Technique for Studying Motivation Toward Scientific Activity: Development and Practical Application

Development and Practical Application of a Lifetime Management System for Prestressed Concrete Bridges

A practical Bridge Management System has been developed by the author, which is referred to as the Japanese Bridge Management System (J-BMS) for existing concrete bridges. This paper introduces a newly developed bridge management system for the prestressed concrete (PC) bridges (J-BMS PC version) which is integrated with the PC bridge rating expert system (PC-BREX). The proposed system is able ...

Theoretical Motivation for Studying Superstrings

Studying the development of learning and task motivation

This commentary focuses on the papers by Nurmi and Aunola and by Spinath and Spinath. I discuss the difficulty in testing the hypothesis that ability self concepts influence developmental changes in learning and task motivation. I point to the following concerns: (1) the difficulty in conceptualizing and then measuring these concepts well; (2) the likely reciprocal relations among the key const...

Toward Practical Application of Program Refactoring

Program refactoring—transforming a program to improve readability, structure, performance, abstraction, maintainability, or other characteristics— is not applied in practice as much as might be desired. Although there are various possible reasons why program refactoring is not so popular, one deterrent is the cost of detecting candidates for refactoring and of choosing the appropriate refactori...

Practical software design for engineering application development

This paper highlights some practical techniques for engineering design application development, which are critical to produce maintainable software design. The practices introduced in the paper are the result of long experience working with software development for engineering design applications. They have been recently employed and enhanced during the reconstruction of a well-known software f...