Curbing incessant and erratic power supply to halls of residence within the University of Ibadan Campus has been an impetus that has led to an upsurge in the number of proposals all geared towards providing solution to this critical problem. One of such proposals opines the design of a virtual power plant (VPP). In proposing such, the author seeks to address the problem on a double approach – t...

We describe an "Annotated Lectures" system, which will be used in a global virtual teaching and student collaboration event on embodied intelligence presented by the University of Zurich. The lectures will be broadcasted via video-conference to lecture halls of different universities around the globe. Among other collaboration features, an "Annotated Lectures" system will be implemented in a 3D...

OBJECTIVE Research has found perceived descriptive norms to be one of the strongest predictors of college student drinking, and several intervention approaches have incorporated normative feedback to correct misperceptions of peer drinking behavior. Little research has focused on the role of the reference group in normative perceptions. The current study sought to examine whether normative perc...

UNLABELLED BLISS 2.0 is a web-based application for identifying conserved regulatory modules in distantly related orthologous sequences. Unlike existing approaches, it performs the cross-genome comparison at the binding site level. Experimental results on simulated and real world data indicate that BLISS 2.0 can identify conserved regulatory modules from sequences with little overall similarity...

Based on the survey data of 364 peasant households in Yibin, Sichuan, this paper analyzes the farmer’s willingness to small forest tenure mortgage loans. The result indicates a high willingness up to 74.2%, i.e. the farmers are willing to invest forest tenure mortgage loans into forestry and agricultural production. The influential factors on farmer’s willingness to small forest tenure mortgage...

Introduction & Purpose of the Study Living-learning programs (LLPs), or academically-themed programs based in college residence halls to promote greater in-and out-of-class integration and subsequently facilitate deeper learning, have become extremely popular over the past 25 years as a way for higher education institutions to improve undergraduate education. A comprehensive review of literatur...