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English speech of L1 English and L1 Bengali speakers of the same discourse is analyzed by applying hierarchical discourse prosody framework HPG (Hierarchy of Prosodic Phrase Group) in order to find the between-and within-group similarities and differences in speech planning of L1 (native) and L2 (non-native) English speakers for prosodic organization at discourse level. The analysis reveals that the...
Within the Department of Freshman Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, a pilot program was conducted to assess the value of a service learning course for freshman honor's engineering students. This venture was based on the success of using service learning as an educational tool for undergraduate engineering students at many universities world wide. At the University of Pittsburgh, all students...
Classroom interactivity is today considered to be one of the most important preconditions for successful lecturing. It is also often considered to be the main drawback of learning from lecture captures. In this article, the issue of live lecture and lecture capture interactivity is addressed from the aspect of students' question posing. During several lectures, students were asked to write down all...
This paper describes an innovative six dimensional (6D) space concept and appropriate reference entity that are intended for the description of motion architecture of any distributed conceptual system, a model or a real device. The aim of this paper is to show that the 6D-perceptivity is generally understandable and can be used in education to effectively clarify informational interactions between...
Ishikawa Prefecture is located in the Hokuriku region in Japan. One of the problems of the tourism in Ishikawa is to increase the number of tourists from foreign countries. In order to solve this problem, it should be necessary to provide foreign tourists with “language service.” In this study, in order to understand a state of language service to foreign tourists, we investigated what linguistic...
The sexual exploitation of children online is seen as a global issue and has been addressed by both governments and private organizations. Efforts thus far have focused primarily on the use of image hash value databases to find content. However, recently researchers have begun to use keywords as a way to detect child exploitation content. Within the current study we explore both of these methodologies...
Despite predicted benefits of data integration in the sciences, many factors continue to limit data sharing. In this paper we argue that data practices of individual researchers represent a key bottleneck. Through an interview study across multiple fields, we show that data practices vary as a function of norms learned from senior mentors, where data sharing is more likely when supported and modeled...
Capstone project forms an important part of engineering degree programme as it has a bearing on both employability and admission to higher education. Choice of problem is very crucial decision in the first stage of the project. Problem definition is normally given by the faculty members or chosen by the students. Inadequate efforts and thinking at this stage has negative impact on the performance...
The Educational Virtual Environment for Mathematics (EViE-m) is a virtual reality platform which supports mathematics education. By answering multiple-choice questions of various levels of difficulty, users gain access to VR world elements such as buildings and technology trees in order to construct organized virtual cities. The platform rewards users' ability/dexterity by providing access to even...
Business Intelligence (BI) promotes a rational and scientific approach to management by providing timely and relevant information to decision-makers at all levels of an organization. Despite the level of technical maturity it has achieved over the years and the advantages it has to offer in terms of overall efficiency, BI is still far from becoming mainstream in business, especially in case of SMEs...
Most of current e-learning systems are not taking into account the learner's learning style. Although the Adaptive e-learning system pay attention to the learning style, the result is not better than expectation. The main reason is the Adaptive e-learning system force learners to fill in tedious questionnaires so that identify one's learning style. The organization of learning sources, the method...
The large public scientific organizations - we call in this paper multi-institute scientific organizations-always play important roles in the national innovation systems, and undertake basic research, applied research, some science frontier research and the research of emerging areas like nanotechnology. To examine the behaviors of these large public scientific organizations is important for monitoring...
According to the problems and difficulty of high-tech equipment M&S, the shortcomings of existing equipment maintenance & support (M&S) mode are analyzed in this paper. The new mode of high-tech equipment M&S is presented from innovating M&S mechanisms, improving maintenance means and the material supply & inventory system, optimizing the personnel training system and other...
Quality information work is one of the basic work for total quality management of equipment. Quality information is important to the equipment operation phase and its management is an important foundation for realizing the state of equipment quality and improving the equipment quality. Starting with the analysis of the function and character of quality information in equipment operation phase, this...
Lean maintenance theory is an advanced maintenance concept and method, which is formed aiming at the waste phenomena existing in most of the equipment maintenance and the lacking of maintenance theory and technique research. This paper mainly analyses several key technical characteristics related to lean maintenance: improved RCM theory, root cause analysis, improved FMEA technique, value stream analysis...
With application of the “great quality” thought in modern management, the paper analyzes affecting factors of equipment maintenance quality in detail on the view of organization and management. Firstly, according to single batch of work flow and main work contents on organization level, this paper analyzes and defines the main affecting factors of equipment maintenance quality with causality diagram...
Recently, higher education (university education, lifelog education and so on) by e-learning has been getting increased by the development of information and communication technology. Higher education organizations have to prepare e-Learning contents appropriately. it is generally hard for e-Learning contents developers (including instructors and so on) to quickly prepare e-Learning contents with...
This paper introduces the meaning of the Total Quality Management at first, and then makes analysis the necessity of applying the TQM on the equipment maintenance management. This paper also puts forwards some suggestions on how to enhance the equipment maintenance based on total quality management theory and does a beneficial exploration in the theory researches and practice development of equipment...
The just-in-time (JIT) delivery is the most important aim of ordnance material supplier direct delivery support (SDDS). However, different profit targets determine the leader-follower game relationship between ordnance material support organization and supplier. Therefore, the objective compatible incentive strategy to supplier should be adopted to improve the capability of JIT delivery. On the premise...
Learning Management Systems, or Virtual Learning Environments have become almost universal in institutions of Higher Education either to complement traditional classroom learning experiences in blended learning, or the only medium of interaction in virtual universities. While proprietary LMS has dominated the market since the inception of LMS, open source and community source LMS is a paradigm that...
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