We present preliminary work on automatically scoring constructed responses elicited as part of a certification test designed to measure the effectiveness of the test-taker as a K-12 music teacher. This content scoring differs from most previous work in that the responses are relatively long and are written by an adult population of generally proficient English writers. We obtain reasonably good...

We show that people’s travel destinations are predictable based on simple features of their home and destination. Using geotagged Twitter data from over 200,000 people in the U.S., with a median of 10 visits per user, we use machine learning to classify whether or not a person will visit a given location. We find that travel distance is the most important predictive feature. Ignoring distance, ...

background: as various implant geometries present different biomechanical behaviors, the purpose of this work was to study stress distribution around tapered and cylindrical threaded implant geometries using three-dimensional finite element stress analysis.     methods: seven implant models were constructed using the cad system. after digitized models of mandibular section, the crowns were crea...

there has been an increasing concern about inactive drivers who would easily lead to road accidents and fatalities once return to driving. this study investigated the re-usability of traffic signs for inactive drivers with consideration of driver factors and cognitive sign features. fifty-seven hong kong chinese, who possessed a full driving license but had not driven for an extended period, co...

The article discusses approaches to the formation of optimal combination design solutions in construction a building for funeral services. projected facility fulfills triple purpose: social, communal and industrial. industrial purpose is due peculiarities assembled technological equipment its maintenance. These are parameters crematorium project. contradiction can be traced architectural soluti...

Respect and reverence for water and trees are institutionalised in many ancient civilisations due to socio-cultural traditions, values and beliefs. In Iranian societies, respect for trees and water, separately and in composite form as gardens, is a well-known cultural value both before and after Islam. Therefore, the first part of this paper explains the value and importance of plants and ga...

This paper presents a multi-objective mixed-integer nonlinear programming model to design a group layout of a cellular manufacturing system in a dynamic environment, in which the number of cells to be formed is variable. Cell formation (CF) and group layout (GL) are concurrently made in a dynamic environment by the integrated model, which incorporates with an extensive coverage of important ...