Improving Early Children's Language Capabilities through Interactive Compact Disk Media

Improving Disk Array Reliability Through Faster Repairs

Magnetic disk capacities have grown over the last decades by a factor of at least ten thousand. While the minicomputer disk drives of the late eighties could only store 600 MB of data [5], 8TB or 10TB disk drives are common today. The same is not true for disk transfer rates: they are just one hundred times higher than those of the late eighties. As a result, copying the entire contents of a di...

Improving problem definition through interactive evolutionary computation

Poor definition and uncertainty are primary characteristics of conceptual design processes. During the initial stages of these generally human-centric activities, little knowledge pertaining to the problem at hand may be available. The degree of problem definition will depend on information available in terms of appropriate variables, constraints, and both quantitative and qualitative objective...

Learning Grounded Language through Situated Interactive Instruction

We present an approach for learning grounded language from mixed-initiative human-robot interaction. Prior work on learning from human instruction has concentrated on acquisition of task-execution knowledge from domainspecific language. In this work, we demonstrate acquisition of linguistic, semantic, perceptual, and procedural knowledge from mixed-initiative, natural language dialog. Our appro...

Compact Endomorphisms of Certain Subalgebras of the Disk Algebra

Improving early growing stage of Festuca arundinacea Schreb. using media amendments under water stress conditions

     Developing strategies to tackle water stress in lawns in arid climate regions is significantly important. In such conditions, using growing media amendments as well as native plants can relieve drought stress in different growing stages of the plants. This study was carried out to investigate the effects of some types of soil amendments on the emergence and early seedling establishment of ...