Connected vehicles, whether equipped with advanced driver-assistance systems or fully autonomous, require human driver supervision and are currently constrained to visual information in their line-of-sight. A cooperative perception system among vehicles increases situational awareness by extending range. Existing solutions focus on improving perspective transformation fast collection. However, ...

The article deals with the motivational mechanisms of learning and cognitive motivation of students. Mechanisms (driving force) of educational and informative motivation described by many researchers, presentation of them formed in the psychological and pedagogical knowledge. An important issue is the time in favor of diagnostic facilities, and proper diagnostic tools.

We address the problem of ranking relationships in an automatically constructed knowledge graph. We propose a probabilistic ranking mechanism that utilizes entity popularity, entity affinity, and support from text corpora for the relationships. Results obtained from preliminary experiments on a standard dataset are encouraging and show that our proposed ranking mechanism can find more informati...

because of national and international importance of the anzali international wetland, this study attempts to determine the preservation value and estimate willingness to pay (wtp) by iranian households for preserving this wetland, using contingent valuation method. a logit model was employed with maximum likelihood estimation procedure. results showed, education level of householder, informativ...