The present study examines the benefits of instructional animations in a collaborative learning situation. We investigated the interactions that occur during collaborative learning from different materials: animated versus static pictures, both with or without persistency of information. The animation factor had no effect on the types of interactions but the persistency of information led to fe...

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Performance prediction has the potential of ameliorate the student model of an Intelligent Tutoring System by predicting whether a student mastered or not a specific set of skills. Recently, it has been shown, by means of a simulated learning process, how performance prediction methods based on Matrix Factorization can be used for continuous score prediction and for sequencing contents through ...

A biopsychosocial role theory has been developed to integrate the mam findings of psychodynamic, cognitive, and interpersonal therapies. To function in a society, you must achieve a balance between your self-expectations and your performances, and your expectations of others and their performances. These expectations of self and others fall roughly into 16 biopsychosocial areas, or life vectors...

Three different Swedish lightweight multistory buildings have been investigated with respect to the flanking transmission over an inner wall. Among the buildings analysed, one of them had been used by residents for three years and the two other were only just erected and being built respectively. A tapping machine and a Japanese ball were used as excitation sources so as to produce vibrations i...

The aims of this study were: i) to analyze age-related declines in swimming, cycling, and running performances for road-based and off-road triathlons, and ii) to compare age-related changes in these three disciplines between road-based and off-road triathlons. Swimming, cycling, running and total time performances of the top 5 males between 20 and 70 years of age (in 5 year intervals) were anal...

This paper presents a global methodology to build a nonlinear regression when the number of available samples is small compared to the number of inputs. The task is divided in two parts: selection of the best inputs and construction of the approximator. A first SOM is used to compute clean correlations between the inputs and the output. A second SOM is built to link the output to the selected i...

This paper presents a survey of segmentation handwritten cursive word images into individual characters. It provides a comprehensive review of segmentation rates and descriptions of test data for the approaches discussed. Techniques that used to decide segmentation points describe in detail. Then the performances are compared in two categories based on number of words and existence of learning ...

Time performances and time-based competition concepts are analysed, introducing three types of time-based competitors. A traditional and an innovative path towards time-based competition are then recognised, the former achievable by over-resource applying, while the latter by practices related to just-in-time and concurrent engineering. It is explained how making a "rm structurally faster leads...

Corporate environment changing with the advent of information technology and with diversified organization has been inquired to redesign to transform into an intelligent and innovative organization so that corporate vision and organizational goals in the subsystem of corporate are provided for being shared by multidisciplinary workers and other stakeholders, and corporate social responsibility ...