Traditional and modern vocabulary instruction techniques have been introduced in the past few decades to improve the learners’ performance in reading comprehension. Semantic mapping, which entails drawing learners’ attention to the interrelationships among lexical items through graphic organizers, is claimed to enhance vocabulary learning significantly. However, whether this technique suits all...

Phase-encode mapping has been used as the primary functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique to reveal spatial variation of response properties in both visual and auditory cortex (e.g., retinotopy and tonotopy). Spatial variation in the time of response produces a map of cortical sensitivity to a time-varying property of the presented stimulus. Inherently, this technique assumes tha...

oil and gas transmission pipelines are critical items of infrastructure in providing energy sources to regions and countries. steel pipes are commonly used which can be subject to both internal and external corrosion. this paper presents an advanced nondestructive inspection technique for detection of oil-gas pipeline corrosion defect. the pulsed eddy current (pec) method has been successfully ...

Due to the high-index contrast between the silicon core and silica cladding, the silicon waveguide allows strong optical confinement and large effective nonlinearity, which facilitates low cost chip scale demonstration of all-optical nonlinear functional devices at relatively low pump powers. One of the challenges in ultrafast science is the full characterization of optical pulses in real time....

conclusion both techniques provided quantitatively consistent results of in vivo velocity vector fields in right internal carotid artery (rca). pc mri represented a good estimation of main flow patterns inside the vasculature, which seems to be acceptable for clinical use. however, limitations of each technique should be considered while interpreting results. subjects and methods mr imaging was...

Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes provide capacity approaching performances with very long codes in a coherent channel. However, as the block length increases, their performance becomes worse with residual frequency offsets. Residual frequency offsets can be tackled with sub-block decoding and LDPC code-aided phase ambiguity resolution for binary phaseshift keying (BPSK) signals. Sub-block ...

Systematic mapping is a secondary research method that aims to summarize and synthesize the current state of an area, providing a general map of the field. It is a technique that requires the execution of a series of steps, many of them repetitive, which makes this technique time-consuming and error-prone. To address these issues, this paper presents an algorithm for automatic selection of refe...