l2 learners’ individual differences are crucial factors that deserve attention in l2 education. focusing on 2 main areas of individual differences (i.e., field (in)dependence and multiple intelligences), this study explored their relationships with l2 reading performance. participants were 64 tefl undergraduates and postgraduates. to assess the participats’ degree of field (in)dependence and mu...

A new performance estimation technique for FPGA implementation based designs is presented. The interest and originality of the method is to rapidly test a great number of implementation solutions while staying independent as far as possible of the technology used, and to include power consumption estimation. Thanks to this method, the designer can quickly have realistic information about the pe...

Rotational motion can often be seen in video. However, comparatively little research has been done to investigate rotational motions in video, whose analysis could be useful. For example, if we can efficiently identify the rotation center of a spinning object, extraction and tracking of it can be made easier by grouping points moving at the same radial speed. It could also improve compression b...

To elucidate the performances of perch and ruffe in oligotrophic lakes, we carried out a field study in reoligotrophic Upper Lake Constance. Both these percids used the same habitat, albeit with different activity patterns. Interspecific competition for food was relevant only in summer when both species fed on zoobenthos. Even then, niche overlap was low, while intraspecific diet overlap was mo...

The recognized importance of collaboration has driven the development of learning environments and technologies. Instructional efforts have concentrated on supporting students’ development of collaborative agency – knowing how to collaborate in small groups. Much less emphasis has been placed on students’ collective agency that would involve participation in large groups prominent in today’s so...

This paper presents a sequential labeling approach for tracking the dialog states for the cases of goal changes in a dialog session. The tracking models are trained using linear-chain conditional random fields with the features obtained from the results of SLU. The experimental results show that our proposed approach can improve the performances of the sub-tasks of the second dialog state track...

although investigating the factors that influence test scores is important, a majority of stakeholders show a paucity of attention towards individual learner differences due to having large classes of l2 learners. this study sought to explore the possible effect of working memory and cognitive style on l2 learners’ metaphorical test performance. the study was conducted in 2 phases. the first ph...

The field electron emission performance of bulk, 1D, and 2D nanomaterials is here empirically compared in the largest metal-analysis of its type. No clear trends are noted between the turn-on electric field and maximum current density as a function of emitter work function, while a more pronounced correlation with the emitters dimensionality is noted. The turn-on field is found to be twice as l...