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The physical modeling of complex sound generators would be feasible if approached by individually synthesizing and discretizing the objects that contribute to the generation of sounds. This raises the problem of show to correctly implement the interaction between these objects. In this paper we show how to synthesize sounds in an object-based fashion, i.e. by building objects individually synth...

In this paper we investigate the effects of different kinds of computer-based visualizations on the acquisition of problemsolving skills in the domain of probability theory. Learners received either purely text-based worked examples, text plus an instruction to mentally imagine the examples’ contents, or they could retrieve either static pictures or concrete animations that depicted the problem...

This article reports on an experiment investigating the effects of different kinds of computerbased visualizations on the acquisition of problem-solving skills in the domain of probability theory. Learners received either purely text-based worked examples, text plus an instruction to mentally imagine the examples’ contents, or the possibility of retrieving either static pictures or concrete ani...

Abstract This study investigated the validity of processability theory proposed by Pienemann (1998/2015) among Iranian EFL learners’ oral performance. The theory defines six procedural stages for learners in the process of second language acquisition. In order to conduct the study, 10 intermediate EFL learners were selected based on their performance on Oxford Placement Test. Then, they partici...

abstract this study investigated the validity of processability theory proposed by pienemann (1998/2015) among iranian efl learners’ oral performance. the theory defines six procedural stages for learners in the process of second language acquisition. in order to conduct the study, 10 intermediate efl learners were selected based on their performance on oxford placement test. then, they partici...

Pictures used by GPS devices are usually overly large to be stored as Bit Map, so they are by and large compressed. The common compression method is JPEG; however JPEG assumes that the average color of beginning of each blocks line is usually similar to the average color of end of its preceding blocks line. Many times this assumption is incorrect for GPS picture. This paper suggests a way to ch...

This work investigates linguistically motivated features for automatically scoring a spoken picture-based narration task. Specifically, we build scoring models with features for story development, language use and task relevance of the response. Results show that combinations of these features outperform a baseline system that uses state of the art speechbased features, and that best results ar...