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Utilization of PowerPoint Presentation Software in Library Instruction of Subject Specific Reference Sources.

This paper reports on a study conducted to determine if PowerPoint presentation is the most effective medium to explain two reference books: "The Storyteller's Sourcebook" and "A Guide to Folktales in the English Language. " A secondary purpose was to see if the students who saw the PowerPoint presentation received higher grades/scores for an assignment than those who only received oral instructions. Participants in this study were the 122 undergraduate students in four sections of a Children's Literature course at Bowling Green State University. All sections received oral instructions, and two sections received additional instruction through a PowerPoint presentation. After the assignment was graded, students completed a survey on demographic information and attitudes toward the session. Demographic and attitude data was analyzed by simple frequency counts and cumulative frequency percentages, and a one-tailed t test was used to compare the attitude data. Results indicated a slightly higher number of PowerPoint students needed help from library staff. The non-PowerPoint students felt the presentation was more helpful in understanding the reference books. The non-PowerPoint groups felt the presenter was more enthusiastic. Grade comparisons were not statistically significant. Nine appendices Contain: assignment descriptions; hands-on exercise; PowerPoint slides; cover letters; surveys; and six selected sources. Contains 13 references. (Author/DLS) ******************************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ********************************************************************************
COMPARISON OF EXPERT AND NOVICE SCAN BEHAVIORS DURING VFR FLIGHT

Seven expert and ten novice pilots flew several simulated approaches and landings while their scanning behavior was recorded. We found that experts had significantly shorter dwells, more total fixations, more aimpoint and airspeed fixations and fewer altimeter fixations than novices. Experts were also found to have better defined eye-scanning patterns. Pilots also had more total fixations and shorter dwells on trials with more precise landing, regardless of expertise. Implications for pilot training are discussed.
Induksi Kalus Daun Nyamplung (Calophyllum inophyllum Linn.) pada Beberapa Kombinasi Konsentrasi 6-Benzylaminopurine (BAP) dan 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid (2,4-D)

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kombinasi konsentrasi Zat Pengatur Tumbuh (ZPT) 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid (2,4-D) dan 6-Benzylaminopurine (BAP) yang paling optimal menginduksi kalus dari eksplan daun Calophyllum inophyllum Linn. Penelitian ini dirancang dengan menggunakan Rancangan Acak Lengkap Faktorial dengan 2 faktor. Faktor pertama adalah konsentrasi 2,4-D yang terdiri dari 0 ppm; 0,5 ppm; 1 ppm; 1,5 ppm dan 2 ppm dan faktor kedua adalah konsentrasi BAP yaitu 0 ppm; 1 ppm; 2 ppm; dan 3 ppm. Parameter pengamatan yang diamati, antara lain berat segar kalus (mg), hari saat muncul kalus (HSI), dan warna serta tekstur kalus. Berat segar kalus dianalisis menggunakan ANOVA two-way. Sedangkan hari saat muncul kalus dan warna tekstur kalus dianalisis secara deskriptif. Pengamatan dilakukan pada 45 hari setelah inokulasi (HSI). Hasil uji ANOVA two-way menunjukkan bahwa konsentrasi 2,4-D, BAP serta interaksi antara kedua faktor tersebut berpengaruh terhadap berat segar kalus daun C. inophyllum Linn. (P ≤ 0,05). Perlakuan kombinasi konsentrasi 2,4-D 0,5 ppm + BAP 2 ppm merupakan kombinasi konsentrasi ZPT yang paling optimal untuk kandungan berat segar kalus yaitu 197,8 mg dan untuk hari muncul kalus lebih cepat yaitu pada 13 HIS. Sedangkan pengamatan terhadap warna dan tektur kalus menunjukkan paling banyak kalus berwarna coklat tua dan bertekstur kompak pada perlakuan yang membentuk kalus
A distributional and syntactic approach to fine-grained opinion mining

This thesis contributes to a larger social science research program of analyzing the diffusion of IT innovations. We show how to automatically discriminate portions of text dealing with opinions about innovations by finding {source, target, opinion} triples in text. In this context, we can discern a list of innovations as targets from the domain itself. We can then use this list as an anchor for finding the other two members of the triple at a “fine-grained” level—paragraph contexts or less. We first demonstrate a vector space model for finding opinionated contexts in which the innovation targets are mentioned. We can find paragraph-level contexts by searching for an “expresses-an-opinion-about” relation between sources and targets using a supervised model with an SVM that uses features derived from a general-purpose subjectivity lexicon and a corpus indexing tool. We show that our algorithm correctly filters the domain relevant subset of subjectivity terms so that they are more highly valued. We then turn to identifying the opinion. Typically, opinions in opinion mining are taken to be positive or negative. We discuss a crowd sourcing technique developed to create the seed data describing human perception of opinion bearing language needed for our supervised learning algorithm. Our user interface successfully limited the meta-subjectivity inherent in the task (“What is an opinion? ”) while reliably retrieving relevant opinionated words using labour not expert in the domain. Finally, we developed a new data structure and modeling technique for connecting targets with the correct within-sentence opinionated language. Syntactic relatedness tries (SRTs) contain all paths from a dependency graph of a sentence that connect a target expression to a candidate opinionated word. We use factor graphs to model how far a path through the SRT must be followed in order to connect the right targets to the right words. It turns out that we can correctly label significant portions of these tries with very rudimentary features such as part-of-speech tags and dependency labels with minimal processing. This technique uses the data from the crowdsourcing technique we developed as training data. We conclude by placing our work in the context of a larger sentiment classification pipeline and by describing a model for learning from the data structures produced by our work. This work contributes to computational linguistics by proposing and verifying new data gathering techniques and applying recent developments in machine learning to inference over grammatical structures for highly subjective purposes. It applies a suffix tree-based data structure to model opinion in a specific domain by imposing a restriction on the order in which the data is stored in the structure.
Experiences with Usability Evaluation Methods

Supervisor: Professor Martti Mäntylä This thesis presents methods for usability evaluation and experiences in applying the methods. The work aims to give background knowledge for selecting evaluation methods in various situations. The thesis presents experiences in usability evaluations gathered in 72 evaluations during years 1993-1999. In these evaluations, both software and embedded systems have been studied. Usability evaluation is an essential step in human-centred design. A variety of usability evaluation methods are needed in a development process, because usability is a complex multidimensional concept that should be looked at in many ways. Different methods serve different evaluation purposes and reveal different problems. Therefore, several methods should be used as a complement to each other. In this thesis, usability evaluation methods are divided into empirical user testing and usability inspections without user involvement. The most common user testing method is a usability test in which a participant does given tasks with the evaluated system. The most common usability inspection method is a heuristic evaluation in which an inspector evaluates a user interface against a set of usability guidelines. The thesis also presents some new evaluation methods modified from usability testing and contextual inquiry. The evaluations that we have conducted at Helsinki University of Technology have shown that user testing is possible even with moderate resources. For example, usability tests with cardboard mock-ups and pluralistic usability walkthroughs with paper prototypes have given valuable results that have affected the product development. On the other hand, inspections have helped to find potential usability problems even before any prototypes have been built. iv Preface I have done all the work that this thesis has required in the usability group at Helsinki University of Technology. I thank the supervisor of my work professor Martti Mäntylä for his patience with my work. I thank all my friends for being what they are and letting me be the way I am. Especially Vesa's friendship has helped me carry on my work and my thesis. Finally, I thank my mother and father and my husband Jukka for their love that has made my life so rich.
Poster: The Effects of Stride on Bat Swing Time in Slo-Pitch Hitting

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of stride technique on the bat swing time in the skill of slo-pitch hitting. Ten elite players participated in the study, and each hit twelve balls with each of three different stride techniques. A three-dimensional bat swing analysis was conducted, and the results showed that the participants did not show any statistical significance between different stride techniques in bat swing time. This study suggests that participants may use all three stride techniques of open, parallel, and close to hit the ball effectively. Future research studies are warranted to examine the influence of pitched ball locations and ball field placement locations on bat swing time.
Exploratory Factor Analysis

Selection of factors to be extracted: Theory is the first criteria to determine the number of factors to be extracted. From theory, we know that the number of factors extracted does make sense. Most researchers use the Eigenvalue criteria for the number of factors to be extracted. Value of the percentage and variance explained method is also used for exploratory factor analysis. We can use the scree test criteria for the selection of factors. In this method, Eigenvalue is plotted on a graph and factors are selected.
The microarchitecture of the Pentium 4 processor

This paper describes the Intel ® NetBurst™ microarchitecture of Intel’s new flagship Pentium ® 4 processor. This microarchitecture is the basis of a new family of processors from Intel starting with the Pentium 4 processor. The Pentium 4 processor provides a substantial performance gain for many key application areas where the end user can truly appreciate the difference. In this paper we describe the main features and functions of the NetBurst microarchitecture. We present the front-end of the machine, including its new form of instruction cache called the Execution Trace Cache. We also describe the out-of-order execution engine, including the extremely low latency double-pumped Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) that runs at 3GHz. We also discuss the memory subsystem, including the very low latency Level 1 data cache that is accessed in just two clock cycles. We then touch on some of the key features that allow the Pentium 4 processor to have outstanding floating-point and multi-media performance. We provide some key performance numbers for this processor, comparing it to the Pentium ® III processor.
Evolution-ary Computation 1: Basic Algorithms and Operators

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Der Hirschkäfer Lucanus cervus in der Kulturlandschaft

Diese Dissertation beschreibt Okologie und Verhalten einer Hirschkaferpopulation im Moseltal im Bereich der Gemeinden Alf und Bullay (Kreis Cochem-­Zell). Im Rahmen einer Kartierung werden daruber hinaus Vorkommen im nordlichen Rheinland-Pfalz dokumentiert. Grundlage der Untersuchung ist die Radiotelemetrie der adulten Hirschkafer im Freiland. Die Anwendung dieser Methode liefert auch uber den eigentlichen Untersuchungszweck hinausgehende quantitative und qualitative Erfahrungswerte fur diese noch selten bei fliegenden Kafern angewendete Methode. Daneben werden Fundortmeldungen, Brutstattenmonitoring, Morphometrie und Insektarienuntersuchungen als erganzende und vergleichende Methoden eingesetzt. Es erfolgt so eine quantitative Beschreibung geschlechtsspezifischer Verhaltenweisen adulter Hirschkafer wie z. B. Aktivitats-­, Dispersions-und Fortpflanzungsverhalten, Habitatpraferenzen sowie eine Beschreibung der Entwicklungsablaufe im Bruthabitat. Die Ergebnisse zeichnen ein Bild vom Leben der Hirschkafer, das von den bisherigen Vorstellungen weitgehend abweicht. Hirschkafer brauchen Offenlandstrukturen und sind im Moseltal erfolgreiche Kulturfolger. Sie leben heute dort nahezu unbemerkt in der urbanen Landschaft. Die vielfach beschriebene enge Bindung an die Baumart Eiche ist keine zwingende Voraussetzung fur eine erfolgreiche Populationsbildung. Im gesamten Fortpflanzungsverhalten kommt der Brutstatte eine zentrale Bedeutung zu, dabei ist die Vernetzung der Brutstatten eine Grundvoraussetzung. Das Fortpflanzungsverhalten unterliegt einer Regelstrategie, zu der es aber auch Alternativen gibt. Das beobachtete Dispersionsverhalten ermoglicht die Abgrenzung von Populationen. Fur den Naturschutz ergeben sich aus den Ergebnissen Konsequenzen und Moglichkeiten fur Schutzgebiete und die Anlage kunstlicher Bruthabitate. Daneben wirft diese Untersuchung aber auch die Frage der Bewertung von Gefahrdung und Seltenheit dieser Art als Ergebnis subjektiver Wahrnehmungen auf.
D2.1: Integration of ontological knowledge with the ISU approach

The deliverable identification sheet is to be found on the reverse of this page. Security Public Contractual date of delivery M18 = June 2005 Actual date of delivery 5th September 2005 Deliverable number 2.1 Deliverable title D2. Copies of reports and other material can also be accessed via the project's administration homepage, No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the copyright owner.
New Comparison of HVDC and HVAC Transmission system

Alternating current (AC) is the main driving force in the industries and residential areas, but for the long transmission line (more than 400 miles) AC transmission is more expensive than that of direct current (DC). Technically, AC transmission line control is more complicated because of the frequency. DC transmission does not have these limitations, which has led to build long HVDC transmission lines over the last 40 years. HVDC technology made possible to transfer bulk power over long distances. This paper presents a comparative evaluation of HVDC and HVAC transmission systems . Key Words—HVDC and HVAC transmission, Transmission cost, Environmental impact.
Explaining register and sociolinguistic variation in the lexicon: Corpus studies on Dutch

In Dutch, high-frequency words with the suffix -lijk are often highly reduced in spontaneous unscripted speech. This study addressed socio-geographic variation in the reduction of such words against the backdrop of the variation in their use in written and spoken Dutch. Multivariate analyses of the frequencies with which the words were used in a factorially contrasted set of subcorpora revealed significant variation involving the speaker’s country, sex, and education level for spoken Dutch, and involving country and register for written Dutch. Acoustic analyses revealed that Dutch men reduced most often, while Flemish highly educated women reduced least. Two linguistic context effects emerged, one prosodic, and the other pertaining to the flow of information. Words in sentence final position showed less reduction, while words that were better predictable from the preceding word in the sentence (based on mutual information) tended to be reduced more often. The increased probability of reduction for forms that are more predictable in context, combined with the loss of the suffix in the more extremely reduced forms, suggests that high-frequency words in -lijk are undergoing a process of erosion that causes them to gravitate towards monomorphemic function words. 1This study, co-authored by Mirjam Ernestus, Roeland van Hout and Harald Baayen, is published under the same title in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 1 – 2 (2005), 183 – 223. 16 2.
Critical Language Study and Translation: The Case of Academic Discourse

Karen Bennett Catholic University of Portugal Translators working with academic texts have perhaps more need than most of a critical distance with regards to the discourse they use. For in English, academic articles and dissertations, unlike self-consciously ‘literary’ works, generally purport to refer to some aspect of the outside world, and this implicit bid for ‘factual’ status has important implications for the whole process of textual (re-)construction. Failure to comply with the norms of the established discourse may effectively compromise the perceived truth value of the assertions made, ultimately undermining the academic standing of the author, and bringing consequences on the level of promotions, financing etc. Thus, many of the linguistic decisions made during the process of translation must surely be governed by the translators’ sense of responsibility towards their clients, whose motives for requesting the service clearly pertain to a desire for academic recognition on the international stage. English academic discourse has over the years gained such prestige that fluency in it is essentially a prerequisite such acceptance. The market is inundated with manuals and courses claiming to teach academic writing skills to undergraduates and foreign scholars, while papers presented in a style that strays too far from the accepted norms are rarely accepted for publication. Both situations reinforce the common Anglophone perception that there is only one acceptable way in which knowledge may be construed,
Learning contextual information for holistic scene understanding

One of the primary goals in computer vision is holistic scene understanding, which involves many sub-tasks, such as depth estimation, scene categorization, saliency detection, object detection, event categorization, etc. Each of these tasks explains some aspect of a particular scene and in order to fully understand a scene, we would need to solve for each of these sub-tasks. In our human's visual system, the sub-tasks are often coupled together. One task can leverage the output of another task as contextual information for its own decision, and can also feed useful information back to the other tasks. In this thesis, our goal is to design computational algorithms that perform multiple scene understanding tasks in a collaborative way like human does. In our algorithm design, we consider a two-layer cascade of classifiers, which are repeated instantiations of the original tasks, with the output of the first layer fed into the second layer as input. To better optimize the second-layer outputs, we propose three algorithms, which result in capturing contextual information at multiple levels, ranging from contextual interactions between different tasks to contextual interactions between objects and regions. First, to better leverage the first-layer contextual outputs, we propose Feedback Enabled Cascaded Classification Models (FE-CCM), which jointly optimizes all the subtasks. The training of the two-layer cascade involves a feedback step that allows later classifiers to provide earlier classifiers information about which error modes to focus on, thus results in better combining the contextual information between the various image attributes. Secondly, we also consider sharing contextual information between related tasks. We propose the t-MRF algorithm, which captures the spatial and semantic relationship between classifiers through an undirected graph built on the parameters. The algorithm encourages the spatially or semantically related classifiers to share their parameters over the contextual features. Third, we discover new contextual attributes from images given only object annotations, to capture the contextual information between objects and regions. We propose two types of visual structured patterns: contextual-meta-object (CMO) and group-of-object (GRP). The CMOs capture multi-scale contextual interactions between objects and the unlabeled regions, and the GRPs capture arbitrary-order interactions between objects that demonstrate consistent spatial, scale, and viewpoint interactions with each other. These contextual patterns are then served as contextual attributes for enhanced object recognition and scene recognition tasks. Finally, we present superior results of the proposed algorithms on a variety of vision applications, including natural scene understanding, images aesthetics assessment, robotic assistive systems, and video applications.