This chapter focuses on the amount of pragmatics practice needed for promoting accurate and speedy recognition and production of requestmaking forms in L2 Chinese. Over four consecutive days, an input group (n=17) and an output group (n=17) practiced using target request-making forms via computerized input-based and output-based practice activities, respectively. Meanwhile, a control group (n=1...

Stable semantic ontology measurement is crucial to obtain significant and comparable measurement results. In this paper, we present a summary of the definition of ontology measurement stability and the preprocessing for stable semantic ontology measurement from [5]. Meanwhile, we describe two existing ontology metrics. For each of them, we compare their stability from the perspectives of struct...

In the present study, polysaccharides named ALPS and ASPS were isolated from Ampelopsis grossedentata leaves and stems, respectively. Physicochemical properties, in vitro antioxidant activities and the inhibitory effects on α-glucosidase of ALPS and ASPS were investigated. It was found that both ALPS and ASPS were acid protein-bound heteropolysaccharides, although with considerably different ch...

In this paper, we propose a spatio-temporal filtering scheme that utilizes motion compensation with multireference frames in H.264 to remove noise. It utilizes the variation of inter mode distributions to detect noise and determine the parameters for spatial filter. In the time domain, a reference pixel is selected from multireference frames according to the motion trajectory and MSE criterion....

The diagram showing off-center nested spheres which is traditionally used to illustrate the Doppler effect, misleading and its trigonometric analysis leads errors concerning light, because electromagnetic aberration effects conform a wavefront surface that not sphere but an ellipsoid stretched along trajectory of source. Cartesian polar equations spherical ellipsoidal wavefronts are compared he...