the purpose of this study was to investigate the comparative effect of using electronic short story books and traditional printed texts on efl learners’ reading comprehension. for that purpose, ninety female learners ranging in age between fifteen and thirty five sat for the language proficiency test (pet, 2009) as the test of homogeneity and consequently sixty students were selected based on t...

Background  Short stature is a manifestation of a wide variety of conditions that some of which may be amenable to timely treatment and a suboptimal growth rate may be an early marker pointing to the cause of growth retardation. This study was conducted to evaluate the diagnostic utility of growth rate in differential diagnosis of children with short stature. Materials and Methods All children ...

Original scientific paper Memristors will surely have application in secondary lightning protection as well. This paper proposes a combined over-voltage protecting device consisting of a memristor connected in series with a spark gap. Operation of this combined device has been simulated with circuit simulation software on a model proposed in this paper. The memristor is applied for dissipating ...

A municipal solid waste (MSW) and recycled material curbside pickup bus system was recently initiated in a Taiwan city to improve collection service. For such an MSW pickup system, selecting appropriate collection stops critically affects hauling costs and service efficiency. Conventionally, MSW collection points are heuristically and manually chosen, resulting in a hauling system that is not a...

Currently most of state-of-the-art methods for Chinese word segmentation are based on supervised learning, whose features aremostly extracted from a local context. Thesemethods cannot utilize the long distance information which is also crucial for word segmentation. In this paper, we propose a novel neural network model for Chinese word segmentation, which adopts the long short-term memory (LST...

Rapid-acting insulin analogs were introduced to the market in the 1990s, and these products have improved treatment of diabetes by shortening the optimum delay time between injections and meals. Compared with regular human insulin, rapid-acting insulin formulations also reduce postprandial glycemic excursions while decreasing risk of hypoglycemia. However, the current prandial products are not ...

Species introductions and movements world-wide provide valuable, large-scale ‘natural’ experiments to test fundamental hypotheses underlying ecological and evolutionary theory and may provide insights into the broad morphological, genetic, ecological or life history characteristics associated with their success and persistence (Sax et al., 2007; Blackburn, 2008; Great Lakes Genetics Laboratory,...