Constructivist learning theory has suggested that students can only obtain conceptual understanding of a knowledge domain by actively trying to integrate new concepts and ideas into their existing knowledge framework. In practice, this means that students will have to explain novel ideas, concepts, and principles to themselves. Various methods have been developed that aim to stimulate the stude...

A serious problem facing many organizations today is the need to share information among systems that have been developed separately. Conflicts in the structure and semantics of these disparate data sources create major obstacles to effective sharing. One approach to solving this problem is data mediation. The data mediation approach relies on a common ontology that can be used to describe the ...

This paper presents the topological spatial relations that can exist in the geographical space between a Circular Spatially Extended Point and a Line and describes the use of those spatial relations in the identification of the conceptual neighbourhood graphs that state the transitions occurring among relations. The conceptual neighbourhood graphs were identified using the snapshot model and th...

An essential part of the human capacity for language is the ability to link conceptual or semantic representations with syntactic representations. On the basis of data from spontaneous production, suggested that young children acquire such links on a verb-by-verb basis, with little in the way of a general understanding of linguistic argument structure. Here, we suggest that a receptive understa...

The purpose of this study is to focus on the indicators related motivation in Work Mind, and organize concepts by Pile Sort experiments using sentences question items that compose each indicator. By polymerizing personal conceptual system Self-Organizing Map, map Mind with some degree completeness generality drawn. It expected will be a material for getting general picture treated as ruler when...

The power spectrum of mass density uctuations is estimated from the Mark III and the SFI catalogs of peculiar velocities by applying a maximum likelihood analysis, using parametric models for the power spectrum and for the errors. Generalized CDM models with and without COBE normalization are used. The applications to the two diierent data sets give consistent results. The general result is a r...

the inssurance industry is one of the service industries has significant competition and innovation. with regard to importance of innovation issue for top managers of iranian insurance companies, a conceptual model has been developed for corporate innovation capability concept. in this paper, after describing the research problem, innovation concept with comparative review of recent theories of...

Mapping between non-preference- and preference-based health-related quality-of-life instruments has become a common technique for estimating health state utility values for use in economic evaluations. Despite the increased use of mapped health state utility estimates in health technology assessment and economic evaluation, the methods for deriving them have not been fully justified. Recent gui...

EMPATHICA is a computer program under development to facilitate cognitive-affective mapping using visual representations. A cognitive-affective map is a concept graph that includes information about the positive and negative emotional values of what is represented. Potential applications include conflict resolution, literary analysis, cross-cultural understanding, ethical assessment, authoring ...

We describe Scusi?, a spoken language interpretation mechanism designed to be part of a robot-mounted dialogue system. Scusi?’s interpretation process maps spoken utterances to text, which in turn is parsed and then converted to conceptual graphs. In order to support robust and flexible performance of the dialogue module, Scusi? maintains multiple options at each stage of the interpretation pro...