The imperial underpinning of the early anthropology Pakistan constituted “the other” as a subject comprehension, categorization, and containment. Later, with post-9/11 geopolitical backdrop, anthropologists focused on selected themes such religious ethnic disparity political nationalism, eliding some topics or groups. What would it mean for to consider alienated groups while emphasizing infinit...

this study investigated the effectiveness of explicit pragmatic instruction on the acquisition of requests by college-level english as foreign language (efl) learners in taiwan. the goal was to determine first whether the use of explicit pragmatic instruction had a positive effect on efl learners’ pragmatic competence. second, the relative effectiveness of presenting pragmatics through two deli...

in this paper, we propose a novel method for fully automatic detection and tracking of human heads and faces in video sequences. the proposed algorithm consists of two modules: a face detection module and a face tracking module. the detection module, detects the face region and approximates it with an ellipse at the first frame using a modified version of adaboost cascaded classifier. the detec...