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This paper presents a classroom research study that studied the effect of giving the students of a Digital Logic course the chance to retake all exams except the final. Each exam is designed to match a single learning outcome of the course. The theoretical background that the study is based upon is the Metacognitive Awareness Framework. We are reporting that the effort that the Faculty and teaching...
Automatic annotating images by equipment is of great interest as it meets one's common need for retrieving image content. Usually image content description with keywords is regarded as a visual-word correlation process. However, in view of the viewer's psychology, image to words is a kind of cognition process, which depends more on the experience for one to understand what's in an image. In this paper,...
There are many semantic inconsistencies between domain concepts, which made it difficult to model, to interoperate and also to compose models semantically in software engineering, M&S (modeling and simulation) or semantic web. Thus we described the domain concepts and concepts taxonomy by hypernetwork (concept hypergraph), whose nodes set is the concepts set and edge is consisted of the correlative...
The mechanism that team conflict on organizational citizenship behaviors is far from conclusive in the context of Chinese culture. In order to further clarify this mechanism, this study examines the role of organizational justice in the relationship between two types of team conflict and organizational citizenship behavior. Drawing on the samples of 138 management team members in the 14 colleges and...
This paper proposes a context priority scheduling algorithm based on correlation. The correlation between low-level contexts of reasoning task will be considered as the base of priority distribution. Its purpose is to speculate emergencies that about to happen next and provide the better reflect and the high efficiency in the smart home system.
User attitudes are a major predictor of the endogenous variables in ICT adoption models. However it is known in the community that the predictive validity of user attitudes on behavioral intention to adopt ICT suffers from inconsistencies. Being a basic predictor of behavioral intention in models like TRA or TPB, user attitudes turned out not to be predictive of behavior in other studies [1]. Some...
Context-awareness service is one of the key features in ubiquitous computing system. In heterogeneous pervasive computing environment, effective context modeling and reasoning are important to enable the collaboration and distributed reasoning among the agents. The effectiveness of the previous approaches for distributed reasoning significantly degrades when a large number of agents are involved....
Recent neuroscience studies have shown that it is possible to predict how concrete objects are represented in the brain based on the semantic relations of words defining the corresponding concepts. Whether we read the word `smile' or recognize the same expression in a face, the mental processes captured as event related potentials in EEG brain imaging appear indistinguishable. As both low-level semantics...
Since people are increasingly using online tools to share ideas and contact others, the importance of virtual communities is growing day by day. However, in the quest for exploring the relationship between psychological sense, trust, and knowledge sharing in virtual communities, there have been still very few studies. This study has revealed how knowledge sharing is fostered through trust in order...
This work presents an implemented framework called Real Time Multi Logic Reasoner (RT-MLR) that aims to help a development of context-aware systems. RT-MLR has been designed combining the rule based method with the regular object-oriented architecture. RT-MLR has an inference engine that allows to express and merge knowledge through rules in three logic types: First-Order Logic, Fuzzy Logic and Temporal...
The study investigates the effects of developing students' argumentation skills in traditional classroom learning context and on-line learning environment in two classes comprising 21- to 23-year-old university students in China. The results tentatively indicate that the short term study intervention helped students to promote their argumentation skills in both learning environments. But different...
Some types of contextual information are more important than others for inferring a situation of the patient in home-based care. The weight of this information may be changed due to the variations of the sensed values over time. Some researches applied a static weighting based fusion process to their systems to model these variations. However, this fusion process sometimes reduces the reliability...
In home-based care, reliable contextual information of remotely monitored patients should be generated to recognize activities and to identify hazardous situations of the patient. This is difficult for several reasons. First, low level data obtained from multisensor have different degrees of uncertainty. Second, generated contexts can be conflicting even if they are acquired by simultaneous operations...
This paper investigates the cognitive and behavioral processes underlying efforts to respond to disaster within complex socio-technical systems. The main focus of this work is on understanding the impact of disaster severity on these processes. Data for the study are taken from after-action reports compiled by police department personnel who took part in response operations to the 11 September 2001...
We investigated whether expectancy towards acupuncture would be associated with the emotional components and the health information of acupuncture. Ninety-two participants were assessed with the acupuncture belief scale (ABS). They rated the valence, expected pain, and fear to three kinds of needle images, including acupuncture, syringe, and sewing needle. They were randomly divided and asked to rate...
Interactions in aspect-oriented models must be detected, documented, and resolved for aspects to be composed as desired. Generally, aspect interactions can be categorized as intrinsic (those that inherently exist among concerns) or technical (those that are dependent on technology and may change over time). Consequently, these types of interactions should be encapsulated properly. Goal models support...
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