this experimental study examined the effectiveness of using focused and unfocused tasks on iranianintermediate efl learners’ performance in producing noun, adjective, and adverb clauses. in addition,the aim of this study was to explore the effects of form-focused instruction and the feedback studentsreceived from their teacher after doing focused grammar tasks. data consisted of the scores ofth...

The AI planning literature divides into two main paradigms, one focused on knowledge-lean methods that use only domain operators and another focused on knowledge-rich techniques that utilize hierarchical task networks or similar structures. In this paper, we present a unified framework that supports both approaches to planning, along with an implemented system that embodies its tenets. We demon...

This paper is focused on the representation of oncology treatment protocols by a temporally extended, Hierarchical Task Networks (HTN) based knowledge representation as well as their interpretation by a temporal HTN planning process. The planning process allows to obtain temporally annotated therapy plans that support decisions of oncologists in the area of paediatrics oncology.

Atomization and fountain formation is a well-known phenomenon that occurs when a focused ultrasound wave in liquid encounters an air interface. High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has been shown to fractionate a tissue into submicron-sized fragments in a process termed boiling histotripsy, wherein the focused ultrasound wave superheats the tissue at the focus, producing a millimetre-sized ...