Development of software that determines the behavior of robots is typically done in a language that is far from dynamic. Programs are written, compiled, and then deployed on a simulator, or the robot, for testing. This long development cycle causes a cognitive dissociation between writing the code for the robot and observing the robot in action. As a result, writing robot behaviors is much more...

In this study we investigated the intricate interplay between central linguistic processing and peripheral motor processes during typewriting. Participants had to typewrite two-constituent (noun-noun) Finnish compounds in response to picture presentation while their typing behavior was registered. As dependent measures we used writing onset time to assess what processes were completed before wr...

This chapter proposes an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) for teaching students to write Chinese characters over the Internet. Since each Chinese character is like a picture, knowing the correct stroke orders can enable a person to write characters more easily. Accordingly, primary schools in Taiwan teach the correct orders in which strokes should be made when writing Chinese characters. In th...

The tasks of programming include complex knowledge and skills that is, from understanding problems to evaluating validity of program. Novice students often face difficulties in learning programming due to various issues and the nature of the subject, which can be vague and invisible. A survey was conducted on 294 students from two universities to study novices’ problems in dealing with tracking...

The editors of Pain and Therapy would like to make the following amend to the Acknowledgements section of the abovementioned paper. The disclosure statement should read as follows: ‘‘No funding or sponsorship was received for this study. For preparation of this article, medical writing assistance was provided by Latoya M. Mitchell, Ph.D., of Grifols. Dr. Tachdjian is the guarantor for this arti...

Background: To examine the Healthy Fitness Zone (pass/fail) criterionreferenced reliability (CRR) and equivalency (CRE) of the 1-mile run/walk (MRW) and Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run (PACER) in adolescents (13 to 18 years). Methods: Seventy-six girls and 165 boys were randomly assigned to complete 2 trials of each test. Results: CRR for the boys on the MRW (Pa = 77%, κq = 0.5...

Writing is a way for students to develop and use their critical thinking skills as well as to demonstrate learning. The links below provide ways that writing can be used both informally and formally throughout the college curriculum and include specific methods for handling all aspects of the writing process from assignment-making to responding and grading. The final link for faculty is a mega-...

We present the construction of a continuous time stochastic process which has moments that satisfy an exact scaling relation, including odd order moments. It is based on a natural extension of the MRW construction described in [3]. This allows us to propose a continuous time model for the price of a financial asset that reflects most major stylized facts observed on real data, including asymmet...

Intelligent non-player characters that exhibit realistic ambient behaviors produce more captivating and immersive stories for the player. However, the creation of nonrepetitive and entertaining behaviors is challenging, since it involves writing complex custom scripting code for thousands of characters in a common game adventure. This demonstration describes the generation of motivational behav...

We investigate whether wording, stylistic choices, and online behavior can be used to predict the age category of blog authors. Our hypothesis is that significant changes in writing style distinguish pre-social media bloggers from post-social media bloggers. Through experimentation with a range of years, we found that the birth dates of students in college at the time when social media such as ...