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End-to-End Delay Distribution Analysis for Stochastic Admission Control in Multi-hop Wireless Networks
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How Does Competition Help Future Learning in Serious Games? An Exploratory Study in Learning Search Engine Optimization
Serious games, many of which are multi-player games, have been commonly used in information technology education and training. Competition can be intuitively associated with games; however, it is not always considered as a necessary attribute of serious games. Particularly, the learning impact results of competition are mixed. Challenge and control are two game attributes that are highly relevant to competition. With the use of a multi-player serious game, SEO War, this study aims to explore the relationships among competition, perceived control, perceived challenge, and self-efficacy in a game-based learning environment. Particularly, it investigates whether competition leads to self-efficacy. It also examines whether perceived challenge and perceived control mediate the relationship between competition and self-efficacy in serious games. This study contributes to the expanding literature on selecting important attributes for serious games, and it advances our understanding of the mechanism of how competition leads to self-efficacy. Moreover, it will help game designers decide on important game attributes through which games can be enhanced
Giant resonances in (116)Sn from 240 MeV (6)Li scattering
Journals published by the American Physical Society can be found at http://publish.aps.org/Giant resonances in (116)Sn were measured by inelastic scattering of (6)Li ions at E(6)Li=240 MeV over the angle range 0(degrees)-6(degrees). Isoscalar E0-E3 strength distributions were obtained with a double folding model analysis. A total of 106(-11)(+27)% of the E0 EWSR was found in the excitation energy range from 8 MeV to 30 MeV with a centroid (m(1)/m(0)) energy 15.39(-0.20)(+0.35) MeV in agreement with results obtained with alpha inelastic scattering
Numerical studies of the fractional quantum Hall effect in systems with tunable interactions
The discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect in GaAs-based
semiconductor devices has lead to new advances in condensed matter physics, in
particular the possibility for exotic, topological phases of matter that
possess fractional, and even non-Abelian, statistics of quasiparticles. One of
the main limitations of the experimental systems based on GaAs has been the
lack of tunability of the effective interactions between two-dimensional
electrons, which made it difficult to stabilize some of the more fragile
states, or induce phase transitions in a controlled manner. Here we review the
recent studies that have explored the effects of tunability of the interactions
offered by alternative two-dimensional systems, characterized by non-trivial
Berry phases and including graphene, bilayer graphene and topological
insulators. The tunability in these systems is achieved via external fields
that change the mass gap, or by screening via dielectric plate in the vicinity
of the device. Our study points to a number of different ways to manipulate the
effective interactions, and engineer phase transitions between quantum Hall
liquids and compressible states in a controlled manner.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, updated references; review for the CCP2011
conference, to appear in "Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Место и роль ценностей в механизме социализации
В статье рассматривается специфика механизма социализации и проблема ценностных ориентаций в условиях социокультурных трансформаций украинского общества. Определяются ценностные ориентиры гражданского общества как приоритетного для Украины.У статті розглядається специфика механізму соціалізації і проблема цінностних орієнтацій в умовах соціокультурних трансформацій українського суспільства. Визначаються цінностні орієнтири громадянського суспільства як приоритетного для України.The article deals with peculiarities of socialization and the problem of value ori-entation under the conditions of socio-cultural transformations of the Ukrainian society. We also define value orientation of the civil society as optimal for Ukraine
Elastic and inelastic scattering to low-lying states of (58)Ni and (90)Zr using 240-MeV (6)Li
Journals published by the American Physical Society can be found at http://publish.aps.org/Elastic and inelastic scattering of 240-MeV (6)Li particles from (58)Ni and (90)Zr were measured with the multipole-dipole-multipole spectrometer from 4 degrees <= theta(c.m.) <= 43 degrees. The elastic scattering data were fitted with the double-folding model using the density-dependent M3Y NN effective interaction and with a phenomenological Woods-Saxon potential. B(E2) and B(E3) values obtained for low-lying 2(+) and 3(-) states with the double-folding calculations agreed with the adopted values
#Bieber + #Blast = #BieberBlast: Early Prediction of Popular Hashtag Compounds
Compounding of natural language units is a very common phenomena. In this
paper, we show, for the first time, that Twitter hashtags which, could be
considered as correlates of such linguistic units, undergo compounding. We
identify reasons for this compounding and propose a prediction model that can
identify with 77.07% accuracy if a pair of hashtags compounding in the near
future (i.e., 2 months after compounding) shall become popular. At longer times
T = 6, 10 months the accuracies are 77.52% and 79.13% respectively. This
technique has strong implications to trending hashtag recommendation since
newly formed hashtag compounds can be recommended early, even before the
compounding has taken place. Further, humans can predict compounds with an
overall accuracy of only 48.7% (treated as baseline). Notably, while humans can
discriminate the relatively easier cases, the automatic framework is successful
in classifying the relatively harder cases.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, 9 tables, published in CSCW (Computer-Supported
Cooperative Work and Social Computing) 2016. in Proceedings of 19th ACM
conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW
2016
Giant resonances in (24)Mg and (28)Si from 240 MeV (6)Li scattering
Journals published by the American Physical Society can be found at http://publish.aps.org/Elastic and inelastic scattering of 240 MeV (6)Li particles from (24)Mg and (28)Si were measured with the MDM spectrometer. Optical potential parameters for (6)Li+(24)Mg and (6)Li+(28)Si scattering systems were obtained by fitting elastic scattering with two different folding model potentials as well as W-S potentials. E0-E3 giant resonance strength distributions for (28)Si and (24)Mg were obtained. E0 strength corresponding to 106(-24)(+34)% of the EWSR was identified in (24)Mg and 80(-20)(+35)% was found for (28)Si between E(x)=8.0 to 40.0 MeV
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