While telecommunications and telematics have been available in schools and universities for decades, the speed of adoption of the Internet into general use has been unprecedented. This has placed a great deal of pressure on university teachers to re-evaluate their roles in the light of new teaching and learning opportunities. The Internet has opened up possibilities beyond the simple acquisitio...

In this study we examine a number of characteristics of angry Hebrew speech. Whereas such studies are frequently carried out on acted speech, in this study we used recordings of participants in broadcasted, politically oriented talk shows. The recordings were audited and rated for anger content by 11 listeners. 12 utterances judged to contain angry speech were then analyzed along with 12 uttera...

When a teacher gives a reading assignment in today’s language learning classrooms, all of the students are almost always reading the same text. Although students have different reading levels, it is impractical for a single teacher to seek out unique texts matched to each student’s abilities. In this paper, we describe REAP, a system designed to assign each student individualized readings by co...

The majority of the plant materials used in herbal medicine is procured from the markets in the form of dried or powdered plant parts. It is essential to use authentic plant materials to derive the benefits of herbal medicine. However, establishing the identity of these plant materials by conventional taxonomy is extremely difficult. Here we report a case study in which the species identificati...