fluency in a second language (l2) involves a quintessentially cognitive processing system that operates quickly and effectively. the perceived importance of researching fluency through a psycholinguistic lens has motivated the related l2 research to resort to current cognitive speaking-specific models. this study, drawing on levelt’s (1999a) psycholinguistic model, probed the deficiency sources...

During the colonial period (16th - 19th centuries), Brazil was a multilingual country, home to Portuguese, Indigenous peoples, and Africans. Portuguese learned as second language by Africans brought slave trade, mainly under influence of Bantu languages slaves spoke. From this contact, an Afro-Brazilian variety has emerged (ABP) which displays ditransitive construction with unmarked Goal dative...

The current study examined the correlation among Iranian EFL learners’ emotional intelligence (EI), critical thinking (CT) ability, and L2 vocabulary knowledge (VK). To this end, surveys were administered to 75 Iranian advanced EFL participants. Analyses of the data revealed a mutual relationship between the Iranian EFL learners’ EI and their L2 VK. Similarly, a positive correlation was found b...

Any σ ∈ Gal(L1L2/K) restricted to L1 or L2 is an automorphism since L1 and L2 are both Galois over K. So we get a function R : Gal(L1L2/K)→ Gal(L1/K)×Gal(L2/K) by R(σ) = (σ|L1 , σ|L2). We will show R is an injective homomorphism. To show R is a homomorphism, it suffices to check the separate restriction maps σ 7→ σ|L1 and σ 7→ σ|L2 are each homomorphisms from Gal(L1L2/K) to Gal(L1/K) and Gal(L2...

In contrast to mycoplasma virus L1 and L2 circular DNA, mycoplasma virus L3 linear DNA is not biologically active in polyethylene glycol-mediated transfection. Electroporation of Acholeplasma laidlawii, however, leads to plaque formation after incubation with L3 DNA. The efficiency of electroporation-mediated transfection is 1/10 that of polyethylene glycol-mediated transfection as estimated wi...

Lysostaphin is an antimicrobial agent belonging to a major class of antimicrobial peptides and proteins known as the bacteriocins. Bacteriocins are bacterial antimicrobial peptides which generally exhibit bactericidal activity against other bacteria. Bacteriocin production is a self-protection mechanism that helps the microorganisms to survive in their natural habitats. Bacteriocins are current...