Today, great a number of assessment methods have been practiced in educational systems. However, Dynamic Assessment (DA), as the modern assessment method with its emphasis on improvement and development of learning through joining teaching and assessment, is of paramount significance. Thus, one can call DA as a major and revolutionizing factor in teaching and assessment. So far, some conducted ...

Writers ensure the expected (re)construction of concepts in the mind of the audience through effective signposting of the inevitably linear linguistic stream, which is a main aspect of metadiscourse called interactive metadiscourse. In this study, the use of interactive metadiscourse markers in research articles was investigated to examine any probable difference existing between different disc...

Globalization of our modern economies requires a workforce that can move easily between time zones and cultures. Professors cannot ignore the drastic impact globalization has and will place upon engineering students. In order to be prepared for a competitive job market and the actual requirements of many engineering positions, students need to understand the constraints and challenges of workin...

Differential and linear cryptanalysis are two of the most powerful techniques to analyze symmetric-key primitives. For modern ciphers, resistance against these attacks is therefore a mandatory design criterion. In this paper, we propose a novel technique to prove security bounds against both differential and linear cryptanalysis. We use mixedinteger linear programming (MILP), a method that is f...

Handwriting recognition is a difficult task because of the variability involved in the writing styles of different individuals. This gets more complicated in Asian script for its large character set and presence of modified and compound characters. This paper presents a scheme for the online handwriting recognition of one of the major Indic script, Bangla. Online handwriting recognition refers ...

A 10-year-old male was referred with difficulties at school. He had particular difficulty with reading long words, following the sequence of text down a page, writing words in the correct order, writing words in line, and copying from the blackboard. He had a history of infective endocarditis complicated by intracerebral haemorrhage at the age of three years. Detailed history taking revealed sy...

Out-of-order diacriticals introduce signiicant complexity to the design of an on-line handwriting recog-nizer, because they require some reordering of the time domain information. It is common in cursive writing to write the body of a `i' or`t' during the writing of the word, and then to return and dot or cross the letter once the word is complete. The diiculty arises because we have to look ah...

Writing code that manipulates bit streams is a painful and error-prone programming task, often performed via bit twiddling techniques such as explicit bit shifts and bit masks in programmer-allocated buffers. Still, this kind of programming is necessary in many application areas ranging from decoding streaming media files to implementing network protocols. In this paper we employ highlevel cons...

Since the first idea of using GPU to general purpose computing, things have evolved over the years and now there are several approaches to GPU programming. GPU computing practically began with the introduction of CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) by NVIDIA and Stream by AMD. These are APIs designed by the GPU vendors to be used together with the hardware that they provide. A new emergi...