We quantify the important effect of strong final state interactions in the weak K → 2π amplitudes, using the measured π–π phase shifts with J = 0 and I = 0, 2. The final rescattering of the two pions provides a strong enhancement of the ∆I = 1/2 amplitude, which so far has been neglected in the theoretical predictions of ε′/ε. This correction increases the Standard Model prediction of ε′/ε to v...

This paper investigates learner-initiated responses to English language teachers’ referential questions and learner initiatives after teachers’ feedback moves in meaning-focused question-answer sequences to analyze how interactional practices of language teachers, their initiation and feedback moves, facilitate learner initiatives. Classroom discourse research has largely neglected learner init...

The purpose of this investigation was to obtain performance data from normal-hearing children using the written word portion of existing auditory-visual word identification materials, for example, the Picture Identification Task (Wilson and Antablin, 1980). The response foils, consisting of four written words (target and alternative words) were entered into computer memory so that responses wer...

Any instant of conscious perception is shaped by the differential contributions of all of our sensory organs. Complementary information in distinct sensory streams can be exploited by crossmodal integration. The principles that govern these integrative processes are not yet completely understood. The traditional bimodal nature of multisensory research hampers the exploration of the complex inte...

Arsenic vacancies in LaFeAsO-derived superconductors are nominally non-magnetic defects. However, we find from a microscopic theory in terms of an appropriately modified Anderson-Wolff model that in their vicinity local magnetic moments form. They can arise because removing an arsenic atom breaks four strong, covalent bonds with the neighboring iron atoms. The moments emerging around an arsenic...

recent studies in affective computing are focused on sensing human cognitive context using biosignals. in this study, electrooculography (eog) was utilized to investigate memory recall accessibility via eye movement patterns. 12 subjects were participated in our experiment wherein pictures from four categories were presented. each category contained nine pictures of which three were presented t...

Signed languages exploit the visual/gestural modality to create iconic expression across a wide range of basic conceptual structures in which the phonetic resources of the language are built up into an analogue of a mental image. Previously, we demonstrated a processing advantage when iconic properties of signs were made salient in a corresponding picture in a picture/sign matching task (Thomps...

Covalent functionalisation of graphene is a continuously progressing field of research. The optical properties of such derivatives attract particular attention. In virtually all optical responses, however, an enhancement in peak intensity with increase of sp3 carbon content, and a vanishing of the peak position shift in monolayer compared to few-layer systems, is observed. The understanding of ...

This study used eye tracking to investigate the allocation of attention to multimodal stimuli during an incidental learning situation, as well as its impact on subsequent explicit learning. Participants were exposed to foreign language (FL) auditory words on their own, in conjunction with written native language (NL) translations, or with both written NL translations and pictures. Incidental ac...

The current study was an attempt to investigate the effect of performing Focus on Form (FoF), Focus on Meaning (FoM), and Focus on Forms (FoFs) instructions on the development of collocational knowledge among Iranian intermediate EFL learners, and to explore any significant difference on the achievement of the participants' collocational knowledge among three groups. In so doing, 107 female int...