the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of modified cloze procedure on writing proficiencyof iranian intermediate efl learners. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 110 participantsstudying at semnan university majoring in english literature were tested on celt proficiency test.65 participants who were found to be homogenous were selected and assigned randomly to twogroups of ...

Defending a server against Internet worms and defending a user’s email inbox against spam bear certain similarities. In both cases, a stream of samples arrives, and a classifier must automatically determine whether each sample falls into a malicious target class (e.g., worm network traffic, or spam email). A learner typically generates a classifier automatically by analyzing two labeled trainin...

COMMENTARY Correction for “Mitochondrial metabolism is regulated by thioredoxin,” by Ian Max Møller, which appeared in issue 11, March 17, 2015, of Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (112:3180–3181; first published March 9, 2015; 10.1073/pnas.1502425112). The authors note that on page 3181, left column, second full paragraph, line 14, “thioredoxin reductase using NADPH” should instead appear as “ferredoxin...

We introduce a type of two-tier convolutional neural network model for learning distributed paragraph representations for a special task (e.g. topic classification or sentiment classification). We decompose the paragraph semantics into three cascaded constitutes: word representation, sentence composition and document composition. Specifically, we learn distributed word representations by a cont...

This paper presents a cognitive computational model of the way people read a paragraph with the task of quickly deciding whether it is related or not to a given goal. In particular, the model attempts to predict the time at which participants would decide to stop reading the paragraph because they have enough information to make their decision. Our model makes predictions at the level of words ...

1. p. 1035, left column, 3rd paragraph, 2nd line 10 The citation should not be to Ref. [15], but to 11 Ref. [30]; see also point 9 of this errata list. 12 • p. 1036, left column, 2nd paragraph, 2nd line 13 The citation should not be to Refs. [2,16,28, 14 29], but to Refs. [2,16,28,29,31]; see also point 15 9 of this errata list. 16 2. p. 1040, Section 3.4.2.3, 9th line 17 The command “legion na...

The present study is a corpus analysis of discourse prosodic information using two different types of fluent continuous Mandarin speech. Global F0 heights and duration patterns of withinand between-paragraph phrases were compared by discourse positions. Results showed that overall phrase-level F0 height was paragraph-initial>-medial>-final while the tempo pattern was paragraph-initial<-medial<-...

The proposed ISO standard E-LOTOS is used to describe the leader election protocol of the IEEE 1394 serial multimedia bus ((FireWiree). The E-LOTOS language facilitates descriptions at several levels of abstraction, therefore a broad understanding of the protocol at an abstract level can be gained before adding more complexity and concrete detail. A secondary aim is to illustrate some of the no...

High functioning autistic people can exhibit exceptional skills with numbers, eidetic imagery and recall of concrete detail, as brought to popular attention in the film Rain Man. However, it now transpires that these skills are to some extent latent within all of us. We do not have access under normal circumstances to this concrete detail, yet brain stimulation experiments show that this detail...