The present qualitative research, for the first time, aimed at comparing and contrasting the extent cultural components and subcomponents are represented in the elementary levels of A Course in General Persian and Top Notch Series as foreign language teaching textbooks. The adapted checklist of Lee's Big ‘C' and little ‘c' cultural components (2009) was used for the current study.  After conten...

In teaching a foreign language (FL), some cultural specificities (defined under the rubric of ‘little-c culture’) may totally conflict with the cultural norms of the learners’ first language (L1). To prevent such imminent problems, this paper recommended that the FL syllabus be designed in a way so as to equip learners with an intimate knowledge of the target language culture, and that la...

In this report we extend the discrete 3D Laplacian framework to mesh animations, represented as temporally coherent sequences of meshes. In order to let the user control the motion in uence with respect to the geometry, we introduce a parameter for the time dimension. Our discrete 3D+t Laplace operator holds the same properties as the discrete 3D Laplacian, as soon as this parameter is non nega...

R esum e Nous avons d evelopp e un nouvel algorithme de GC temps r eel \dur". Notre algorithme place une limite sup erieure sur le temps d'ex ecution de chaque primitive d'allocation ou d'acc es aux objets, selon leur nature. Il s'agit d'un GC compactant. Nous l'avons implant e et avons v erii e qu'une application a allocation intensive tourne seulement environ 3 fois plus lentement avec ce GC ...