Nonnative listeners generally perform worse than native listeners on measures of speech perception, especially in acoustically complex environments. An important question that arises is whether nonnative listeners can benefit from acoustic cues that aid speech perception to the same extent as native listeners. In recent studies we have examined the ability of native and nonnative listeners to t...

Occupational or recreational exercise reduces mortality from cardiovascular disease. The potential mechanisms for this reduction may include changes in blood pressure (BP) and autonomic control of the circulation. Therefore, we conducted the present long-term longitudinal study to quantify the dose-response relationship between the volume and intensity of exercise training, and regulation of he...

one of the most important playwrights who had a great influence and control on post-war american drama was arthur miller. in his plays, miller shows the contrasting values in american capitalistic society. in all my sons, he shows that how materialistic values become much more important in a society where people are alienated from each other and are fragmented. he also portrays a society which ...

tolerable gluten thresholds in gluten free products have long been debated together with issues of cross contamination of gluten free cereals during the milling process. it is well established that a totally gluten free diet is virtually impossible owing to the presence of traces of gluten. it is estimated that daily consumption of gluten from contaminated gluten free foods is in the range of 5...

this paper intends to compare the abilities of the two major imaging modalities in nuclear medicine imaging: positron emission tomography (pet) and single photon emission computed tomography (spect). the motivations are many-fold: (i) to gain a better understanding of the strengths and limitations of the two imaging modalities in the context of recent and ongoing developments in hardware and so...

farouk gouida is an undertaken a contemporary poet who pays attention to the events around and his poetry is full of inspiration techniques which enables him to transfer his thoughts and emotions to the receiver. thus it is necessary to know the inspiration tools which farouk gouida has applied them for a better accompanying between the reader and the poet. the present article – which is in ana...