second chapters of the books, jami‘ al-alh?an, maq?s?id al-alh?an and sharh?-i adwar that are all important compilations dealing with music have written by ‘abd al-qadir maraghi appropriates to fretting the string instruments. maraghi has mentioned various methods, which are mainly based on s?af? al-din urmawi’s views, for determining the ratio between the notes, yet he has also contributed sev...

The pivotal role of listening comprehension in second/foreign language learning requires that researchers conduct studies which investigate factors that affect test takers’ performances. The present study was set out to examine whether item modality (i.e., written vs. oral items) affects listening comprehension test performance. In addition, it investigated whether allowing test takers to take ...

Forewords This book contains a set of lecture notes that I wrote for an offering of a " Topics in Cryptography " course at Columbia University, in the Spring 1999. It is not clear what use one can make of these notes. The main purpose was to integrate the treatment of the Goldwasser-Bellare lecture notes with some additional proofs, without getting into the level of rigor of Goldreich's book. I...

We analyze the VIX futures market with a focus on exchange-traded notes written such contracts, in particular we investigate VXX tracking short-end part of term structure. Inspired by recent developments commodity smile modelling, present multi-factor stochastic-local volatility model that is able to jointly calibrate plain-vanilla options both and notes, thus going beyond failure purely stocha...

Literacy cannot be separated from peoples' sociocultural contexts and from their self-conceptualizations within those contexts. A person's literacy functioning will depend upon the role literacy plays in meeting one's goals and in the resulting construction of one's self-image. Within context, not only written language, but the interaction between written and oral language modes becomes importa...

Handwriting is the most fundamental expressive activity in learning. In order to utilize the nature, digital pen technology has been emerged to capture notes and transfer them. We have developed AirTransNote, a student note-sharing system that facilitates collaborative and interactive learning in conventional classrooms. With AirTransNote system, a teacher can immediately share student notes to...

Objectives To assess the completeness of history-taking and physical-examination notes of junior doctors at King Abdulaziz University Hospital per the approach they learned in medical school. Methods In this retrospective study, we reviewed 860 admission notes written by 269 junior doctors (interns and residents) in an academic tertiary-care medical centre in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, over a two-...

Recently work on the grammar of spoken English has advanced through the use of large, general, and varied corpora of the language, including corpora of spoken discourse. Here I review the research that has been emerging from the availability of such corpora, much of it emphasizing the need for new ways of conceptualizing spoken grammar, to replace the traditional reliance on grammatical models ...

BACKGROUND Scribes are assisting Emergency Physicians by writing their electronic clinical notes at the bedside during consultations. They increase physician productivity and improve their working conditions. The quality of Emergency scribe notes is unevaluated and important to determine. OBJECTIVE The primary objective of the study was to determine if the quality of Emergency Department scri...