PURPOSE Visual prostheses offer a possibility of restoring useful reading ability to the blind. The psychophysics of simulating reading with a prosthesis using pixelized text has attracted attention recently. This study was an examination of the reading accuracy and efficiency of pixelized Chinese paragraphs after different parameters were altered. METHODS Forty native Chinese speakers with n...

DOI: 10.5935/abc.20140019 In their professional practices, physicians often face unexpected situations or chance on innovative proposals and ideas. As a result of their training and competence, they usually come up with hypotheses to be tested and research is conducted. This research is completed and their results submitted for presentations at conferences as free communications. Nevertheless, ...

MOTIVATION The growing availability of full-text scientific articles raises the important issue of how to most efficiently digest full-text content. Although article titles and abstracts provide accurate and concise information on an article's contents, their brevity inevitably entails the loss of detail. Full-text articles provide those details, but require more time to read. The primary goal ...

The relative importance of meaning (semantic context) and spaces between words during reading was investigated. Sub jects read paragraphs of coherent or incoherent text aloud; some paragraphs were presented normally, others with spaces between words removed. Coherent paragraphs were taken from a short story. Incoherent paragraphs had the same words and punctuation as the coherent paragraphs, bu...

this study investigates the effect of different types of subtitle on incidental vocabulary learning among iranian efl learners. to this end, 60 high school students in behbahan were selected after taking a proficiency test. the test was administered to ensure participants' homogeneity. participants were randomly assigned to three experimental groups, namely, bimodal group (a), standard gro...

Research in Humanities and Social Sciences is traditionally based on printed publications such as manuscripts, personal correspondence, first editions and other types of documents which are often difficult to obtain. An important step to facilitate humanities and social sciences scholarship is to make digital reproductions of these materials freely available on-line. The collection of resources...

by the widespread of international relations, the issues related to private international law, particularly the entitlement of foreigners to the civil rights, have become more important. in the iranian law, although the entitlement of foreigners to the civil rights has been recognized as a principle as per article 961 of the civil code, but its three paragraphs provides certain exceptions. owin...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of portfolios and conferencing techniques on Iranian EFL learners' writing skill. The experiment involved Iranian intermediate students that were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and one control group. The participants of the first experimental group were asked to provide portfolios of their 4 paragraphs during the course ...

We propose to combine parse forest and discourse structures to form a unified representation for a paragraph of text. The purpose of this representation is to tackle answering complex paragraph-sized questions in a number of products and services-related domains. A candidate set of answers, obtained by a keyword search, is re-ranked by matching the sequence of parse trees of an answer with that...