There is seemingly no end to the diffi culties that can arise in the international classroom. Stories abound about issues such as silence, students’ reticence, learner autonomy (or lack thereof), which seem to suggest an unsuccessful transfer of academic knowledge and skills across tasks, contexts and cultures. The current paper will neither offer another problem for us to ponder, nor another s...

the asmari formation is a thick carbonate sequence in zagros foreland basin. it was deposited during oligocene – early miocene ages. in order to interpret the depositional environment and sequence stratigraphy, firuzabad section were compared with 4 sections of asmari formation in the zagros basin. four different sub environments were identified in the asmari formation based on microfacies anal...

Abstract Climate change and rising sea levels, which threaten many Asian other coastal cities, have returned the question of adaptation to unstable marine surfaces global discussions about urbanization, as was illustrated by a recent United Nations (UN) roundtable. As de facto counterproposals hydroelectric dams similar regional development projects, floating or elevated structures reject land ...