Designing and maintaining websites can be costly for small business, therefore the decision to embark on a Web strategy should not be taken lightly. Critical to the success of a web site is its design. Most small business web sites focus on information provision yet for many it would appear there is a lack of understanding of how to design a web site that delivers information effectively to use...

The purpose of this study was to examine the instructional effectiveness of different online reading strategies for students identified as possessing different learning styles, either internal or external locus of control styles, on tests measuring different learning objectives. Participants were 169 undergraduate students, randomly assigned to four online reading treatments: none, rereading st...

ABSTRACT Recent advances in the theory of evolutionary algorithms have indicated that a hybrid method known as the evolutionary-gradient-search procedure yields superior performance in comparison to contemporary evolution strategies. But the theoretical analysis also indicates a noticeable performance loss in the presence of noise (i.e., noisy fitness evaluations). This paper aims at understand...

Behavior planning of a vehicle in real-world traffic is a difficult problem. Complex systems have to be build to accomplish the projection of tasks, environmental constraints, and purposes of the driver to the dynamics of two controlled variables: steering angle and velocity. This paper comprises two parts. First, the behavior planning for the task of intelligent cruise control is proposed. The...

The content industry has been undergoing a tremendous transformation in the last two decades. We focus in this paper on recent changes in the form of social computing. Although the content industry has implemented social computing to a large extent, it has done so from a techno-centric approach in which social features are viewed as complementary rather than integral to content. This approach d...

|A new formulation for coordinate system independent adaptation of arbitrary normal mutation distributions with zero mean is presented. This enables the evolution strategy (ES) to adapt the correct scaling of a given problem and also ensures invariance with respect to any rotation of the tness function (or the coordinate system). Especially rotation invariance, here resulting directly from the ...

BACKGROUND Many factors shape the quality of learning. The intrinsically motivated students adopt a deep approach to learning, while students who fear failure in assessments adopt a surface approach to learning. In the area of health science education in Nepal, there is still a lack of studies on learning approach that can be used to transform the students to become better learners and improve ...

Contemporary phenomenal externalists are motivated to a large extent by the transparency of experience and by the related doctrine of representationalism. On their own, however, transparency and representationalism do not suffice to establish externalism. Hence we should hesitate to dismiss phenomenal internalism, a view shared by many generations of competent philosophers. Rather, we should ke...

The increased usage of embedded pre-designed reusable cores necessitates a core-based test strategy, in which cores are tested as separate entities. IEEE P1500 Standard for Embedded Core Test (SECT) is a standard-underdevelopment that aims at improving ease of reuse and facilitating interoperability with respect to the test of core-based system chips, especially if they contain cores from diffe...

Section 1: Introduction . Industrialization has an important role to play in the process of economic development. The importance of industrialisation as a means for achieving rapid growth and prosperity had been recognised in the development strategy of independent India. The bold program of industrialization in India was started with the second five-year plan by realizing the need of the econo...