7 Submission date: November 13, 2009 8 Number of Tables and Figures: 6 9 Total Word Count: 7476 (including 250 words for each Figure/Table) 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Mitchell K. Robinson (corresponding author) 23 University of Vermont 24 33 Colchester Avenue 25 Burlington, VT 05405 26 Phone: (716) 474-2964 27 Email: [email protected] 28 29 Karen M. Sentoff 30 University of ...

E-learning systems often include a personalization component, which adapts the learning content to the learner’s particular needs. One obstacle to personalization is the question of how to obtain a learner profile for a learner who just starts using an E-learning system without overwhelming her with questions or unsuitable learning material. One possible solution to this problem lies in the soc...

Scientific full text papers are usually stored in separate places than their underlying research datasets. Authors typically make references to datasets by mentioning them for example by using their titles and the year of publication. However, in most cases explicit links that would provide readers with direct access to referenced datasets are missing. Manually detecting references to datasets ...

We present an efficient online subpath profiling algorithm, OSP, that reports hot subpaths executed by a program in a given run. The hot subpaths can start at arbitrary basic block boundaries, and their identification is important for code optimization; e.g., to locate program traces in which optimizations could be most fruitful, and to help programmers in identifying performance bottlenecks. T...

The Self-adaptive control of the temperature can achieve start fuel cell at different operating temperatures, which is very important for successful cold-start air-cooled PEMFC. distribution characteristics during process were analyzed based on adaptive recognition in this paper. Preheating model and established optimal balance between hot air flow rate required to promote a uniform stack was e...

This paper describes the design of a hot gas vane motor. The motor is intended as a portable direct drive actuator powered by a hot gaseous working fluid as an alternative to battery-powered electromagnetic motors. The objective is thus to convert a maximum amount of enthalpy at the inlet into mechanical rotational output energy in a compact and lightweight package. The described motor incorpor...

We propose a novel distributed load balancing algorithm (D-LBSB) for the hot cell problem in cellular mobile networks. As an underlying approach, we start with a xed channel assignment scheme where each cell is initially allocated a set of C (local) channels, each to be assigned on demand to a user in the cell. A cell is classiied as`hot', if the degree of coldness of a cell (deened as the rati...

Hot springs have been investigated since the XIX century, but isolation and examination of their thermophilic microbial inhabitants did not start until the 1950s. Many thermophilic microorganisms and their viruses have since been discovered, although the real complexity of thermal communities was envisaged when research based on PCR amplification of the 16S rRNA genes arose. Thereafter, the pos...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of electro-acupuncture (EA) and hormone therapy (HT) on vasomotor symptoms in women with a history of breast cancer. METHODS Forty-five women were randomized to EA (n = 27) for 12 weeks or HT (n = 18) for 24 months. The number of and distress caused by hot flushes were registered daily before, during and up to 24 months after start of treatment. RESULTS In ...