There have been some observed studies and developed applications (apps), with a concentration on Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL), and no consideration of communicative needs of the learners; besides, these studies focused on either the theoretical aspects or the utilization of the available apps in the market (Burston & Athanasiou, 2020). Hence, Vocabulary Guru (VG), a custom-made mobi...

This paper 1 introduces Guru, a prototype tool for restructuring inheritance hierarchies in Self, while preserving the behavior of objects. Guru reverse engineers from existing inheritance hierarchies. Unlike previous work, Guru handles re-sends, redeened methods and the restructuring of only part of a system. Furthermore, Guru handles dynamic and cyclical inheritance, which are more speciic to...

Syed Aashiq HUSSAIN*, Sanjeev Kumar UPPAL, Charanjit RANDHAWA, Naresh Kumar SOOD, Shashi Kant MAHAJAN Department of Veterinary Medicine, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India Department of Veterinary Pathology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, Guru Angad D...

After centuries of little change, the role of the Guru or a teacher as it has been traditionally defined and practiced in Thailand and the rest of South East Asia is on the verge of becoming an anachronism. Now it is Google, not the Guru who has all answers to the big questions of life and learning. New and emerging pedagogies are harnessing the power of Internet and Communication Technologies ...

We present Guru, an intelligent tutoring system for high school biology that has conversations with students, gestures and points to virtual instructional materials, and presents exercises for extended practice. Guru’s instructional strategies are modeled after expert tutors and focus on brief interactive lectures followed by rounds of scaffolding as well as summarizing, concept mapping, and Cl...

Obscurity of expression is considered a flaw. Not so, however, in the speech or writing of intellectual gurus. All too often, what readers do is judge profound what they have failed to grasp. Here I try to explain this “guru effect” by looking at the psychology of trust and interpretation, at the role of authority and argumentation, and at the effects of these dispositions and processes when th...

We introduce an order driver market model with heterogeneous traders that imitate each other on a dynamic network structure. The communication structure is endogenous and evolves using a fitness mechanism based on agents wealth. We assess how imitations among otherway noise traders, can give rise to herd behaviour and how this behaviour affects asset prices. We show how price paths are strongly...

PhD scholar, Department of Veterinary Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. PhD scholar, Department of Veterinary Pathology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. PhD scholar, Dairy Cattle Nutrition Division, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana Assistant Professor...

Ashwani KUMAR*, Vandana SANGWAN, Jitender MOHINDROO, Narinder Singh SAINI, Simrat Sagar SINGH Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, India Department of Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex, College of Veterinary Science, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana,...

The authors discuss Guru, a conversational expert ITS. Guru is designed to mimic expert human tutors using advanced applied natural language processing techniques including natural language understanding, knowledge representation, and natural language generation. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-447-5.ch011