This document briefly describes the application of QSound® 3D audio processing in Dolby, DTS, MPEG and other surround playback systems. The unique combination of multi-channel source formats and QSound virtual acoustic imaging provides new possibilities in affordable and upgradeable sound solutions for PC multi-media, portable and home theater systems. Also discussed is a unique surround synthe...

Nation (2006) has calculated that second language (L2) learners require much more vocabulary than previously thought to be functional with language (e.g., 8,000–9,000 word families to read independently). This level is far beyond the highest graded reader, and would be difficult to explicitly teach. One way for learners to be exposed to midfrequency vocabulary is to read authentic materials. Th...

We characterize electronic discussion forums as being of one of the following two types: Brainstorming Forums and Arguments Structuring Forums. In this work we analyze and classify the types of threading models occurring as a function of the type of forum. For our analysis we study forums attached to the 25 news sources most used by the aggregator Google News, as detected by a 2007 study. Most ...

This paper reports on pilot experiments that are being used, together with corpus analysis, in the development of a Natural Language Generation (NLG) system, GIRL (Generator for Individual Reading Levels). GIRL generates reports for individuals after a literacy assessment. We tested GIRL’s output on adult learner readers and good readers. Our aim was to find out if choices the system makes at t...

We are writing this paper as a response to a paper appeared in PFLDnet 2007 authored by Leith et al. on the analysis of CUBIC [1] (hereafter called LSM). There are a few debatable issues that might mislead readers about the behavior of CUBIC. In general, the authors presented their observations on the performance of CUBIC under a special set of testing environments. However, as this paper is ab...

Selectively canceling signals at specific locations within an acoustical environment with multiple listeners is of significant importance for home theater, automobile, teleconferencing, office, industrial and other applications. The traditional noise cancellation approach is impractical for such applications because it requires sensors that must be placed on the listeners. In this paper we inve...

Live theater is typically designed to alter the state of mind of the audience. Indeed, the perceptual inputs issuing from a live theatrical performance are intended to represent something else, and the actions, emphasized by the writing and staging, are the key prompting the adhesion of viewers to fiction, i.e., their belief that it is real. This phenomenon raises the issue of the cognitive pro...

In the past, viewers were constrained to watch television in front of a receiver in their home. Today, people watch video at any time and in any place. A viewer can now browse video on their desktop PC, or watch a movie outdoors on a mobile handheld device, or view HDTV (High Definition Television) in their own home theater system or at Digital Cinemas within a well controlled viewing environment.

During the last year we all were banned to participate in our everyday life using online transmission, homework, homeschool and different digital tools. But with this also gained access cultural or other practices that previously not part life. That resulted a detailed spectrum of participation from form listening-observing levels giving feedback taking control (for example putting questions pa...

A In Japan, most of children haven’t read the Fairy Tales or tales of old Japan because the high technology video games are more exciting than most of picture books. But they must be effective to bring up the children’s cultivation of aesthetic sensitivity. And we have heard from teachers of elementary schools that most of themes of computer education in school are the operation of Painting Too...