Organizations expend large amounts of educational and training resources to improve employee task and job performance. These resources must be allocated efficiently and effectively to increase the probability of organizational success. Information technology (IT) is one organizational area in which education and training are particularly important, largely because IT has redefined the requisite...

from any of the three federal Canadian funding agencies must be reviewed and approved in advance by a human research ethics board (REB). The Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS) requires that each institution be fully responsible for the ethics review of human research conducted under its auspices (Article 1.2). This provision has been interpreted t...

This document or any other document produced within the SUSTELNET project does not represent the opinion of the European Commission. Neither the European Commission, nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission, is responsible for the use that might be made of the information arising from the SUSTELNET project. Abstract This report identifies the main factors at play with regard to the int...

790 In this issue of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography, Mottram et al. illustrate the role of echocardiography in the early detection of the expression of a mutation in the protein frataxin known to cause Friedreich’s ataxia. It triggers this editorial tribute to echocardiography and the role cardiac echocardiographers have played in our pursuit of genetic cardiac disorder...

The potential benefits of traceability are well known, as well as the impracticability of maintaining traceability links manually. Recently, Information Retrieval (IR) techniques have been proposed in order to support the software engineer during the traceability link identification process. Clearly, a research method/tool has more change to be transferred to practitioner if its usefulness is i...

Consumers frequently consume items to the point where they no longer enjoy them. In a pilot study and two experiments spanning three distinct classes of stimuli, we find that people can recover from this satiation by simply recalling the variety of alternative items they have consumed in the past. And yet, people seem to exhibit “variety amnesia” in that they do not spontaneously recall this pa...

This paper presents a new approach of building a language identification system using a specialized Phone Recognition system followed by Language Modeling (PRLM) to differentiate Portuguese varieties spoken in African Countries from European Portuguese. The system is designed to focus on exploiting the phonotactic information of a single discriminatively trained tokenizer for the specific pair ...