This study investigated the effect of oral dialogue journals on communicative competence of Iranian EFL learners. Participants of this study were 80 students of two Payam-e-Noor Universities who were proved to be homogenous in the communicative competence based on TSE (Test of Spoken English) interview. The participants of one of these universities were considered as the experimental group. The...

the first spoken dialogue system developed for the persian language is introduced. this is a ticket reservation system with persian asr and nlu modules. the focus of the paper is on learning the dialogue management module. in this work, real on-line training data are used during the learning process. for on-line learning, the effect of the variations of discount factor (g) on the learning speed...

This article examines cinematic remembrances of the Atlantic slave trade through the lens of Paul Robeson-starring British film The Song of Freedom (1936). An exceptional visualization of the horrors of the Middle Passage in transatlantic interwar cinema, the production nevertheless recapitulates an abolitionist visual paradigm characterized by lacunae and distortion. Yet, it also serves as an ...

The mean temperature of the catch (MTC), which is the average inferred temperature preference of the exploited species weighted by their annual catch, is an index that has been used for evaluating the effect of sea warming on marine ecosystems. In the present work, we examined the effect of sea surface temperature (SST) on the catch composition of the Greek Seas using the MTC applied on the off...

We use pore fluid measurements of the chloride concentration and the oxygen isotopic composition from Ocean Drilling Program cores to reconstruct salinity and temperature of the deep ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Our data show that the temperatures of the deep Pacific, Southern, and Atlantic oceans during the LGM were relatively homogeneous and within error of the freezing point ...

The Atlantic subpolar gyre (SPG) is one of the main drivers of decadal climate variability in the North Atlantic. Here we analyze its dynamics in pre-industrial control simulations of 19 different comprehensive coupled climate models. The analysis is based on a recently proposed description of the SPG dynamics that found the circulation to be potentially bistable due to a positive feedback mech...

The Gusdurian Pamekasan Community is a collection of individual admirers Gus Dur's thoughts, struggles and to carry on 9 main values. Members who are members the consist various groups, students, religious leaders, interfaith, not only Muslims, there also non-Muslims, they tolerate each other even though have different beliefs. Therefore, this study aims find out forms inter-religious tolerance...

Methods The questionnaire, derived from that used by Ehman et al in 1999, included questions on whether participants have spiritual or religious beliefs that would affect their medical decision making and to what extent they would want their physician to inquire about those beliefs. The survey was targeted to those who attend Neo-Pagan religious services or visit NeoPagan-themed Web sites. Cler...