This paper discusses the principle of electronic data and retrieval methods for the Secret History of the Mongols, which is a great classical historical work written in the 13th century with Chinese characters transliterated from Mongol. This handwritten work contains rather rich text information, which should be the contents of forming an electronic database. There are in the original book mul...

E-books are beginning to emerge from their incunabula stage. While some may think of an e-book as just an electronic image of a paper product, others have used the electronic format to broaden the spectrum of publishing in the digital age. This paper examines three innovative examples that demonstrate the potential and challenges of electronic publications. The first is an online resource provi...

Currently, International Space Station (ISS) crews use a laptop computer to display procedures for performing onboard maintenance tasks. This approach has been determined to be suboptimal. A heuristic evaluation and two studies have been completed to test commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) “near-eye” heads up displays (HUDs) for support of these types of maintenance tasks. In both studies, subject...

be " in charge of publicity and jackets, " which included the designing of the latter. Through this, his appreciation of the visual appeal of books was bolstered by the practical experience of trying to make books look good. His office in the Victorian building that served as both staff headquarters and stock warehouse was next to that of philosopher and art historian Herbert Read, who served p...

With electronic book (ebook) sales and readership rising, are ebooks positioned to replace print books? This study examines the preference for ebooks and print books in the contexts of reading purpose, reading situation, and contextual variables such as age, gender, education level, race/ethnicity, income, community type, and Internet use. Additionally, this study aims to identify factors that ...

The goal of this paper is to describe a new approach to a content creation and delivery mechanism for a programming course. This approach is based on the concept of creating a large repository of learning objects, each of which consists of the core material, code examples, supplementary notes, and review questions. A learning object will be uniquely described by a XML document and presents an i...

This open access book E-Vote-ID 2022 focuses on Electronic Voting from aspects relating to security and usability much more.

People are visual and respond to images. This is well known and has been exploited for eons by those wishing to sell product and promote ideas. A picture paints a thousand words. Book publishers have taken advantage of the response to images by putting time and effort into book covers. These help to sell the book to the reader. While we may say 'don't judge a book by its cover' in fact we frequ...

If you are one who seeks out the Amateur Scientist section in the Scientific American each month for the beauty of the illustrations and ideas presented for the young investigator, you may enjoy this latest addition to the literature illustrating in an applied manner some electronic devices for instrumentation in the behavioral sciences. The investigator working alone in a small laboratory, wit...

General Instructions Write your CANDIDATE NUMBER clearly on each of the THREE answer books provided. If an electronic calculator is used, write its serial number in the box at the top right hand corner of the front cover of each answer book. USE ONE ANSWER BOOK FOR EACH QUESTION. Enter the number of each question attempted in the horizontal box on the front cover of its corresponding answer boo...