• Title/Summary/Keyword: Reading speed

Search Result 144, Processing Time 0.036 seconds

The Effect of Color Filter on the Reading Ability in Teenager with Irlen-Syndrome (얼렌증후군에서 컬러필터가 읽기능력에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Dong-Joon;Leem, Hyun-Sung
    • Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
    • /
    • v.18 no.2
    • /
    • pp.125-136
    • /
    • 2013
  • Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of improving read speed with color filter or without color filter to improve reading disorder of teenager who were diagnosed as Meares-Irlen syndrome through survey inspection with Meares-Irlen syndrome visual stress (MISViS) score. Methods: MISViS subjects were selected from screening survey MISViS results given above 2.13 in the clinical criteria scores (MISViS score). Reading speed were measured quickly and efficiently the rate of reading via test in which randomly ordered common words are read aloud during a minute. Each of the subjects were worn a filter of the lowest concentration in each color filter group composed of 15 groups. Results: MISViS score of MISViS group and control group were 2.57 and 0.66, respectively. Results of reading speed with filter and without filter in MISViS group were $102.27{\pm}27.86$ wpm and $118.87{\pm}26.99$ wpm (p=0.001), respectively, as well as were $132.93{\pm}6.88$ wpm and $133.43{\pm}6.64$ wpm (p=0.131) in the normal group. Associated with error changes with filter and without filter between two groups, skipping in MISViS Group were from $0.25{\pm}0.62$ times to 0 times (p=0.191), Errors were from $1.83{\pm}1.69$ times to $0.17{\pm}0.38$ times (p = 0.004) and, repetitions were 0. skipping in control group were 0 times, errors were from $0.21{\pm}0.43$ times to $0.07{\pm}0.27$ times (p=0.336) and, repetitions were from $0.14{\pm}0.36$ times to 0 (p=0.165). The filter of blue series chosen in MISViS group had higher percentage (40%), whereas, subjects in normal group were more likely to prefer the filter of gray color (29%). Conclusions: This study showed that MISViS score have been used as a significant diagnosis for Irlen syndrome screening. This study found that wearing suitable color filter for MISViS patients were useful to improve learning with regard to reading. Unique color filter selection for MISViS subjects must be carefully considered since fit color filter are different personally.

A Study on the Reading Efficiency of Comics (만화의 독서 효용성에 관한 연구)

  • Ryu, Ban-Dee
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
    • /
    • v.22 no.2
    • /
    • pp.123-139
    • /
    • 2011
  • This study focuses on how the characteristics of the comics make the medium a useful reading material. To highlight how the characteristics of comics enhance the media's capacity for reading, this study analyzed several patterns of adaptation from a comic to other media. The usefulness of comics as a reading text can be summarized as follows: First, comics have alternate phases of immersion and concentration. Second, comics provide the whole view as well as speed. These two factors make the comics as an interesting reading material.

S2-Net: Machine reading comprehension with SRU-based self-matching networks

  • Park, Cheoneum;Lee, Changki;Hong, Lynn;Hwang, Yigyu;Yoo, Taejoon;Jang, Jaeyong;Hong, Yunki;Bae, Kyung-Hoon;Kim, Hyun-Ki
    • ETRI Journal
    • /
    • v.41 no.3
    • /
    • pp.371-382
    • /
    • 2019
  • Machine reading comprehension is the task of understanding a given context and finding the correct response in that context. A simple recurrent unit (SRU) is a model that solves the vanishing gradient problem in a recurrent neural network (RNN) using a neural gate, such as a gated recurrent unit (GRU) and long short-term memory (LSTM); moreover, it removes the previous hidden state from the input gate to improve the speed compared to GRU and LSTM. A self-matching network, used in R-Net, can have a similar effect to coreference resolution because the self-matching network can obtain context information of a similar meaning by calculating the attention weight for its own RNN sequence. In this paper, we construct a dataset for Korean machine reading comprehension and propose an $S^2-Net$ model that adds a self-matching layer to an encoder RNN using multilayer SRU. The experimental results show that the proposed $S^2-Net$ model has performance of single 68.82% EM and 81.25% F1, and ensemble 70.81% EM, 82.48% F1 in the Korean machine reading comprehension test dataset, and has single 71.30% EM and 80.37% F1 and ensemble 73.29% EM and 81.54% F1 performance in the SQuAD dev dataset.

Study on the Development of Computer Programs of Academic Affairs by using (O.M.R에 의한 교무업무전산화개발에 관한 연구)

  • Hee Yeung Hwang
    • 전기의세계
    • /
    • v.26 no.6
    • /
    • pp.72-77
    • /
    • 1977
  • This paper deals with developments of computer programs for college academic affairs using key-punch and optical mark reading card. In order to speed up reading input card, at first O.M.R-Binary conversion is done and written on tape, and then Binary-Edit conversion is performed, so that name rolls of students can be printed within a few days after register at the beginning of the semister. Student's scores, records and various statistics are obtained accurately and quickly by updating, editing and inserting by computer programs developed.

  • PDF

Techniques for Efficient Reading of Semi-Passive Sensor Tag Data (반수동형 센서 태그 데이터의 효율적인 읽기 기법)

  • Kim, Soo-Han;Ryu, Woo-Seok;Hong, Bong-Hee
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
    • /
    • v.46 no.3
    • /
    • pp.34-41
    • /
    • 2009
  • This paper investigates the issue of efficient reading for sensor data of semi-passive sensor tag. The Cold Chain management system requires complete sensor data without data loss and the short processing time of reading sensor tag data. However, reading the sensed data could be interfered by RF environment such as a jamming, obstacle and so on. This study found that it could lead to loss of the sensed data and takes much time to read it when data loss is occurred. To solve this problem, we propose the transaction processing mechanism that guarantees efficient reading of the sensed data. To do this, we present the technique of dynamic packet size and technique of data recovery to execute read transaction. These techniques improve the reliability of reading operation as well as speed up of read process for the large capacity data. This paper contributes to the improvement of efficient reading of sensed data without any loss of data and large time required.

A Case Report of Communication disorder associated with Post-stroke (중풍 후 나타난 언어장애 환자 증례보고)

  • Kim, Dong-Min;Kim, Hyee-Kwon;Ha, Seon-Yun;Kim, Yong-Suk;Nam, Sang-Soo
    • Korean Journal of Acupuncture
    • /
    • v.24 no.3
    • /
    • pp.47-54
    • /
    • 2007
  • A Case Report of Communication disorder associated with Post-stroke Objectives : The Objective Is the Report of Improvement in Communication Disorder Associated with Post-Stroke. Methods : Acupuncture And Medicinal Treatments Were Performed from 17th March 2006 until 8th April 2006. The Medicines Bangpungtongsung-san and Chungpesagan-tang Were Used to Improve Patient Bowel Movement. The Sa-Am Acupuncture Method Was Used to Improve Patient Communication Disorders. Every 5 Days Articulation Accuracy, Vowel Accuracy, Alternation and Speed of Reading Sentences Were Evaluated. Results : After 23 Days of Treatment There was Improvement of Articulation Accuracy, Alternation and Speed of Reading Sentences.

  • PDF

SOME PROSODIC FEATURES OBSERVED IN THE PASSAGE READING BY JAPANESE LEARNERS OF ENGLISH

  • Kanzaki, Kazuo
    • Proceedings of the KSPS conference
    • /
    • 1996.10a
    • /
    • pp.37-42
    • /
    • 1996
  • This study aims to see some prosodic features of English spoken by Japanese learners of English. It focuses on speech rates, pauses, and intonation when the learners read an English passage. Three Japanese learners of English, who are all male university students, were asked to read the speech material, an English passage of 110 word length, at their normal reading speed. Then a native speaker of English, a male American English teacher. was asked to read the same passage. The Japanese speakers were also asked to read a Japanese passage of 286 letters (Japanese Kana) to compare the reading of English with that of japanese. Their speech was analyzed on a computerized system (KAY Computerized Speech Lab). Wave forms, spectrograms, and F0 contours were shown on the screen to measure the duration of pauses, phrases and sentences and to observe intonation contours. One finding of the experiment was that the movement of the low speakers' speech rates showed a similar tendency in their reading of the English passage. Reading of the Japanese passage by the three learners also had a similar tendency in the movement of speech rates. Another finding was that the frequency of pauses in the learners speech was greater than that in the speech of the native speaker, but that the ration of the total pause length to the whole utterance length was about tile same in both the learners' and the native speaker's speech. A similar tendency was observed about the learners' reading of the Japanese passage except that they used shorter pauses in the mid-sentence position. As to intonation contours, we found that the learners used a narrower pitch range than the native speaker in their reading of the English passage while they used a wider pitch range as they read the Japanese passage. It was found that the learners tended to use falling intonation before pauses whereas the native speaker used different intonation patterns. These findings are applicable to the teaching of English pronunciation at the passage level in the sense that they can show the learners. Japanese here, what their problems are and how they could be solved.

  • PDF

The Effect of the Individual differences in Cognitive Processes on Paragraph Comprehension: Structural Equation Modeling (인지정보처리의 개인차와 문단의 이해: 구조모형 연구)

  • Lee, Yoonhyoung;Kwon, Youan
    • Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
    • /
    • v.23 no.4
    • /
    • pp.487-515
    • /
    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the individual differences in cognitive processes on paragraph comprehension. To do so, the lexical decision task and the pattern comparison task were used to measure the low-level cognitive processes. Digit span task was used to test the phonological loop capacity. The individual differences of the central executive processing capacity were measured by operational span task. Reading span task was used to test the working memory capacity related with the sentence processing. Reading times and accuracies of the logically valid inferences and logically void inferences were tested to measure the high-level cognitive processes. Reading times and accuracies for the target sentences with and without prior explicit causal sentence were measured to test individuals' paragraph comprehension abilities. The results showed that the speed of the low-level cognitive processes was related with the speed of the high-level cognitive processes. Also, the accuracy of the low-level cognitive processes was related with the accuracy of the high-level cognitive processes while there was no significant correlation between the speed and the accuracy in any measures of the cognitive processes. Working memory capacity was related with the accuracy of the cognitive processes while it was not significantly correlated with the speed of the cognitive processes. Most importantly, the speed of low-level cognitive processes significantly affected the speed of the paragraph comprehension while the working memory capacity and the high-level cognitive processes had influences on the accuracies of the paragraph comprehension. The speed of the paragraph comprehension had no influence on the accuracies of the paragraph comprehension.

  • PDF

A Study on Minimization Method of Reading Error Range and Implementation of Postal 4-state Bar Code Reader with Raster Beam (Raster Beam에 의한 우편용 4-state 바코드 판독기 구현 및 판독오차 범위의 최소화 방법에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Moon-Sung;Song, Jae-Gwan;Nam, Yun-Seok;Kim, Hye-Kyu;Jung, Hoe-Kyung
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
    • /
    • v.7 no.7
    • /
    • pp.2149-2160
    • /
    • 2000
  • Recently many efforts on the development of automatic processing system for delivery sequence sorting have been performed in ETRI, which requires the use of postal4-state bar code system to encode delivery points. The 4-state bar code called postal 4-state barcode for high speed processing that has been specifically designed for information processing of logistics and automatic processing of he mail items. The Information of 4-state bar code indicates mail data such as post code, delivery sequence number, error correction code worked, customer information, and a unique ID. This appear addresses the issue on he reduction of reading error in postal 4-state raster beam based bar code reader. The raster beam scanning features are the unequally distributed number of spots per each unit, which cause reading errors. We propose a method for reducing the bar code reading error by adjusting measured values of bar code width to its average value over each interval. The test results show that the above method reduces the average reading error rate approximately by 99.88%.

  • PDF

A Case Report of a Stroke Patient with Dysarthria Treated with Korean Medicine

  • Baek, Ji Young;Park, Yeo Bin;Song, Ho-Joon;Baek, Ji Won;Kong, Won Ho;Kim, Shin-Young;Ahn, Chang-beom
    • Journal of Acupuncture Research
    • /
    • v.35 no.3
    • /
    • pp.138-140
    • /
    • 2018
  • This case study examined the effect of Korean Medicine on a 72-year old male with a habitual history of smoking and drinking, and a family history of hypertension who had suffered an acute stroke. A couple of months later he complained of upper extremity weakness and was diagnosed with dysarthria. The patient received Korean Medicine treatment of acupuncture and herbal medicine for 39 days at the Samse Oriental Hospital, in conjunction with physiotherapy and Western medicine. Articulation accuracy, vowel accuracy, alternation and speed of reading sentences were evaluated every 7days. The results showed that the patient had improvement of articulation (10%) and vowel (37%) accuracy, alternation (12%) and speed of reading sentences (28%) suggesting that Korean Medicine treatment contributed to this progress.