Research in affective computing and educational technology has shown the potential of affective interventions to increase student’s self-concept and motivation while learning. Our project aims to investigate whether the use of affective interventions in a meta-cognitive tutor can help students achieve deeper modeling of dynamic systems by being persistent in their use of metacognitive strategie...

Cognitive Radio (CR) is the future of radio systems giving authorities and end users unprecedented capabilities, and completely new services expectations. This paper aims at introducing an evolutionary novel Cognitive Radio adaptation engine architecture inspired from theories developed in cognitive sciences. Adaptation is a fundamental feature of CR necessary for many applications and use case...

Business process modeling is an important corporate activity, but the understanding of what constitutes good process models is still rather limited. In this paper, we turn to the cognitive dimensions framework and identify the understanding of the structural relationship between any pair of model elements as a hard mental operation. Based on the weakest-link metaphor, we introduce the cross-con...

This study proposes explanatory cognitive diagnostic model (CDM) jointly incorporating responses and response times (RTs) with the inclusion of item covariates related to both RTs. The joint modeling RTs intends provide more information for diagnosis while can be used predict parameters when calibration is not feasible in assessments or parameter estimation errors could too large due small samp...

background: lifestyle-modification programs including physical activity are essential for both treatment and prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus ( t2dm ). however, factors associated with physical activity among patients are poorly understood. this study applied social-cognitive theory (sct) for predicting determinants of physical activity among women with t2dm in iran, 2013. methods: in thi...

the present study was conducted to investigate and formulate the effects of social capital dimensions on entrepreneurial intentions. the population of this study consisted of all fourth year agricultural students of yasouj university (n=196), that by using patten (2002) sampling table, 130 student were selected as the sample using the random simple sampling method. the main instrument of study ...

companies for survival and the presence of strong and innovative strategies are needed in the global market, thus to achieve profitable growth opportunities and create new blue ocean. blue ocean created of red ocean weakness (focusing too much on competition and lack of attention to the creation of a new market without competition) comes. while the blue ocean strategy to industries that do not ...