The curriculum may superimpose a content-specific context that mediates motivation (Bong, 2001). This study examined content specificity of the expectancy-value motivation in elementary school physical education. Students' expectancy beliefs and perceived task values from a cardiorespiratory fitness unit, a muscular fitness unit, and a traditional skill/game unit were analyzed using constant co...

Access to fully processed activation maps in near real time during a functional MR examination enables run-to-run assessment of results. This is particularly useful in clinical studies, since the results of the functional MR examination can be ascertained before the patient leaves the MR suite, permitting interactive tailoring of the functional MR study. We describe how a real-time MR system ca...

We present a human-robot interface for projecting information on arbitrary planar surfaces by sharing a visual understanding of the workspace. A compliant 7-DOF arm robot endowed with a pico-projector and a depth sensor has been used for the experiment. The perceptual capabilities allows the system to detect geometry features of the environment which are used for superimposing undistorted proje...

One of the hallmarks molecular dynamics in deeply supercooled liquids is non-exponential character relaxation functions. It has been a long standing issue if 'universal' features govern lineshape glassy independent any particular structure or interaction. In paper, we elucidate this matter by giving comprehensive comparison spectral shape depolarized light scattering and dielectric data liquids...

Aiming at the nonlinear, nonstationary, and time series characteristics of power load, this study proposes a load forecasting method based on empirical mode decomposition particle swarm optimization gated recurrent unit neural network. First, original data are decomposed into limited number modal components residual component by using to reduce nonstationarity complexity sequence decrease assoc...

This article introduces a new cancellable multi-biometric system based on the combination of selective encryption method and deep-learning-based fusion technology. The biometric face image is treated with an automatic segmentation algorithm (Viola-Jones), selected eye XORed PRNG (Pseudo Random Number Generator) matrix. output array used to create primary template. process changes histogram imag...

Many efficient super-resolution methods have been presented in the past for improving resolution of images degraded by global blurs. Unfortunately, in video, more complex situations can be observed where local blurs appear in each frame which are mainly caused by object motions. To address this problem, we propose in this article a local super-resolution method which allows the restoration of s...

Recent advances in the computer graphics of woven images on arbitrary surfaces in 3-space motivate the development of weavings for higher genus surfaces. Our paradigm differs markedly from what Grünbaum and Shepard have provided for the plane. In particular, we demonstrate herein how weavings on surfaces in 3-space are inducible from graph imbeddings on surfaces in 3-space. Moreover, we show th...

Complex web information structures prevent search engines from providing satisfactory context-sensitive retrieval. We see that in order to overcome this obstacle, it is essential to use techniques that recover the web authors' intentions and superimpose them with the users' retrieval contexts in summarizing web sites. Therefore, in this paper, we present a framework for discovering implicit ass...

Software Architecture is a key artifact in the software development process, as it provides a bridge between the requirements of the system-to-be and its final design. Architectural description is therefore a critical step, which can be assisted by the use of Architectural Styles. Styles make it possible to reuse architectural knowledge by providing guidelines for its description, and by constr...