This paper describes Blaise, a software/hardware system designed to support writing programs. Students write papers using the Blaise editor, a simple text editor and submit them electronically to a backend database. Instructors download student papers from the database onto a tablet PC and then use pen-like markup to grade the papers. These papers are then returned electronically to the student...

In an introductory Engineering course with an annual enrollment of over 1000 students, a professor has little option but to rely on multiple choice exams for midterms and finals. Furthermore, the teaching assistants are too overloaded to give detailed feedback on submitted homework assignments. We introduce Mechanix, a computer-assisted tutoring system for engineering students. Mechanix uses re...

A paperless environment for annotating student assignments is appealing to teachers and students. However, to do this, while retaining the richness and ease of annotating the work with a red pen, has not been possible until recently. This project presents an annotation problem that requires digital annotation, and additionally functionality to properly support the user requirements to move effi...

Pen computing or pen-based technology can be considered one of the most natural and intuitive computer input interface for humans. The combination of digital video and pen-based technology can support a new approach for electronic paper by associating handwritten notes and drawings with video segments. This paper presents a proposal for pen-based video annotations and a prototype for Tablet PCs...

in this paper, a new approach was presented for bus network design which took the effects of three out of four stages of the bus planning process into account. the presented model consisted of three majors steps 1- network design procedure (ndp), 2- frequency determination and assignment procedure (fdap), and 3- network evaluation procedure (nep). genetic algorithm (ga) was utilized to solve th...

Historically, pen lifts have been considered valuable predictors of simulation behaviour. Despite this belief, there exists only limited empirical data available to characterise the extent to which unexpected pen lifts contribute to evidence in support of simulation behaviour. This study was devised to examine the frequency with which pen-lifts are observed in a population of 2280 simulated sig...

BACKGROUND Partial enteral nutrition (PEN) may be helpful for the maintenance of remission in pediatric Crohn's disease patients. AIMS To evaluate the efficacy of PEN treatment for preventing clinical relapse. METHODS We retrospectively assessed 42 pediatric Crohn's disease patients who entered clinical remission on 4-12 weeks of exclusive enteral nutrition (EEN) and were maintained on PEN ...