Abstract This study aimed to evaluate whether or not students engage in self-help behavior when they encounter difficulties during their presentations. The participants were second year EFL college trainees; the data obtained from classroom audio recorded has been transcribed, coded, and categorized into quantitative qualitative data. Descriptive statistical tools employed analyze component, wh...

The occurrence of disfluencies in fully natural speech poses difficult challenges for spoken language understanding systems. For example, although self-repairs occur in about 10% of spontaneous utterances, they are often unmodeled in speech recognition systems. This is partly due to the fact that little is known about the extent to which cues in the speech signal may facilitate automatic repair...

The growth and the operation of all living beings are directed through the interpretation, in each of their cells, of a chemical program, the DNA. This program, called genome, is the blueprint of the organism and consists of a sequence of tour discrete characters: A, C, G, and T. This process is the source of inspiration for the Embryonics (embryological electronics) project, whose final object...

abstract background: in recent studies, using virtual reality (vr) has been proposed as a nonpharmacological method for anxiety reduction, but until this time, its effects have not been assessed on anxiety during episiotomy repair. this study aimed to determine the effect of audiovisual distraction (vr) on anxiety in primiparous women during episiotomy repair. materials and methods: this clinic...

Laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal inguinal hernia repair is a safe and effective technique. In this study we tested the hypothesis that self-gripping mesh used with the laparoscopic approach is comparable to polypropylene mesh in terms of perioperative complications, against a lower overall cost of the procedure. We carried out a prospective randomized trial comparing a group of 30 pati...

In order to protect the wood surface and improve properties of coatings, microcapsules with healable discoloration functions are produced, their function is obtained using shellac, which can be cured at room temperature, as repairing agent. this paper, self-made shellac color-changing were added varnish in different proportions form composite coating on a board, color difference was measured te...

Self-healing polymers composed of microencapsulated healing agents exhibit remarkable mechanical performance and regenerative ability, but are limited to autonomic repair of a single damage event in a given location. Self-healing is triggered by crack-induced rupture of the embedded capsules; thus, once a localized region is depleted of healing agent, further repair is precluded. Re-mendable po...