this study was an attempt to investigate whether teaching critical reading strategies had any significant effect on intermediate efl learners’ vocabulary retention. to fulfill the purpose of this study, 72 male and female students within the age range of 17 to 32 years studying at farzan and farzanegan language schools in tehran at intermediate level were selected from a total number of 114 par...

In recent years there has been a growing interest in using Semantic Web technologies to process streaming information, and several RDF Stream Processing (RSP) systems have been developed to bridge the gap between static and streaming Linked Data. However, the lack of a standardized query language makes testing and benchmarking of systems difficult, since queries need to be developed for each su...

Whereas the number of services that are provided online is growing rapidly, current service discovery approaches seem to have problems fulfilling their objectives. Existing approaches are hampered by the complexity of underlying semantic service models and by the fact that they try to impose a technical vocabulary to users. This leads to what we call the service discovery gap. In this paper we ...

In this paper, we address the challenge of deriving both, executable WSBPEL processes and their respective WSDL interface specifications from choreographies written in WS-CDL for business processes in Virtual Organizations (VOs). The major issues hereby are the differences in the vocabulary of WS-CDL andWSBPEL as well as the information gap between a choreography and an executable orchestration...

In this paper, we address the challenge of deriving both, executable WSBPEL processes and their respective WSDL interface specifications from choreographies written in WS-CDL for business processes in Virtual Organizations (VOs). The major issues hereby are the differences in the vocabulary of WS-CDL andWSBPEL as well as the information gap between a choreography and an executable orchestration...

Using aggregate data from the General Social Survey (GSS), 1974-1996, Lynn (1998) claims that the Black-White intelligence difference in the United States has not been narrowing over time. We replicate Lynn's analysis and challenge his conclusion by identifying several methodological problems. By analyzing changes in Black-White differences in the GSS vocabulary test across survey years, rather...

In Consumer Healthcare Informatics it is still difficult for laypersons to find, understand and act on health information, due to the persistent communication gap between specialized medical terminology and “lay” medical terminology used by healthcare consumers. Furthermore, existing clinically-oriented terminologies cannot provide sufficient support when integrated into consumeroriented applic...

The present study aimed to examine the effect of three vocabulary techniques (dictionary use, etymological analysis, and glossing) on the Iranian ESP learners' vocabulary production. Forty-five university students majoring in architecture at Azad University, Anzali branch,  participated in this study. They were divided into three groups, and each group was randomly assigned to one kind of treat...

To investigate the effects of different glossing conventions on vocabulary recognition and recall, 158 participants were given a pre-test to make sure that they did not have any prior knowledge of the target words. Reading passages with four different glossing conventions (interlinear, marginal, pre-text, and post-text) were given to eight groups. Four groups received interlingual glosses and f...

abundantly clear though the need for effective eclectic techniques for enhancing learners’ vocabulary learning strategies may seem, in practice, language instructors, by all accounts, tend to resort to only a few obsolete ones. this review paper aims to provide a brief account of practices in vocabulary teaching and learning by focusing on the research on teaching words in context and out of co...