We propose a concept of active diagnosis that differs from the conventional passive (i.e. event-driven) diagnosis in temporal (diagnosis is carried out by always monitoring normal condition as opposed to identifying faulty only when abnormal condition is detected) sense as well as spatial (diagnosis is carried out by agents distributed in the sensor network) sense. As one way of realizing activ...

The present study aims to design an international academic entrepreneurship model using grounded theory. The study population is a group of key Iranian informants, faculty members, and doctoral graduates with scientific expertise and work experience in the field of entrepreneurship, especially academic entrepreneurship and international entrepreneurship, and managers of knowledge-based academic...

A majority of government and international organisations have chosen English as their official language since it is the only in world with status a global language. One key components learning oral communication; however, students frequently overlook value communication, which reduces effectiveness acquisition. To enhance motivation non-native speakers to learn practise English, this study aims...

The study of the Greek language is argued here to be of relevance to Slavic studies and Slavic linguistics in several ways. After a brief presentation of some of the more important connections between Greek and the Slavic linguistic world, the focus is turned to one in particular that has not commanded the attention it might, namely the fact that Greek has historically been spoken and continues...

Speakers are able to speak in synchrony to another speaker or to a recording of another speaker. The present research studied whether and, if yes, speakers change their speech rhythm when synchronizing to another speaker. We developed a measure (SRratio) which monitors on a scale between 0 and 1 whether the durational characteristics of a speaker’s synchronous speech are closer to his/her own r...

INTRODUCTION There is a perception that women are under-represented as speakers at emergency medicine (EM) conferences. We aimed to evaluate the ratio of male to female speakers and the proportion of presenting time by gender at major international EM conferences. METHODS Conference programmes of the major English-speaking EM conferences occurring from 2014 to 2015 were obtained. The number o...

the present study attempts to investigate parsing preferences (early vs. late closure) of native and l2 learners of both english and persian when they read ambiguous relative clauses. the purpose is to find out if l2 learners process l2 linguistic input in the way monolingual speakers of that language do. the participants took tests including 10 test sentences plus 10 distractors, each followed...

Theory and Applications of Models of Computation (TAMC) is an international conference series with an interdisciplinary character, bringing together researchers working in computer science, mathematics (especially logic) and the physical sciences. It is this, together with its predominantly computational and computability theoretic focus, which gives the series its special character. TAMC 2006 ...