This article lays out a program of research designed to address one specific need of young children—to learn how to write—based on one specific ability of young children—the ability to tell stories. The model underlying this research program describes how non-screen-and-keyboard-based technologies that listen to children can be used to support their emergent literacy behaviors and have an effec...

We show that recent observations of fractal dimensions in the μ-space of N -body Hamiltonian systems with long-range interactions are due to finite N and finite resolution effects. We provide strong numerical evidence that, in the continuum (Vlasov) limit, a set which initially is not a fractal (e.g. a line in 2D) remains such for all finite times. We perform this analysis for the Hamiltonian M...

This paper reports on ongoing research efforts and discussions about how to enable, through new technologies, the building of lifelong learning networks and the development of competences of teachers who work in small rural schools. Teachers of such schools are confronted with significant challenges, needing to develop personal competences falling beyond the established initial and in-service t...

Selective laser sintering (SLS) is an attractive rapid prototyping and manufacturing (RP&M) technology as well as two-component metal powder has high melting pointer, high mechanical properties and high wear resistance. Hence, it’s meaningful to analyze its temperature field distribution and dynamical evolution rule in sintering process. A three-dimensional transient finite element model of SLS...

The project goal is to collect and deliver a corpus of speech data that supports DARPA SL~ system development. As of February 1991, SRI has set up a hardware and software environment for the collection of spoken interactions with a simulated Air Travel Information System (ATIS), established a data collection procedure, collected and dis~buted prototype data, and evaluated the prototype data wit...

The recently completed MLIS DieoPro project addressed the need tbr a uniform, platformindependent interface for: accessing multiple dictionaries and other lexical resources via the Internet/intranets. Lexical da ta supplied by dict ionary publishers for the project was in a variety of SGML forn]ats. In order to transforrn this da ta to a convenient s tandard format (IJTML), a high level transfo...

Choi, J. K., Ryu, J. H. and Eom, J., 2011. Integration of spatial variables derived from remotely sensed data for the mapping of the tidal surface sediment distribution. Journal of Coastal Research, SI 64 (Proceedings of the 11th International Coastal Symposium), 1653 – 1657. Szczecin, Poland, ISSN 0749-0208 The sedimentary environments of tidal flats on the west coast of Korea are subjected to...

Combined value auctions (CVAs) allow participants to make an offer of a single amount for a collection of items. These auctions provide value to both buyers and sellers of goods or services in a number of environments, but they have rarely been implemented, perhaps because of lack of knowledge and experience. Sears Logistics Services (SLS) is the first procurer of trucking services to use a CVA...

Selective laser sintering (SLS) of metals is a complex process exhibiting multiple modes of heat, mass and momentum transfer, and chemical reactions. The strong interplay between these physical mechanisms directly impacts the SLS process, determining whether a given material can be processed and if so, how the microstructure and properties of the processed material are in uenced. In order to un...

New stable decagonal quasicrystal in the system Al–Ir–Os S. Katrych a, Th. Weber a, M. Kobas b, L. Massüger a, L. Palatinus c,1, G. Chapuis c, W. Steurer a,∗ a Laboratory of Crystallography, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 10, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland b SLS Detector Group, Swiss Light Source, Paul-Scherrer-Institut, CH-5232 Villigen-PSI, Switzerland c Laboratory of C...