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Introducing Ontology-based Skills Management at a Language Insurance Company

Knowledge Management (KM) has become an important success factor for enterprises in virtually all areas during the last decade. IT-supported KM solutions are built around some kind of organizational memory that is structured according to an ontology. We present a methodology for application-driven development of ontologies that is instantiated by a case study, viz. the introduction of an ontolo...

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Collaboration for Learning Language Skills

A Collaborative activity is designed and a software tool is developed to support teaching grammar to primary education students. The activity is intended to create interdependencies among students. The software tool helps to implement the activity. Activity and tool were designed for teaching Spanish grammar, but they can be adapted for teaching other languages.

Validity of the VERA visual skills screening.

PURPOSE Most school vision screenings test only visual acuity. There is a need for a valid, easily administered test that screens for a wider variety of learning-related vision problems. Visual Efficiency RAting (VERA) is a software program designed for schools to detect both routine vision problems and visual skill problems. The purpose of this study was to compare the VERA visual skills scree...

Visual skills in airport-security screening.

An experiment examined visual performance in a simulated luggage-screening task. Observers participated in five sessions of a task requiring them to search for knives hidden in x-ray images of cluttered bags. Sensitivity and response times improved reliably as a result of practice. Eye movement data revealed that sensitivity increases were produced entirely by changes in observers' ability to r...