The following study investigated a rare case of adult immersion in second language context without prior exposure to the language. It aimed investigate whether Length Residence (LoR) acts as strong index L2 speech performance when coupled with daily and interaction first speakers. Twenty-two females from Africa Asia who worked Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDH) Omani homes varying LoRs performed an...

Data envelopment analysis is a method for evaluating the relative efficiency of a collection of decision making units. The DEA classic models calculate each unit’s efficiency in the best condition, meaning that finds a weight that the DMU is at its maximum efficiency. In this paper, utilizing the directional distance function model in the presence of undesirable outputs, the efficiency of each ...

In this paper we introduce a scale elasticity measure based on directional distance function for multi-output-multi-input technologies and explore its fundamental properties. Specifically, we derive necessary and sufficient condition for equivalence of the scale elasticity measure based on the directional distance function with the input oriented and output oriented scale elasticity measures. W...

In the presence of nitrate, the major anaerobic respiratory pathway includes formate dehydrogenase (FDH-N) and nitrate reductase (NAR-A), which catalyze formate oxidation coupled to nitrate reduction. Two aerobically expressed isoenzymes, FDH-Z and NAR-Z, have been recently characterized. Enzymatic analysis of plasmid subclones carrying min 88 of the Escherichia coli chromosome was consistent w...

Undesirable outputs are often produced together with desirable. This joint production of good and bad outputs bring about a difficulty for productivity measurement. Here we introduce a directional distance function and use it as a component in a new productivity index. This index, as an empirical example shows, seems to solve the problem caused by the joint production of good and bad outputs. P...

10-Formyltetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase (FDH), which is composed of a small N-terminal domain (Nt-FDH) and a large C-terminal domain, is an abundant folate enzyme in the liver and converts 10-formyltetrahydrofolate (10-FTHF) to tetrahydrofolate (THF) and CO2. Nt-FDH alone possesses a hydrolase activity, which converts 10-FTHF to THF and formate in the presence of β-mercaptoethanol. To elucidate...

We report the isolation of the FIDDLEHEAD (FDH) gene of Arabidopsis by transposon tagging. Three mutant alleles of FDH carrying insertions of the Enhancer/Suppressor-mutator transposon and one stable allele with a transposon footprint were generated in the Arabidopsis ecotype Columbia genetic background. Closer examination of the adaxial epidermis of rosette leaves revealed that in addition to ...