The Ability of Supplying the Elliptical Items Omitted From a Written Text and its Impact on the Reading Comprehension of 4th Year Libyan University Students Studying EFL

This paper investigates the ability of supplying the elliptical items omitted from a written text and its impact on the reading comprehension of Libyan university students studying EFL. Ellipsis can be defined as the omission of one or more lexical items that are understood in the context, but which are required to make the sentence or utterance grammatically correct. An elliptical item could be nominal, verbal or clausal. 4th year English Department students from the English Department- Faculty of ArtsGharian in Al-Jabal Al-Gharbi University completed reading comprehension test. Seventy one out of a hundred and four students accepted to participate in the study. The test was modified to include many elliptical items and the students were asked to supply them. The results, which were statistically analyzed, suggested that the study participants were not able to supply the correct elliptical items and consequently had poor reading comprehension results. The mean marks achieved were only 33.8. This result may have many pedagogical implications

Studies on the fragmentation of human immunoglobulin M by cyanogen bromide

Human IgM proteins have been isolated from several pathological sera by euglobulin precipitation followed by gel filtration. The purity of the isolated IgM proteins was determined by cellulose acetate electrophoresis. By reacting with anti-human IgM serum and anti-human Kappa (K) chain serum the immunological properties were determined. The polymeric IgM molecule (Mol-wt ≈ 950 000) was converted into pentameric Fcμ fragments using trypsin, and into monomer subunites (IgMs) using cysteine, and the purities and immunological characteristics of these products were studied. Their molecular weights were also estimated by gel filtration chromatography and by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. [Continues.

ANALISIS PERUBAHAN KRITERIA PERATURAN BAPEPAM LK NOMOR II.K.1 TENTANG KRITERIA DAN PENERBITAN DAFTAR EFEK SYARIAH TAHUN 2007, 2009, 2012

ABSTRACTThis research is motivated by regulations concerning criteria qualitative, namely the type of business and quantitative criteria, namely the ratio Islamic stock finance published in 2007, 2009 and 2012 in the form Bapepam and LK regulations. In Bapepam and LK regulations Number II.K.1 about Criteria and Issuance of List of Sharia Securities there is still tolerance to financial ratios, namely to interest-based debt with income interest based and other non-halal income. In the formulation of this study is how the changes, reasons and position of the Bapepam LK Regulation Number II.K.1 concerning Criteria and Issuance of List of Sharia Securities. This study aims (1) To find out changes in Qualitative Criteria and Quantitative Criteria in Bapepam LK Regulation Number II.K.1 about Criteria and Issuance of List of Sharia Securities in 2007, 2009, 2012. (2) For find out what is the reason for the changes in Bapepam LK regulations number II.K.1 about Criteria and Issuance of Sharia Securities List in 2007, 2009 and 2012. (3) To determine the Position of Bapepam LK Regulation Number II.K.1 about Criteria and Issuance of List of Sharia Securities in the legal system Capital Market in Indonesia. This research was conducted by juridical-normative method, namely analyze the contents of legislation in the form of Bapepam and Regulations LK. The source of the research is Bapepam LK Regulation Number II.K.1 and Fatwa DSN-MUI. Techniques for collecting data through interviews, documentation studies and literature review. Qualitative data analysis by collecting data to then be interpreted and conclusions taken. This study concludes (1) changes in 2007 to 2009 occur changes to qualitative and quantitative criteria but not too significant. Then in 2009 to 2012 there was a change in quantitative criteria that is to financial ratios to point (a) interest-based debt ratios at appeal with total assets of not more than 45%. (2) the reason that happened to changes from 2007 to 2009 were to provide information comprehensive about sharia securities, while changes from 2009 to 2012 are because the ratio calculation based on capital is considered irrelevant reasons: (i) Companies that lose (small capital) are not necessarily performance going forward is not good; (ii) No other country uses that ratio capital-based. (3) Bapepam LK Regulation Number II.K.1 concerning Criteria and The issuance of the List of Sharia Securities is still valid and provides reference to issuers that enter the List of Sharia Securities. Even though it is currently Bapepam LK has been abolished and merged with Bank Indonesia to become a Service Authority Finance (OJK). Because there are no new regulations issued by the FSA and Bank Indonesia, so that this regulation is still valid

DETERMINATION OF ENERGY CONTENT, PHYTOCHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF POTENTIAL WILD EDIBLE LEGUME; CANAVALIA ROSEA (SW.) DC. FROM NORTHERN KERALA

Objective: Major objective of this study is to determine the calorific value and antioxidant activity of Canavaliarosea. Methods: Petroleum ether extract of the seeds were tested qualitatively for twelve components. Calorific value in kJ/100g seed flour was determined based on the results of the proximate analysis. Enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants were analyzed by standard procedures using UV-Visible Spectrophotometer. Results: C. roseais a perennial creeper with roughly circular compound leaves. Flowers are brightly pink-purple, in racemes. It is having large fruits up to 8-12 cm, with brown dormant seeds inside. Seeds were collected from banks of ‘Kabani’ River (Panamaram) and from various tribal hamlets in Wayanad district, Kerela. Preliminary phytochemical screening reveals the presence of eight compounds such as, tannins,saponins, flavonoids, cardiac glycosides, terpenoids, phenols, coumarins and phlobatannins. The analysis of nutritive value of seed has a higher value of crude protein (48.71 %) and crude carbohydrate (34.07). The calorific value of seed material was 1529.9kJ/100g seed flour. Enzymatic antioxidants superoxide dismutase (38.134 u/mg fw) and catalase (19.051 u/mg dw) then non-enzymatic antioxidants poly phenols (12.81 u/mg dw) and ascorbic acid (10.301 u/mg fw) were tested. All those tests show significant levels of antioxidants in the sample. Conclusion: Hence, the present study providing details about the place of collection, ethnobotanical information, energy content and antioxidant activity of Canavaliarosea

PHYTOCHEMICAL EVALUATION OF ARTOCARPUS HIRSUTUS LAM. FRUIT EXTRACT: A POTENTIAL WILD ENDEMIC PLANT

Objective: The present study includes the qualitative and quantitative estimation of phytochemical constituents and HPTLC (High-performance thin layer chromatography) analysis of phenolic acids in the fruit extract of Artocarpus hirsutus. Methods: Qualitative and quantitative analysis of Artocarpus hirsutus methanol fruit extract using standard methods. HPTLC analysis was performed by the CAMAG HPTLC system (Switzerland) for gallic acid, caffeic acid and ferulic acid determination. Results: The Preliminary phytochemical analysis revealed the presence of phytoconstituents such as flavonoids, phenols, tannins, steroids, glycosides, alkaloids, carbohydrate and protein. The methanol fruit extract has high carbohydrate content (267±0.02 mg/g FW). And good amount of protein, phenol, flavanoid were also found. The results of mineral studies shows that elements such as potassium (1.601%) and nitrogen (1.4%) were present in higher quantity. The result showed the presence of caffeic acid within peak 7 with an Rf (Retension factor) value 0.49, ferulic acid within peak 8 with an Rf value 0.60, and gallic acid within peak 5 with an Rf value 0.25. Conclusion: The results indicated that the Artocarpus hirsutus fruit contains an appreciable amount of bioactive compounds

On The Existence of A Unique Solution for Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations of First Order

In this paper, we state and prove a theorem for local existence of a unique solution for a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations ( NODE ) of first order by proving that the nonlinear operator of this system is contractive in a metric space subset of the Banach space consisting of the bounded differentiable functions on the real numbers and equipped with a Bielescki#39s type norm.nbsp Finally, we give examples to illustrate our result

DIVERSITY OF UNDERUTILIZED WILD EDIBLE FRUITS OF KANNUR DISTRICT, KERALA, INDIA

Objective: To explore, collect, identify and preserve wild edible fruits of Kannur district, Kerala. Methods: Field survey was conducted for collecting information regarding utilization aspects of some underutilized fruits. The important wild fruits were selected on the basis of their easy availability and on their food and medicinal values in Kannur district. Results: Total thirty three wild edible fruits were collected, identified, and documented. All these fruits were good source of fat, protein, sugars and antioxidants. Most species were found to have many therapeutic uses. Conclusion: The documentation of wild fruits will benefit the community through the use of locally and freely available healthy food which will also preserve their cultural pride. And these wild fruit plants have important role in maintaining ecological balance

MFV Reductions of MSSM Parameter Space

The 100+ free parameters of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) make it computationally difficult to compare systematically with data, motivating the study of specific parameter reductions such as the cMSSM and pMSSM. Here we instead study the reductions of parameter space implied by using minimal flavour violation (MFV) to organise the R-parity conserving MSSM, with a view towards systematically building in constraints on flavour-violating physics. Within this framework the space of parameters is reduced by expanding soft supersymmetry-breaking terms in powers of the Cabibbo angle, leading to a 24-, 30- or 42-parameter framework (which we call MSSM-24, MSSM-30, and MSSM-42 respectively), depending on the order kept in the expansion. We provide a Bayesian global fit to data of the MSSM-30 parameter set to show that this is manageable with current tools. We compare the MFV reductions to the 19-parameter pMSSM choice and show that the pMSSM is not contained as a subset. The MSSM-30 analysis favours a relatively lighter TeV-scale pseudoscalar Higgs boson and $\tan \beta \sim 10$ with multi-TeV sparticles.Comment: 2nd version, minor comments and references added, accepted for publication in JHE