This paper describes a method for separating on-line handwritten patterns into characters, figures, and formulas. Today, Tablet PCs and electronic whiteboards provide much larger writing area for pen interfaces unlike PDAs, so that users can easily input text, write mathematical formulas and draw figures on the screen. The fact that people can write these objects by a single pen (marker) withou...

Arofan Gregory Commerce One Commerce One Labs, xCBL Division 19191 Vallco Parkway Cupertino, CA 95014 ABSTRACT Standardized business semantics allow business applications to share not only a specific, standard syntax, but also to communicate directly without a lot of costly analysis and integration. The ebXML activity has been writing such business rules in XML. We examine the concept of rules,...

The goal of this study was to determine preferred learning styles of first year medical students of BankuraSammilani Medical College, Bankura, a rural medical college of West Bengal, India. Methods: A cross sectional study of first year medical students with 65 male and 30 female (n=95) was performed. The validated VARK questionnaire Version7 was used to categorize the preferred mode of learnin...

Emerging social writing platforms offer possibilities for language learners to collaborate around joint assignments. One such environment is the wiki, generally hosting two prominent modes of usage, web pages and discussion forums. This study investigates software engineering students’ use of a wiki as an integrated tool within the frames of a language course. The purpose of the case study was ...

With the rapid technological advances in high-performance computing, access to parallel computing resources is becoming more prevalent in the scientific community. Scientific computation has been proven to be an invaluable tool for tackling challenges faced by science, but writing massivelyparallel software for scientific applications remains difficult and requires years of training and practic...

We are beginning to see the emergence of advanced automated assessment techniques that evaluate expressive student artifacts such as freeform written responses and sketches. These approaches have largely operated individually, each considering only a single mode. We hypothesize that there are synergies to be leveraged in multimodal assessments that can integrate multiple modalities of student r...

Due to its excellent thermal, mechanical, and optical properties, sapphire is one of the most suitable material for integrated optical devices. Although this hard crystalline material is particularly difficult to process, fabrication of Ti-doped sapphire surface channel waveguides by surface structuring [1,2] of planar waveguides or ion in-diffusion [3] has been demonstrated. Generally, device ...

Writing is a way for students to develop and use their critical thinking skills as well as to demonstrate learning. The links below provide ways that writing can be used both informally and formally throughout the college curriculum and include specific methods for handling all aspects of the writing process from assignment-making to responding and grading. The final link for faculty is a mega-...

Writing is a way for students to develop and use their critical thinking skills as well as to demonstrate learning. The links below provide ways that writing can be used both informally and formally throughout the college curriculum and include specific methods for handling all aspects of the writing process from assignment-making to responding and grading. The final link for faculty is a mega-...

In this work, local AFM oxidation technique in a controlled humidity environment has been used to create small features in strained SiGe alloys. When directly oxidizing SiGe alloys, minimum line widths of 20nm were achieved by adjusting parameters such as the bias voltage on the microscope tip and the tip writing speed. It was found that when bias voltage increases, and/or when the tip writing ...