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Many families have begun to make use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and social media, incorporating their functionalities in their daily lives in order to keep in touch with each other. An exploratory investigation on how technology and social media are used to support intergenerational family communication was carried out, in order to understand, not only the technologies and...
This article presents the results of an investigation that had as major objective to reflect on the importance of the Educational Blog as a factor of mediation between the family and the Kindergarden. This research was conducted in the Kindergarden “ORaposinho”, in Castelo Branco, in the class of four years, attended by 26 children, aged 4 and 5 years.
This article presents the first phase of a research project whose goal is to introduce a new form of collaboration and communication between the school and the family through an Electronic Booklet (EB). We sought to identify through a questionnaire the perceptions of teachers and Guardians regarding the adoption of an EB. Both groups stressed the importance of communication between school and family...
There has been proliferation in the use of plagiarized articles or source code amongst student and research community. This paper focus on an efficient method that can differentiate between plagiarized and non-plagiarized programs. Similarity/Distance measurement techniques are used to classify the test file. Thirty six distance metrics are used to determine intra class and inter class proximity....
Social Network Site (SNS) are increasingly being used within family settings to support and extend the family relationships. From hundreds of SNS, Facebook is one of the most popular across a variety of demographic categories in Malaysia. Many extant researches on SNS adoption and use have focused on individual level and disregarding the family perspective. Apart from that, most of the studies are...
We propose a new, challenging, problem in kinship classification: recognizing the family that a query person belongs to from a set of families. We propose a novel framework for recognizing kinship by modeling this problem as that of reconstructing the query face from a mixture of parts from a set of families. To accomplish this, we reconstruct the query face from a sparse set of samples among the...
This paper presents the development of information services for preserving the vegetation information in a campus area. Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity is one of the major humanitarian technology concerns. This paper presents the development of Biological Diversity Information system at the University of Indonesia's campus, particularly to record all information on plants around the...
This paper introduces a new form of collaboration between school and family through the Electronic Handbook developed in our research work, which makes more effective the communication between both. Today is consensual in education sciences consider that collaboration between school and family is a key component in the process of learning and educational success. With the Electronic Handbook, the...
The process of modernization, development and migration have much impacted the family size, functions and structure which consequently changing the ways of family communication. Therefore, communication technologies such as Social Network Sites (SNSs) are increasingly being used within family settings to support and extend the family relationships. Thus, the objective of this paper is to develop a...
The Internet of Things (IoT) presents huge potential for designing new technologies. However it is not yet clear which of these technologies will actually be accepted as a part of our everyday lives. Alongside the development of prototypes and exploratory evaluations, other research methods could be useful in eliciting responses to future visions, and developing implications that can inform design...
The role of information and communication technologies has reached all sectors of society. No doubt that the smallest unit of society, the family, has been tremendously affected by these changes. The impact of technology has been directed to the family as they consume the innovation every minute of their lives. As such, it is important to examine how communication technology has affected the quality...
Responses from open-ended survey questions regarding undergraduate students' connections to community were collected from five different institutions, ranging from a large research institution in the Pacific Northwest to a small teaching college in the Northeast. Our results show that, regardless of institution or U.S. geographical location, STEM students felt connected to family more than any other...
Family Particle Swarm Optimization (FPSO), which combines the sociological conception with particle swarm optimization (PSO), has been proposed. In this paper, to improve the convergence accuracy of FPSO, the mutation strategy was introduced into the FPSO. To study the effect of mutation probability on the performance of the algorithm, piecewise functions were used to determine the mutation probability...
According to the plant description of Flora of Inner Mongolia, and taking 122 main characteristics of 114 angiosperm families in Inner Mongolia as the main study object, a database of plant characteristics was established. Based on the existing plants Family retrieval system model, developed the Inner Mongolia Angiosperm Family Retrieval System (IMAFRS). The system can realize plant family multi-way...
Environments have great influence on students' English learning, especially on students in rural schools. Teachers and students' families are main factors influencing students' English learning. In order to solve the existing problems and improve rural students' English, it is necessary to discuss the influence of environments on them and put forward some measures in the hope of reducing the unfavourable...
The concept of the family was previously introduced into Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). To further study the multi-group structure of the Family PSO (FPSO), this paper introduces the family tree into the FPSO. It made different families form a family tree and a swarm consisted of some family trees. In the experiment, topological distance was used to form a family and three spatial structures of...
From the observation in Asia university, we found that students estranged from their parents; therefore we promoted campaign" Chenhundmgxing" for the establishment of an "ethics-school". The students have to contact their families by phones calls. which in this research we defined care towards the family. The statistics we acquired from this research indicates that students in...
For the discretization of particles in particle swarm optimization (PSO), we have proposed the family PSO (FPSO) previously. To further study the internal structure of FPSO, this paper defined two kinds of relationships between particles: equal relationship (ER) and generational relationship (GR). FPSO of equal relationship (ER-FPSO) and FPSO of generational relationship (GR-FPSO) were proposed. Simulations...
In our previous study, the family particle swarm optimization (FPSO) was proposed. In this study, we investigate the direction of the FPSO. To improve particles' abilities of moving to the global optimization position and to accelerate the convergence of FPSO, we defined the direction coefficient and proposed the directional FPSO (d-FPSO). In a family, the flight of a particle referred to the flying...
All family members resemble each other in different ways which is recognizable by our brain. In this paper, we have developed family classification using AdaBoost, Support Vector Machines and K-Nearest Neighbor classifiers with different patches of training data. In some cases family classification involve unseen data classification in which the classifiers' performance drop significantly. Therefore...
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