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Taiwan depends heavily on its tourist trade. The purpose of this study is to use the online platform of blogs to investigate whether emotional contagion, blog attraction and customer perceived value would affect the consumer's intent. The number of valid questionnaire samples is 312, and PLS is used to conduct linear structural equation model analysis. Research results show that blog attraction and...
As we all known that complicated system is too difficult to be identified. A system designed here may be expected to get good control effects. Firstly, grey state modeling and modal decomposition is proposed. Secondly, an approach to modal control, which is to control the complicated system's behavior is designed. The applicable field of modal control systems is rather far and wide especially for...
The field of learning analytics has the potential to enable education institutions to increase their understanding of their students' learning needs and to use that understanding to positively influence student learning and progression. Analysis of data relating to students and their engagement with their learning is the foundation of this process. In this work we investigate the database of learners'...
Schelling's model of segregation looks to explain the way in which particles or agents of two types may come to arrange themselves spatially into configurations consisting of large homogeneous clusters, i.e. connected regions consisting of only one type. As one of the earliest agent based models studied by economists and perhaps the most famous model of self-organising behaviour, it also has direct...
This paper deals with operator's reliability and optimal analytical model as the basis of estimation of operator's errors distribution. The mail goal is to determine the operator's reliability by the means of the chosen model. Peculiarities of reliability models were discovered and the most appropriate one was chosen according to the requirements and calculation advantages. Method of diffusion nonmonotonic...
This paper uses log data of teaching and learning activities in a web-based learning platform, selects two universities implementing different online learning promotion strategies as the cases, and conducts the group differences analysis based on the hypothesized structural equation modeling (SEM) to analyze group interactive activities in two universities' online learning environment. The results...
Learning analytics can give powers to teachers and learners to optimize their teaching and learning. This paper presents the design and implementation of learning analytics system for teachers and students based on a special LMS -- THEOL LMS, which is commonly used in blended learning in universities and colleges. The technical architecture of learning analytics system for teachers and students is...
Based on the blended learning process described by Josh Bersin and the general design framework of blended learning curriculum, a network curriculum-based blended learning model which including preliminary analysis, learning strategies and activities design, blended evaluation was constructed. Then, from the perspective of integrating online learning into the full-time higher education curriculum,...
Earth scientist observe many facets of the planet's crust and integrate their resulting data to better understand the processes at work. We report on a new data-intensive science gateway designed to bring rock physicists and volcanologists into a collaborative framework that enables them to accelerate their research and integrate well with other Earth scientists. The science gateway supports three...
The parallel transportation system based on the method of ACP (Artificial systems, Computing experiments, Parallel Control) will promote the level of city traffic intelligent decision and scientific management. A key problem in the system is how to design a computing experiment method to predict and evaluate the traffic state by real-time and accuracy. This paper introduces the discrete-time queuing...
We present the initial set of findings from a pilot experiment that used an Internet-based end-to-end verifiable evoting system and was held during the European Elections 2014 in Athens, Greece. During the experiment, which took place on May 25th 2014, 747 people voted with our system in special voting stations that were placed outside two main polling places in Athens, Greece. The election mimicked...
In order to analyze the influencing factors of near-miss initiative report in coal mine, a random questionnaire survey was designed based on nine factors that affect the miners un-initiative report near-miss that were identified by interviews and literature review. Then using AMOS 7.0 the influencing factors of near-miss initiative report in coal mine were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis...
This paper studied the modeling and simulation of the public opinion propagation in the small-world network. The public opinion information propagation characteristics were firstly analyzed, and different states of the people in the propagation environment were proposed. Based on that, this paper constructed the public opinion propagation model based on the agent modeling method, and proposed the...
This paper creates a departure time choice model based on the Logit model. Then it makes a survey, calibrating the model with the data to study the effect of road congestion charge on the time choice. First of all, the paper point out the severe urban transportation situation in our country and leads to the idea of Traffic Demand Management (TDM). In the introduction of TDM, road congestion charge...
With the increase of students, electronic laboratories and instruments have become in critical need in many universities and colleges, thus the construction of virtual laboratory and virtual instruments have attracted attentions of many researchers. LabVIEW is the most widely used virtual instruments developing software with the most powerful functions, which can be used for virtual instruments developing,...
High myopia esotropia is a kind of special strabismus whose pathology is still uncertain. In this paper, the finite element analysis method is applied to examine some physiological hypotheses by modeling the movement of the eyeball and morbid extraocular muscles. The model stems from clinical data. Theoretical analyses are also performed to examine the effect of oblique pulley. Finally, postoperative...
Recent technological trends on mobile/wearable devices and sensors have been enabling increasing number of people to collect and store their “life-logs” easily in their daily lives. Beyond exercise behavior change of individual user, our research focus is on the behavior change of teams, based on life-logging technologies and information sharing. In this paper, we propose and evaluate six different...
Teaching assistants (TAs) are crucial for student learning, especially in large science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs with student-centered learning environments. To understand TAs' perspectives of their ability to facilitate learning in these environments, this research team conducted a mixed-methods study. This study was set in the First-Year Engineering Program at Purdue...
The transfer pathway, particularly from two- to four-year colleges, is often seen as a vehicle to expand the science and engineering workforce by increasing college participation of underrepresented groups, such as black or African American students. In an earlier study, after controlling for credits earned, we found that black transfer students are more likely to persist in engineering than non-transfer...
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