Language learning research in Japan has categorized students’ motivational orientations as multifaceted and leaning towards extrinsic orientations. Meanwhile, as self-determination theory correlates intrinsic motivation to academic success, we argue that enhancing intrinsic motivation is necessary to foster autonomous learners. Many studies categorize motivational orientations, but rarely, have...

This study investigated utilization of electronic learning facilities among Agricultural students in Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike. One hundred and twenty (120) students undergoing training in different agricultural courses in the university were randomly selected. Data were collected with a structured questionnaire and analyzed with descriptive statistics such as frequency ...

Digital audio watermarking techniques are widely applied to protect the ownership of digital audio media. This study presents an audio watermarking scheme for audio e-leaning contents. The proposed audio watermarking method can significantly reduce the bit error rates, so enhance the robustness against common attacks. The experimental results under common attacks demonstrate that our watermarki...

We often lean toward things or people we desire. Does the converse happen as well? Does simply leaning forward increase patterns of neural activation associated with desire? Desire can be conceptualized as similar to the broader construct, approach motivation. Research has found that manipulated body postures reduce approach motivation (Harmon-Jones and Peterson, 2009; Riskind and Gotay, 1982)....

This paper addresses a relatively new text categorization problem: classifying a political blog as either ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’, based on its political leaning. Instead of simply using “Bag of Words” features (BoW) as in previous work, we have explored subjectivity manifested in blogs and used subjectivity information thus found to help build political leaning classifiers. Specifically, o...

The leaning tower illusion is a perceptual illusion in which two identical images of a tower photographed from below appear to diverge when juxtaposed. We manipulated the perceived obliqueness of the (upright) St Mark bell tower in Venice by modifying two parameters both related to the position of the camera with respect to the tower: (a) increasing the peripherality of the tower and (b) reduci...