So, at altitudes above 1,000 m, the dragonfl ies could be able to reach the Maldives using these winds. Studies in China have found the dragonfl ies fl ying at these heights and studies of air pollutants have shown that they can spread from southern India to the Maldives at speeds of 10 m per second. With such tailwinds, dragonfl ies might make the crossing from India to Male in 24 hours or les...

The goal of this paper is to illustrate the beneficial role of ontologies in achieving efficient authoring support for Intelligent Educational Systems (IES). We present our ideas within an ontology-driven framework EASE offering power with respect to the functionality, generic approach for its support of instructional strategies and user-friendliness in its interaction with the author. A centra...

☆ This research was supported by Grant #R305C050059 Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education, to the Unive the Interdisciplinary Education Sciences Predoctoral T Interdisciplinary Training in Education Sciences (MITER)” f as well as by Grant #R305b110012 from the IES, U.S. D Center on Teaching and Learning at the University of O Fellowship for writing resources. The opinions expressed not n...

Ontologies can provide Information Extraction Systems (IES) with much needed domain and task knowledge. Yet, it has to be analysed to what extent and in which form ontologies can be utilised to enhance the overall performance of an IES. Further, the use of ontologies requires an accurate management of the same. The most important issue with this respect is to keep the ontology up-to-date, becau...

The demand for environmental protection and energy utilization transformation has promoted the rapid development of integrated systems (IES). Reliability evaluation is a fundamental element in designing IES as it could instruct planning operation IES. This study proposes novel data-driven reliability improvement method considering three-state model an optimal service restoration (OSR). First, m...

OBJECTIVE Stripe marks, which occasionally occur on the shell, do not cause breakage to the shell and shell membranes of eggs. This study investigated the quality of intact eggs (IEs), minor stripe-marked eggs (MEs), severe stripe-marked eggs (SEs), and cracked eggs (CEs) during 3-week storage at 25°C. METHODS Shell eggs were collected the day after being laid and were washed. Among them, egg...

S S t t t t t u u u u u d d d d d ies ies ies ies ies Objectives: Previous studies have documented that overweight and obese adults have substantially higher medical care expenditures than adults of normal weight, but there is little comparable data for children or adolescents. This study examines medical care expenditure and utilization patterns in a sample of adolescents in North Carolina enr...

OBJECTIVE This report presents a French translation and validation of the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) in a population of women exposed to a natural disaster during or preceding pregnancy. METHOD A total of 223 francophone women who were either pregnant at the time of the 1998 ice storm or who became pregnant shortly thereafter completed the IES-R and other questionnaires 6 months af...