Comprehending Complex Concepts

Mathematics underachievers learning spatial knowledge

The relegation of spatial knowledge to a subordinate position has particular implications for examining mathematics underachievement. First, most of use have observed in our teaching that some mathematics underachievers (that is, those who have difficulty comprehending numerical ideas) can comprehend elementary spatial concepts but because they lack fluency in number they cannot make sense of t...

A Survey of Modeling Approaches for Embedded Computer Control Systems

Model-based system development emphasizes the usage of models throughout the development process. In such an approach, modeling becomes of central importance, forming a basis for documentation, communication, decision-making, and design automation. As this design paradigm becomes gradually adopted for the development of embedded computer control applications, new modeling requirements become ap...

Bilateral brain processes for comprehending natural language.

Comprehension of natural language--stories, conversations, text--is very simple for those doing the comprehending and very complex for cognitive neuroscientists. It also presents a paradox: the advantage of the left hemisphere (LH) for most language tasks is one of the best-established facts about the brain; yet, when it comes to comprehending complex, natural language, the right hemisphere (RH...

Knowledge Representation of Requirements Documents Using Natural Language Processing

Complex systems such as automotive software systems are usually broken down into subsystems that are specified and developed in isolation and afterwards integrated to provide the functionality of the desired system. This results in a large number of requirements documents for each subsystem written by different people and in different departments. Requirements engineers are challenged by compre...

CTCF: Comprehending the complex functions of an 11-zinc-finger transcription factor