A method that exploits machine learning to aid modification-based computational design synthesis is presented. The algorithm makes use of statistical inference to identify appropriate modification strategies that guide the selection of modifications to develop a design solution. The procedure is especially suited to computational design tasks that cannot be easily formulated for standard algori...

Whilst the tasks users perform online are often complex and wideranging, the tools currently available may not adequately support them. Attempts to classify user behaviors online have tended to focus on the medium of the web, where searching and browsing are seen as the primary modes of interaction. This paper introduces a comprehensive user-oriented classification of online tasks that emphasiz...

Anesthesiologists perform a broad spectrum of tasks. However, in many countries, there is no legal basis for personnel staffing of physicians in anesthesia. Also, the German diagnosis related groups system for refunding does not deliver such a basis. Thus, in 2006 a new calculation base for the personnel requirement that included an Excel calculation sheet was introduced by the German Board of ...

Do academic scientists bring valuable human capital to the companies they found or join? If so, what are the particular skills that compose their human capital and how are these skills related to firm performance? This paper examines these questions using a particular group of academic entrepreneurs – biomedical research scientists who choose to commercialize their knowledge through the U.S. Sm...

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This paper describes sixth grade students’ performance in tasks related to arithmetic expressions in the context of a design experiment aimed at developing a principled approach to beginning symbolic algebra. This approach, which is centered on the concept of ‘term’, is described elsewhere. In the paper, students’ performance in two kinds of tasks over items that test procedural knowledge and i...

A core motivation of service-oriented execution of business processes is the opportunity to reduce costs by outsourcing certain tasks to third-party service providers. For legal or economic reasons, it might be undesirable that delicate information (e. g., customer data, trade secrets, or financial details) “leak” to the involved third parties. The absence of such leaks — called noninterference...

Object-oriented unit tests consist of sequences of method invocations. Behavior of an invocation depends on the method’s arguments and the state of the receiver at the beginning of the invocation. Correspondingly, generating unit tests involves two tasks: generating method sequences that build relevant receiverobject states and generating relevant method arguments. This paper proposes Symstra, ...

The popularity of online education has prompted computer-assisted language learning (CALL) teachers to attend teacher professional development (OTPD) courses. Online necessitated a deeper look into delivery in Hence, an exploratory qualitative case study was conducted investigate how synchronous, asynchronous, or the blend both, called bichronous learning, could develop teachers’ CALL pedagogic...

In view of the separation learning and application in foreign language teaching China, a Production-Oriented Approach theory (POA theory) integrating is proposed. The takes unit tasks with potential communicative value as target, students selectively learn input materials under guidance teachers, finally achieve effective output complete tasks. This paper tries to apply POA Advanced English Tea...