Situational methods are approaches to the development of software systems that are designed and constructed to fit particular circumstances that often refer to project characteristics. One common way to create situational methods is to reuse method components, which are the building blocks of development methods. For this purpose, method components have to be stored in a method base, and then r...

THE PREDICTION OF VIOLENT RECIDIVISM AMONGST INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL DISORDERS: SITUATIONAL VS. DISPOSITIONAL FACTORS By Michelle Nicole Harris August 2016 Committee Chair: Dr. Brent Teasdale Major Department: Criminal Justice and Criminology The objective of this study is to evaluate why some individuals with mental illness are more inclined to violently recidivate. There appears to be two per...

Karl R. Popper proposed that the method of explanation in economics, or situational logic, should become the general model for analyses across the social sciences. This article makes good Popper’s proposal by extending situational logic to a social problem outside the traditional scope of economics: crime. Specifically, the discussion reviews models developed by economist Gary S. Becker and cri...

Robots are continuously being deployed in ever challenging domains with tasks of increasing complexity. With these mounting challenges, robots will need to gain a better understanding of their environment and the status of surrounding dynamic obstacles. Human situational awareness may provide robots with this greater understanding. Presently, no straightforward approach is known for achieving h...

The concept of a common operational picture has been utilized by the military for situational awareness in warfare domains for many years. With the emergence of cyberspace as a domain, there is a necessity to develop doctrine and tools to enable situational awareness for key-decision makers. Our study analyzes key elements that define cyber situational awareness to develop a methodology to iden...

This study developed a 5-step vocabulary learning (FSVL) strategy and a mobile learning tool in a situational English vocabulary learning environment and assessed their effects on the learning motivation and performance of English as a foreign language (EFL) students in a situational English vocabulary learning environment. Overall, 80 EFL students and 1 teacher participated in this study. Two ...

The generic software development situational factors model has been developed in order that environments within which software is developed can be profiled and better understood. Situational context is a complex concern for software developers, with a broad set of situational factors holding the potential to affect any one software development project. Safety critical software development is br...

In this paper, we investigate automatic classification of the socio-situational settings of transcripts of a spoken discourse. Knowledge of the socio-situational setting can be used to search for content recorded in a particular setting or to select context-dependent models for example in speech recognition. The subjective experiment we report on in this paper shows that people correctly classi...

Three experiments demonstrated that situational information contributes to the categorization of functional object categories, as well as to inferences about these categories. When an object was presented in the context of setting and event information, categorization was more accurate than when the object was presented in isolation. Inferences about the object similarly became more accurate as...

By using digital information, such as graphic image and audio as well as vedio, the integration of situational teaching of foreign language and modern multimedia technology enriches the content of foreign language teaching, which provides a rich and colorful environment for English learner. It can stimulate emotional students’ experience and enhance their willings of participating in interactin...