This paper presents warped discrete cosine transform (WDCT)-based low bit-rate block coding using image downsampling.While WDCT aims to improve the performance of conventional DCT by frequency warping, the WDCT has only been applicable to high bit-rate coding applications because of the overhead required to define the parameters of the warping filter. Recently, low bit-rate block coding based o...

Recently, warped discrete cosine transform(WDCT) has been proposed [1, 2], which is the cascade of allpass filters and DCT. The role of the allpass filters is to warp the input frequency contents to be suitable for compression by DCT. The compression algorithm based on the WDCT outperforms the JPEG [5] that is based on the conventional DCT, especially for the images with high frequency contents...

Three new scoring categories for the Wartegg Drawing Completion Test (WDCT) were introduced. Each of them permits to assess specific personality characteristics: the Evocative Character (EC) that is related to social adjustment; Form Quality (FQ) that is connected to reality testing ability and Affective Quality, (AQ) that is linked to general mood state. Inter-rater agreement and criterion val...

Recently, an image compression algorithm based on the warped discrete cosine transform has been proposed (Cho and Mitra, IEEE Trans Circuits Systems Video Technol 10 (8) (2000) 1364). The algorithm outperforms JPEG, especially for images with high frequency contents and compound images consisting of picture and text. In this paper, we improve the compression performance by optimizing the parame...

Apology may be defined as “a compensatory action for an offense committed by the speaker which has affected hearer” (Marquez-Reiter, 2000, p. 44), and a compliment is another speech act "which explicitly or implicitly attributes credit to someone other than speaker... positively valued hearer" (Holmes, 1986, 485). The focus of this paper find out strategies are employed Turkish pre-service EFL ...

this study attempted to investigate the effect of bilingualism on pragmaticawareness and development among iranian turkish/persian efl learners. data werecollected through a personal profile questionnaire with questions about theparticipants’ language background and a wdct with 10 situations to determine theextent to which the bilinguals demonstrated their pragmatic awareness of requests.they w...

When dealing with guests’ complaints using English language, hospitality frontliners at hotels in Indonesia will also rely on their pragmatic competence to satisfy the guests. This research is aimed analyzing strategies used by students handling especially terms of apologizing and whether there a significant difference between those part-time job experience without experience. The study utilize...

Promoting the sustainable development of rural EFL students’ English ability is a vital issue in general curriculum guidelines Taiwan’s 12-Year Basic Education. This study aimed to investigate effects Facebook project on developing learners’ email literacy English. There were two participant groups: (1) six university majors and (2) 12 ninth-graders from junior high school. The instruments incl...

The present study compares two measures most frequently used to assess pragmatic competence: Written Discourse Completion Tasks (WDCT) and Oral Discourse Completion Tasks (ODCT). The study focuses on these two speech act data collection methods and explores the validity of using different forms of Discourse Completion Tasks (DCTs) in non-Western contexts. Twenty four Iranian university students...