Just how different are objects and agents? Some developers consider agents to be objects, but with more bells and whistles. This approach tends to define agents beginning with the phrase, "An agent is an object that ..."—where the definers add their favorite discriminating features. Then, there are those who see agents and objects as different even though they share many things in common. Both ...

One of the most used measures for evaluation of teaching quality is teaching effectiveness. Teaching effectiveness (TE) is defined and evaluated in several ways such as teacher’s ability to effect personal change and development in their students, their effectiveness in facilitating good academic work in their students and by students rating of their teachers (Shevlin et al, 2000). Increasing a...

When a word processing system became available to me, I began using it in my work, and I noticed that my papers and the ways I went about composing were changing, sometimes with pleasing results and sometimes not. Increased revising probably had made my final products better, but I was bothered that I didn't feel "finished" with many texts-I submitted them with the nagging feeling that more imp...

"IA7E can truly say that Sherlock Holmes lived * * in Baker Street, and that he liked to show off his mental powers. We cannot truly say that he was a devoted family man, or that he worked in close cooperation with the police. It would be nice if we could take such descrip? tions of fictional characters at their face value, ascribing to them the same subject-predicate form as parallel descripti...

In this note, I review some basic properties of the Hopfield model. I closely follow Chapter 2 of Herz, Krogh & Palmer (1991) which is an excellent introductory textbook on the theory of neural networks. I motivate the mean field analysis of the stochastic Hopfield model slightly differently than Herz, Krogh & Palmer (1991) and my derivations are a little longer, filling in some of the gaps in ...

Codename Heroes is a persistent, multiplayer, crowd-sourced pervasive game that uses Bluetooth, GPS and the phone camera. It plays in the world around you and is always active. Players take the roles of secret superheroes, fighting for their rights and their beliefs. The game also makes use of physical objects and places in the environment. The game targets teenagers with a specific focus on yo...

highly cited papers are mostly authored in international collaboration. it is expected that   co-authored papers bring more citations. on the other hand, it is inevitable that a part of citations is self-citation. this study investigates 134 and 236 highly cited papers in iran and turkey, respectively, to determine the extent to which highly cited papers are affected by author self-citation. a ...

Researchers from Wayne State University in Michigan conducted the study over two years in 10 universities and community colleges throughout the country and tracked the progress of 110 students with ADHD. It is the largest and most comprehensive study of ADHD coaching conducted to-date. The research team measured students’ progress through both quantitative and qualitative analysis and determine...

This paper outlines a practical approach to assist physiotherapists to interpret the results of diagnostic or screening tests. Diagnostic tests are used during clinical assessment to increase or decrease the clinician's estimate of the likelihood that a client has a particular condition. A negative result for a test that is 100% sensitive can rule a condition out (SnOUT), and a positive result ...

The importance of unsymmetrical N-heterocyclic carbenes (uNHCs) as ligands in metal-catalyzed reactions is undeniable. While uNHCs show similar properties as compared with symmetrical NHCs, dissymmetrization allows for further fine-tuning. The introduction of chelatization, hemilability, bifunctionality, shielding effects, and chirality-transfer influences the catalyst's stability, reactivity, ...