With the popularization of multimedia technology in the application on teaching, the actual application on teaching software has become a major problem that computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in-depth developed. Constructing a scientific, objective, and fair evaluation system of multimedia teaching software has become imperative. By combining current characteristics of CAI and various evaluati...

Indicating the imminent battery depletion of wireless sensor nodes is beneficial for many applications. But corresponding depth of discharge estimation approaches are either complex, constraint or rather imprecise. We present, implement and evaluate a novel approach which is to observe the battery’s overpotential — the change of the voltage under a load in comparison to the unloaded battery — w...

This paper discusses the measurement of poverty and well-being. A historical overview is given of the last fifty years. This is followed by discussion of three groupings of indicators: those measures based primarily on economic well-being; those based on non-economic well-being and composite indicators. It is argued that the choice of indicator should reflect its purpose and that economic measu...

In this article, the beam search approach is extended to multicriteria combinatorial optimization, with particular emphasis on its application to bicriteria { 0,1} knapsack problems. The beam search uses several definitions of upper bounds of knapsack solutions as well as a new selection procedure based on -indicator that allows to discard uninteresting solutions. An in-depth experimental analy...

The need for a drying stress indicator has previously been stated with some research in the past to this means. Given the recent successes in achieving this goal through monitoring shrinkage, the refinement and further understanding of the process was needed, specifically, the influence that penetration of the mount-foot had on the shrinkage data. Four different LVDTmounts were investigated in ...

A spectroscopy system is developed for studying the two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) and second-harmonic generation (SHG) of epithelial tissue in backscattering geometry. Our findings show that TPEF signals from epithelial and underlying stromal layers exhibit different spectral characteristics, providing information on the biomorphology and biochemistry of tissue. The SHG signal serves a...

Somatosensory, visual and brainstem auditory evoked potentials were recorded in 10 unpremedicated patients anaesthetized with isoflurane in oxygen. Recordings were made at 0.5%, 1.1% and 1.65% (six patients) end-tidal isoflurane concentration. There were statistically significant increases in the latencies of the somatosensory (N20), visual and brainstem auditory potentials (waves III and V) wi...

The usefulness of determining gastric cancer invasion depth by magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging (NBI-ME) has not been established. The objective of our study was to retrospectively compare NBI-ME images of differentiated submucosal (SM) 1 cancer with those of SM2 to identify the indicators of invasion depth for SM2 gastric cancer. Fifteen patients with SM1 differentiated gastric ca...

The regulatory functions of soil are getting attention among the scientists and Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) is an important indicator of soil health. The impact of differential use of land on SOC and other edaphic properties were analysed in three important Land use land cover (LULC) system of Tripura, northeast India. Soil cores were divided into four depth profiles (0 10, 10 30, 30 50 and 50 10...

[1] A wireless sensor network (WSN) was deployed as part of a water balance instrument cluster across a forested 1 km headwater catchment in the southern Sierra Nevada of California. The network, which integrates readings from over 300 sensors, provides spatially representative measurements of snow depth, solar radiation, relative humidity, soil moisture, and matric potential. The ability of th...