In this paper, we draw on data from world languages teachers (English, Spanish and French, in particular) to explore and unpack binaries encountered i... [more]
Decades of research has investigated the heterogeneity of English among speakers of various linguistic and cultural backgrounds, but there still remai... [more]
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The present study investigated the mental processing of Japanese kanji (Chinese-origin characters in the Japanese language) by native speakers of Chinese who had studied Japanese. A lexical decision task (Experiment 1) and a naming task (Experiment 2) wer
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of orthography and phonology in the comprehension of Japanese kanji words, by examining the interference of homophony and orthographic similarity. A semantic-decision task was performed by 12 na
This paper provide a formal fuzzy object inference model to solve the following four significant drawbacks identified in extant fuzzy rule-based languages. First, they have difficulty in handling composite objects as a unit of inference. Second, they don
As we know that human intellectual activities are performed by the use of language; a human being thinks and reasons with language. In this paper, we propose a new simulation method which imitates human information processing based on the use of language.
The deployment of executable specifications has increased significantly in the last few years. Just as with any other specification documents, these specifications must be examined to ensure the necessary degree of quality. A common and successful techniq
Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) become relevant-to integrate different kinds of systems so as to work collaboratively for a common goal. CIS are considered by nature as dynamic systems, and one of the most difficult problems is how to model and cont
The present study was designed to better understand the antecedents and consequences of expatriate adjustment in an international assignment. The researchers surveyed Japanese expatriates assigned to the United States. Structural equation modeling was uti
In The Songs of Insects, Pierce (1949) described the striped ground cricket, Nemobius fasciatus-fasciatus, which chirps at a rate proportional to ambient air temperature. Twenty chirps-per-second tell us it is 31.4 degreesC; 16 chirps and it is 27 degrees
Object-oriented frameworks are often hard to learn and use (J. Bosch et al., In: ACM Computing Survey's Symposia on Object Oriented Application Frameworks, 1998; M. Fayad and D. C. Schmidt, Communication of the ACM, Special Issue on Object-Oriented Appli
Keyblock, which is a new framework we proposed for content-based image retrieval, is a generalization of the text-based information retrieval technology in the image domain. In this framework, keyblocks, which are analogous to keywords in text document re
To solve the long training time in Waibel's time-delay neural networks (TDNNs) for phoneme recognition, several improved fast learning methods are put forward: (1) by a combination between the unsupervised Oja's rule learning method with the similar err
A LR parsing table is generally made use of the parsing process based on the context free grammar for natural languages. Besides the parsing process, it can be used as the index of approximate pattern matching and error correction, because it has the char
Estimating the amount of effort required for developing an information system is an important project management concern. In recent years, a number of studies have used neural networks in various stages of software development. This study compares the pre
For programs using secret information such as credit card numbers, preventing information-leaks is important. Denning, for example, has proposed a mechanism to certify that a given program does not violate a security policy. Kuninobu, on the other hand, h
For wider readership, some documents may be printed in several scripts and languages. For optical character recognition (OCR) of such a document page, a software module is necessary to identify the scripts before feeding them to their individual OCR syste