Argument maps as schematic representations of arguments and their logical and evidential relationships are effective diagrams for instruction in education as well as in L2 development. However, their use for teaching L2 writing in EFL contexts has not been adequately studied. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of argument mapping instruction on Iranian EFL learners’ writing achieveme...

Linkage mapping has been extensively applied in the murine and human genomes. It remains a powerful approach to mapping genes and identifying genetic variants. As genome efforts identify large numbers of single-nucleotide polymorphisms, it will be critical to validate these polymorphisms and confirm their gene assignment and chromosomal location. The presence of pseudogenes can confuse such eff...

We describe Quality of service pICKER (QUICKER), a modeldriven QoS mapping toolchain for supporting the design and evolution of application QoS. QUICKER automates the mapping of QoS requirements onto platform-specific QoS configuration options by (1) choosing appropriate subset of QoS options for given QoS policies and (2) assigning values to each of these selected QoS options. QUICKER also pro...

Introduction The availability of novel mapping systems and software in combination with or without dedicated multipolar diagnostic catheters allows for automatic high-density 3-dimensional electroanatomic mapping that enables detailed insight into atrial tachycardia mechanisms. For the accuracy of the activation map, the consistency of electrogram annotation is crucial. Depending on the system ...

This paper proposes a method for designing a color lookup table (CLUT) that can simultaneously process gamut mapping and color space conversion without any complex computation. After constructing a LUT composed of the scanner and printer gamuts, fictive sample points are uniformly selected in CIELAB space and CMY values computed using gamut mapping. The scanner input RGB image is then converted...

Herein, we report a case of sentinel lymph node mapping in a uterine cervix cancer patient, referring to the nuclear medicine department of our institute. Lymphoscintigraphy images showed inappropriate intra-cervical injection of radiotracer. Blue dye technique was applied for sentinel lymph node mapping, using intra-cervical injection of methylene blue. Two blue/cold sentinel lymph nodes, with...

This paper assesses the range of equivalence or mapping types required to facilitate interoperability in the context of a distributed terminology server. A detailed set of mapping types were examined, with a view to determining their validity for characterizing relationships between mappings from selected terminologies (AAT, LCSH, MeSH, and UNESCO) to the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) sche...

We present a spectral mapping technique for semisupervised pattern classification. Importance scores of features are firstly evaluated with a semi-supervised feature selection algorithm by Zhao et al. Training data are then embedded into a low-dimensional space with a spectral mapping derived from the selected and weighted feature vectors with which test data are classified by the nearest neigh...

-Abst rac t Once a fuzzy controller is specified by a rule-set, it can be implemented in dedicated hardware or as a software program. For industrial applications, an inexpensive micro-controller with limited resources is often selected. The implementation (or mapping) issue then leads to a trudcoff between operation speed and memory usage. This paperpresents a set of basic transformation rules ...