The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a prototype of motivationally-adaptive computer-assisted instruction (CAI). The foundation for motivational theory and design was provided by the ARCS model (an acronym formed from attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction). This model provides a definition of motivation, a motivational design process, and recommendations for moti...

0 100 200 300 400 500 600 cyl. A/P cyl. L/R cyl. S/I recon. A/P recon. L/R recon. S/I • Prostate cancer is the most common cancer affecting men. • External beam radiation therapy is frequently used for treatment. • Despite careful positioning at the start of treatment, the prostate may move during the dose delivery. • Thus, there is a need for intrafraction monitoring of prostate position. Moti...

In this survey we summarise recent results concerning compact embeddings of some weighted function spaces of type B s p;q and F s p;q on R n. We study the asymptotic behaviour of their entropy and approximation numbers. We give some motivation how to apply results of this type in spectral theory. This survey provides a uniied approach of recent outcomes (which have mostly been published before)...

Let S ⊂ R be a bounded C domain and let g denote the flat metric in R. We prove that there exist minimizers of the Willmore functional restricted to a class of isometric immersions of the Riemannian surface (S, g) into R. We derive the Euler-Lagrange equations satisfied by such constrained minimizers. Our main motivation comes from nonlinear elasticity, where this constrained Willmore functiona...

Motivation Outcome of a bloodstream infection/sepsis (BSI/S) is defined in different ways in different research projects [1]. In this, BSI/S share the characteristics of other fields of medicine; specific issues are related to diversity of causative agents, the clinical focus of infection, severity of comorbid conditions, presence of indwelling devices, multiplicity of affected patient populati...

This contribution presents an approach to automatic prosodic annotation which emphasizes the linguistic motivation and perceptual relevance of the features used for classifying the prosodic categories. The analyses and experiments presented here were conducted on a 2.5 hours German news-like corpus which had been manually annotated using GToBI(S) (Mayer, 1995). GToBI(S) is an adaptation of Amer...

During 1992 and 1993, I undertook a field study in the Northeast of the United States to learn why wages and salaries seldom fall during recessions.1 I interviewed more than 330 business people, labor leaders, counselors of unemployed workers, labor market intermediaries (headhunters), labor lawyers, and management consultants. The purpose of the study was exploratory; much of my effort went in...

introduction: this study was conducted to evaluate the association of dimensions of an efficient teacher with entrepreneurial motivation from the viewpoint of students. methods: the study population of this research included 110 pharmacy students (above third semester) at kermanshah university of medical sciences, among whom 86 students were selected as the study sample through simple random sa...