The question before us is the so-called ‘access to UG’ question, and whether it needs to be reassessed. To let the cat out of the bag, I’ll say yes right off the bat, and then try to qualify that yes from now on. First of all, we should distinguish between the question whether the research program that has been to a great extent inspired by this question was worthwhile, on the one hand, and the...

Australia attracts more and more international students for study in this country. This calls for investigating the role of social and intellectual interactions in the second language acquisition (SLA) among students studying in Western Universities. A review of the research literature shows ambivalence in the process of SLA in target country and the factors that contribute to SLA outcomes. Thi...

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are currently one of the major research topics in Grid Computing. Among those system components that support SLA-aware Grid jobs, the SLA mapping mechanism has an important position. It is responsible for assigning sub-jobs of the workflow to Grid resources in a way that meets the user’s deadline and minimizes costs. Assuming many different kinds of sub-jobs and ...

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are currently one of the major research topics in Grid Computing. Among many system components for supporting SLA-aware Grid jobs, the SLA mapping mechanism receives an important position. It is responsible for assigning sub-jobs of the workflow to Grid resources in a way that meets the user’s deadline and as cheap as possible. With the distinguished workload and...

The main goal of all approaches to adult second language acquisition (SLA) is to accurately describe and explain the overall acquisition process. To accomplish this, SLA researchers must come to agree on some key issues. In this commentary, I defend the necessity of the competence/performance distinction and how this relates to why an examination of morphological production presents challenges ...

An important strand of inquiry in second language acquisition (SLA) research is that devoted to the investigation of language learners’ successive approximations of the target language, referred to as interlanguage (IL) in the SLA literature. Similarly to the practice in other kinds of linguistic investigation, SLA researchers are concerned with empirical description of various kinds of interla...

Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are currently one of the major research topics in Grid Computing. Among many system components for supporting SLA-aware Grid-based workflow, the SLA mapping mechanism receives a prominent position. It is responsible for assigning sub-jobs of the workflow to Grid resources in a way that meets the user’s deadline and minimizes costs. Assuming many different kinds o...

The major histocompatibility complex in swine (swine leucocyte antigen: SLA) is located on chromosome 7 with the class I and class III regions separated by the centromere from the class II region. The overall molecular organisation of the class I and III regions is well known, but further research is needed to establish that of the class II region. Approximately sixty genes have been characteri...

Nowadays, most of the IT (Information Technology) and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) industries are practicing sustainability under green computing hoods. Users/Customers are also moving towards a new sustainable society. Therefore, while getting or providing different services from different ICT vendors, Service Level Agreement (SLA) becomes very important for both the service ...