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A Sightseeing Spot Recommendation System That Takes into Account the Change in Circumstances of Users

The present study aimed to design, develop, operate and evaluate a sightseeing spot recommendation system for urban sightseeing spots in order to support individual, as well as group sightseeing activities while taking into consideration the user’s needs, which can change according to the circumstances (each user’s important conditions and sightseeing unit). The system was developed by integrat...

Grading that Takes into Account the Need to Learn from Mistakes

It is well known that the best way to learn the new material is to try it, to make mistakes, and to learn from these mistakes. However, the current grading scheme, in which the overall grade is a weighted average of the grades for all the assignments, exams, etc., does not encourage mistakes: any mistake decreases the grade on the corresponding assignment and thus, decreases the overall grade f...

How the PILÉFACE System, Dealing with Pragmatics, Takes Cultural Factors into Account

In the domain of language acquisition, PILÉFACE is a system that has been initially designed to take into account the pragmatic aspects of language, i.e. to provide the learner not only with a linguistic competence, but also with a communicative competence. That communicative competence implies that the language learner master certain pragmatic usage rules, which are mastered by the native spea...

Better way to measure ageing in East Asia that takes life expectancy into account.

AIM The aim of the study was to improve the measurement of ageing taking into account characteristics of populations and in particular changes in life expectancy. METHOD Using projected life tables, we calculated prospective old age dependency ratios (POADRs) to 2060, placing the boundary to old age at a moving point with a fixed remaining life expectancy (RLE) for all countries of East Asia....