Affective computing holds significant promise for fostering engaging educational interactions that produce significant learning gains. Serious games are particularly well suited to promoting engagement and creating authentic contexts for learning scenarios. This paper describes an ongoing collaborative project between the Army Research Lab (ARL), Teachers College Columbia University, and North ...

This volume is a collection of papers that were presented at the 17 annual East Asian Seminar in Economics (EASE) that was held at the Kohala Coast, Hawaii, June 22-24, 2006; the NBER was the local organizer. We thank all our sponsors – the NBER, All Nippon Airways, the University of Tokyo’s Center for Advanced Research in Finance, and especially the Center for Global Partnership – for making E...

Authentic assessments are closely aligned with activities that take place in real work settings, as distinct from the often artificial constructs of university courses. As the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority (SRA) has recognised that delivery of the vocational stage of training should utilise authentic assessment techniques to improve students’ ‘Day One’ outcomes, the authors assert that authe...

KOSEKI J. KOBAYASHI-KIRSCHVINK∗, KING-FAI LI†,‡,§, RUN-LIE SHIA† and YUK L. YUNG† ∗Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan †Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA ‡Atomic and Molecular Physics Laboratories Research School of Physics and Engineering Aus...

The prime objective of the study is to identify the long-run and short-run relationship between Indian stock price viz., BSE SENSEX (hereafter named as BSE) and gold price (GOLD) in India. The daily closing price data were collected for the period of ten years ranging from 1st April 2004 to 31st March 2014 with 2490 observations. The study employed two models: Model one us...

In this paper we investigate the choices involved in the tradeoff between a child’s labor outside of household work and their schooling hours from a sample of data from Ghana in the late 1980’s. While households are interviewed only once during the survey, the data were collected over an 11 month period for both the Northern and Southern regions of Ghana. Northern and Southern Ghana have rather...

Copying data from devices into main memory is a computationally-trivial, yet time-intensive, task. In order to free the CPU to perform more interesting work, computers use direct memory access (DMA) engines — a special-purpose piece of hardware — to transfer data into and out of main memory. We show that the ability to chain together such memory transfers, as provided by commodity hardware, is ...