The purposes of this study are: (1) to investigate students’ perceptions of computer-assisted whole language instruction; (2) to examine the effectiveness of whole language instruction on students’ reading improvement; and (3) to determine the difference between basic-level and advanced-level students’ improvement in reading skills. A total of 212 freshmen (98 low level and 114 high level stude...

A research organization responds to a variety of customer requests. Each high level request is broken down into a set of low level requests. For each low level request, the research organization follows a multi-step process: access, acquire, analyze and report. The customer is given an estimate of whether its request will be met, and if not, why not. The explanation may be provided at multiple ...

In a tournament, a principal sets a prize, and several agents then compete to attain the highest observed output, and win the prize. This paper departs from the existing literature on tournaments by assuming that agents can influence the spread of their distribution of output, in addition to the mean. We ask in which way risk taking and effort interacts in equilibrium. First, under standard tou...

Figure 1: Matching I1 and I2 using DNN flow. Each column shows the matching of different levels. In first row, parallelogram denotes the DNN feature image of I1, where dot represents the feature at that location. Line with arrow denotes the flow vector of the corresponding feature, while curve with arrow denotes guidance from high level to low level. In second row, the color rectangles show I1’...

The trend towards including both acoustic and high level speech features in speaker recognition systems is addressed with the presentation of the speaker verification system developed by QUT for the NIST 2004 Speaker Recognition Evaluation. The system presented is a fusion of five subsystems including acoustic, lexical, phonetic, prosodic and durational speech features and focuses on utilising ...

The primary aim of this study was to determine the relationship between certain aspects of coordination, the time course of a bout and sport-related skill levels in cadet judoists. The study evaluated eight judokas with high sport skill levels. Based on the analysis of tournament matches (N=66), the authors determined the activity, effectiveness of actions and the level of achievement. Ten aspe...

There is now a good understanding of problems encountered in the design, implementation and use of a high-level language converter. These general issues are illustrated in terms of an account of the design and implementation of one particular converter, which converts programs from Pascal-SC (a Pascal dialect) to Ada. A specific aim of the presentation is to provide guidance for those contempla...

This paper presents a number of design concepts and ideas for a group spreadsheet. Unlike single user spreadsheets, these group spreadsheets should have speciic features to enhance group communication, and to maintain a shared context. Rather than presenting a single design, we discuss alternatives and general-izable issues because the speciic design can be very dependent upon the environment. ...

This paper reports the preliminary work on extending the concept of collection in 81/2. 81/2 is a declarative language that allows the functional definition of streams and collections [1, 2]. In this paper, we focus our interest on a high-level programming abstraction which extends the concept of collection in 81/2. The new construct is based on an algebra of index set, called shape, and an ext...

This paper addresses the problem of semantic analysis of paintings by automatic detection of the represented scene type. The solution comes as an incipient effort to fill the gap already stated in the literature between the low level computational analysis and the high level semantic dependent human analysis of paintings. Inspired by the way humans perceive art, we first decompose the image in ...