A media platform’s policy on obtrusive ads mediates an effectiveness-nuisance tradeoff. Allowing more obtrusive advertising can increase the effectiveness of ads, so the platform can elicit more short-term revenue from advertisers, but the nuisance to viewers can decrease their engagement over time, which decreases the platform’s opportunity for future revenue. To optimize long-term revenue, a ...

This paper describes the use of a new obtrusive light module Illumina v2 model to estimate that may enter bedroom windows. We used following as input model: (1) sources’ flux and spectrum derived from color images taken by astronauts International Space Station (ISS), (2) an association between source angular emission, (3) per zone inventory obstacles properties lamp height. The calculates spec...

the necessity of conducting more studies addressing the development of pragmatic profciency and strong pragmatic awareness for english language learners has made the role of instruction and feedback in teaching pragmatic knowledge of utmost importance. the present study evaluates the relative effectiveness of four types of instruction for teaching some pragmatic markers including topic change m...

reconfigurable instruction set processors allow customization for an application domain by extending the core instruction set architecture. extracting appropriate custom instructions is an important phase for implementing an application on a reconfigurable instruction set processor. a custom instruction (ci) is usually extracted from critical portions of applications and implemented on a reconf...

the present study investigated the potential of implementing reading strategy instruction in raising learner readers' awareness of reading strategies,  extending the range of strategies they employed and enhancing their reading comprehension ability. to conduct the study, 90 female pre-university students majoring in natural sciences were selected based on a convenient sampling procedure. after...

abstractthis study aimed to shed light on young iranian efl students’ oral proficiency improvement through explicit instruction of formulaic sequences (fss). this pretest-posttest quasi experimental study was conducted in a bilingual school in shahrekord, iran. accordingly, based on actfl opi test, two groups of low intermediate students with age range of 11 to 12 were chosen to be assigned as ...

the aim of the current study was to examine the effect of metacognitive instruction on efl learners’ metacognitive awareness of listening strategies, listening comprehension, and oral language proficiency. fifty students of two upper-intermediate english courses participated in the study and were sampled as the experimental and control groups. for sixteen weeks the experimental group participat...

Patients with absence epilepsy fail to report almost 90% of their seizures. The clinical gold standard assess seizures is video-electroencephalography (vEEG) recorded in the hospital, an expensive and obtrusive procedure which requires also extended reviewing time. Wearable sensors, allow recording electroencephalography (EEG), accelerometer gyroscope have been used monitor epileptic patients h...