This study examines the relationship between computer self-efficacy and intended uses of technology of student teachers (N=1094) at a teacher training institute in Singapore. Self-efficacy was assessed by three factors: Basic Teaching Skills (BTS), Advanced Teaching Skills (ATS), and Technology for Pedagogy (TP), and intended use of technology was measured by two factors: Traditional Use of Tec...

A structural view is a base view for describing software architectures. A structural view typically comprises several structural models that highlight particular aspects of the software. From our experience, managing the dependencies between structural models is a challenging, yet crucial task for maintaining consistency of an architectural description. In this paper, we focus on the compositio...

UNLABELLED The reliable assessment of the quality of protein structural models is fundamental to the progress of structural bioinformatics. The ModFOLD server provides access to two accurate techniques for the global and local prediction of the quality of 3D models of proteins. Firstly ModFOLD, which is a fast Model Quality Assessment Program (MQAP) used for the global assessment of either sing...

OBJECTIVE Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are a significant public health concern. Numerous internalizing and externalizing psychiatric disorders have been found to be related to STD risk. However, to date, no studies have examined several psychiatric disorders simultaneously to account for STD risk. Given that psychiatric disorders often co-occur and can be explained by a limited number o...

Longitudinal studies in which exposures, confounders, and outcomes are measured repeatedly over time have the potential to allow causal inferences about the effects of exposure on outcome. There is particular interest in estimating the causal effects of medical treatments (or other interventions) in circumstances in which a randomized controlled trial is difficult or impossible. However, standa...

This paper analyses the ability of some structural models to predict corporate bankruptcy. The study extends the existing empirical work on default risk in three ways. First, it estimates the expected default probabilities and computes default correlations using a copula function for a sample of bankrupt in the US. Second, it extracts common or latent factors that drive companies’ default corre...

The ASGSCA (Association Study using GSCA) package provides tools to model and test the associations between multiple genotypes and multiple traits, taking into account prior biological knowledge. Functional genomic regions, e.g., genes and clinical pathways, are incorporated in the model as latent variables that are not directly observed. See Romdhani et al. (2014) for details. The method is ba...

As more protein structures become available and structural genomics efforts provide structural models in a genome-wide strategy, there is a growing need for fast and accurate methods for discovering homologous proteins and evolutionary classifications of newly determined structures. We have developed 3D-BLAST, in part, to address these issues. 3D-BLAST is as fast as BLAST and calculates the sta...

Do financial market analysts use structural economic models when forecasting exchange rates? This is the leading question analysed in this paper. In contrast to other studies we use expectations instead of realised data. Therefore we analyse the implicit structural models forecasters have in mind when forming their exchange rate expectations. Using expected shortand long-term interest rates and...