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The result was The Lacuna, the sprawling, ambitious, highly detailed 500-page novel that this week won the Orange prize for fiction, beating off intense competition from, among others, Hilary Mantel's Man Booker-prizewinning Wolf Hall, and Lorrie Moore's much-admired A Gate at the Stairs.

It's the literary showdown that readers have been clamoring for: in one corner, Barbara Kingsolver, top left, author of "The Lacuna," the best-selling 2009 novel about art, McCarthyism and post-World War II America; in the opposing corner, Lorrie Moore, top right, author of last year's widely praised post-9/11 novel "A Gate at the Stairs".

To help narrow this lacuna, the current study aims at investigating whether and the extent to which the new assessment policy has led to changes in EFL teachers' assessments in favor of communicative and performance assessments.

To overcome this lacuna the present study was carried out.

In the carapace lacuna, the PCO2 is low due to the transintegumental diffusion of CO2 from the hemolymph into the ambient medium.

To obtain a pH of 8.334 at the entrance of the inner hemolymph lacuna, the Krogh constant for the diffusion of CO2 in chitin (K) was set to 2.10 × 10-6 nmol s-1 mm-1 kPa-1.

The rabbis, though, focus on the lacuna at the beginning of the key verse -- what did Cain say to Abel -- and offer several creative suggestions.

For the lacuna count, the GSA identified solely the diffusion coefficient as the dominant parameter.

It's a moving statement, but also points to the lacuna at the heart of the programme.

Figure 4 shows that the diffusion coefficient is the main source of variation for the lacuna count: the lacuna count is high for low values of D and low for high values of D, independent of the other parameters.

The great lacuna at the heart of The Zhivago Affair is the realisation that Dr Zhivago isn't that great a novel.