Dittrichia viscosa (L.) Greuter is a shrub native to the Mediterranean, however, declared as very invasive species in Australia and North America. Environmental (climatic) socio-economic (land abandonment) changes can trigger different adaptive mechanisms cause behavior, influencing invasion dynamics. Motivated by recently noticed change of D. behavior its Mediterranean habitat, we discuss prop...

Researchers stated that learning and applying certain set of lexical bundles of native lecturers by non-native lecturers would help students improve their proficiency through incidental vocabulary input. The present study shed light on the lexical bundles in hard science lectures used by Native and Non-native lecturers in international universities with the main purpose of analyzing the structu...

In view of the paucity of evidence on teachers’ conceptions of teaching English an International Language (EIL), the present study used panel discussions to investigate the beliefs of 10 native and 10 non-native English-speaking teachers about their roles in teaching English in the EIL contexts and the perceptions of EIL. The findings revealed that some aspects of teachers’ beliefs about their ...

Visual experiences increase our ability to discriminate environmentally relevant stimuli (native stimuli, e.g., human faces) at the cost of a reduced sensitivity to irrelevant or infrequent stimuli (non-native stimuli, e.g., monkey/ape faces)-a developmental progression known as perceptual narrowing. One possible source of the reduced sensitivity in distinguishing non-native stimuli (e.g., one ...

Discrimination of native versus non-native betweenand within-articulatory organ fricative contrasts was examined in 6 and 12 month-old infants. 12 month-olds discriminated between(tongue-tip vs. lips) but not within-organ place contrasts (two tongue tip constriction locations), but 6 montholds only did so for the non-native between-organ contrast. The results support the Articulatory Organ Hypo...

Results Compared to controls (n = 40), native T1 values were increased in both acute and chronic myocarditis at both field strengths (controls vs. acute vs. chronic myocarditis; 1.5T: native T1 (msec): 940 ± 17 vs. 1070 ± 34 vs. 998 ± 28, p < 0.001; 3T: 1045 ± 18 vs. 1182 ± 66 vs. 1094 ± 15, p < 0.001). Native T1 values were significantly higher in acute vs. chronic myocardium (p < 0.001). Nati...

BACKGROUND To explore differences in personal and home environmental factors that are regarded as determinants of energy balance-related behaviors (EBRBs) according to parental education and ethnic background among 10-12 year old schoolchildren across Europe. METHODS A school-based survey among 10-12 year olds was conducted in eight countries across Europe. A range of personal and home enviro...

This study examined the contribution of both auditory and visual cues in native and non-native speech perception. Three groups of listeners, a group of native speakers of English and two groups of EFL learners (elementary and advanced), were tested on their perception of auditory-only, visual-only and audiovisual English stimuli. The audiovisual stimuli included a congruent (matched auditory-vi...

The power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van Dijk 1996). This potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. The major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...