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Increased interest in security has resulted in greater demand for automated test systems to comply with security standards. Automated test systems have traditionally been operated in isolated environments because of their unique characteristics. However, changes in United States defense acquisition regulations require that defense contractors bring these test systems into compliance with National...
Structural changes of the informational society based on knowledge underline the necessity of changes in the educational system too, according to the social, economic needs, etc. ICT offers teachers a variety of tools to adapt the educational process to the needs of each student in the transition from teacher-centred instruction to the creation of pupil-centred interactive educational means. The teacher...
Knowledge workers are frequently subject to information overload. As a result, when looking to make analytic judgements, they may only have time to search for evidence that already matches their existing viewpoint, leading to confirmation bias. New computer systems are needed that can help users overcome this and other cognitive biases. As an enabling step towards such systems, the research community...
The need to utilize English in daily international communications within broad settings, such as business and academia, is accelerated by Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and internationalisation. Internationalisation introduces the increased need (through ICT) to communicate through a common language (global language) and English has evolved into such a ‘global language’. Students...
Building program analysis tools is hard. A recurring development task is the implementation of the meta-model around which a tool is usually constructed. The XCORE prototype supports this task by generating the implementation of the meta-model. For this purpose, developers will add directly into the source code of the tool under construction some meta-information describing the desired meta-model...
Internet addiction also called as "internet dependency" is a disorder related to excessive or poorly controlled preoccupations regarding computer use and internet access. Although the advantages of internet are undeniable, however, from the pathological perspective its excessive usage is creating disturbances not only in family and relationships but also in health, academics and memory recall...
Surgical navigation systems based on optical tracking technology all suffer from the requirement for an unobstructed line-of-sight. The optical path between stereo camera and tracked objects has to be kept free or the navigation is suspended. In this article, we present a new module that combines the information of two tracking cameras simultaneously, to view the surgical site from two different angles...
Electrophysiology has recently evolved into an interactive, high-throughput endeavor. Recording from dozens to hundreds of electrodes is today routine; novel means of manipulating the system in real time, through electrical stimulation, optogenetics or sensory manipulation are allowing us to decipher neural circuit function at an unparalleled rate. To contribute to the wide dissemination of such techniques,...
Making construals is a new digital skill that complements conventional programming. Its primary focus is on using computer-related technology to stage interactive experience of unprecedented richness and subtlety. This paper is a tutorial on the latest version of an instrument for making construals developed in the ongoing EU Erasmus+ CONSTRUIT! project. Its principal theme is the re-creation of "the...
The next generation of world citizens must be technologically fluent members of society. By technological fluency we mean the ability to manipulate technology creatively and for one's own use. This fluency is composed of knowledge and skills utilizing materials and tools, as well as attitudes, (e.g. confidence), with respect to technology. Numerous interventions exist to support middle school students'...
This paper presents a novel interdisciplinary approach to aid with the growing concern about how to showcase computer science and engineering degrees to pre-university level students. This novel approach is based on empowering students to create their own music-related game using real music instruments. In order to allow the students to program their games we have used the Greenfoot Introductory Learning...
This proposed work reveals a high performance instrumentation amplifier based on operational amplifier (op-amp) for low power applications. This instrumentation amplifier (IA) is designed for low power while maintaining the high gain' high CMRR' low noise as well as other design constraints. The Instrumentation amplifier contains two identical two stage op-amps at the input (gain) stage and one difference...
Chemical pesticides security and configuration problems of low precision blending process design a kind of liquid chemical pesticide ingredient line automatic control system. System consists of Host-Computer, PLC, weighing instruments and touch-screen configuration, which use Visual Basic develop design software, with data collection, storage and query capabilities. Omron PLC as the master controller...
Many theoretical and empirical studies that analyze the factors associated to academic achievement identify gender as a highly significant element. Within the assessment of information literacy skills, the effect of gender seems apparent. However, the contextual nature of gender makes it difficult for the results of the studies to result in specific improvements and innovations in the schools. The...
It has been shown in numerous studies that the application of Augmented Reality (AR) to teaching and learning is beneficial, but determining the reasons behind its effectiveness, and in particular the characteristics of students for whom an AR is best suited, can bring forth new opportunities to integrate adaptive instruction and AR in the future. Through a quasi-experimental research design, our...
This research studies the effects of a conversation-gambits visual novel game on students' English achievement and motivation. 54 students involved in this research. The research implemented experimental design with 27 students in control group and the other 27 in the experimental group. The experimental group used the conversation-gambits visual novel game while the control group used printed book...
The aim of this paper is to discuss an effort to build a series of programmable emulators for assessing residential energy monitoring systems. This laboratory-based testbed mimics whole house electrical energy consumption through a circuit panel, and it promises to provide a platform for testing and evaluating different approaches for providing energy feedback to occupants of residential buildings...
Surface Plasmons (SPs) are an intriguing form of electromagnetic waves that propagate at metal-dielectric interface, and have promised various cutting-edge applications, such as biological sensing, deep-subwavelength lasing, high-resolution imaging and plasmonic circuitry. Seeking new methods in controlling SPs is highly demanded in developing next-generation integrated photonic components and devices...
In this paper we attempt to shed some light on the possible conceptualization of the user experience in E-Government services in anticipation of the growing population of digital natives. We argue the need for the citizen experience in the light of E-Government evolution that is described using various maturity stages model that ascends the stages of informational, interactional, transactional, transformational...
Nowadays more and more people focus on the application and development of big data in film industry. This paper presents a study to the box office prediction method. We choose valid inputs into model and use neural network algorithm and multiple linear regression model to do training process. Finally we compare and analyze the results between two models. This is an applicability study and has its...
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