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This paper presents study investigating the extent to which Saudi students understand and are familiar with mobile learning. It investigates students' use of handheld devices and considers the daily activities for which they could be used while also evaluating m-learning in Saudi Arabia - a topic that has not yet received adequate attention from researchers. Initial data was acquired through a questionnaire...
Clinical scale-based follow-up of patients undergoing bilateral subthalamic deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) surgery has shown inconsistent effects on bradykinesia in Parkinson's disease patients. Furthermore, quantitative assessment of STN-DBS effect on bradykinesia has not been fully explored yet. Our group uses multisensory kinematic technologies to study short-term and long-term DBS effects on...
Intracoronary optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a catheter based medical imaging technique that provide high resolution imaging of coronary lumen structures. However these images affected by catheter and stents shadows during pullback procedure. In order to overcome this problem, we present a new approach to detect the lumen boundary automatically using fuzzy system. At the first, the OCT images...
This paper describes the experience in the development of the course “Thermal Energy Technology” for the fourth level of the Chemical Engineering career under the Curriculum Design established by the UTN for the career and with a focus on the development of transferable skills and competencies to the future professional performance of students. Strategies were applied with an emphasis on active student...
A challenge identified in the current education system is that students, irrelevant of their reading capabilities, are required to follow the same literature. This paper presents a system designed to address such a challenge. The Adaptive eBook has the capability of switching the text to a simpler version, as soon as the built-in reading problem detector detects a reading difficulty. The system was...
Although mobile devices are ubiquitous on university campuses, teacher-readiness for mobile learning has yet to be fully explored in the non-western nations. This study shows that two main factors affect the adoption and use of m-learning among female teachers within a university in Saudi Arabia—resistance to change and perceived social culture. These determinants of the current use and intention...
Smartphones are here to stay, transforming how we communicate, collaborate and share in our everyday lives, providing a wide variety of applications. Smartphones are becoming more affordable, 3G and 4G networks expand and mobile applications offer a convenient way to access information. The current study aims to investigate smartphone and smartphone applications utilization by university students...
This paper highlights the importance of using a multidisciplinary approach in online classrooms, and how the use of social media, such as Facebook establishes a learner-centered environment with a clear focus on what is taught, why it is taught, and what competencies are expected. When the learning environment is learner-centered, it enables the educators to recognize the students' preconceptions,...
Learning requires appropriate management of time and resources. Consequently, self regulated learning (SRL) becomes predominant and apparent (Bartolome et al., 2011; Lefrere, 2011). More and more educators at all educational levels are trying to enfold self regulated learning in the learning process (van Ewijk et al., 2012; Kramarski et al., 2009). The use of technology-based procedures transforms...
Nowadays, when more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas, when information and (mobile) communication technologies are real catalysts for innovations in all domains, there are a lot of studies and debates related to how our cities should become “Smart Cities”, “Smarter Cities” or “Future Cities”, in order to improve life quality and to reduce costs, to become a “Smart Learning...
The primary purpose of this paper is to summarize the history and status of China mobile science and technology museums, as well as the trend being predicted. The method used in this paper is documentation, theoretical analysis, investigation research and case study. It is analyzed that the mobile science and technology museums are characterized in social fund using and target audience service, and...
The aim of this paper is to support the idea that not only the robots behaviours, but also development/experience of the participant matters, when teaching a robot. The results presented encourage us to look more closer in the interplay between teacher and learners perspective to create the robots behaviour for a natural interaction. The results, therefore, provide both insights into individual differences...
A new parameterized window function over a fixed support is presented in this work. It is derived through the process of iterative side lobe inversion, which is used to achieve a window with optimal side lobe properties for any given main lobe width. Side lobe inversion is presented as an operator on window functions, which results in new window functions of the same length over the same finite fixed...
Cloud networking is an integral part of interconnected data centres operated in cloud environment. Cloud users heavily rely on cloud networking to transmit to and receive data from data centres. In this context, we explore how to provide cloud users with more controls so that they could ensure confidentiality of their data without using extensive public key encryption in cloud networking or sharing...
Push To Talk (PTT) is a half duplex communication system which can be used to perform either one to many group calls. Since 1997, PTT has been deployed over Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) network for mission critical military and civilian use. The cost of operation and maintaining a Tetra network runs into billions of pounds. Hence governments around the world are looking to share the existing...
We describe our analysis of three months worth of collected human-physical environment interactions (foursquare check-in) data for two European cities: a medium-sized city in the Mediterranean and a larger city in North West Europe. Our analysis shows that though the data generated by the citizens is scarce (i.e. on average less than 15 users checked in at any time during the day), nevertheless they...
We consider the problem of deciding the existence of matrimonial circuits, and finding implexa in kinship networks. These networks can be modeled by acyclic digraphs. A matrimonial circuit can be seen as vertex-disjoint directed paths from special starting to special ending vertices of these acyclic digraphs. An implex is the set of all matrimonial circuits of a given pair of special vertices. We...
Rare colored capsule (RCC) is the capsule which is mixed in the normal product but with different color. To detect this kind of capsules online, a method based on RGB color space and using HSV color difference formula is proposed in this paper. Considering HSV color space with more balanced color-difference perception, the original RGB formatted capsule image is transformed to HSV color space for...
Covering-based rough set is an important generalization of Pawlak's rough set theory. By the fact that there have defined eight pairs lower and upper approximation operations in the case of covering-based rough set. Checking which pair of upper and lower approximations is the best definition among them is very necessary. We took advantage of the 2nd GrC Model and 6th pairs of upper and lower approximations...
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