Adaptive teaching on the micro-level of teacher-student interaction has often been investigated, but rarely with respect to students’ content-specific learning pathways. In this paper, we present an analytic approach disen­tangle content into its components and capture adaptivity in practices teachers’ student focus goal focus. For this, adaptive is conceptualized as targeted steering trajector...

Because of several constraints in ad hoc networks, an adaptive ad hoc routing protocol is increasingly required. In this paper, we propose a synopsis of an adaptation process for an adaptive ad hoc routing protocol. Next, we put into practice the analysis of the process of adaptation to mobility by realizing an adaptive routing protocol: CSR (Cluster Source Routing) which is an extension of a w...

Continuously Adaptive Mean shift (CAMSHIFT) is a popular algorithm for visual tracking, providing speed and robustness with minimal training and computational cost. While it performs well with a fixed camera and static background scene, it can fail rapidly when the camera moves or the background changes since it relies on static models of both the background and the tracked object. Furthermore ...

Adaptive dynamics describes the evolution of games where the strategies are continuous functions of some parameters. The standard adaptive dynamics framework assumes that the population is homogeneous at any one time. Differential equations point to the direction of the mutant that has maximum payoff against the resident population. The population then moves towards this mutant. The standard ad...

A Kernel Adaptive Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is introduced, for the purpose of sampling from a target distribution with strongly nonlinear support. The algorithm embeds the trajectory of the Markov chain into a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), such that the feature space covariance of the samples informs the choice of proposal. The procedure is computationally efficient and straightf...

Most studies of the impact of humans on other species tend to be negative as more and more habitats are destroyed or degraded, so a new study provides a surprising contrast. It adds weight to the view that one of the northern hemisphere's best-loved summer visitors has vastly increased in range and numbers as a result of human activity. The barn swallow is found across North America, Europe and...