A process for judging the alignment between curriculum standards and assessments developed by the author is presented. This process produces information on the relationship of standards and assessments on four alignment criteria: Categorical Concurrence, Depth of Knowledge Consistency, Range of Knowledge Correspondence, and Balance of Representation. Five issues are identified—but not resolved—...

This paper proposed a word usage classification for “De” in Chinese as a secondary language by rule induction algorithm. Learning of Chinese characters and tone adaption are both essential and hard tasks for non-native speakers. The frequent terms, defined in morphosyntatic particle “De” with three characters {的, 得, 地}, is hard to learn for foreign learners due to the similar pronunciation and ...

High-dimensional data sets are often embedded in two-dimensional spaces so as to visualize neighborhood relationships. When the map is effective (i.e. when short distances are preserved) it is a powerful way to help an analyst to understand the data set. But, mappings most often show defaults and the user is then led astray. According to this notion, a mapping should not be considered when its ...

The finite-state based dialogue management approaches are powerful for simple tasks with strict and reliable dialogue control, while the plan-based dialogue management approaches are feasible for tasks with several topics or one complex topic. However, neither one is good enough for the dialogue control throughout in a dialogue task providing flight information inquiry and ticket reservation se...

The software architecture community has advocated design rationale in the last decade. However, there is little knowledge of how much reasoning is performed when software design judgments are made. In this study, we investigated the amount of design reasoning performed before making a decision. We recruited 32 students and 40 professionals to participate in this software architecture design stu...

Is being responsible good enough? Stone (1975) argued that we need corporate moral responsibility because neither law nor market is adequate to forestall harmful effects of business activities. However, it is not possible for businesses to become responsible for all forms of foreseeable, preventable harm that they produce. This is illustrated here by cases from insurance, television programming...

This article presents an experimental investigation of OPW treatment for oil removal by integration of two processes: coalescer bed and microfiltration membranes (MF). The main goal is to reach an effluent quality good enough for injection, discharge or reuse in surface activities. The objective of processes combination is to overcome operational problems and limitations that both processes pre...

In the commonly used DE/rand/1 variant of differential evolution the primary mechanism of generating new solutions is the perturbation of a randomly selected point by a difference vector. The newly selected point may, if good enough, then replace a solution from the current generation. As the replaced solution is not the one perturbed to create the new, candidate solution, when the population h...

In the last two decades, a number of methods have been proposed for forecasting based on fuzzy time series. Most of the fuzzy time series methods are presented for forecasting of car road accidents. However , the forecasting accuracy rates of the existing methods are not good enough. In this paper, we compared our proposed new method of fuzzy time series forecasting with existing methods. Our m...

The present paper addresses the problem of attainment of the supremums in various equivalent definitions of hereditary density hd and hereditary Lindelöf degree hL of Boolean algebras. We partially answer two problems of J. Donald Monk, [13, Problems 50, 54], showing consistency of different attainment behaviour and proving that (for the considered variants) this is the best result we can expec...