Investigating Academic Writing in EFL Contexts: Students’ Voices on Complexities and Coping Strategies

This research aimed to investigate students’ voices regarding the complexities that contribute to challenges and the coping strategies that address academic writing challenges they use in academic writing. Through a qualitative method, four female students majoring in English Education in the eighth semester at a private university in Indonesia were chosen as participants in this study's interview. Data analysis techniques employed include analyzing the data, coding the data, and interpreting the data. The findings indicated that twelve complexities contributed, namely learners’ low motivation, lack of lecturers’ feedback, lack of translation, lack of references, lack of time, lack of research background, low students' self-confidence, lack of experience in writing, lack of proficiency in reading, lack of critical thinking skill, lack of proper preparation in writing, and lack of a supportive writing learning environment. Students used twelve coping strategies for organization, ideas development, vocabulary, grammar, and mechanics. These strategies included exercises, feedback, reading academic papers, extensive reading, Google Translate, QuillBot, Grammarly, and Mendeley for arranging academic style. The implication of this research has been discussed here

A prospective study of non-malignant lesions of larynx.

Larynx is an important organ of the body. The primary function of the larynx is to provide protection to the lower airway. It secondarily evolved to serve as a vocal generator of sound. The larynx produces sound which is the major medium of communication. Voice helps in expressing emotions even without the help of language. It expresses the mood and attitude. It is the tone of voice which gives meaning, while in verbal use, the quality of voice is very significant specially for professional voice users like singers. The spectrum of voice disorders is very wide and its impact on different individuals also varies. Benign lesions of the larynx include neoplastic and nonneoplastic lesions. They are broadly classified together because clinically they behave similarly. Any lesion affecting the larynx will cause a range of voice disorder. Voice disorders caused by benign lesions are correctable by surgery and voice rest and voice therapy in few cases. In the present study, 70 cases of benign lesions of the larynx were studied. All lesions presented with some kind of voice disorder. 90% of the cases presented with hoarseness, while another 42% had vocal fatigue. 42% had reduced vocal range and 4.4% had aphonia. Amongst the causative factors of vocal nodule, vocal abuse was a common constant cause. 57% of the affected patients were smokers while both the cases of vocal granuloma had a previous history of endotracheal intubation. The sex distribution of different lesions were different. Maximum patients presented were in the third decade (26.8). This was followed closely by patients in the second, fourth and fifth decade. Video laryngoscopy was the most specific modality of investigation. Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Electroglottogram were not considered necessary. Microlaryngeal excision was done for majority of the cases followed by voice rest and anti reflux medicines in some cases. Results were very good thereby saving substantial number of man days

Performance of PIXE Technique through a Geochemical Analysis of High Grade Rocks

It has been an argument that some of the elements present in geological material by using PIXE analysis are purely determined or could not be determined at all, due to various reasons including the matrix. It is felt that a systematic investigation needs to be designed and implemented to understand the limitation of PIXE in certain elements. The high-grade rocks selected are analyzed both by PIXE as well as AAS and the results are authenticated by using a USGS reference material, Basalt, studies of literature. It is believed that the accuracy of problematic elements, especially from high grade rock can be improved and the conditions of PIXE can be standardized for various elements under different combinations. The reasons behind the poor performance of Proton Induced X- ray Emission in case of certain elements have been established

Management of Melon Fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett) Infesting Gherkin:An Areawide Control Programme Adopted in Peninsular India

An area-wide control (AWC) programme was undertaken for management of melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae(Coquillet), in 3 km2 area in Kashapura village of Gauribidanur taluk, Chickaballapura District, Karnataka State in peninsular India from 52nd week of 2007 to 30th week of 2010. Implementation of the AWC programme included field sanitation, male annihilation technique (MAT) through para-pheromone, Cue lure, and bait application technique (BAT). This AWC programme resulted in steady decline of melon fly population in the grid area, and corresponding reduction in per cent fruit fly infested gherkin fruits. In the AWC (grid) area, flies trapped per day (FTD) led to attaining suppression (1 to 0.1 FTD) and eradication levels (<0.1 FTD), which is acceptable to the Indian gherkin processing industry. Whereas, in the non-grid area, fruit fly populations perpetuated at infestation level (>1 FTD) during majority of weeks under observation

A UNIQUE ENERGY THE LEADERS ABILITIES FOR SUN ARRANGED PV-DRIVEN SRM

In this undertaking a clever energy the board capabilities for sun oriented PV-driven SRM for EVs is executed. By and large to keep away from and diminish the emanation of green house gases this framework is presented. For the utilizations of electric vehicles Exchanged hesitance engines (SRMs) utilized most broadly. To diminish the dependence on batteries of vehicles, photovoltaic boards are utilized. Consequently the methodology is constrained by utilizing tri pot converter which will stream the energy from board, battery, and SRM. In this there are absolutely six working modes, in that four are utilized for driving reason and two are utilized to charge the board. In these P&O (Irritate and notice) MPPT strategies is utilized to control the proposed framework. It halt the charging modes, a framework associated charging geography is created without a requirement for outer equipment. At the point when the PV board straightforwardly charges the battery, a multi segment charging control technique is utilized to streamline the energy usage

The evolution of shrinkage strain of pet-mortar composite eco-materials

Concretes and mortars are subjected to several kinds of shrinkage strains which represent the volumic variations resulting from the cement hydration and are governed by various physical and chemical aspects. The use of polyethylene terephthalate PET plastic wastes which are available in quantity and within low cost in our country yields a very important economic and environmental impact in the construction industry. Thus, we are interested to investigate the effect of PET volumetric additive amounts for cement substituting and for the behavior of the total, drying and autogenous shrinkage. Comparison study of obtained experimental results with codale prediction models were performed according to Eurocode 2  (EC2) in order to analyze the evolution of shrinkage strain with PET-mortar  composite ages and for several rates of PET waste additions. According to obtained results, PET additions acts to reduce shrinkage strains of PET-mortar composites which promote the use of these modified mortar Eco-materials in the field of construction industry.Keywords: Composite Eco-materials; Cement substitution; Shrinkage strain; PET waste; EC2