farsi and english are both indo-european languages with similarities in their roots. as such, this experiment was conducted to understand which english accent (i.e. american, british or australian accents) would be easier for iranians to adapt. to answer this question, 30 medical students performed three different activities of (i) listening to audio texts in three accents, (ii) taking part in ...

This paper presents HITS’ system for the NTCIR-9 crosslingual link discovery task. We solve the task in three stages: (1) anchor identification and ambiguity reduction, (2) graphbased disambiguation combining different relatedness measures as edge weights for a maximum edge weighted clique algorithm, and (3) supervised relevance ranking. In the fileto-file evaluation with Wikipedia ground-truth...

Objectives: The aims of this study were to test whether lightening of the overexposed radiographs improve determination of endodontic files length and whether lightened radiographs are comparable with ideally exposed radiographs. Material and Methods: Four dried human skull coated with soft tissue-equivalent wax used for exposing radiographs of the upper molars. First, the endodontic file was p...

In this paper we show how different types of spelling errors influence the quality of machine translation. We also propose a method to evaluate the impact of spelling errors correction on translation quality without expensive manual work of providing reference translations.

A dynamic student-teacher interaction during class is an important part of the learning experience. However, in regular class settings and especially in large classrooms, it is a challenging task to encourage students to participate as they tend to be intimidated by the size of the audience. In this paper, in order to overcome this issue, we present SpeakUp, a novel context-aware mobile applica...

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This research examined four-month-old infants’ use of featural information (shape or color and pattern) to segregate a display into two adjacent pieces. The infants were shown displays consisting of two objects that were the same or different in shape and that were decorated with either similar or different surface markings such that featural information could suggest that the two portions were...

The Corpus of Contemporary American English is the first large, genre-balanced corpus of any language, which has been designed and constructed from the ground up as a ‘monitor corpus’, and which can be used to accurately track and study recent changes in the language. The 400 million words corpus is evenly divided between spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. Mo...

One of the main empirical conclusions of the political business cycle literature is that economic growth and employment in the United States tend to fall after the election of a Republican administration, and increase following Democratic victory. Because Republican administrations also exhibit lower interest rates and inflation than Democrats, it has been argued that their constituents favor l...