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The classical approaches for the traditional problems of text mining, such as document indexing, document clustering or text classification, represent the text as bag-of-words. Words, the units of the representation, are determined by tokenization, using e.g. whitespace and punctuation characters as separator. The bag-of-word based methods face problem with non-segmented text typical for some Asian...
This paper proposes an indexing and teaching focus mining system for lecture videos recorded in an unconstraint environment. The slide structure can be reconstructed by an edge-based shot change detection algorithm. Besides, the teaching focus can be extracted according to instructor's behavior, including the gesture, the lecture time for each slide, and the speech speed. Experiment results show the...
Public expenditure on education has often been perceived as objective and egalitarian, but in reality it is not. Political pressure often results in incidence bias in favor of the rich. This paper argues that the bias in political influence resulting from extreme income inequalities is particularly likely to generate an incidence bias, which we call social exclusion. In this paper it has been argued...
Through building a socialist "harmonious society" is becoming the highlight for current theoretical studies and the direction of practice, the issue of growing income distance attracts wide attentions. Some studies have shown that higher education equity makes a considerable impact on income distribution. Therefore, the relationship between higher education equity and income distribution...
Through deep analysis of blend-learning and constructivism educational theory, the basis of individualized instruction is clarified. Education is the education of human being; learning is the study of people; people as the main of education and learning. Meanwhile, based on blend-learning and constructivism educational theory, stereoscopic teaching framework which combining traditional and network...
This study contributes to the existing literature of IT/e-commerce adoption both theoretically and empirically. Theoretically by combining the resource based theory and the `technology, environment, organization' framework, while at the same time considering the entrepreneurship and human capital theories in order to provide a theoretical base for the inclusion and measurement of the capabilities...
Metaphor as part of the cognitive linguistic theory has penetrated into different fields and different styles of discourses. It can be found in almost all kinds of styles of writing discoursed. By studying the developing stages of metaphor, especially by analyzing different kinds of usage of the conceptual metaphor in cognitive linguistics, this paper finds that conceptual metaphor in cognitive linguistics...
Multimedia technology is one of the hot technologies at the turn of the century. It promotes the reform of instruction and improves the qualities and effects of instruction. Using multimedia in instruction is the main component of modernization of instruction, as well as the breakthrough of overall instructional reform. The paper first introduces the conception of multimedia technology and its main...
This study sought to investigate as it has a teacher-student relationship in kindergarten and the extent to which teachers are clearly the presence of cognitive and affective aspects in this relationship. The article takes for granted the fact that it is necessary for professional education has made clear the true meaning of affection, and knowing that the cognitive and affective aspects are inseparable,...
Importance of knowledge sharing in Knowledge Management can be denoted as a blood circulating in the body. Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) is one of the social science theories which are vastly used to understand human behavior and is also considered as a strong base to understand knowledge sharing behavior. Hence this study will use the same theory to understand individual's knowledge sharing behavior...
Malaysia is on the road for a new education revolution. The aspiration is to put the Malaysian education on the global map by transforming the tertiary education into a center of academic excellence. Timeframe: 2010. It's vision: regional center for higher education learning that focuses on finance and banking, biotechnology, information and communication technology (ICT) multimedia content development,...
Driving from recent crisis of global-social ethics and the author's experiences through ethical-added teaching at all levels in higher education since 2006, the student's interest and acceptance of ethical-added learning is an important motivation for substantial advance ethical subject into computer education curriculum. King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok (KMUTNB) provides computer...
In order to develop an adaptive agent that a human user may feel easy to adapt to, it is useful to establish an adaption loop between the user and the agent. A mutual adaptation phenomenon often occurs during establishment of such an adaption loop. Aiming to disclose the essence of mutual adaptation, we designed a waiter agent task and conducted an experiment with respect to human-agent mutual adaptation...
There exists a common phenomenon in the art education of university, that is, too much attention is paid to cultivate the students' some professional knowledge, while neglecting the cultural quality education. As a result, they can neither fit themselves for the society nor can they get sustainable development in the long term after the students enter the society. In order to change this situation,...
Social networks, supported by social norms, develop through personal interactions and provide the framework from which social capital emerges and the means through which resources are accessed. Social capital is resources embedded in social networks that are mobilized by members of those networks. Social capital has been positively associated with academic achievement. In addition, tutors have been...
Short answers essay typed examination requires the students to write their answers in short sentences. Marking the short answers essay typed examination requires lecturers to compare the similarity of sentences from the answer scripts and marking scheme. Sentence similarity is defined as sentences that have similar meaning but they are different because of the words used or their construction structure...
The limitations and boundaries around information resources were disappeared. Children's primary period covering ages in the lower grades in learning the social environment and human relations as a basis should be taken and this time the computer and communication technologies' support should be used as a need in learning. Learning the information in primary education is the basic and high school...
This paper presents a follow-up to a previous user-study that considered the participants' acknowledgment of feedback from a robot, to which they had to demonstrate the task of laying a table. The question was if (and how) they modified their teaching instructions when the robot stated a misunderstanding, and whether they remained consistent for the rest of the sub-tasks.
Professional training of businessmen and managers in universities and corporative schools tends to solve the main question. It deals with formation and development of intellectual activity and managing intellect. This education problem solution represents a response to modern economy knowledge challenge.
In this paper we describe three lines of research related to the issue of helping robots imitate people. These studies are based on observed human behaviour, technical metrics and implemented technical solutions. The three lines of research are: (a) a number of user studies that show how humans naturally tend to demonstrate a task for a robot to learn, (b) a formal approach to tackle the problem of...
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