stability and safety analysis of dams is a subject which has been studied in recent years by several researchers. researchers have used various methods and models for studying the stability of the dam. several methods are proposed for the analysis of earth dams under earthquakes. some of these methods are viscoelastic methods and semi static methods. each of these methods can be used as an appr...

In structural analysis, the base of structures is usually assumed to be completely rigid. However, the combination of foundation and the subsurface soil, makes in fact a flexible-base for the soil-structure system. It is well-known that the structural responses can be significantly affected by incorporating the Soil-structure Interaction (SSI) effects. The aim of the present study is to provide...

This paper presents a 3-level RDWT biometric watermarking algorithm to embed the voice biometric MFC coefficients in a color face image of the same individual for increased robustness, security and accuracy. Phase congruency model is used to compute the embedding locations which preserves the facial features from being watermarked and ensures that the face recognition accuracy is not compromise...

This study examines the impact of syntactic priming on production of indirect questions/requests by Persian learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). Eighty learners participated in two experiments investigating the impact of syntactic priming on oral production and the possibility of transfer of the priming effects to a different modality. A Production experiment showed that priming res...

Though blended learning had been continuously adopted in an Academic English Writing course (AEW) in a key university in Beijing, no attempts had been made to describe this new learning environment or investigate its effectiveness and impact. To fill in the gap, the present paper describes and evaluates blended learning in this AEW course in terms of course design, material development and pres...

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has become increasingly accessible in recent years, which allows this relatively lowcost and portable brain sensing modality for the application of braincomputer interfaces (BCI). Although there is a growing body of research on fNIRS-based BCI utilising users’ covert psychophysiological activity, there is comparably less research on active BCI, wher...

In this paper, we propose a Potts spin Mean Field annealed network to address the open, independent and incompatibility classes of causal reasoning (also said abduction, abductive diagnosis). The strong feature of the current work is its characterization of the reasoning task in these classes by an energy/target function. Computation of a scenario (also said explanation) is done by means of Mea...

In this article I report the findings of a descriptive and interpretative qualitative study carried out in a public school in Bogotá, Colombia. The study aimed at analyzing, describing and exploring teenage students’ social identity representation as observed in their participation in a learning community on Facebook. Data were collected from eight active participants through artifacts and semi...

Kim, Youn-hee. (2017). The nature of peer interaction: Role relationships formed in pair interaction. English Teaching, 72(1), 131-158. This study examines the nature of peer interaction, in particular pair interaction, of adult learners engaged in a range of activities in naturalistic EFL lessons. Six pairs engaged in seven different activities followed by a stimulated recall interview. Data f...