Summary writing is associated with lots of cognitive and metacognitive complexities that necessitates instruction (Hirvela & Du, 2013). Contrary to majority of studies carried out on summarization instruction, the present study addressed the underlying processes or microgenetic developments of the Iranian EFL learners’ summary writing. To this end, 41 male and female undergraduate students rece...

This empirical study deals with language contact phenomena in Sistan. Code-copying is viewed as a strategy of linguistic behavior when a dominated language acquires new elements in lexicon, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatic organization, etc., which can be interpreted as copies of a dominating language. In this framework Persian is regarded as the model code which provides elements for b...

We present a design of an integrated beam combiner which cascades power combiners and polarization converter/combiner. The proposed device has 2 dB lower loss than power combiners and is more fabrication-tolerant than wavelength combiners. The Optical Society (OSA) This work may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part for any commercial purpose. Permission to copy in whole or in part wi...

In this chapter, a novel method for preserving and reproducing human motion based on haptic technology is described. Haptic technology makes it possible to preserve and reproduce human motion using a paired master and slave system. Because it is possible to preserve motion information based on position trajectory and force input, future human support technology that will facilitate skill acquis...

Reports an error in "The role of redundant information in cultural transmission and cultural stabilization" by Alberto Acerbi and Claudio Tennie (Journal of Comparative Psychology, 2016[Feb], Vol 130[1], 62-70). In the article the copyright should have been "© 2016 The Author(s)". The author note also should have included the following license statement "This article has been published under th...

Human communication systems, such as language, evolve culturally [Chater et al. 2009; Croft 2000]; their components undergo reproduction and variation. However, a role for selection in cultural evolutionary dynamics is less clear. Often neutral evolution (also known as 'drift') models, are used to explain the evolution of human communication systems [Blythe 2012; Nettle 1999; Reali and Griffith...

The paper proposes a generic tra c control speci cation at the UNI unifying the characteristics of credit-based and rate-based schemes, and allowing implementation of both, along with other tra c control schemes, simultaneously, in an ATM network. This work may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part for any commercial purpose. Permission to copy in whole or in part without payment of f...

The paper proposes a generic traffic control specification at the UNI unifying the characteristics of credit-based and rate-based schemes, and allowing implementation of both, along with other traffic control schemes, simultaneously, in an ATM network. This work may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part for any commercial purpose. Permission to copy in whole or in part without payment...

We describe an approach to intelligent user interfaces based on the idea of making the computer a collaborator, and an application-independent technology for implementing such interfaces. AI Magazine, Special Issue on Intelligent User Interfaces, to appear in 2001 This work may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part for any commercial purpose. Permission to copy in whole or in part wit...

Instead of the conventional background and foreground definition, we propose a novel method that decomposes a scene into time-varying background and foreground intrinsic images. This work may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part for any commercial purpose. Permission to copy in whole or in part without payment of fee is granted for nonprofit educational and research purposes provided...