We describe our participation in the INEX 2008 Entity Ranking and Link-the-Wiki tracks. We provide a detailed account of the ideas underlying our approaches to these tasks. For the Link-the-Wiki track, we also report on the results and findings so far.

The development of “slab track” was started by Japan in 1955 and the “Committee of slab track research” was established in 1971 for exclusive development of slab track. This makes Japan the country that has invested the most effort into slab tracks. On 5 January 2007, the THSR transferred from Japanese Shinkansen started its commercial operation. The stability and comfort of train operation hav...

Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have shown potential for promoting learning at scale. A plethora of studies have tapped into in-course learner behaviors to predict learner success. Yet few studies have looked to the relation between performance and engagement during the course and career development after the course. As such, the present study collected and analyzed both in-course data refl...

In the context of learning activity, which is supported by a system, it is important to have a feedback on the actors' usage of the learning system. The feedback is given especially by tracks [1]. In our research activities, we think that it is interesting to propose a methodology, which describe how to put in place a whole of organization, which facilitate and allow the tracking of an implemen...

Clock-shifted homing pigeons were tracked from familiar sites 17.1 km and 23.5 km from the home loft in Pisa, Italy, using an on-board route recorder. At the first release site, north of home, the majority of clock-shifted birds had relatively straight tracks comparable with those of control birds. At the second release site, south of home, the clock-shifted birds deflected in the direction pre...

I went home from my study group and I thought I’d write a song A light hearted little anecdote to carry us along A humorous look at training and the eportfolio Just how do we get our trainees to learn all the things we know? But events that followed after came and stopped me in my tracks And our talks of authenticity had me thinking back Life isn’t always funny when we’re in the here and now An...

Providing feedback on programming assignments is a tedious task for the instructor, and even impossible in large MOOCs with thousands of students. In this paper, we present a novel technique for automatic feedback generation: (1) For a given programming assignment, we automatically cluster the correct student attempts based on their underlying strategy. From each class we select one student att...

Since 2012, the vision of MOOCs in universities has been evolving rapidly. Universities that have decided to place a serious bet for including this kind of courses in their portfolio have involved a diverse set of staff roles within the institution. In most cases, with the exception of fully dedicated staff members hired for the sole purpose of MOOC development, MOOC related tasks are assigned ...

The geographic distribution of life on Earth supports a general pattern of increase in biodiversity with increasing temperature. However, some previous analyses of the 540-million-year Phanerozoic fossil record found a contrary relationship, with paleodiversity declining when the planet warms. These contradictory findings are hard to reconcile theoretically. We analyze marine invertebrate biodi...