Although Firth and Wagner (1997) did not explicitly discuss the issue of identity in second
language acquisition (SLA) research, their article was symptomatic of a general trend to open …

In 1981 I began a one-year RSA (Royal Society of Arts) diploma course in teaching English
as a foreign language at the British Council Institute in Barcelona. Having spent some two …

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This paper discusses issues related to language beliefs held by teachers and students of
English in China; namely, the status of English, the learners’ expectations of English and the …

Production of biodiesel from edible plant oils is quickly expanding worldwide to fill a need for
renewable, environmentally-friendly liquid transportation fuels. Due to concerns over use of …

The Human Metabolome Database (HMDB) is currently the most complete and comprehensive
curated collection of human metabolite and human metabolism data in the world. It …

The tissue-specific pattern of mRNA expression can indicate important clues about gene
function. High-density oligonucleotide arrays offer the opportunity to examine patterns of gene …

The Bioperl project is an international open-source collaboration of biologists, bioinformaticians,
and computer scientists that has evolved over the past 7 yr into the most comprehensive …

Human milk contains large amounts of complex oligosaccharides that putatively modulate
the intestinal microbiota of breast-fed infants by acting as decoy binding sites for pathogens …