BACKGROUND When promoting active travel to school, it is important to consider school and district policies as well as attitudes of school and district administrators. METHODS School principals and district officials in South Carolina participated in the School Travel Survey. Frequency distributions and Chi-squared tests were used to analyze the data. RESULTS Three hundred fourteen persons ...

INTRODUCTION The text which forms the basis of this study is represented by duplicate tablets deriving from two widely separated archaeological sites and belonging to different modem collections. The first of these documents, SU51/92+, was found at Sultantepe, near Urfa, in southern Turkey during the 1951-52 excavations of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara and the Turkish Departmen...

One of the major challenges nowadays is Information retrieval from social media platforms. Most of the information on these platforms is informal and noisy in nature. It makes the Information retrieval task more challenging. The task is even more difficult for twitter because of its character limitation per tweet. This limitation bounds the user to express himself in condensed set of words. In ...

Low-density languages raise difficulties for standard approaches to natural language processing that depend on large online corpora. Using Persian as a case study, we propose a novel method for bootstrapping MT capability for a low-density language in the case where it relates to a higher density variant. Tajiki Persian is a low-density language that uses the Cyrillic alphabet, while Iranian Pe...

Corpora, in their different forms for different purposes, have been the bases for modern natural language processing technology. Taiwanese (MinNan), as other language members in the Sino-Tibet family, has been marginalized due to many reasons. One of the consequences of this marginalization is that no standard written script exists, and thus collecting corpus for these languages has been extrem...

We examined whether the first letter advantage that has been reported in the Roman script disappears, or even reverses, depending on the characteristics of the orthography. We chose Thai because it has several "nonaligned" vowels that are written prior to the consonant but phonologically follow it in speech (e.g., แฟน <ε:fn> is spoken as /fɛ:n/) whereas other "aligned" vowels are written and sp...

The Morphemes of the Manipuri word are the real bottleneck for any of the Manipuri Natural Language Processing (NLP) works. It is one of the Indian Scheduled Language with less advancement so far in terms of NLP applications. This is because the nature of the language is highly agglutinative. Segmentation of a word and identifying the morphemes becomes necessary before proceeding for any of the...

This case study aims to compare narratives written in digital media by Arabic native speaking teenagers Israel. The data was collected from two schools Kufr Qari’ village the Triangle region. Of these students, 35 were boys (45%) and 43 girls (55%). are of different ages (13, 15, 17 years old) who wrote stories their preferred writing system (WS) used (Arabic, with Roman alphabets, or Hebrew le...

Literacy cannot be separated from peoples' sociocultural contexts and from their self-conceptualizations within those contexts. A person's literacy functioning will depend upon the role literacy plays in meeting one's goals and in the resulting construction of one's self-image. Within context, not only written language, but the interaction between written and oral language modes becomes importa...