This investigation seeks to confirm several key factors in computer-based versus paper-based assessment. Based on earlier research, the factors considered here include content familiarity, computer familiarity, competitiveness, and gender. Following classroom instruction, freshman business undergraduates (N = 105) were randomly assigned to either a computer-based or identical paper-based test. ...

A cantilever device based on competitive binding of an immobilized receptor to immobilized and soluble ligand and capable of measuring solution-phase thermodynamic quantities is described. Through multiple binary queries, the device stochastically measures the probability of the formation of a bound complex between immobilized protein and immobilized ligand as a function of soluble ligand conce...

There are many different teaching/learning styles and preferences described in literature. We can find differences in preferences of students in learning through experiential or concrete instruction, as well as we can find those who prefer cooperative activities to a learning process with a competitive motivation, and vice-versa. The style of an evaluation is also a key parameter for the learni...

We study the online specialization problem, where items arrive in an online fashion for processing by one of n different methods. Each method has two costs: a processing cost (paid once for each item processed), and a set-up cost (paid only once, on the method’s first use). There are n possible types of items; an item’s type determines the set of methods available to process it. Each method has...

This paper presents an innovative competitive approach for high-tech industries, named Technology Based Marketing (TBM). This approach is compared with other eight business approaches. Nowadays, competition is changing and becoming more dynamic and therefore more difficult. Hence, technology can be leveraged to a source of competitiveness. With the TBM approach, three types of technology can be...

Article history: Received 18 January 2011 Received in revised form 14 March 2012 Accepted 3 August 2012 Available online xxxx

? Abstract. The predator/prey domain is utilized to conduct research in Distributed Artiicial Intelligence. Genetic Programming is used to evolve behavioral strategies for the predator agents. To further the utility of the predator strategies, the prey population is allowed to evolve at the same time. The expected competitive learning cycle did not surface. This failing is investigated, and a s...

We report a reagentless and reusable electrochemical DNA sensor that exploits competitive binding and target hybridization-induced change in the signalling probe conformation for robust detection of a target DNA sequence.