A significant amount of contribution to pragmatics research comes from cross-cultural and developmental pragmatic studies with L2 learners in focus; however, despite broad interest in such analyses, the role of lecturers has been relatively ignored. As the lectures’ perceptions/opinions of L2 learners’ e-mail requests are important, L2 learners must become familiar with their lecturers’...

nowadays all organizations are somehow involved with information technology revolutions and the applicable aspects of information technology are evident in any field of supply chain, from the relationship with suppliers and producers to the relationship with the customers. in other words, the application of information technology is influential in the improvement of the supply chain. in this st...

A short survey of the use of neural networks and statistical discriminants in high energy physics for recognition of heavy flavor jets is presented. After illustrating the various neural and statistical classifiers currently used, some assessment of their comparative performance for top and oottom jets is made. Presented at Second Workshop on Neural Networks: from BioloiY to Hiih EneriY Physics...

Recent advances in mobile handsets have led to new trends in mobile broadband data consumption, with a huge increase of signaling traffic generated by always-connected devices. Thus, a proper planning of control channels in mobile networks is necessary to avoid network capacity problems and provide an appropriate quality of service to the end user. A key issue in network planning is the availab...

Mail voting became unusually controversial in the 2020 presidential election. Many observers, including former President Trump, believed that more accessible vote by mail would encourage higher turnout at expense of Republicans. While literature has tested some these claims, it not offered a comprehensive causal assessment vote-by-mail policy, nor any study looked questions context extraordinar...