Thematic structure, an important factor for textual metafunction, plays a significant role in inspecting and promoting the textual coherence. With a theoretical statement of Thematic theory and TP patterns, this paper proposes the feasibility of the Thematic Operational Approach in the teaching of college English writing. This approach is proved to not only strengthen students’ application awar...

As a grammatical device, Theme-Rheme structure plays an important role in organizing and analyzing discourse. Theme Progression patterns (hereinafter called TP patterns) are significant method of the analysis of textual cohesion and organization. Based on linguist Danes’ theory about TP patterns, this paper tries to present a contrastive analysis of the texts of consecutive interpretation in En...

First, we analyzed protein-protein interaction (PPI) datasets from three different species (Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Drosophila melanogaster, and Caenorhabditis elegans) to investigate the extent to which alternative paths are present in PPI datasets. We focus here only on interactomes that are derived by the popular high-throughput assays such as Y2H. Then, we provide some actual examples in ...

The abilty to continuously revise business practices is essential to organizations aiming at reducing their costs and increasing their revenues. Rapid and continuous changes to business processes result in less control over the executed activities. As a result, the ability of process designers to produce solid, well-validated work‡ow models is limited. Work‡ow management systems (WfMSs), servin...

We propose a routing strategy in which connection requests with specific bandwidth demands can be assigned to one of several alternative paths connecting the source to the destination. The primary goal of this multiple-path approach is to compensate for the inaccuracy of the knowledge available to routing nodes, caused by the limited frequency of link state (LS) information exchanges. We introd...

We present in this paper a proposal for developing efficient programs in the abstract data type (ADT) programming framework, keeping the modular structure of programs and without violating the information hiding principle. The proposal focuses in the concept of "shortcut" as an efficient way of accessing to data, alternative to the access by means of the primitive operations of the ADT. We deve...

Early experiments in migrating task images from one node in a metacomputing environment to another have shown, that it is possible to achieve almost maximum data throughput in LAN networks. With WAN-connected metacomputers however, the time spent in the task migration is not negligible. Here, alternative routing paths must be used concurrently to reduce the total migration time. We present a pr...

Utterance verification tries to reject incorrectly recognised utterances. For this purpose the probability of an error is often estimated by single confidence measure (CM). However, errors can have several different origins, and we argue that notion must be reflected in the design of the utterance verifier. In order to detect both in-vocabulary substitutions and out-of-vocabulary word errors, w...

Interrelation between the CN-sensitive cytochrome path and the CN-resistant, benzohydroxamic acid (BHM)-sensitive, or n-propylgallate (nPG)-sensitive alternative path in seed respiration during germination was examined using the nondormant upper and lower seeds of Xanthium pensylvanicum Wallr. The operation of both paths was required not only for normal germination of the lower seed but also fo...

The IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee cluster-tree topology is a suitable technology to deploy wide-scale Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). These networks are usually designed to support convergecast traffic, where all communication paths go through the PAN (Personal Area Network) coordinator. Nevertheless, peer-to-peer communication relationships may be also required for different types of WSN applications....