The present study aimed to satisfy a twofold purpose: On the one hand, it sought to verify the postulation that agent-based instruction could offer a compromise approach to teaching L2 idioms where form and meaning would be equally emphasized during instruction. Given that anthropomorphism has not been much under scrutiny, this research, on the other hand, sought to ascertain whether learning a...

A key factor in successful teacher education is designing activities that promote attainment of instructional objectives. However, in online teacher education there is little evidence regarding the types of activities that can be used to achieve specific objectives and variation from class to class while providing effective instruction. This study examined 6 online activities focused on the typ...

Occlusion of the sound eye (conventional occlusion) introduced by Buffon (I 743) was the only treatment for amblyopia until Bangerter (I953) introduced occlusion of the amblyopic eye (non-conventional or inverse occlusion) combined with pleoptic treatment in cases of amblyopia with eccentric fixation. Mackensen, Kroner, and Postic (I965), von Noorden (I965), Posti6 (I966), Borgmann and Dielefel...

Value speculation is a speculative technique proposed to reduce the execution time of programs. It relies on a predictor, a checker and a recovery mechanism. The predictor predicts the result of an instruction in order to issue speculatively its dependent instructions, the checker checks the prediction after issuing the predicted instruction, and the recovery mechanism deals with mispredictions...

Phytochemicals are produced by plants during primary or secondary metabolic activities. They the bioactive compounds playing important role in defense of host plant against different biotic and abiotic agents functioning attraction stimulation. Most these phytochemicals found to be having beneficial effects on health human beings. All Indian traditional system medicine like Ayurveda, Unani, Sid...