this study focused on the effect of teaching collocations on the awareness of two affective dimensions, evaluation and potency dimensions, of deep vocabulary knowledge as well as the general vocabulary knowledge of efl students. sixty intermediate efl female adult learners participated in this study; they were chosen among 90 students through the pet and a general vocabulary knowledge test. the...

"An ethical objection is raised against the Blackorby-Donaldson criterion of optimum population maximizing the sum total of utilities in excess of some critical level, since it may disprefer a social state with more people and with more worthwhile lives. However, the criterion may serve as a practicably reasonable compromise between maximizing total and average utility. Nevertheless, an alter...

Size exclusion chromatography (SEC) has been widely applied in protein separation based on their molecular sizes. Here we present a peptide mixture from 1kD to 6 kD separation on size exclusion chromatography column Zenix TM -80. The effect of different mobile phases on the peptides’ separation performances was also explored. In the separation of insulin, glucagon, angiotensin I and bradykinin,...

Air pollution is overflowing in big cities, especially in areas where pollution sources and the human population are concentrated. Economic growth and industrialization caused the increasing emissions of air polluting. Then, the quantities of polluting have increased dramatically; the evaluation of a suitable method for predicting and monitoring the pollution will be very important. To prevent ...

Path cost optimization is essential for maneuvering vehicles in a cost effective way. The term cost can be interpreted as fuel consumption, path visibility, probability of being detected, probability of being attacked or a combination of the above. Exact algorithms such as linear programming and dynamic programming can always provide globally optimum solution to such a problem. However, as the ...

Let $G$ be a simple connected graph. In this paper, Szeged dimension and PI$_v$ dimension of graph $G$ are introduced. It is proved that if $G$ is a graph of Szeged dimension $1$ then line graph of $G$ is 2-connected. The dimensions of five composite graphs: sum, corona, composition, disjunction and symmetric difference with strongly regular components is computed. Also explicit formulas of Sze...

Speaker recognition in real environment with reliable mode is a key challenge for ubiquitous service in human computer interface. In this paper, we present a robust multimodal speaker identification system with optimized reliability of different modalities. We propose an extension of modified convection function’s optimizing factors to account optimum reliability simultaneously in audio, face a...