Among the key players in any effective integration of technology in teaching and learning is the teacher. Despite the research that has been conducted to examine the factors that explain teachers’ intention to use technology, few have developed a model to statistically explain the interactions among these factors and how they influence teachers’ intention to use technology. Five variables (perc...

Flow cytometry scatter are ofen used in microbiology, and their measures are related to bacteria size and granularity. We present an application of the skew-Laplace distribution to flow cytometry data. The goodness of fit is evaluated both graphically and numerically. We also study skewness and kurtosis values to assess usefulness of the skew-Laplace distribution. MSC: 62F10, 62GP10

Market-driven Quantification of Competitive Advantage by Means of Conjoint Measurement an object being evaluated as a bundle of features or attributes. These attributes should capture all essential aspects of an object. Based on respondent evaluations, the conjoint measurement allows for the derivation of utility functions of attributes which, in turn, establish a total object value [5]. In ord...

We assess the usefulness of monocular recursive motion estimation techniques for vehicle navigation in the absence of a model for the environment. For this purpose we extend a recently proposed recursive motion estimator, the Essential filter, to handle scale estimation. We examine experimentally the accuracy with which the motion and position of the vehicle may be computed on an 8000 fmmes ind...

The usefulness of including a buffer between fishery management targets and limits has frequently been acknowledged. This paper shows how decision theory can be used to set both targets and limits. Decision theory uses expected utility as the objective function to be maximized, and thus requires specification of a utility function. The utility function assumed here exhibits constant absolute ri...

Species range shifts have been well studied in light of rising global temperatures and the role climate plays in restricting species distribution. In mountain regions, global trends show upward elevational shifts of altitudinal treelines. However, there is significant variation in response between geographic locations driven by climatic and habitat heterogeneity and biotic interactions. Accurat...

unknown noise and artifacts present in medical signals with  non-linear fuzzy filter will be estimate and then removed. an adaptive neuro-fuzzy interference system which has a nonlinear  structure presented  for the noise function prediction by before samples. this paper is about a neuro-fuzzy method to estimate unknown noise of electrocardiogram (ecg) signal. adaptive neural combined with fuzz...