Supercharging Your Creative Skills

The author discusses advanced techniques for unleashing the creative self through subconscious and superconscious awarenesses. He discusses brain waves, the hypnogogic state, and two powerful creativity tools known as lucid dreaming and image streaming.     

Assessing Career Goals and Skills

IT professionals today must acquire new skills suited to an era of strategic technology and rapidly changing, flatter organizations with no employment guarantees. the strategies and assessment tool presented here are designed to help IT professionals determine where their skill sets stand and how they can improve them.     

Special Feature: Methods, Styles, and Attitudes in the Programming Language Classroom

This survey of approaches to programming language instruction stresses the need for empirical research into their effectiveness.     

网络改变教与学

因评价体系的导向所致,国内重点院校计算机专业教师在教学投入上严重不足,并导致教育质量不高。针对该问题,本文结合7年的教学实践和分析总结,提出累加式考核、抄袭问题对策、交互式课堂、考试作为学习过程等系列颇具成效的建设性解决方案。这些方案只有在网络支撑下才能有效实施。教学结果表明,依靠网络的力量,不仅能节省教师的时间和精力,而且能促进学生主动学习,显著提升教学质量。     

Computation in History: Styles and Methods

Recent advances in interactive computing and file management systems help the historian fulfill his traditional function as a collector, critic, and interpreter of documents.     

笔记本的日常使用技巧与维护

<正>随着移动办公的发展,笔记本成为移动办公必不可少的设备,因为笔记本集成化高,又经常随身携带,为了保障移动办公的效率,所以笔记本的日常保养十分重要。首先从笔记本的液晶显示屏说起,液晶显示屏大约占了笔记本体积的一半,也是笔记本中比较昂贵的部分,所以做好显示屏的维护十分重要。要轻关轻开笔记本屏幕,要定期给显示     

信息检索常用技术与技巧

信息检索技术能帮助人们快捷、准确、全面地获取所需知识,最大限度地节省查找时间,使信息检索过程变得事半功倍,使信息能够得到充分利用。本文针对信息检索提出几种常用的技术和技巧,以为用户进行信息检索提供一些借鉴。     

Access查询及其应用技巧

查询是Access数据库的主要操作,是Access数据库的核心操作之一。本文主要从办公数据处理的要求出发对Access查询进行了分类,给出Access不同查询实现的关键步骤,同时介绍了在日常应用中常见问题的解决方案及查询的优化方法。     

Personnel Management: Personal Styles and Behavior Patterns

Social styles are the basic patterns of behavior individuals exhibit when interacting or communicating with others. Conflicting social stytes within a department can impede the overall objectives of an organization. By learning how to identify and manage individuals' social styles, IS managers can promote open communication, help reduce nonproductive interactions, and improve working relationships and thus productivity. This article provides guidelines for recognizing, identifying, and adapting to staff members' behavioral preferences.     

笔记本的日常使用技巧与维护

随着移动办公的发展,笔记本成为移动办公必不可少的设备,因为笔记本集成化高,又经常随身携带,为了保障移动办公的效率,所以笔记本的日常保养十分重要.     

A Survey and Taxonomy of GALS Design Styles

Single-clocked digital systems are largely a thing of the past. Although most digital circuits remain synchronous, many designs feature multiple clock domains, often running at different frequencies. Using an asynchronous interconnect decouples the timing issues for the separate blocks. Systems employing such schemes are called globally asynchronous, locally synchronous (GALS). To minimize time to market, large SoC designs must integrate many functional blocks with minimal design effort. These blocks are usually designed using standard synchronous methods and often have different clocking requirements. A GALS approach can facilitate fast block reuse by providing wrapper circuits to handle interblock communication across clock domain boundaries. SoCs may also achieve power savings by clocking different blocks at their minimum speeds. For example, Scott et al. describe the advantages of GALS design for an embedded-processor peripheral bus.     

Learning and Applying Color Styles From Feature Films

Directors employ a process called “color grading” to add color styles to feature films. Color grading is used for a number of reasons, such as accentuating a certain emotion or expressing the signature look of a director. We collect a database of feature film clips and label them with tags such as director, emotion, and genre. We then learn a model that maps from the low‐level color and tone properties of film clips to the associated labels. This model allows us to examine a number of common hypotheses on the use of color to achieve goals, such as specific emotions. We also describe a method to apply our learned color styles to new images and videos. Along with our analysis of color grading techniques, we demonstrate a number of images and videos that are automatically filtered to resemble certain film styles.     

Capturing and Re-Using Rendition Styles for Non-Photorealistic Rendering

Rendering high-quality non-photorealistic images of a given geometric model is often associated with a considerable amount of effort on the part of a user to fine-tune the rendition. In this paper we introduce a method and tools for re-using the user's effort invested in one model for the rendering of other models.
Our method uses templates to describe rendition styles. The paper gives a number of examples of the successful transfer of styles from one model to another.     

Personnel Management: Personal Styles and Behavior Patterns

Social styles are the basic patterns of behavior individuals exhibit when interacting or communicating with others. Conflicting social stytes within a department can impede the overall objectives of an organization. By learning how to identify and manage individuals' social styles, IS managers can promote open communication, help reduce nonproductive interactions, and improve working relationships and thus productivity. This article provides guidelines for recognizing, identifying, and adapting to staff members' behavioral preferences.     

培养创新型和应用型人才

<正>2011年初夏时节,第六届全国计算机教育论坛暨2010-2011全国计算机教育优秀论文评比颁奖大会在桂林电子科技大学隆重召开!全国计算机教育领域的专家学者再次相聚,畅谈计算机教育领域中的焦点和热点问题,共商计算机     

低碳经济的创意设计观 “湖北文化创意产业发展战略和策略研究”课题组

中国是世界上人口最多的国家,同时又是发展中国家,专家称2015年中国碳排量将达欧美总和,这是非常惊人的,所以国际上流传"防祸",中国变成了祸害全球的崛起大国。温总理在哥本哈根会议上的声明,意味着我国政府自主承诺的2020年单位GDP碳排放比2005年减少40%至45%的目标即将付诸实施。"低碳生活"这个名词也将加速地进入普通民众的日常生活视野,以创新为最终目标的设计领域的设计师如何更新观念,用低碳变设计去倡导低碳生活,引导着时代潮流的审美趋向是本文讨论的主题。     

Examining the Relationship between Personality Traits and Creativity Styles

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between individuals' expressed preferences for stages within the creative process (i.e., problem clarification, idea generation, solution development and implementation planning) and their personality traits. To explore these relationships, 137 participants in a leadership development program completed two paper‐and‐pencil measures. Creative process preferences were assessed through a measure called FourSight, while personality traits were measured through the DiSC Personal Profile System. Statistical analysis showed that the strongest relationships between the FourSight and the DiSC were produced by the Clarifier and Ideator preferences. Based on the relationships between the Clarifier preference and the DiSC it would seem that problem clarification is associated with tendencies to be cautious, careful, analytical, accurate and tactful. In contrast, those who express strong preference for the idea generation stage of the creative process are likely to show such traits as willingness to challenge prevailing thought, need for change and attraction to variety. Additional relationships between the creative process and personality are described, along with theoretical and practical implications.