Speaking rate in general, and vowel duration more specifically, is thought to affect the dynamic structure of vowel formant tracks. To test this, a single, professional speaker read a long text at two different speaking rates, fast and normal. The present project investigated the extent to which the first and second formant tracks of eight Dutch vowels varied under the two different speaking ra...

When they find out, they always ask me do you run the Iditarod? And when I say no, they look at me, bewildered. I have no answer simple enough to match that vision of big parkas and fierce blizzards and dogs buried in the snow, of courage and strength and romance out there in the Great Wild North So I tell them I go really fast for short distances and come back to where I started and my dogs an...

background: rapid advancement of information and communication technologies has transformed the methods of education. it has created methods which help students achieve deep and effective learning as well as develop a desirable level of creativity. implementation of e-learning in education is one of such methods. the purpose of the present research is to study the impact of self-learning (self-...

Generally, program evaluation is of prime importance to check the workability of a course. In this way, it can be made sure that the course achieves its intended goals and objectives, and consequently fulfills the learners’ needs, wants, and aspirations. Therefore, an attempt was made to evaluate the instructional functioning of the Simple Prose and Newspaper Articles course which is offered to...

Present MOOC and SPOC platforms do not provide teachers with precise metrics that represent the effectiveness of students with educational resources and activities. This work proposes and illustrates the application of the Precise Effectiveness Strategy (PES). PES is a generic methodology for defining precise metrics that enable calculation of the effectiveness of students when interacting with...

Die Weiterentwicklung der multimedialen Technologien hat dazu geführt, dass Studierenden heute hunderte Fachbücher und tausende Hochschulskripten zur Verfügung stehen. YouTube hält Lehrfilme bereit und Webinare lösen die Präsenzveranstaltung vor Ort ab. Viele Universitäten bieten MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) Veranstaltungen an, doch schon gibt es mit dem neuen Akronym SPOC (Small Private O...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the morbidity and mortality in patients with operable stage ii and iii rectal cancers within one or two months after surgery, who has been treated pre-operatively with short course radiotherapy. twenty-eight patients with rectal adenocarcinoma, consecutively referred to the cancer institute of imam khomeini hospital from march 2009 to march 2010, were selec...