ABSTRACT Discourse Diversity Database (3D) is a corpus designed for clinical linguistics research. It consists of oral speech samples three different genres: picture-elicited narratives, personal stories, and picture-based instructions. The sub-sections 3D include recordings by Russian speakers from independent groups: people with brain tumors before after tumor removal, schizophrenia, neurolog...

The unavoidable occurrence of microdefects in silicon wafers increase the probability of catastrophic fracture of silicon-based devices, thus highlighting the need for a strengthening mechanism to minimize fractures resulting from defects. In this study, a novel mechanism for manufacturing silicon wafers was engineered based on nanoscale reinforcement through surface nanotexturing. Because of n...

Mirror matter admixtures and isospin breaking in the |∆I| = 1/2 rule in Ω − two body non-leptonic decays Abstract We discuss a description of Ω − two body non-leptonic decays based on possible , albeit tiny, admixtures of mirror matter in ordinary hadrons. The |∆I| = 1/2 rule enhancement is obtained as a result of isospin symmetry and, more importantly, the rather large observed deviations from...

A novel technique for protein immobilization onto CrAsH-modified surfaces is presented. This approach enables an efficient, reversible and fluorogenic immobilization of proteins. Moreover, expressed proteins can also be directly immobilized from cellular lysates without prior purification. The immobilized proteins are suitable for protein-protein interaction studies and the fluorescence enhance...

The exchange of gluons between heavy quarks produced in e + e − interactions results in an enhancement of their production near threshold. We study QCD threshold effects in γγ collisions. The results are relevant to heavy quark production by beam-strahlung and laser back-scattering in future linear collider experiments. Detailed predictions for top, bottom and charm production are presented.

Despite the extensive research on negotiation of meaning (NoM) using unfocused tasks, to our knowledge no study portrays what extent NoM contributes learners’ language accuracy, grammar, and vocabulary, in particular, a focused task. Therefore, this set out obtain in-depth information about contribution accuracy when learners were assigned engage task discussion. The participants, treated as th...

This paper presents a novel double knowledge transferring method to solve the multi-culture facial attractiveness enhancement problem. The existing enhancement of facial attractiveness methods just focus on one particular culture and assume the beautification model learned in one culture could be used in other cultures without adaptation. However, for the people in different cultures who do not...

image or artistic picture represents an imaginative process that give artistic meaning to speech. this is a process that uncovers hidden meaning and conveys the mental concepts of the writer to the audience and makes his intended meanings much deeper. the reflections of the use of this literary device in classical arabic works and the high frequency of their use in the holy quran and in nahjul-...