Wave field synthesis (WFS) is a technique aiming at the reproduction of a desired sound field. It is based on the Kirchhoff-Helmholtz integral formulated for interior problems [1]. This implies that WFS is per se only capable of recreating the wave field generated by events outside the listening area. In particular, the traditional WFS literature (e.g. [2]) focuses on the reproduction of the so...

When people learn that I study lethal injection, they are usually curious to know more (or at least they are polite enough to ask questions). Interestingly, the question that arises most often— from lawyers, law students, and laypeople—is why states behave as they do. In the wake of botched executions and ample evidence of lethal injection‘s dangers, why do states fail to address their executio...

A student, supported by his classmates, throws a piece of chalk at the teacher who is writing on the blackboard. The teacher rapidly turns back and promptly catches him in the act. The student blushes and suddenly realizes how bad it was what he did. What happened to the guy? Why did he decide to throw the piece of chalk? And why, after a few seconds, he would have liked that what he did had ne...

The automated generation of playlists given a user’s most recent listening history is a common feature of modern music streaming platforms. In the research literature, a number of algorithmic proposals for this “next-track recommendation” problem have been made in recent years. However, nearly all of them are based on the user’s most recent listening history, context, or location but do not con...

Information sonification is an emerging field of pervasive computing and is applicable in many wearable artificial sensory systems. This paper presents some strategies that can be employed in auditory interface design where using sound as representation gives insight into the improvement of comprehension and recognition of information sonification in an auditory graphing system. The design stra...

Nowadays, university students suffer from a broad range of problems, such as educational underachievement or the inability to control themselves, that lead to procrastination as a consequence. The present research aimed at analyzing the determinants of decisional procrastination among undergraduate students and at assessing a path model in which self regulated learning strategies mediated the r...

this study aims at uncovering the effect(s) of genre-based instruction (gbi) on listening proficiency among iranian efl learners. moreover, it seeks to explore the relationship between effectiveness of gbi and listening proficiency. for this purpose, 68 efl learners in two different groups at zabol university were selected. group a included 30 participants (12 males and 18 females), and group b...

This study investigates the effects of employing extended online thematic listening tasks on the development of listening comprehension in an English course focusing on reading and writing skill development. To accomplish this aim, extended online thematic listening tasks were designed and implemented in English as a Foreign-Language (EFL) college level General English course. Preand post-tests...