Librarians at Penn State University piloted the online appointment-scheduling tool YouCanBook.me to determine its effectiveness in facilitating a high number of research consultations and Pet Supplies improving an embedded service model.Librarians sought to leverage the tool to work with as many students as possible while balancing other duties.Thi
A Phonetic Study of the Velar Glide [w] in Persian
Persian velar glide [w], unlike the palatal glide [j], does not serve a contrastive function in Persian phonology since it has incomplete distribution, occurring only in few words after the mid back vowel /o/.Thus, [w] is described as an allophone of the phoneme /v/.Furthermore, it has been assumed that [w] in [ow] may be deleted in connected speec
THEMATIC PROGRESSION AND ITS TYPES IN ENGLISH LITERARY AND LEGISLATIVE TEXTS
The focus of the article is Thematic Progression as a text and a genre forming phenomenon.Thematic Progression contributes to the cohesive development of any text, the distribution of given and new information of which needs to follow certain patterns.Thematic progression patterns deal with the set of meaningful sense groups which constitute a cohe
Social Communication in Big Brown Bats
Bats are social mammals that display a wide array of social communication calls.Among them, it is common for most bats species to emit distress, agonistic, appeasement and infant isolation calls.Big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) are no different: They are gregarious animals living in colonies that can comprise hundreds of individuals.These bats liv