Conservation tillage (CT) systems have a number of potential benefits including lower crop production costs and the ability to reduce soil erosion that have made them common in several regions of the world. Although CT systems have been researched and successfully implemented on some farms in California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV), overall adoption is low and the reasons for the region's compara...

This paper examines the problem of conceptual dependence, the coupling of software applications' internal structures and logic with their underlying conceptual models. Although conceptual dependence is almost universal in information system design, it produces a range of unintended negative consequences including system inflexibility and increased maintenance costs. Many information systems con...

Learners sometimes have incoherent and fragmented intuitive prior knowledge that is (partly) "incompatible" with the to-be-learned contents. Such knowledge in pieces can cause conceptual disorientation and cognitive overload while learning. We hypothesized that a pre-training intervention providing a generalized schema as a structuring framework for such knowledge in pieces would support (re)or...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to investigate the pursuit of achievement goals in medical students and to assess the relationship between achievement goals, learning strategy, and motivation. METHODS Two hundred seventy freshman and sophomore premedical students and sophomore medical school students participated in this study, which used the Achievement Goals Scale and the Self-Regulate...

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We propose a method for retrieving segments of source code from a large repository. The method is based on conceptual modeling of the code, combining information extracted from the structure of the code and standard informationdistance measures. Our results show an improvement over traditional retrieval models, indicating that, for this type of highly-structured documents, usage of structure is...