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weSPOT is a new European initiative proposing a novel approach for personal and social inquiry-based learning in secondary and higher education. weSPOT aims at enabling students to create their mash-ups out of cloud-based tools and services in order to perform scientific investigations. Students will also be able to share their inquiry accomplishments in social networks and receive feedback fro...

AbstrAct This chapter explains how the successful theories about process integration can be implemented in different industrial fields by introducing a rigorous methodology. Starting from the consideration that processes must be managed to achieve customer satisfaction, the companies necessitate changing their old paradigms and focusing on an integrated management of their functions. In this ch...

Extreme learning machine (ELM) has shown its good performance in regression applications with a very fast speed. But there is still a difficulty to compromise between better generalization performance and smaller complexity of the ELM (number of hidden nodes). This paper proposes a method called Delta TestELM (DT-ELM), which operates in an incremental way to create less complex ELM structures a...

a question of the existence of delta-convergent sequences that vanish at the support of the limit Dirac delta function and gave an example of sequences of this type. It is a sequence of even functions that don't have a compact support. Motivated by the question in this paper we develop some results concerning delta sequences and show more examples of delta sequences of the type with or without ...

This report summarizes the most important results presented at the recent conference held at the Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, devoted to the recently confirmed light σ resonance. Remarkably, all speakers at this meeting took the light σ for granted and many mass and width estimations near 500 MeV were presented. We emphasize that if the light and broad σ is accepted as a tr...

This research note is about a project aiming at elaborating an online platform for the promotion of route-based cultural tourism. In order to better meet tourists’ expectations in terms of suitability and organisation of contents, an end-user development platform based on Web 2.0 technologies and mash-up tools has been designed. The platform appears to be complete, costeffective, and easily upd...

In this study the Mantel-Haenszel procedure, widely used in studies for identifying differential item functioning, is proposed as an alternative to the delta-plot method and applied in a test-equating context for flagging common items that behave differentially across cohorts of examinees. The Mantel-Haenszel procedure has the advantage of conditioning on ability when making comparisons of perf...