The present study examined the impact of visualization and graphic organizers as pre-listening strategies on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ cognitive, behavioral, and emotional engagement and their listening comprehension. To do so, this study was carried out in three listening classes at Islamic Azad University of Mashhad. The participants included 80 junior EFL university stude...

The 1st InternationalWorkshop onBenchmarking of XML and SemanticWebApplications (BenchmarX’09)was held on April 20, 2009 at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA’09). It was organized by Jiri Dokulil, IrenaMlynkova andMartin Necasky from the Department of Software Engineerin...

The performance of Translation Lookaside Buffers is a very important factor in overall program performance, with TLB misses often representing 10% or more of program runtime. Despite this, their design issues remained largely unexamined as the transition from single-core to multi-core processors occurred. This talk will describe my group's recent body of work to characterize and optimize TLB be...

Chromatin organization and gene-gene interactions are critical components of carrying out developmental programs. Phillips-Cremins et al. identify a series of unexpected architectural proteins that work in a combinatorial manner to functionally organize chromatin in a cell-type-specific manner at the submegabase-length scale.

s Talks 25-48 Abstracts Posters Session I 49-78s Posters Session I 49-78 Abstacts Posters Session II 78-102