Density and distribution of Unfamiliar Lexical Items (ULIs) appear to influence learners’ Reading Comprehension Achievement (RCA). This study concerns the impact of these two variables on Iranian EFL learners’ RCA. For this, two groups of students timetabled for the experiments designed to assess learners’ RCA. To determine the participants’ levels of proficiency a Quick Proficiency Test was fi...

Text in images and video frames carries important information for visual content understanding and retrieval. In this paper, by using multiscale wavelet features, we propose a novel coarse-to-fine algorithm that is able to locate text lines even under complex background. First, in the coarse detection, after the wavelet energy feature is calculated to locate all possible text pixels, a density-...

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In the article entitled, "Correlation Between High-Density Lipoprotein and Monocyte Subsets in Patients with Stable Coronary Heart Disease" which was published in Medical Science Monitor 2015;21: 3129-3135, sections in the text have been directly copied from a previously published article, entitled, "Small high-density lipoprotein is associated with monocyte subsets in stable coronary artery di...

In a recent PNAS paper (1), Fawcett and Higginson analyze citation data for biological journals and conclude that overall citation rate is reduced by including equations in papers. As a serial offender in this regard, I found the paper interesting, if troubling. Here I show that an alternative analysis reveals a more complex picture and suggest an alternative explanation for the pattern. The mo...

In this paper, we investigate the density dependence of nuclear symmetry energy [Formula: see text] in KIDS (Korea-IBS-Daegu-SKKU) framework for equation state (EoS) and energy-density functional (EDF). The aim is to constrain value curvature parameter ([Formula: text]) based on recent astronomical data. First, assuming a standard saturation point, calculate bulk properties within KIDS-EDF diff...

Voice conversion, a technique to change one’s voice to sound like that of another, poses a threat to even high performance speaker verification system. Vulnerability of text-independent speaker verification systems under spoofing attack, using statistical voice conversion technique, was evaluated and confirmed in our previous work. In this paper, we further extend the study to text-dependent sp...

The equation of state (EOS) for cold dense matter inside neutron stars is investigated by using holographic QCD models that consist the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton system and improved Karch-Katz-Son-Stephanov action flavor part. This method describing nuclear in $\mathrm{Einstein}\text{\ensuremath{-}}\mathrm{Maxwell}\text{\ensuremath{-}}\mathrm{dilaton}+\mathrm{Karch}\text{\ensuremath{-}}\mathrm{K...