In this paper we introduce the SpeakCorrect system which is a Computer Aided Pronunciation Training (CAPT) system for native Arabic students of English. The system is designed with optimized performance for the target users group. It is L1 dependent system and only the frequent pronunciation errors of native Arabic speakers are examined. Several adaptation techniques such as Speaker Adaptive Tr...

o the Editor: ow-level perceptual abnormalities are increasingly seen to play an important role in some features of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) (review [1]) by contributing to impairments f social communication through limiting higher-level visual rocessing of faces, for example. Arguably the most interesting indings are that individuals with ASD can sometimes perform etter than matched co...

according to the importance of symbolism in mystical narratives, and of course to the existence of a need for them to be interpreted in order to understand the text and its narrative details, we have analyzed three authentic and effective works: initially tazkirat al-awliyā by attar, secondly kashf-ol-mahjoob by hojviri and at the end resaleh of ghoshairieh by ghoshairi through a semiotic appro...

infections Widad Al-Nakib, FRCPath, FIDSA; Sahar Essa, BSc, MSc, PhD; Haya Altawalah, BSc, MBBS, FRCPath; Abdullah Owayed; Mousa Khadadah; Nasser Behbehani; Microbiology Department Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Virology Unit, Ministry of Health, Mubarak Hospital, Kuwait; Paediatrics, Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait; Medicine, Kuwait University, Faculty of Medici...

traces of a class of social science and a philosophical interpretation of history could be found in the writings of famous religious and political figures as well as in some of acclaimed poets’ works of islamic era. in this regard, poems of ibn motaz, as a member of abbasid family and because of extensive tribal struggles between abbasids and alavis, are of considerable significance and are con...

although old texts are distorted or changed due to various reasons such as unfamiliarity of writers who take them away from their origin and make it difficult to achieve a correct edition by using of the manuscripts, especially when there is a unique manuscript of the text or the existing manuscript is different with the other available versions, the correction of each text should be usually do...

Despite the work by Bos et al1 reported in Blood and by other researchers on the structure and function of the procoagulant molecules,2,3 the pathophysiology of venom-induced consumption coagulopathy (VICC) associated with human envenoming by these snakes remains unclear.4 Although it would appear that the presence of a factor Va–like toxin in brown snake (Pseudonaja spp) venom that is impervio...

Cuando se observa lo diseñado hay niveles de comprensión que transitan superficial a profundo recorriendo trayectorias reflexivas agudizan temporal y espacialmente. La mirada puede ser insustancial liviana, buscar sólo exterior aparente, no obstante, si va más allá del primer vistazo, los pasos hunden al pensamiento en insondable.