This study investigated the effect of Narrow Reading (NR) on learning mid-frequency words. Vocabulary Size Test (VST) designed by Nation and Beglar (2007) was administered as the first pre-test to 196 students, from among whom 91 students whose vocabulary size ranged between 2100- 3500-word families, , became the target of this study and were randomly c...

We demonstrate all-fiber far-detuned and widely tunable mid-infrared wavelength conversion using As2Se3 microwires. In a first experiment, an idler is generated and tuned from 2.351 to >2.500 μm from four-wave mixing in a 0.5 cm long microwire. In a second experiment, tunable parametric sidebands are generated via modulation instability in a 10 cm long microwire. The resulting parametric freque...

The Linking Open Data(LOD) cloud is a collection of linked Resource Description Framework (RDF) data with over 26 billion RDF triples. Consuming linked data is a challenging task because each data set in the LOD cloud has specific ontology schema, and familiarity with ontology schema is required in order to query various linked data sets. However, manually checking each data set is time-consumi...