A popular and Important tool for Forecast Users: Judgmental Adjustments

Where to Grasp a Tool? Task-Dependent Adjustments of Tool Transformations by Tool Users

Biomechanical and environmental constraints limit body movements and tool use actions. However, in the case of tool use, such constraints can often be overcome by adjusting a tool’s tool transformation to the requirements of the intended tool use action. The research presented here examined whether participants grasped a lever at different positions, thus modifying the lever’s tool transformati...

Discovering Popular Clicks\' Pattern of Teen Users for Query Recommendation

Search engines are still the most important gates for information search in internet. In this regard, providing the best response in the shortest time possible to the user's request is still desired. Normally, search engines are designed for adults and few policies have been employed considering teen users. Teen users are more biased in clicking the results list than are adult users. This leads...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Models for Product Demand Forecasting with the Use of Judgmental Adjustments to Statistical Forecasts

Meteocogent: a Knowledge-based Tool for Generating Weather Forecast Texts

The production of textual forecasts by professional meteorologists is a time-constrained activity requiring the interaction of knowledge about meteorology, knowledge about language and knowledge about the conventions used to communicate the right amount of weather information to meet the needs of diverse user communities. In situations where forecasts are written manually, the time spent compos...