background: bromide is found naturally in groundwater and surface water. the rapid growth of industrial activities, drainage of surface runoff, and use of methyl bromide in pesticides has increased bromide discharge to the environment. disinfection of water-containing bromide causes the creation of additional products of organo-halogenated that are considered cancer-causing agents. in this stud...

Background Animal welfare research programs are seldom integrated into the mainstream activities carried out in schools of veterinary science. Our goal at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science (NVH) is to fully integrate our animal welfare research program with the training of veterinary students and with the regular activities carried out at the school. In my previous team we successfully...

This paper discusses the use of computer interactive media in a traditional shadow play lesson for elementary students. The researchers digitalized traditional shadow play rules, photos, and other related information by applying twodimensional animation techniques. The instructional material was used to assist the instructor’s teaching, as well as to help the students to understand the major th...

In this work, we develop an analytic and visualization system for citizens and government agencies to understand, track, and predict the construction dynamics in an urban area. The presented system consists of three major functions. First, we provide an interactive data visualization interface that allows various users to easily investigate the relationships among different construction types, ...

abstract seed germination is an important phase of plant development during which soil water availability is crucial. salinity can affect seed germination in two ways: 1) change of osmotic potential of available water, 2) toxicity effects. in this experiment, interactive effects of salinity and water deficit on germination criteria of two species of a, littoralis and a. logopoides were studied ...

metadiscourse markers help writers make coherent and reader- friendly texts, thus of considerable importance in academic writing. the main aim of this study was to investigate how interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers are used by iranian efl learners. an inquiry was carried out to investigate cross-cultural similarities and differences in the use of metadiscourse markers in the di...

DEA models help a DMU to detect its (in-)efficiency and to improve activities, if necessary. Efficiency is only one economic aim for a decision-maker; however, up- or downsizing might be a second one. Improving efficiency is the main topic in DEA; the long-term strategy towards the right production size should attract our attention as well. Not always the management of a DMU primarily focuses o...

Managing complex data flows and update patterns is one of the most difficult challenges in interactive data visualization. For example, constructing interactive visualizations with multiple linked views can be a daunting task. Functional reactive programming provides approaches for declaratively specifying data dependency graphs and maintaining them automatically. We argue that functional react...

The ISO standard ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps offers a flexible and powerful technique for knowledge representation. The standard defines the general concepts and provides – with intention – just the necessary minimum of semantic. But knowledge representation requires more semantic – earlier publications identified “templates”, “type hierarchies”, “association properties”, “inferences”, and “constr...