Learning motivation is an impulse that arises from within a person consciously or unconsciously to take action with specific purpose. Selection of appropriate learning media consider the needs students and learning. Kahoot game one suitable ICT-based because it easy use platform supports distance activities. This study examines learner's perspective on English using game. uses quantitative desc...

Environmental cues often trigger memories of past events (associative retrieval), and these memories are a form of prediction about imminent experience. Learning is driven by the detection of prediction violations, when the past and present diverge. Using intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG), we show that associative prediction violations elicit increased low-frequency power (in the slow-...

False memories are often demonstrated using the misinformation paradigm, in which a person's recollection of a witnessed event is altered after exposure to misinformation about the event. The neural basis of this phenomenon, however, remains unknown. We used fMRI to investigate encoding processes during the viewing of an event and misinformation to see whether neural activity during either enco...

The Lactococcus lactis laboratory strain MG1363 has been described to be unable to utilize lactose. However, in a rich medium supplemented with lactose as the sole carbon source, it starts to grow after prolonged incubation periods. Transcriptome analyses showed that L. lactis MG1363 Lac(+) cells expressed celB, encoding a putative cellobiose-specific phosphotransferase system (PTS) IIC compone...

The electrostatics of two charged surfactant layers in aqueous media (surfactant/water/surfactant films) is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. In the films studied (with a surfactant-surfactant distance from approximately 35 A to contact) we observe an anomalous dielectric response of water. The electrostatic potential phi(z) inside the aqueous core of the films (containing bulk...

The recent droughts in Iran made a decline in groundwater table and the migration of villagers to cities was hindered supplying drinking water for the current population. Therefore it should be considered as an important issue. In this regard, it is possible to achieve this goal by constructing underground dams that recently have been suggested to replace by medium and small overland dams. The ...

The paper analyses suitable features for distorted speech recognition. The aim is to explore the application of command ASR system when the speech is recorded with far-distance microphones with a possible strong additive and convolutory noise. The paper analyses feasible contribution of basic spectral subtraction coupled with cepstral mean normalization in minimizing of the influence of present...

We suggest a new color distance based on two observations. First, perceptual color differences were designed to be used to compare very similar colors. They do not capture human perception for medium and large color differences well. Thresholding was proposed to solve the problem for large color differences, i.e. two totally different colors are always the same distance apart. We show that thre...

Introduction: Gluten is a protein found in grains.  Research has shown that the gluten that is in grains of wheat, barley, rye, and oats (to a lesser degree) is toxic to many individuals.  While gluten is essential for the make-up of these 4 grains, our bodies do not need it. Is it healthful?  The protein in today’s wheat is poorly digested and can be harmful.  An estimated 95% of prepared fo...