Mind the gap versus filling the gap. The heart beyond specialties

on the teacher-generated v.s. leaner-generated noticing-the-gap activities in language classes

abstract the purpose of this study is twofold: on the one hand, it is intended to see what kind of noticing-the –gap activity (teacher generated vs. learner generated) is more efficient in teaching l2 grammar in classroom language learning. on the other hand, it is an attempt to determine which approach of the noticing-the-gap- activity is more effective in the long- term retention of grammar...

“Mind the Gap” in Reporting the Outdated Statistics

Biosensors: filling the gap.

A common practice for coal miners in the nineteenth century was to take a canary in a cage underground with them to warn against odourless gases such as methane or carbon monoxide. A sudden change in the usual singsong behaviour of the birds was a signal to leave the mine immediately. Indeed, it was the ability of the canaries to quickly metabolize toxic substances and the clear indication that...

Filling in the gap

ow do you construct a channel between cells ? The first step in answering this question was to isolate the components of one type of channel—the gap junction. H Daniel Goodenough had been pursuing gap junction proteins since his days as a graduate student in the mid-1960s with Jean-Paul Revel, who helped discover the structures (Revel and Karnovsky, 1967; see “Defining gap junctions” JCB 169:37...

SYNGAP1: Mind the Gap

A cardinal feature of early stages of human brain development centers on the sensory, cognitive, and emotional experiences that shape neuronal-circuit formation and refinement. Consequently, alterations in these processes account for many psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. Neurodevelopment disorders affect 3-4% of the world population. The impact of these disorders presents a major c...