luminance of the ceiling as well as produce a more uniform distribution. Compared to conventional venetian blinds, the static optical sunlight redirecting system studied has the potential to significantly reduce the annual electrical lighting energy demand of a daylit space and improve the quality from the perspective of building occupants by consistently transmitting useful daylight while eliminating window glare.
European Conference on Information Systems ( ECIS ) 2008 Strategies for Interweaving Groupware and Organizational Structure

Many authors contend that realizing benefits of new information technologies requires adjusting such technologies to fit with the organization’s context or, alternatively, they suggest adjusting organizational practices to accord with the new technologies (Rifkin, 1995). However, Orlikowski and Yates (2006) pointed out that the ways these prescriptions are applied in practice are yet ill defined. Our research yields practice-based suggestions for developing groupware, organizational processes, procedures, and organizational culture needed for successful implementation of information technology.
Growth Response of Improved Breeds of Native Chicken to Diets Differed in Energy and Protein Content

Hidayat C, Iskandar S, Sartika T , Wardhani T. 2016. Growth response of improved native breeds of chicken to diets differed in energy and protein content. JITV 21(3): 174-181. DOI: http://dx.doi. org/10.14334/jitv.v21i3. 1397 The aim of doing this experiment was to observe the growth response of improved native breeds of chicken under diets differed in energy and protein content. Three groups of improved native breeds, obtained from mating of ♂KUB to ♀KUB (Line 1), of ♂SenSi to ♀KUB (Line 2) and of ♂Gaok x ♀KUB (Line 3), were subjected to three experimental diets, differed in metabolizable energy (ME) and crude protein (CP) content. The experimental diets consisted of Diet 1 (2,800 kcal ME/ kg with 17,81% CP), Diet 2 (2,950 kcal ME/ kg with 18,61% CP) and Diet 3 (3,100 kcal ME/ kg with 19,25% CP). The experiment was designed as factorial 3 x 3 with 7 replications of each treatment combination, consisted of 5 birds per treatment combination. The chickens were raised up to 10 weeks of age. Results of the experiment showed that Line 2 (♂SenSi mated to ♀KUB) had highest body weight at 10 weeks of age (P<0.05), lowest feed conversion ratio (FCR) and highest European Production Efficiency Factor (EPEF), compared to other two lines. The appropriate diet for Line 2 was Diet 2. It could be concluded the crossbred line that was resulted from crossing of ♂SenSi to ♀KUB (Line 2), had potential to be used as improved native chicken for the industry in Indonesia supported by appropriate diet containing 2,950 kcal ME/kg with 18.61% crude protein.
Classification of handwritten Japanese hiragana characters of 71 categories attached with sound marks by using pattern augmentation for deep learning

Neural networks are powerful technology for classifying character patterns and object images. A huge number of training samples is very important for classification accuracy. A novel method for recognizing handwritten hiragana characters is proposed that combines pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNN) and support vector machines (SVM). The training samples are augmented by pattern distortion such as by cosine translation and elastic distortion. A pre-trained CNN, Alex-Net, can be used as the pattern feature extractor. Alex-Net is pre-trained for large-scale object image datasets. An SVM is used as a trainable classifier. Original hiragana samples of 71 classes on the ETL9B are divided in two-fold by odd and even dataset numbers. Samples with the odd dataset number and augmented patterns on the ETL9B database are trained by the SVM. The feature vectors of character patterns are passed to the SVM from Alex- Net. The average error rate was 2.378% for 100 test patterns of each of the 71 classes for a 5-times test, and the lowest error rate was 2.113% with 468,600 training patterns of distorted hiragana characters. Experimental results showed that the proposed method is effective in recognizing handwritten hiragana characters.
A Contextual View of Insiders and Insider Threats

Risks from insider threats are strongly context dependent, and arise in many ways at different layers of system abstraction for different types of systems. We discuss various basic characteristics of insider threats, and consider approaches to the development and use of computer-related environments that require systems and networking to be trustworthy in spite of insider misuse. We also consider future research that could improve both detectability, prevention, and response. This chapter seeks to cope with insider misuse in a broad range of application domains— for example, critical infrastructures, privacy-preserving database systems, financial systems, and interoperable health-care infrastructures. To illustrate this, we apply the principles considered here to the task of detecting and preventing insider misuse in systems that might be used to facilitate trustworthy elections. This discussion includes an examination of the relevance of the Saltzer-Schroeder-Kaashoek security principles and the Clark-Wilson integrity properties for end-to-end election integrity. Trustworthy system developments must consider insider misuse as merely one set of threats that must be addressed consistently together with many other threats such as penetrations, denials of service, system faults and failures, and other threats to survivability. In addition, insider misuse cannot be realistically addressed unless significant improvements are made in the trustworthiness of component systems and their networking as well as their predictably trustworthy compositions into enterprise solutions — architecturally, developmentally, and operationally. 1 A Contextual View of Insiders and Insider Threats We consider a broad spectrum of problems relating to insider threats, along with techniques for preventing, detecting, diagnosing, and understanding specific exPeter G. Neumann Principled Systems Group, Computer Science Lab, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493 USA, e-mail: neumann@csl.sri. com. 17 C. W. Probst et al. (eds.), Insider Threats in Cyber Security, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7133-3_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010
Phenylalanine and Tyrosine Biosyn thesis in Escherichia coli K-12 : Mutants Derepressed for 3-Deoxy-D-Arabinoheptulosonic Acid-7-Phosphate Synthetose

Tribe et al., 1979, "Hyperproduction of Tryptophan by E. coli, Genetic Manipulation of the Pathways Leading to Tryptophan Formation”, Applied & Env, Micro, v 38(2), pp. 181-190. Faculty Handbook, Univ. New South Wales, pp. 204-205, 1985. Lehninger, A. , Biochemistry, Worth Publishers, Inc., New York, pp. 708–713, (1970). Zurawski, G. etal, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., vol. 75(10), pp. 4271-4275, (1978), "Nucleotide Sequence of the Leader 4,681,852 Jul. 21, 1987 (11) Patent Number:
A Real-Time Optimization for 2 R Manipulators

This work proposes a real-time algorithm to generate a trajectory for a 2 link planar robotic manipulator. The objective is to minimize the space/time ripple and the energy requirements or the time duration in the robot trajectories. The proposed method uses an off line genetic algorithm to calculate every possible trajectory between all cells of the workspace grid. The resultant trajectories are saved in several trees. Then any trajectory requested is constructed in real-time, from these trees. The article presents the results for several experiments.
3 D reconstruction of Artificially Structured Microbial Consortia ( ASMC ) by image analysis

A biofilm is formed when microorganisms are attached to a surface and, within the whole biofilm; microorganisms are only a small volume fraction, which is complemented by the extracellular matrix of the structure. Inside the structure, fluids flow carrying, in and out, dissolved nutrients and intermediate metabolic products, which can be consumed by other bacterial species in the biofilm. In order to study these phenomena, Artificially Structured Microbial Consortia (ASMC) were constructed using Acinetobacter sp. C6 and Pseudomonas putida R1, this strain is a Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) producer that was monitored. ASMC were constructed for degrading benzyl alcohol, which is initially transformed into benzoic acid, by Acinetobacter sp. C6, and then it is consumed until full aerobic degradation by Pseudomonas putida R1. The progress in time of ASMC was followed using confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) obtaining cross-section micrographies for image analysis. 3D reconstruction of these images was achieved using information from the plane and confocal cross-sections of the ASMC. This image analysis technique takes into account the edge of each cross-section, which is defined by the GFP producer species. Pixels intensity was estimated using data from bitmap files that were obtained after processing the confocal images; this information was useful for studying biofilm morphology and carrying out 3D image reconstruction.
Automatic Detection of Possessions and Shots from Raw Basketball Videos

approved: Alan P. Fern Sports analytics is rapidly evolving today through the use of computer vision systems that automatically extract huge amount of information inherently present in multimedia data without much human assistance. This information can facilitate a better understanding of patterns and strategies in various sports. However, for non-professional teams, due to expense and large variations in the videos, there are no reliable systems for automatic extraction of game statistics and information. In this thesis, we consider two problems in basketball sports analytics with the goal of being robust to wide differences in video footage and being completely automatic. First, we consider the problem of parsing a game into possessions and inferring which team has possession at any time. This information provides basic statistics and the ability to easily navigate a game in terms of possessions. Second, we consider detecting shots, which allows for shot count statistics to be automatically generated. Our experiments across a wide variety of basketball video show that the approaches are accurate and robust to large differences in video type. c ©Copyright by Vikedo Terhuja December 3, 2015 All Rights Reserved Automatic Detection of Possessions and Shots from Raw Basketball Videos.
Worlds Apart: A Focus on the "Great Divide" within the HRM Scholar-Practitioner Community

There is a “knowledge gap” between academic researchers and practitioners. Managers frequently experience the delivery of academic research as relatively incomprehensible and trailing practice, rather than leading it. Conversely, academic researchers are disinclined to seek inspiration for new research ideas from the real-world problems experienced by practitioners. The problem may not be what research is actually conducted by academics, but rather how little the research is actually used by practitioners. This gap can partially be explained by the very different cultures and systems within which each group operates; however, when research that is useful does not make its way into mainstream practice in a timely fashion, everyone loses. This paper explores possible ways to improve knowledge transfer and bridge the current gap that currently exists between individuals who live and work within these two distinct cultural and reward systems.
Agile methodology perceived success and its use: The moderating effect of perceived compatibility

This article investigated the moderating effect of the perceived compatibility of agile methodologies in determining the actual success of a methodology. The researchers conceptualised the agile methodology perceived success by using cost, scope, time and quality to complete the project. The researchers further hypothesised that perceived compatibility has moderating effects towards agile methodology perceived success and its use. The theoretical framework was evaluated by means of data collected from IT professionals (n = 230). The objective of the study was to determine how agile methodology use and perceived compatibility influence agile methodology perceived success in South Africa. A survey was conducted among IT professionals and the results analysed using statistical methods. The results showed perceived compatibility to have a moderating effect towards agile methodology use, time and cost. Nevertheless, there was a lack of moderating effect of perceived compatibility with regard to agile methodology use and perceived quality, and agile methodology use and perceived scope. The results of this study formulate a comprehensive model that could provide a set of guidelines for agile methodology use to the agile methodology communities and other IT professionals in South Africa.
NUMBER 942 JULY 2005 INVESTMENT DECISIONS AND EMISSIONS REDUCTIONS : RESULTS FROM EXPERIMENTS IN EMISSIONS TRADING by Lata Gangadharan &

Emissions trading is an important regulatory tool in environmental policy making. Unfortunately the effectiveness of these regulations is difficult to measure in the field due to the unavailability of appropriate data. In contrast, experiments in the laboratory can provide guidance to regulators and legislatures about the performance of different market features in emission trading programs. This paper reports on the implementation of three different institutional designs, and presents experimental results investigating important features of emissions trading regimes: the ability to make investments in emissions abatement, ability to bank allowances and a declining emissions cap, both with and without uncertainty. These features are observed in virtually all existing air pollution emissions trading programs currently in place and will almost certainly be part of future applications. Like previous experimental studies of emissions trading, this paper shows that the efficiency gains expected from economic theory emerge observationally. We also show reduced efficiency when permits are bankable due to over-banking and when investments in emissions abatement are possible due to overinvesting. These tendencies do not worsen, however, when emissions caps decline. JEL Classification: Q20, C91