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Whenever a research scholar starts working on some innovative ideas he/she searches for the domain specific technical research articles published as research papers in most of the international journals, conferences or workshops. The problems associated with these papers are similarity in contents and repeated relevant information. Reading these all relatedpapers completely one by one to get the latest...
Pedagogically, feedback in CAPT systems can be improved by focusing on the most critical errors rather than presenting all errors to the users at the same time. This paper presents our work on the use of crowdsourcing for collection of gradations of word-level mispronunciations in non-native English speech. Quality control procedures based on the proposed WorkerRank algorithm (adapted from well-known...
Based on "information complex holographic person" hypothesis, any systems involved to person can be considered a giant complexity intelligent system. The Internet of Things (IoT) can bring Interconnection, Human to Human (H2H), Human to Things (H2T), Things to Things(T2T). So higher education and the Internet of Things should be giant complexity intelligent systems. In essence, the Internet...
Knowledge on the social web presupposes to gather information about its current and potential users and document their relationships, interests and needs. A recent branch of sociology, the Actor-Network Theory or ANT, states that relations among human and nonhuman actors are equally important to comprehend social phenomena. Since scientists are potential users of huge computational support, their...
Parasitic energy scavenging from human-generated vibrations with piezoelectric materials has long been studied in contrast to electromagnetic or conventional electrostatic transducers. Dielectric Elastomers (DEs) are now gaining notice as low-cost electrostatic transducers with high energy densities. However, their transduction mechanism is more intricate. DE Generators (DEGs) are functionally variable...
Safeguards and security systems for nuclear facilities include material control and accounting (MC&A) and a physical protection system (PPS) to protect against theft, sabotage and other malevolent human acts. The insider threat is most often addressed as part of the evaluation of a facility's PPS. A PPS is evaluated using probabilistic analysis of adversary paths on the basis of detection, delay,...
Technology is a dynamic phenomenon which could experience rapid changes that may gradually lead to advancement in the humanitarian activities. It may become weak or lose its validity as a result of improper changes or attention and the way of thinking which could be due to overshadowing influences. The effect of such changes and influence has continued to cause problems in the key aspect of global...
A hands-on special session at the Frontiers in Education conference introduces an experiential exercise in empathy. Participants will use prostheses to simulate some of the physical disabilities that often accompany aging, then attempt everyday activities to better understand how engineered artifacts — and engineering design choices — can facilitate or hinder these tasks. The “empathy exercise” introduced...
We are developing online interactive materials that allow students to adapt their text and homework to their own needs and interests. For example, students may specify topic areas of interest and then selected mathematics homework word problems are adapted to those areas. Using proper data management, their work can be hand-graded with feedback for the students and allowances for students to correct...
Humans exhibit exceptional skills in using tools and manipulating objects of their environment by skillfully controlling exerted force and arm impedance. One of the basic components of this mechanism is the generation of internal models which associate kinematic variables with applied force. On the other hand, making robots capable of skillfully using tools and adapting their motor behavior to new...
This is a design project and research which attempts to look at the attribute of ‘Quirky’ as an aesthetic that hopes to provide tools to conceptualize the ‘wants’ of single user into the ‘needs’ of many.
Human development does not focus on external aspects of life With regards to the nature of human beings, internal development is the vital contributor in the development of human resource Various methods of developing the spiritual potential have been done to ensure quality human resource Religions teach human beings to manage one's strength. Therefore, the role of religions cannot be marginalized...
Nowadays, new forms of virtual architecture are appearing as virtual worlds based on the Met averse concept are becoming increasingly more popular, holding all kind of virtual versions of human activities. This paper is a reflection on the features of these new architectures compared with their equivalents in the real world by means of an analysis through the prism of the three fundamental conditions...
Unit testing of legacy code is often characterized by the goal to find a maximum number of defects with minimal effort. In context of restrictive time frames and limited resources, approaches for generating test cases promise increased defect detection effectiveness. This paper presents the results of an empirical study investigating the effectiveness of (a) manual unit testing conducted by 48 master...
We investigate the practical effectiveness of a theoretically sound algorithm for dynamic difficulty adjustment in computer games: Firstly, we show how the partially ordered set master (Posm) algorithm [11] can be incorporated in board games, taking checkers and Chinese chess as examples. Secondly, we describe an empirical study of (i) Posm on checkers against synthetic opponents of varying strength,...
Web-based language learning (WBLL) environment has provided English education a new arena where learning and teaching activities are vivified by the feats of computer and internet technology. A full development of learner autonomy can conduce to success in web-based English learning. This paper aims to find out ways to improve learner autonomy to achieve Chinese students' success in web-based English...
In China, as sustainable development strategy being implemented, quantitative evaluation of environmental load in steel industry has paid been more and more attention. In this paper, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) was applied in evaluation of the steel production process, analyzing the energy and materials consumption of Tangshan stainless steel industry in 2009. Based on inventory analysis, environment...
With the rapid development of space life science research, more functional instruments and equipment are required. Research on cell propagation and analysis is very important in the field of space biology. And cell transfer is a key technique in space station. If the cells can be transferred automatically, it can solve the problem of automatic processing of samples and component analysis of cells...
In order to let students learn authentically, we provide an opportunity for them to learn naturally and apply knowledge by adding authentic learning experience in classrooms. We wanted to know whether integrating embodied interactions in authentic learning can enhance authentic learning experience, and even improve learning performance. In this research, we proposed a near-authentic environment that...
People often only see IT artifacts level of material culture and can not see the invisible design of IT architecture. The authors studied socio-materiality convergence of IT architecture and social architecture. The authors argued that from critical realism philosophy, IT architecture and social architecture can be harmony entangled and human become part of what they perform and to be body-in-IT space...
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