1,226 research outputs found
Improving skills in rounding off the whole number
This study was conducted to address teaching and learning skills in rounding off a whole number. This study consisted of 15 years 4 students from the Kong Nan Chinese Primary School, Parit Raja, Johor, Malaysia. Initial survey to identify this problem was carried out by analyzing the exercise books and exercises in pre-test. Based on these analyses, a large number of students were not proficient in relevant skills. A âqâ technique was introduced as an approach in teaching and learning to help students master the skills of rounding whole numbers. In summary, this technique helps students to remember the sequence of processes and process in rounding numbers. A total of four sessions of teaching and learning activities that take less than an hour have been implemented specifically to help students to master this technique. Results of the implementation of these activities have shown very positive results among the students. Two post tests were carried out to see the effectiveness of techniques and the results shows that 100% of students were able to answer correctly at least three questions correctly. The t-test analysis was clearly showed the effectiveness of âqâ technique. This technique also indirectly helps to maintain and increase student interest in learning Mathematics. This is shown with the active involvement of students in answering questions given by the teacher
Special Issue in Honor of Prof. Ting-Peng Liangâs Lifetime Contribution to the Service Innovation Discipline
This special issue is dedicated to the reminiscences of TP for his significant contributions to the global IS discipline. This PAJAIS special issue solicits research submissions that are related to the Service Innovation discipline, one of TPâs key areas of research. Since service-oriented economy is evolving into experience economy, the research topics regarding how to design products, services, information systems, and mobile services to increase usersâ experience value are becoming more and more important. From a service logic perspective, innovative service design focus on how they change customer thinking, participation, and capabilities to co-create value rather than new features in order to enhance user experience. Hence, this special issue focuses on issues related to service innovation, service quality & user experience (UX)
Wall Orientation and Shear Stress in the Lattice Boltzmann Model
The wall shear stress is a quantity of profound importance for clinical
diagnosis of artery diseases. The lattice Boltzmann is an easily parallelizable
numerical method of solving the flow problems, but it suffers from errors of
the velocity field near the boundaries which leads to errors in the wall shear
stress and normal vectors computed from the velocity. In this work we present a
simple formula to calculate the wall shear stress in the lattice Boltzmann
model and propose to compute wall normals, which are necessary to compute the
wall shear stress, by taking the weighted mean over boundary facets lying in a
vicinity of a wall element. We carry out several tests and observe an increase
of accuracy of computed normal vectors over other methods in two and three
dimensions. Using the scheme we compute the wall shear stress in an inclined
and bent channel fluid flow and show a minor influence of the normal on the
numerical error, implying that that the main error arises due to a corrupted
velocity field near the staircase boundary. Finally, we calculate the wall
shear stress in the human abdominal aorta in steady conditions using our method
and compare the results with a standard finite volume solver and experimental
data available in the literature. Applications of our ideas in a simplified
protocol for data preprocessing in medical applications are discussed.Comment: 9 pages, 11 figure
Begonia wuzhishanensis (sect. Diploclinium, Begoniaceae), a new species from Hainan Island, China
Background: Hainan is the largest island of the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot and has the best preserved and most extensive tropical forests in China. A recent study on distribution of endangered species in China identifies southern Hainan as one of eight hotspots for plant conservation in the country. In continuation of our studies of Asian Begonia, we report the discovery of an attractive undescribed species, B. wuzhishanensis C.-I Peng, X.H. Jin & S.M.Ku, from Hainan Island. Results: Living plant of the new species, Begonia wuzhishanensis, was collected in 2009 and cultivated in the experimental greenhouse for morphological and cytological studies. It flowered consecutively in 2012 and 2013 in the experimental greenhouse, Academia Sinica. It was assigned to the large, heterogeneous sect. Diploclinium. The chromosome number of this new species was determined to be 2n = 26. Conclusions: A careful study of literature, herbarium specimens and living plants, both in the wild and in cultivation, support the recognition of the new species Begonia wuzhishanensis, which is described in this paper. Begonia wuzhishanensis is currently known only from Fanyang, Wuzhishan Mountain in the center of the island. A line drawing, color plate, and a distribution map are provided to aid in identification
Attractive or Faithful? Popularity-Reinforced Learning for Inspired Headline Generation
With the rapid proliferation of online media sources and published news,
headlines have become increasingly important for attracting readers to news
articles, since users may be overwhelmed with the massive information. In this
paper, we generate inspired headlines that preserve the nature of news articles
and catch the eye of the reader simultaneously. The task of inspired headline
generation can be viewed as a specific form of Headline Generation (HG) task,
with the emphasis on creating an attractive headline from a given news article.
To generate inspired headlines, we propose a novel framework called
POpularity-Reinforced Learning for inspired Headline Generation (PORL-HG).
PORL-HG exploits the extractive-abstractive architecture with 1) Popular Topic
Attention (PTA) for guiding the extractor to select the attractive sentence
from the article and 2) a popularity predictor for guiding the abstractor to
rewrite the attractive sentence. Moreover, since the sentence selection of the
extractor is not differentiable, techniques of reinforcement learning (RL) are
utilized to bridge the gap with rewards obtained from a popularity score
predictor. Through quantitative and qualitative experiments, we show that the
proposed PORL-HG significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art headline
generation models in terms of attractiveness evaluated by both human (71.03%)
and the predictor (at least 27.60%), while the faithfulness of PORL-HG is also
comparable to the state-of-the-art generation model.Comment: AAAI 202
Superconductivity and Field-Induced Magnetism in PrCeCuO Single Crystals
We report muon-spin rotation/relaxation (muSR) measurements on single
crystals of the electron-doped high-T_c superconductor PrCeCuO.
In zero external magnetic field, superconductivity is found to coexist with Cu
spins that are static on the muSR time scale. In an applied field, we observe a
Knight shift that is primarily due to the magnetic moment induced on the Pr
ions. Below the superconducting transition temperature T_c, an additional
source of static magnetic order appears throughout the sample. This finding is
consistent with antiferromagnetic ordering of the Cu spins in the presence of
vortices. We also find that the temperature dependence of the in-plane magnetic
penetration depth in the vortex state resembles that of the hole-doped cuprates
at temperatures above ~ 0.2 T_c.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
Featured Organism: Arabidopsis Thaliana
Arabidopsis is universally acknowledged as the model for dicotyledonous crop plants.
Furthermore, some of the information gleaned from this small plant can be used to aid
work on monocotyledonous crops. Here we provide an overview of the current state of
knowledge and resources for the study of this important model plant, with comments on
future prospects in the field from Professor Pamela Green and Dr Sean May
Nervous Necrosis Virus Replicates Following the Embryo Development and Dual Infection with Iridovirus at Juvenile Stage in Grouper
Infection of virus (such as nodavirus and iridovirus) and bacteria (such as Vibrio anguillarum) in farmed grouper has been widely reported and caused large economic losses to Taiwanese fish aquaculture industry since 1979. The multiplex assay was used to detect dual viral infection and showed that only nervous necrosis virus (NNV) can be detected till the end of experiments (100% mortality) once it appeared. In addition, iridovirus can be detected in a certain period of rearing. The results of real-time PCR and in situ PCR indicated that NNV, in fact, was not on the surface of the eggs but present in the embryo, which can continue to replicate during the embryo development. The virus may be vertically transmitted by packing into eggs during egg development (formation) or delivering into eggs by sperm during fertilization. The ozone treatment of eggs may fail to remove the virus, so a new strategy to prevent NNV is needed
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