4th International Workshop on Functional-Structural Plant Models, 7-11 june 2004 –Montpellier, France Edited by C. Godin et al., pp. 56-60 A structural method for assessing self-similarity in plants Pascal Ferraro, Christophe Godin, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz LaBRI Université de Bordeaux 1 – France 2 INRIA, UMR Cirad-INRA-CNRS AMAP Montpellier France Department of Computer Science University Of C...

Under the Next Generation Airspace Transportation System (NGATS), airspace operators will assume new roles and responsibilities in reaction to several essential changes in air traffic management operations, and the introduction of new automation technologies to support these important developments. For these changes to succeed, it is important that the information required of each new operator ...

Research indicates that guided feedback facilitates learning, whether in the classroom or with Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). Improving the accuracy of the evaluation of user input is therefore necessary for providing optimal feedback. This study investigated an automated assessment of students’ input that involved a lexico-syntactic (entailment) approach to textual analysis along with a v...

Information security communities are always talking about ”attackers” or “blackhats”, but in reality very little is known about their skills. The idea of studying attacker behaviors was pioneered in the early nineties. In the last decade the number of attacks has increased exponentially and honeypots were introduced in order to gather information about attackers and to develop early-warning sys...

BACKGROUND Donor retention poses a significant problem to blood collection agencies around the world. Previous research using an augmented theory of planned behavior (TPB) approach has demonstrated that attitude, subjective norm, self-efficacy, moral norm, anticipated regret, donation anxiety from prior blood donations, and self-identity as a blood donor predicts experienced donors' intentions ...

Although much of the knowledge in transportation psychology has been gained by means of self-report measures, there is still a dispute regarding the usefulness and validity of such instruments. This series of two studies employed multivariate statistical models to examine associations between self-report and objective measures in two samples of young drivers. Study 1 (n=151) compared scores on ...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the impact of depression measured by self-reports and depression measured by clinical interview on all-cause mortality in individuals with diabetes and to analyze the strength of both associations, the influence of covariates, and possible differences between studies assessing self-rated depressive symptoms and those using a clinical interview to measure depression as pred...