the goal of this study was to investigate the effect of using computer conceptual maps­, compared with  usual way of drawing them by pencil and paper­, in increasing learning, recalling and educational progress motivation in geology course among high school students. the study was conducted in semi experimental method in which students of 3 classes were classified in 3 groups. (group 1: common ...

in this paper, we give a characterization of strongly jordan zero-product preserving maps on normed algebras as a generalization of  jordan zero-product preserving maps. in this direction, we give some illustrative examples to show that the notions of strongly zero-product preserving maps and strongly jordan zero-product preserving maps are completely different. also, we prove that the direct p...

For all study participants, birth and death addresses were visited and a map of the wires and transformers of the electric power distribution was drawn. Homes were categorized as having "high-current configurations" (HCC), "low-current configurations" (LCC), or "very low current configurations" (VLCC), according to their proximity to high current distribution lines. Table 2 shows the distributi...

We describe an image-comparison technique of Heidemann and Ritter (2008a,b) that uses image compression, and is capable of: (i) detecting novel textures in a series of images, as well as of: (ii) alerting the user to the similarity of a new image to a previously-observed texture. This image-comparison technique has been implemented and tested using our Astrobiology Phone-cam system, which emplo...

The broad context of this study is the investigation of the nature of computation in recurrent networks (RNs). The current study has two parts. The first is to show that a RN can solve a problem that we take to be of interest (a counting task), and the second is to use the solution as a platform for developing a more general understanding of RNs as computational mechanisms. We begin by presenti...

DNA polymerases are molecular motors that catalyze template-dependent DNA replication, advancing along template DNA by one nucleotide with each catalytic cycle. Nanopore-based measurements have emerged as a single molecule technique for the study of these enzymes. Using the alpha-hemolysin nanopore, we determined the position of DNA templates bearing inserts of abasic (1',2'-dideoxy) residues, ...

Previous studies have shown that comprehenders use rich contextual information to anticipate upcoming input on the fly, but less is known about how comprehenders integrate different sources of information to generate predictions in real time. The current study examines the time course with which the lexical meaning and structural roles of preverbal arguments impact comprehenders’ lexical semant...