The purposes of this study were to develop a theoretical-based, comprehension process assessment and to measure children’s reading comprehension processes. This assessment was based on Hannon & Daneman’s (2001) paradigm and Hannon & Frias’ (2012) component processes tasks, including the memory measure, the inference measure, knowledge access and integration measure, and modified to two parts in...

Nowadays, managers in charge of every process plant are looking for areas where moderate changes in the process or equipment can yield a return of increased throughput and reliability. The approach employed for the ammonia plant discussed in this case study is to consolidate the diverse controls for major process compressors, steam turbine prime movers, and associated pressure reducing valves. ...

Abstract. We use the conjecture of Conrey, Farmer and Zirnbauer for averages of ratios of the Riemann zeta function [10] to calculate all the lower order terms of the triple correlation function of the Riemann zeros. A previous approach was suggested by Bogomolny and Keating [6] taking inspiration from semi-classical methods. At that point they did not write out the answer explicitly, so we do ...

The local density of states (LDOS) of the adsorbate induced two-dimensional electron system (2DES) on n-InAs(110) is studied by low-temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy. In contrast to a similar 3DES, the 2DES LDOS exhibits 20 times stronger corrugations and rather irregular structures. Both results are interpreted as a consequence of weak localization. Fourier transforms of the LDOS rev...

We propose a change detection method which is robust against illumination change and requires little background learning as a result of using texture based features. We propose Peripheral TErnary Sign Correlation (PTESC) which is robust against illumination changes by using −1/0/1 ternary code for encoding the intensity difference between pixels in texture, and combine it with Bi-polar Radial R...

(see next page for abstract) ∗Acknowledgements: this research forms part of the European Commission TMR network project on "Financial Market Efficiency and Economic Efficiency," grant contract no. FMRXCT96-0054. I thank Julian Franks and a referee for detailed comments on the previous draft, and Margaret Bray and Thierry Foucault for discussions on an earlier version of this paper.

 ABSTRACT Background: Triple therapy with a proton pump inhibitor, clarithromycin and amoxicillin and quadruple therapy with a proton pump inhibitor, bismuth citrate, metronidazole and amoxicillin have been proposed in Maastricht 2000 as the optimal treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection. We aimed to compare these two regimens in Iranian pediatric patients. Methods: A randomized clinical tr...

BACKGROUND Reports of triple combination therapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) suggest a benefit, as do reports for zeaxanthin. An interventional comparative study was thus undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of triple combination therapy with and without zeaxanthin, as well as the economic viability of the therapies. METHODS The cases of 543 consecutive eyes of 424 p...