a member of the editorial board professor V.I. Konovalov Key words and phrases: aims and tasks of ESP; English for Specific Purposes (ESP); social and professional needs; structure and content ESP course; teaching English; university level. Absract: The main problems connected with teaching

We describe "universal" DNA primers for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of a 710-bp fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidasesubunit I gene (COI) from 11 invertebrate phyla:Echinodermata, Mollusca, Annelida, Pogonophora, Arthropoda, Nemertinea, Echiura, Sipuncula

The Andrew File System is a location-transparent distributed tile system that will eventually span more than 5000 workstations at Carnegie Mellon University. Large scale affects performance and complicates system operation. In this paper we present observations of a prototype implementation

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We present a 3-D shape-based object recognition system for simultaneous recognition of multiple objects in scenes containing clutter and occlusion. Recognition is based on matching surfaces by matching points using the spin-image representation. The spin-image is a data level shape descriptor

Motivation: DNA microarrays are now capable of providing genome-wide patterns of gene expression across many different conditions. The first level of analysis of these patterns requires determining whether observed differences in expression are significant or not. Current methods are unsatisfactory

fifth annual cycle at the end of 2005 and in 2006 TRECVid will involve almost 70 research organizations, universities and other consortia. Throughout its existence, TRECVid has benchmarked both interactive and automatic/manual searching for shots from within a video corpus, automatic detection of a

The present article introduces a method to improve the English language skills of advanced learners by means of a learning autonomy project at university level. For two months, 38 students carried out tasks they had chosen from a project handout which aimed at fostering learner autonomy and showing

Remedial writing is a course for post-secondary students lacking skills necessary to perform college-level work at the level required by the institution. This is an experimental study that sought to find whether university-level remedial writing program is effective in enhancing the academic

, and Southern Methodist University. The relation between stock and bond returns has been widely studied at the aggregate level (see, for example, Campbell and Ammer (1993), Keim and Stambaugh (1986), Fama and French (1989), and Fama and French (1993)). Recently, a few studies have investigated that relation