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S OFTWARE testing has been widely used in the industry as a quality assurance technique for the various artifacts in a software project. However, software testing is very laborintensive, time-consuming and expensive; almost 50% of the cost [1], [2] and 40% of the time of a software system development is spent on software testing [3]. Software testing has two main aspects: test data generation and application of a test data adequacy criterion. A test data generation technique is an algor...

Abstract Concept mapping has been widely adopted in the past few decades as an instructional or learning tool for helping students organize their knowledge; nevertheless, several previous studies have indicated the difficulty of applying this approach. In particular, for elementary school students, developing concept maps could be a difficult task, implying the importance of providing supports during the learning process. In this study, a computerized, cooperative concept-mapping approach ...

eal-life problems it is convenient to reduce the number of involved features (variables) in order to reduce the complexity, especially when the number of features is large compared to the number of observations. There are several criteria to tackle this variable reduction problem. Three of the most common are: maximization of the mutual information (MI) between the inputs and the outputs, minimization of the k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) leave-one-out generalization error estimate and minimiz...

1 Introduction The pallet describes the main results of a con> parison of /;he ToB: (Tone-and-Break-Indices) ai)proach (Pierrehumbert, 1.9801 Silverman el; al.., 19961 to annotating English speech data with information about intonation and one of the British School approaches (e.g., Brazil et al. (1980)), Systenfie Fmmtional Grammar (SFO; (Halliday, 19671 Halliday, 1970)). The goal of this comparison is the definition of a mapping between the two systems. This attempt ha...

T metric electrical data which can then be used to evaluate the performance of an integrated circuit manufacturing process. The test chips contain test structures which provide specific electrical parameters. Coupled with a computer-controlled parametric test system, they can provide the user with information that cannot otherwise be obtained because of the nature of the measurement, the measurement time, or the cost associated with other methods of performing the measurement. Comp...

The promise of personalized medicine has been touted for many years but has been elusive in some specialties.1 Recently, with the influx of large data sets from “omics”- based methods including genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics, personalized approaches to medical practice have come to the forefront and many specialties now use some form of personalized medicine in research and clinical care. This is particularly true in oncology where biomarker-guided treatme...

1. INTRODUCTION The Intelligent Vehicle/ Highway Systems (IVHS) program is a major initiative of government, industry, and academia to apply advanced technology to the operation of the Nation’s surface transportation systems in order to improve mobility, transportation productivity, enhance safety, maximize the use of existing transportation facilities, conserve energy resources, and reduce adverse environmental effects. The IVHS program consists of the following five broad, interrelated ...

1. INTRODUCTION An aspect-oriented program typically consists of a number of modules (or classes) and aspects that can be woven into an executable whole [1][2][3]. The crosscutting mechanism of aspects frees the programmer from interweaving different concerns (i.e. goals, concepts, or areas of interests) in a monotonous program hierarchy imposed by the base language. This greatly facilitates identifying and modularizing separate concerns that crosscut multiple functional componen...

Owing to the advance and popularity of computer and network technologies, computer technology-enhanced learning has attracted the attention of researchers in recent years (Ge & Land, 2004; Liaw, Huang & Chen, 2007; Williams van Rooij, 2009). Although several studies have demonstrated the benefits of learning with computers (eg, Pena-Shaffa & Nichollsb, 2004; Tsai & Tsai, 2003), educators have emphasised the importance and necessity of ‘authentic activities’ in which students can work wi...

Social studies for elementary schools is an interdisciplinary subject which needs to integrate different learning domains of theories and principles so that students can apply them in their daily life. In traditional instruction, most teachers tend to instruct via lectures, and hence students seldom have the chance to organize the learning content and link what they have learned with their daily life experience. In this case, it is likely that only the cognitive objectives at a low level...

The repeated occurrence of turmoils in international financial markets has drawn a striking interest in the linkages between financial markets during times of crisis. Indeed, in turbulent periods we observe an increase in cross-market linkages due to the propagation of shocks from one country to other countries as a consequence of the high integration of financial and goods markets. The increase in cross-market linkages from the pre-crisis period to the crisis period may take the form of int...

In its 2005 ͚HEFCE stƌategLJ foƌ e-leaƌŶiŶg͛ doĐuŵeŶt the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) expressed a commitment to work with its partners to "embed e-learning in higher education in a full and sustainable way within the next ten years" (HEFCE, 2005:3). This article examines the literature on e-learning within nurse education and considers potential discipline related factors which may have influenced rates of adoption. It also discusses the wider impli...

Web-based education is getting an increasing popularity due to its clear benefits - classroom independence and platform independence [1]. Web-based and web-assisted courses are becoming a common practice in both college education and business training. More and more instructors put course related information or links to such information on the web to support students’ learning and require that students use web materials when performing learning tasks such as course assignments, proje...

Singular Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) based genotyping is a fast and cost effective approach to identify functionally important polymorphisms of a species [1]. Such gene markers can be linked with disease, complex traits or be used to provide family information. Multiplex microarray systems have been developed for SNP genotyping to provide sufficiently dense coverage for genome wide association studies [2, 3]. For instance, Affymetrix array technology [2] can interrogate 906,6...

Nursing Education Active teaching methods are recognized as educational approaches by which teachers support students in the development of critical thinking (CT) [1,2]. One strategy for developing CT is to allow nursing students to actively participate in the learning process with the support of technology. Simulation-based learning (SBL) is a teaching strategy that may enhance the integration of theoretical and practical knowledge and the ability to reflect and to give and receive feed...

Human brucellosis is most commonly caused by two species of the genus Brucella, typically B. abortus from cattle and B. melitensis from goats and sheep. The definitive diagnosis of brucellosis rests upon demonstration of the causative bacterium in a suspected patient’s body fluid, typically by culture isolation [1,2]. While detection of Brucella nucleic acids [3–13] or antigens [14] would be expected to be diagnostic for new cases of brucellosis, DNA has been reported to persist in bl...

Evidence Based Practice (EBP), or evidence based medicine (EBM), has been adopted as a core unit across many medical schools worldwide, with a particular focus in Australian Universities [1]. The principles of EBP inform medical decision making by integrating the best available evidence with clinical expertise and patient values [2]. Adopting an evidence based approach to medicine requires that practitioners are competent in understanding and applying the following steps in clinical prac...

1. Introduction Target identifications/tracking, management of air traffic, and remote sensing are all common uses of ECG [1, 2] where transmitters send signal bursts and receivers receive dispersed versions of those signals. e scattering of signals is measured using TDEs and Doppler shifts in received signals, and the target’s range and radial velocities are computed. ese measurements are employed as measurements in ECG [3]. e fundamental concept of radars is similar to that of ...

A core aspect of diagnosis in rehabilitation is the observation of movements as a basis for interventions to improve functional abilities (Skjaerven, Kristoffersen, and Gard, 2008). During the assessment, a physical therapist observes the quantity and quality of movements. The quantity of movements reflects the acquisition or reacquisition of new or more complex motor skills (Schmidt and Wrisberg, 2008). The quality of movement gives an impression of how movements are controlled and coo...

NTRODUCTION Since the time of Sir William Osler, there have been several opinions on how medical students learn best and how their learning environments can be improved (Armstrong et al., 2004; Becker, 2014). Although a few papers have been published on undergraduate college student learning of anatomy and physiology (Dobson and Linderholm, 2015), none, to our knowledge, have specifically focused on how to use evidence-based strategies to learn clinical anatomy in medical school. This ...