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U.S. Agency for International Development Cooperative Agreement No. GDG-A-00-03-00006-00 Submitted by: American Institutes for Research Academy for Educational Development Aga Khan Foundation CARE Discovery Channel Global Education Fund Education Development Center International Reading Association The Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation Juárez and Associates, Inc. Michigan State University Sesam...

This research focus on exploring the effects moisture absorbed by a layer of hygroscopic film coated on the wedge tip along that anti-symmetric flexural (ASF) modes propagate. A shear wave transducer is applied to measure the signals of wedge wave propagating along the wedge tips. Velocity of the ASF mode is indicated to decrease while the moisture is absorbed by the hygroscopic film. Also, the...

Over past decades industrial IT evolved separately in the field automation and office automation domains. Nowadays increasing complexity of manufacturing requiresmore advanced control, which can be achieved only by integrating these, formerly separated, areas. This article focuses on two aspects of such integration: communication-related, interconnecting networks of different kinds, and functio...

In this paper, we demonstrate how informative dialect recognition systems such as acoustic pronunciation model (APM) help speech scientists locate and analyze phonetic rules efficiently. In particular, we analyze dialect-specific characteristics automatically learned from APM across two American English dialects. We show that unsupervised rule retrieval performs similarly to supervised retrieva...

This paper describes the design of an authoring tool, ISISS (Improving Social Interaction through Social Stories), for supporting practitioners using social stories to enhance social interaction in children with Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC). The goals of the research are: 1) to determine practitioners’ current procedures when working with social stories; 2) to discover how technology can be...

Word prediction systems can reduce the number of keystrokes required to form a message in a letter-based AAC system. It has been questioned however, whether such savings translate into an enhanced communication rate due to the additional cognitive load (e.g., shifting of focus and scanning of a prediction list) required in using such a system. Our hypothesis is that word prediction has great po...