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This paper reports a study of institutional archives at urban and metropolitan universities that are members of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU). Founded in 1990, the CUMU is an organization of North American institutions of higher education committed to the shared mission to use the power of their campuses in education, research and service to enhance the communities in...
Engineering students need complex skills to be effective in college and post-graduate employment. Beyond technical skills, the ability to integrate varied types of information is essential for competence in applying engineered solutions to real-life situations. While research shows that project-based learning favorably affects engineering student success and retention as well as recruitment of diverse...
Virtual Worlds are becoming a valuable tool for teaching history and promoting cultural heritage in places like the city of Corfu, an Unesco monument. In this paper, virtual Corfu (v-Corfu) is presented, i.e., a virtual world consisting of historical buildings, monuments and other existing sites characteristic of the city of Corfu, transformed into virtual sites (v-sites). A possible way of implementing...
Time dependent hereditary properties of complex materials are well described by power-laws with real order exponent. This experimental observation and analogous electrical experiments, yield a description of these properties by using fractional-order operators. In this paper, elasto-viscous and visco-elastic behaviors of fractional order hereditary materials are firstly described by using fractional...
In April 1948 a team including John and Klara von Neumann and Nick Metropolis ran the first of a series of calculations on ENIAC. These were not only the first computerized Monte Carlo simulations, but also the first code written in the modern paradigm, usually associated with the "stored program concept," ever to be executed. This article--the third in a three-part series published in Annals--reconstructs...
The aggressive demand that production equipment experiences when the production rates increases and less time is available for equipment maintenance activities, turns critical equipment maintenance into a challenge. It is then when improvements to existing processes, data collection (tools and techniques), and failure root cause analysis become critical for machinery support. This paper presents the...
In order to make the development process of a closed domain dialogue system become easier and faster, we proposed an easily independent closed domain dialogue system by using information state approach. To handle the adaptability of domain, we employed the concept of operand, operator and expression. These concepts are used in the knowledge representation and in the information state used in dialogue...
In this paper, we introduce a refined Educational Data Mining approach, which refrains from explicit learner modeling along with an evaluation concept. We use a Data Mining technology, which models students' learning characteristics by considering real data instead of deriving their characteristics explicitly. It aims at mining course characteristics similarities of former students' study traces and...
In order to clarify the characteristics of spark conditioning carried out in parallel at several parts of electrodes, we studied conditioning process in a multi-gap electrode system with two rod-plane electrodes in vacuum. The rod material and gap distance of one gap was kept to Cu-Cr (d=5 mm) in some multi-gap electrodes. On the other hand, the rod material and gap distance of the other gap were...
This short essay aims at tracing the patrimonialization process of advertising from the 19th century to nowadays. The process followed third steps. First, advertising evolved from a despised object to a valuable cultural artifact. Considered as useless or deceitful in first place, advertising has gradually managed to gain legitimacy as a useful and even necessary tool for both companies that want...
State formations buildout is not an ongoing process. One of the most important theoretical constructions was created by Gumilyov, and that is the Passionarity Ethnogeny Theory. What is the correlation of the engineering activities behavior and the socio-political formations buildout? What factors are responsible for the motivation of getting an engineering education? It is possible that the development...
In this paper, a knowledge exploration assistant system for inquiry-based learning is proposed to support students when inquiry-based learning is conducted. The proposed system provides students with instant assistance with proper knowledge materials and knowledge exploration functions during their learning process. In addition, students' learning history is automatically recorded by the proposed...
This paper examines the efficacy of Felder-Silverman's learning styles and Mayer's generative theory of multimedia learning for adaptive hypermedia using three different modes of presentations-verbal, visual, and multimedia- in history and engineering disciplines. Six modules in history and engineering were designed in verbal, visual and multimedia modes. Hundred and four undergraduate students of...
The paper introduces a "lazy" Data Mining technology, which models students' learning characteristics by considering real data instead of deriving ("guessing") their characteristics explicitly. In former work, the authors developed a modeling system for university learning processes, which aims at evaluating and refining university curricula to reach an optimal learning success...
In order to clarify the characteristics of spark conditioning carried out in parallel at several parts of electrodes, we carried out conditioning experiment to use a multi-gap electrode system with multi-rod electrodes. As a result, we found that 50% breakdown voltage after conditioning saturation differed in the multi-gap electrode system from in a single gap electrode system. In addition, we found...
The project, design and development of the diachronic corpus of Japanese began in 2009 at the Department of Corpus Study, the National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan (NINJAL), as a collaborative research project by linguists and literature scholars of NINJAL and the University of Oxford. Its focus is on collecting representative Japanese literary works and classical documents...
Recently, higher education (university education, lifelog education and so on) by e-learning has been getting increased by the development of information and communication technology. Higher education organizations have to prepare e-Learning contents appropriately. it is generally hard for e-Learning contents developers (including instructors and so on) to quickly prepare e-Learning contents with...
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