Traditional machine vision assumes that the vision system recovers a complete, labeled description of the world [Marr, 1982]. Recently, several researchers have criticized this model and proposed an alternative model which considers visual perception as a distributed collection of task-specific, context-driven visual routines [Aloimonos, 1993, Ullman, 1984]. Some of these researchers have argue...

About SLEPc Technical Reports: These reports are part of the documentation of slepc, the Scalable Library for Eigenvalue Problem Computations. They are intended to complement the Users Guide by providing technical details that normal users typically do not need to know but may be of interest for more advanced users.

Whatever their role, office workers are involved in two types of activities: either they are doing some task on a predefined routine, or they are inter-acting with each-other (communicating) to deal with an exceptional situation, i.e., they have to solve a problem they or their colleagues have encountered. Traditional office computer-based tools and systems aimed to support routine work, while ...

In this study, the use of speech-like pragmatic markers in Iranian EFL students’ academic writing was investigated. Speech-like pragmatic markers, such as I think, well, I guess, actually, anyway, anyhow, etc. are linguistic components that are more specific to conversation than writing, and writers may wrongly include them in their academic writing. To examine the students’ use of speech-like ...

In this study, the use of speech-like pragmatic markers in Iranian EFL students’ academic writing was investigated. Speech-like pragmatic markers, such as I think, well, I guess, actually, anyway, anyhow, etc. are linguistic components that are more specific to conversation than writing, and writers may wrongly include them in their academic writing. To examine the students’ use of speech-like ...

Gossip is pervasive at the workplace, yet receives scant attention in sensemaking literature and stands on periphery of organization studies. We seek to reveal non-triviality gossip processes sensemaking. In drawing empirical data from an observational study a British Media firm, we adopt processual perspective showing how people produce, understand, enact their sense what occurring through as ...

This  paper  focuses  on  some  pragmatic  expressions  that  are  characteristic  of  informal  spoken English, their possible equivalents in some other languages, and their use by EFL learners from different  backgrounds.  These  expressions,  called  general  extenders  (e.g.  and  stuff,  or something), are shown to be different from discourse markers and to exhibit variation in form, funct...

Hedging academic claims has been recognized as one of integral pragmatic features of academic writing in which most EFL academic writers seem to face substantial problems. Explicit instruction has been proposed by some scholars as an effective approach to make EFL writers aware of the importance, different forms, and pragmatic functions of hedging devices some of which are polysemous and polypr...