Virtual Campus is an Internet application in education. It combines the advantages of both group and individual learning approaches based on advanced network technologies. Virtual Campus models the new learning environment where students can customize their study in their own pace. Providing up-to-date learning material and personal study guide, Virtual Campus is an ideal study environment for ...

The NCEC project was a joint venture between China and Europe to deliver Internet-based distance education in China. The project was proposed in 1995, sponsored by the European Union since 1998, and finally completed in 2002. This paper shows how the NCEC project was planned and developed, and the importance of its role in the history of Internet application development in China.

Formal models allow us to make verbal notions operational and confront them with data. Schumpeterian growth theory has “operationalized” Schumpeter’s notion of creative destruction -the process by which new innovations replace older technologies-, in two ways. First, it has developed models based on creative destruction that shed new light on several microeconomic aspects of the growth process:...

We evaluate regional differences in road recovery in Miyagi Prefecture following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. We divided Miyagi Prefecture into three areas, i.e., Inland, Northern Coastal, and Southern Coastal areas. According to the results of our study, we conclude that the recovery conditions of regional roads in different areas of Miyagi Prefecture following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake differ...

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We discuss three approaches, 3store, D2R and MySQL, we have explored to support efficient querying of multimedia data sources via mSpace, a rich UI. Our results underline key research challenges facing the development of high performance RDF query layers to support complex real-time UIs.

E. L. Resler, Jr. Sibley School ol Mechanica l and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 The wa~•e roror is a promising means of pressure-gain for gas turbine engines. This paper examines novel wave rotor topping cycles that incorporate low-NO,, combustion straregies. This approach combines two-s rage ''rich-quench-lean'· ( RQL) combustion with inrermediate expansion in th...