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Nowadays distance learning becomes more and more popular because it is an economical, flexible and self-adaptive form of education. Collaborative learning environments provide users (both learners and instructors) conditions for better communication and cooperation. Moreover, multimedia content due to its friendliness is preferred in such environments as it enhances the learning process. Such environments...
After a research on railway project cases, we find that in some China companies, project cost control is such weak, even though the railway project has a huge number of investments with a short construction period. So to solve this problem, this paper constructs WBS standard templates and dictionaries of Four-Electrical (Communication, Electricity, Electrification, Signal) railway projects, based...
Few research conducted Multinational enterprise CSR in foreign context and emerging markets. It also remains unclear the link between social practices and product market performance at the branch level in the multinational context. To understand (1) does Multinational enterprise CSR in host country influence their branches' performance in emerging market; (2) how the spatial distance between home...
Working memory capacity (WMC) is a cognitive trait that affects students' learning behaviors while performing complex cognitive tasks. Knowing students' WMC can positively enhance students' learning in many ways, for example, by providing them with adaptive content and activities to suit their individual WMC. This paper presents an approach for identifying students' WMC from their learning behaviors...
Financial markets are primarily driven by three key drivers, technologies, competition and globalization. These drivers are accompanied with challenging risks. Market authorities monitor activities in order to reduce to the barest minimum the adverse impacts some products and services have on the whole financial system. This indicates the need for a high quality monitoring and surveillance system...
Step-by-step and from-easy-to-difficult are the outstanding characteristics of geological interpretationof remote sensing images. The interpretation results, especially the attributes of interpreted features, can be changed or adjusted on each step according to the reference materials and the field work feedback. As aconsequence, geological interpreters may make a lot of attribute adjustments and...
An increasing number of studies have reported that the quality of biometric samples has a significant impact on the performance of the system. However, to our best knowledge, these studies are limited to impersonation attempts from different subjects, i.e., zero-effort attack, and they do not take into account the possibility of spoof attack, also called non-zero effort attack. In order to thwart...
The present paper tries to substantiate the claim that users of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) will gain considerable language awareness, in terms of both semantics and grammar, while checking on the accuracy of their edited texts, if an integrated software material - which we intend to develop - is used. The following set of concrete proposals for developing such a software for the active study...
This paper employs an evolutionary algorithm to adjust the weights of the evaluation function of a chess engine. The selection mechanism of this algorithm chooses the virtual players (individuals in the population) that have the highest number of problems properly solved from a database of tactical and positional chess problems. This method has as its main advantage that we only mutate those weights...
This paper developed a markerless augmented reality (AR) applying for the picture books. We used the scale-invariant feature transform (SIFT) to realize the markerless augmented reality application. In recent years, the picture books have been widely introduced and performed with voice, special material, and paper-based 3D object. However, it is embarrassed by the display field due to the page limitations...
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is the wireless non-contact system that uses radio-frequency waves to transfer data from a tag attached to an object, for the automatic identification and tracking. An internet based concept is incorporated with RFID technology to form an internet based application for the library management. The RFID reader Motorola MC9090 is used for the entire process which...
Micro-expressions are facial expressions which are fleeting and reveal genuine emotions that people try to conceal. These are important clues for detecting lies and dangerous behaviors and therefore have potential applications in various fields such as the clinical field and national security. However, recognition through the naked eye is very difficult. Therefore, researchers in the field of computer...
Laughter is a frequently occurring social signal and an important part of human non-verbal communication. However it is often overlooked as a serious topic of scientific study. While the lack of research in this area is mostly due to laughter's non-serious nature, it is also a particularly difficult social signal to produce on demand in a convincing manner; thus making it a difficult topic for study...
This paper introduces a low-cost, real-time prediction system for public transport arrival times. Using a predefined roads and stops network, arrival times are predicted for each public transport line. After the predictions have been made, the time for future arrivals is adapted in order to reflect current road conditions and any possible delays of future arrivals. The entire system is controlled...
This paper gives theoretical insight into importance of information literacy in formal and informal education and self-education of individual in information society. Libraries traditionally have great role in rising information literacy and one way of rising information literacy could be through their e-tutorials about information literacy. Working hypothesis in this paper is that level of presence...
This paper describes how databases of parameterized exercises can help in the development of support materials to classes and evaluation. These databases are created in the context of project MEGUA using the software package with the same name.
This paper describes a proposed automatized case-based cognitive skills assessment system. Unlike most currently available computer-based assessment systems that offer support only for simple assessment tasks, this system supports domain independent case-based assessment of cognitive skills or performance. Automatic feedback and performance evaluation functions of the system are based on extracting...
The purpose of this article is to present the development of a research assistance library service - online assistance in finding resources on a given topic - in the period between 2006 and 2012. With the implementation of the Bologna process in Croatia, there was a need for a more proactive involvement of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing Central Library in the Faculty teaching...
In this paper two different possible machine allocation policies are studied for a production system consisting of MRP and kanban controlled materials. Performance measures are inventory costs, backorder costs and service level. In policy one, the production system is segmented into one segment for MRP planned materials and one for kanban controlled materials. Policy two implements common machine...
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...
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