This study was conducted to investigate the effect of meaning-focused versus form-focused input-oriented and output-oriented task-based instruction on elementary level Iranian EFL Learners’ vocabulary comprehension and recall. For this purpose, a sample of 120 male students from a private school in Tehran was selected through convenience sampling and based on availability. The participants were...

In 1967 I taught at Cornell, was involved in the development of Curriculum 68, and was working on my book, Programming Languages, Information Structures, and Machine Organization, which aimed to develop a unifying model for programming languages. When Don Knuth visited me one weekend in Ithaca, we both went to the synagogue on Saturday and to Church on Sunday and had intense discussions about t...

As the head of Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Centre and a member of the Editorial Board, I am delighted to preface this edition of IJPR, with appreciation of all the efforts behind it. Health research should be considered as a tool to help policy makers, industries and others to tackle problems, improve the quality of life and build healthy communities. So, besides basic research, that ha...

this paper aims to comprehend the intrinsic limitations of the market players in the financial system and how these create a situation of `missing middle` for small and medium industries (sme) financing in bangladesh. a clear dualism prevails in the manufacturing industry of this country. while the smes maintains the biggest share in establishments and employment creation, large enterprises (le...

In this paper, we define a kind of lattice-valued convergence spaces based on the notion of $top$-filters, namely $top$-convergence spaces, and show the category of $top$-convergence spaces is Cartesian-closed. Further, in the lattice valued context of a complete $MV$-algebra, a close relation between the category of$top$-convergence spaces and that of strong $L$-topological spaces is establish...

1 Objective of GOODSTEP The goal of the GOODSTEP project is to develop a sophisticated database system dedicated to the support of Software Development E n vironments (SDEs) and make the basis for a platform for SDE construction with a software process tool-set and generators for graphical and textual integrated tools implemented on top of it. The GOODSTEP project started September 1992 and wil...