For purposes of the present study, it was hypothesized that field (in)dependence would introduce systematic variance into Iranian EFL learners’ overall and task-specific performance on task-based reading comprehension tests. 1743 freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior students all majoring in English at different Iranian universities and colleges took the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT). Th...

This paper investigates the interplay among human cognitive processing differences (field dependence vs. field independence), alternative interaction device types (desktop vs. touch) and user authentication schemes (textual vs. graphical) towards task completion efficiency and effectiveness. A four-month user study (N 1⁄4 164) was performed under the light of the field dependence-independence t...

One of the major features of hypermedia learning is its non-linear structure, allowing learners, the opportunity of flexible navigation to accommodate their own needs. Nevertheless, such flexibility can also cause problems such as insufficient navigation and disorientation for some learners, especially those with Field Dependent cognitive styles. As a result students learning performance can be...

Pyroelectric properties of orthorhombic Bi2ZnB2O7 (BZBO) crystals were investigated by using the charge integration method. The primary and secondary pyroelectric coefficients BZBO found to be 6.4 −6.5 µC/(m2·°C), respectively. performance was evaluated different figure merits (FOMs), where possessed relatively high current responsivity Fi (10.38 pm/V), detectivity Fd (11.31 × 10−5/Pa1/2). In a...

This research develops a new approach to query expansion by integrating Association Rules (AR) and Ontology. In the proposed approach, there are several steps expand query, namely (1) document retrieval step; (2) step of using AR; (3) initial step, system retrieved top documents via user's query. Next is processing (stopword removal, POS Tagging, TF-IDF). Then do Frequent Itemset (FI) search fr...

We consider a complete implementation of an extension of the nite domain constraint system FD, including antimonotone constraints, and its integration in AKL, a deep-guard concurrent constraint language. We present the language AKL(FD), together with associated programming techniques. In particular, we show how powerful symbolic constraints can be deened as AKL(FD) programs, which is partly mad...

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A forest is the clique complex of a strongly chordal graph and a quasiforest is the clique complex of a chordal graph. Kruskal–Katona type theorems for forests, quasi-forests, pure forests and pure quasi-forests will be presented. Introduction Recently, in commutative algebra, the forest ([5]) and the quasi-forest ([17] and [9]) have been extensively studied. Each of these concepts is, however,...

During a Severe Accident (SA) occurring in nuclear power plant, many Fission Products (FP) are released from the degraded fuel and transported Reactor Coolant System (RCS). Depending on their volatility, FP can be either deposited surface of (RCS) or into containment building where they may environment case early failure. This was for Fukushima Daiichi (FD) accident with important releases whic...