Some educators are working towards changing the content of the mathematics curriculum and the ways in which it is taught in order to best prepare students for the 'real world' by moving from a focus on arithmatic and ...

The ability to create thick tissues is a major tissue engineering challenge, requiring the development of a suitable vascular supply. Current trends are seeing the utilization of cells seeded into hybrid matrix/scaffold ...

With the increasing challenges facing professional engineers working in more complex, global and interdisciplinary contexts, different approaches to understanding how engineers practice and learn are necessary. This paper ...

This thesis is concerned with rethinking English and identity among adolescents in contemporary Greece. As the ‘default’ foreign language in Greece, English has been discursively produced within educational and social ...

The global enterprise of English language teaching (ELT) ought to present the possibility of bringing millions of people into the global traffic of meaning. Yet it does not do so because global ELT is paradoxically viewed ...

Amajortension underlies the design of English language programs for enabling community membership. On the one hand there is a pressure to respond to a diverse range of specific and immediate needs for language use. At the ...

Students who speak English as a second language (ESL) face considerable challenges in English language universities, but little is known about the relationship betweenEnglish-language acculturation and academic performance. ...

We live in an era of accelerated change and innovation which demands that we adapt and evolve or risk obsolescence and exclusion. This paper traces the path of English language teaching (ELT) since its inception. It ...

Landmark image classification is a challenging task due to the various circumstances, e. g., illumination, viewpoint, zoom in/out and occlusion under which landmark images are taken. Most existing approaches utilize features ...

It has been demonstrated by Serre et al. that the biologically inspired model (BIM) is effective for object recognition. It outperforms many state-of-the-art methods in challenging databases. However, BIM has the following ...

The biologically inspired model (BIM) proposed by Serre et al. presents a promising solution to object categorization. It emulates the process of object recognition in primates' visual cortex by constructing a set of scale- ...

Distance metrics for categorical data play an important role in unsupervised learning such as clustering. They also dramatically affect learning accuracy and computational complexities. Recently, two co-occurrence methods, ...

Baculovirus/insect cell expression systems have been in use for several years, often resulting in very high levels of_expression of recombinant proteins (1). For expression of mature proteins the preferred vectors, such ...