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This paper focuses on the application of social networking technologies — in particular Web 2.0 — in fulfilling the needs for senior citizens' education, information provision and communication. Unibook is a flexible platform which has been recently designed and implemented to provide synchronous and asynchronous learning in a university environment, which has been customized in its “SE” version to...
Digital reference service is a network that placed expertise or skill, human intermediation and resources at the disposal of users in an online environment, employs automated tools and allowing human experts to concentrate or focus on difficult questions. It is viewed that digital reference service occurs when a question is received and responded electronically. Therefore, the aim of the paper is...
In the present work a scheme for more objective comparison of patients, represented by Kaplan-Meier graphs, by classification separating them in groups (m in number) with "graded survivability" is proposed. The classification uses the apparatus of the intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFS). The final result is a clear and easy to interpret table. To avoid loss of information, as well as for the...
Due to the limitation of DTN resource and intermittent connection, it's challenging to design a mechanism which achieves high message delivery successful ratio and control congestion to satisfy the demand. In this paper, a novel DTN congestion control routing mechanism, Ant Colony Optimization(ACO) for DTN congestion control algorithm(ADC) is proposed. In the message delivery, this mechanism can actively...
Textual Entailment (TE) is the task of recognizing entailment, paraphrase, and contradiction relations between a given text pair. The goal of textual entailment research is to develop a core inference component that can be applied to various domains, such as IR or NLP. Since the domain that a TE system applies to may be different from its source domain, it is crucial to develop proper datasets for...
Teamwork assessment by peers in small groups could be affected by personal relationships. This paper presented a system of teamwork assessments for a postgraduate course in a Thai university that integrated the collaborative learning and hand-on group projects as the means to deliver the desired outcome. Students found assessments quite suitable in assessing the teamwork and sufficiently detailed...
In this paper, a motivational education for lecturing a science course in a university has been described. It is a system that maximizes student strengths by increasing students' self-esteem. The technique has to be taken on the faculty first and then to students. A case study of a Digital Circuits course which is conducted in English has been studied. It has been proven practically, as this technique...
The ICT environment has been rapidly developed by ubiquitization and cloud computing and has become far more convenient to use. On the other hand, the negative side also exists, such as threats of viruses and unlawful access, in which the use of the safe and secure ICT environment is threatened. Public key infrastructure (PKI) construction is desired as a structure to achieve the safe and secure use...
In this paper, we investigate the problem of automatically constructing characters¡¦ social network from movies. Unlike existing approaches that use co-appearance information to measure the relationship between two characters, we argue that a method that describes the characters¡¦ interaction, rather than the co-appearance, makes more sense. We propose a new scheme that quantifies the interaction...
Current visualization methods of gaze data may lead to unspecific interpretation in form of ambiguous or inconsistent results during the final analysis process. It is not infrequent that inappropriate visualizations mislead researchers and provoke false conclusions of academic as well as economic studies. The most common visualization methods for cumulative gaze data are heatmaps as well as gaze plots...
This article describes the results of an analysis of how "inclusive learning" has been implemented in Digital Educational Objects developed with the support of the Basque government for the Eskola 2.0 program. We provide the results of this survey and present a set of pedagogical and technological design guidelines to improve the accessibility and inclusive nature of future developments.
The relationship University - Business - State the three major players in the development of technological innovation and production. The University can encourage development through knowledge and research contributions for companies to design and implement projects in support of modernization and innovation of its processes. The companies in turn can contribute their efforts to open spaces of interaction...
Easy Montessori Manager is dedicated to all the schools in Malaysia which are using the Montessori approach. It resembles an online management system but specifically designed for Montessori preschools and inclusive of Montessori Methods and for teachers' guidelines and assessments. A preliminary study was conducted to investigate the need of an online Montessori module by doing a survey. The survey...
In real-life data, a loss of information is frequent in data mining due to the presence of missing values in the attributes. Missing values can occur due to problems in the manual data entry procedures, equipment errors or incorrect measurements. The presence of missing values in attributes conditions the results obtained by any knowledge extraction approach. Specifically, this problem could lead...
In high dimensional classification problem, two stage method, reducing the dimension of predictor first and then applying the classification method, is a natural solution and has been widely used in many fields. The consistency of the two stage method is an important issue, since errors induced by dimension reduction method inevitably have impacts on the following classification method. As an effective...
In recent years, collision safety between a human and a robot has been increasingly important along with the spread of service robots. Much research has been conducted on how to design a safe manipulator, but it is not applicable to real manipulators yet. To deal with this problem, we propose a guideline to design a safe manipulator, which is composed of two phases, the safety evaluation and design...
To improve equipment utilization of medium-voltage distribution network, the influencing factors which could affect the best utilization load rate of equipment and the best utilization load rate of equipment are studied. Firstly, the factors that affect the medium voltage line and main transformer from the network structure and load development are studied. Then, according to connection mode of line,...
Patient data in electronic medical record systems can serve as an incredible source of evidence on the real-world evaluation of the relationship between medicine treatments and the well-being of the patient. However, the vast amount of raw data presents a significant bottleneck for physician to make sense from it, thus limiting its use in a time pressured clinical setting. A niche exists to develop...
Outsourcing offers wide range of benefits to organization such as cost reduction, better access to superior quality, flexible in responding to market change, opportunity to focus on core competences and facilitate the development of product diversification. Facility management outsourcing can be an excellent way for large organizations to drive down operating costs, give more focus on the core mission...
This workshop will familiarize participants with the current draft of the forthcoming CS 2013 curriculum guidelines and provide feedback to the CS 2013 Steering Committee.
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