the present study aims to investigate the association between emotional-functional evelopment and formation of creative thinking among children of 4-6 years old in mashhad city. to do this, 80 children and their mothers were selected from preschools of mashhad city based on cluster sampling method.  the level of creativity among children was measured through torrance test of critical thinking (...

Enterprises with existing IT infrastructure are beginning to employ a hybrid cloud model where the enterprise uses its own private resources for the majority of its computing, but then “bursts” into the cloud when local resources are insufficient. However, current approaches to cloud bursting cannot be effectively automated because they heavily rely on system administrator knowledge to make dec...

It is often assumed that one-on-one dialogue with a tutor, which involves micro-steps, is more effective than conventional step-based tutoring. Although earlier research often has not supported this hypothesis, it may be because tutors often are not good at making micro-step decisions. In this paper, we compare a micro-step based NL-tutoring system that employs induced pedagogical policies, Cor...

Investigating fuzzy-input fuzzy-output support vector machines for robust voice quality classification Stefan Scherer a,c,∗, John Kane b, Christer Gobl b, Friedhelm Schwenker c a University of Southern California, Institute for Creative Technologies, 90094 Playa Vista, CA, United States b Trinity College Dublin, Phonetics and Speech Laboratory, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sci...