Pupils' recall of an interactive storybook on CD-ROM

Abstract This small-scale study compares two groups of Year 4 (8/9 year-old) pupils either reading or playing an interactive storybook . The study considered pupils' recall of propositions, which formed the story setting and episodes, and of micro-propositions and characters' names, and pupils' responses to inferential items derived from the 'interactive storybook'. The study indicates that, whether reading or playing, pupils' recall of the story setting was sound, but pupils who had read the interactive storybook demonstrated greater recall of the story event structure than those who had engaged in interactive picture-play. Pupils who had played the interactive storybook demonstrated significantly greater recall of micro-propositions and names.     

A weighted multivariate Fuzzy C-Means method in interval-valued scientific production data

Clustering is the process of organizing objects into groups whose members are similar in some way. Most of the clustering methods involve numeric data only. However, this representation may not be adequate to model complex information which may be: histogram, distributions, intervals. To deal with these types of data, Symbolic Data Analysis (SDA) was developed. In multivariate data analysis, it is common some variables be more or less relevant than others and less relevant variables can mask the cluster structure. This work proposes a clustering method based on fuzzy approach that produces weighted multivariate memberships for interval-valued data. These memberships can change at each iteration of the algorithm and they are different from one variable to another and from one cluster to another. Furthermore, there is a different relevance weight associated to each variable that may also be different from one cluster to another. The advantage of this method is that it is robust to ambiguous cluster membership assignment since weights represent how important the different variables are to the clusters. Experiments are performed with synthetic data sets to compare the performance of the proposed method against other methods already established by the clustering literature. Also, an application with interval-valued scientific production data is presented in this work. Clustering quality results have shown that the proposed method offers higher accuracy when variables have different variabilities.     

第二代农民工市民化与中国共产党执政能力建设

第二代农民工市民化利益要求的实现有助于从阶级基础、群众基础、执政理念、执政资源和执政环境等方面加强党的执政能力建设。在第二代农民工市民化背景下,党应该强化执政为民的理念,构建利益相关制度,强化第二代农民工的工人阶级意识和主人翁意识,鼓励他们积极参与政治生活,有组织、有秩序地进行利益表达,使他们充分享受到城市经济社会发展成果,同时提高党自身的执政能力。     

民族地区高校计算机教学体系的改革与探讨

针对民族地区高等院校计算机教育的特点与面临的困难,提出相应的解决对策和改革方向。探讨如何构建现代人才素质需求与地方民族特色相结合的计算机教学体系,从而促进民族地区计算机人才的培养。     

城市街区空间引导系统的设计思考

城市街区空间引导系统与人们的日常生活息息相关,为人们的出行提供了便捷的标识引导,同时它也是城市形象的重要组成部分之一。本文分析总结了该系统的设计原则,并从视觉传达学科入手分析其视觉元素的设计。为了设计无语言障碍和有个性、地域化的城市街区空间引导系统,从符号、文字、色彩三方面对其进行设计思考。     

高校科技成果转化现状及对策分析——以江西省为例

高校的科技成果转化一直存在着转化率低的问题,江西省作为中部欠发达地区,问题尤为突出。本文从高校科技成果转化率低的成因开始进行分析,并提出促进高校科技成果转化率的相关对策。     

新中国石油工业高速发展和科技人才努力方向

在新中国成立60周年的光辉历史中,我国石油工业得到高速发展,已经跨入世界先进产油国家中前五位,需要培养更多石油行业现代科技人才。概述新中国石油工业高速发展,总结江汉油区石油勘探开发创新实践,阐明科学发展观在石油工业中的重要指导作用,旨在为石油行业现代科技人才的培养指明努力的方向。     

房产测绘中若干问题的研究

房产测量外业数据采集及面积计算是影响房产测量精度的重要因素,作者就实际工作中在这两个方面容易出现的若干问题进行研究并提出了相应的解决方法。     

Monitoring of ochratoxin A exposure of the Portuguese population through a nationwide urine survey — Winter 2007

Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a mycotoxin produced by a variety of fungi, such as Penicillium verrucosum and Aspergillium spp., which has been found to have a wide number of potentially deadly toxic effects, and can enter the human organism through a variety of means. It then finds its way into the bloodstream and, after a lengthy process, is eventually excreted through the urine. It can thus be detected in its original form not only in blood samples but also in this biological medium. As such, and in an attempt to evaluate the exposure of the Portuguese population to this mycotoxin, morning urine samples were collected during the Winter of 2007, from each of five geographically distinct Portuguese locations — Bragança, Porto, Coimbra, Alentejo, and Algarve — and subjected to extraction by immunoaffinity columns and to OTA quantification through liquid chromatography coupled with fluorescence detection. Prevalent incidence was higher than 95% with Coimbra being the exception (incidence of 73.3%). In nearly all locations, the OTA content of most samples was found to be above the limit of quantification (LOQ) of 0.008 ng/ml. Indeed, excluding Coimbra, with an OTA content level of 0.014 ng/ml, all regions featured content values over 0.021 ng/ml.