This paper discusses an approach to the modelling of the explanation process within the framework of a graphics-based CAD system currently under development, which can describe its own use, including the common ways to make and recover from errors. With a coordinated textual and pictorial display, the system, CADHELP, simulates an expert demonstrating the operation of the graphical features of ...

This paper analyses the efficiency of venture capital and its impact on primary equity markets in France and Germany. It shows that venture capital operates according to the signalling model in France and according to the learning model in Germany. Only the learning model can serve as a rationale for government subsidies. In the signalling model, many young venture capital firms succeed without...

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This report presents an investigation into the practicability of automated editing techniques for personal/home video aided by possible knowledge bases. The ultimate goal of this report is to find the solutions to the unresolved problems of automated video editing tool, such that users can still get satisfying resulted video without the burden of cumbersome editing processes. A system design fo...

On Educational Performance Measures Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of the Atlantic. In this paper we outline the rationale for the use of such measures in education, review the literature relating to several important problems associated with their use, and argue that they nonetheless have a positive role to pla...

This study was conducted to assess the effects of irrigation and plant growth promoting bactera on seed yield and qualitative characteristics of Black cumin (Nigella sativa L.) at the Experimental Station of the Research Institute of Forest and Rangeland, Damavan region, Iran. A split-plot experimental design, based on Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) with three replications, was used. I...