There is considerable concern that students do not develop the writing skills needed for school, occupational, or personal success. A frequent explanation for this is that schools do not do a good job of teaching this complex skill. A recent meta-analysis of trueand quasi-experimental writing intervention research (S. Graham & D. Perin, 2007a) addressed this issue by identifying effective instr...

The design of a multi-subject fMRI experiment needs specification of the number of subjects and scanning time per subject. For example, for a blocked design with conditions A or B, fixed block length and block order ABN, where N denotes a null block, the optimal number of cycles of ABN and the optimal number of subjects have to be determined. This paper presents a method to determine the optima...

In an audience driven approach to website design, the requirements of the different audiences are modeled as separated tiny conceptual schemas comparable to views. We present a new approach to integrate these conceptual views. The preparation for the integration is already done during the design phase itself. Semantic information about the concepts used during conceptual modeling is stored in a...

Combining intuitionistic fuzzy sets and filter theory,we studied interval valued intuitionistic (T, S)-fuzzy filters on lattice implication algebras. some relation properties of it are obtained, the relation between intuitionistic (T, S)-fuzzy filters and intuitionistic fuzzy set are discussed.The investigation method and content of lattice implication algebras are extended. Mathematics Subject...

This work presents a recursive construction for simple t-designs using resolutions of the ingredient designs. The result extends a construction of t-designs in our recent paper [39]. Essentially, the method in [39] describes the blocks of a constructed design as a collection of block unions from a number of appropriate pairs of disjoint ingredient designs. Now, if some pairs of these ingredient...

Ideally, realizing the best physical design for the current and all subsequent workloads would impact neither performance nor storage usage. In reality, workloads and datasets can change dramatically over time and index creation impacts the performance of concurrent user and system activity. We propose a framework that evaluates the key premise of adaptive indexing — a new indexing paradigm whe...

In this article we present a metamodeling tool that is strictly oriented towards the needs of the working domain expert. The working domain expert longs for intuitive metamodeling features. In particular this concerns rich capabilities for specifying the visual appearance of models. In these efforts we have identified an important design rationale for metamodeling tools that we call visual reif...

A university-based digital education developer was asked for help in creating some training by the Australian research branch of a multinational telecommunications innovator. The subject matter was an in-house methodology for use by engineers taking the role of project manager in research projects. The initial purpose was to encourage its uptake, but further exploration revealed wider needs. So...

Psychological literature exposes a number of biases that can influence one’s judgment (e.g., pathology bias, confirmatory bias, hindsight bias, misestimation of covariance, decision heuristics, false consensus effect, and over-confidence in clinical judgment). Clinical judgment, the subjective method of arranging client data to establish a diagnosis and a treatment plan, can also be biased and ...

Customer expectations of gateway services as well as their information needs are dynamic. The Australasian Virtual Engineering Library (AVEL) has consequently taken an iterative approach to interface design, usability testing and customer needs analysis. User-centred design has ensured that AVEL remains relevant to the way its target audience seeks information to solve “real world” problems. Th...