We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate brain activity while healthy subjects performed three different tasks, each of which alternated between: (i) phases relying on stimulus-oriented thought (i.e. cognitive processes provoked by incoming sensory information); and (ii) phases relying on stimulus-independent thought (i.e. cognitive processes that were not related to any inf...

Text in natural images is of arbitrary orientations, requiring detection in terms of oriented bounding boxes. Normally, a multi-oriented text detector often involves two key tasks: 1) text presence detection, which is a classification problem disregarding text orientation; 2) oriented bounding box regression, which concerns about text orientation. Previous methods rely on shared features for bo...

The use of collaborative classroom interactional tasks is on the rise recently since they incorporate the negotiation of meaning and thus they may be regarded as one of the most efficient ways to ease a learner’s focus on form. This study investigated the immediate and long-term effects of reconstruction editing task on the learning of 20 academic vocabulary items through using five reconstruct...

agent technology is an emerging and promising research area in software technology, which increasingly contributes to the development of value-added information systems for large healthcare organizations due to its capability to automatically modify themselves in response to changes in their operating environment. multi agent system (mas) approach is the construction of a complex system as a se...

Both clinical management of patients and clinical research are essentially time-oriented endeavors. In this paper, I emphasize the crucial role of temporal-reasoning and temporal-maintenance tasks for modern medical information and decision support systems. Both tasks are important for management of clinical data, but the first is often approached mainly through artificial-intelligence methodol...

In fault-tolerant systems, the primary and backup copies of different tasks can be scheduled together on one processor, where primary tasks should be executed as soon as possible (ASAP) and backup tasks as late as possible (ALAP) for better performance (e.g., energy efficiency). To address such mixed requirements, in this paper, we propose the concept of preference-oriented execution and study ...

Clarified and detailed in the CEFR – Companion volume (2020), mediation gains a new dimension. The proposed scales of activities clearly focus on action-oriented, situational use language. However, theoretical description these activities, scaling specific skills are not enough to be able effectively develop competence pedagogical practice. In order understand specifics concrete guidelines need...