The effects of practice teaching sessions in second life on the change in pre-service teachers’ teaching efficacy

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of practice teaching in Second Life on the change of preservice teachers’ teaching efficacy, and the difference of changes between individual teaching practice and collaborative teaching practice in their teaching efficacy. Participants were placed into the individual teaching practice or collaborative teaching practice group as a part of a teaching methods and educational technology course. Both groups completed practice teaching sessions twice in Second Life and an instrument adopted for measuring of pre-service teachers’ teaching efficacy beliefs was administered after each of three stages. The researcher collected data from both groups before the first practice teaching, after the first practice teaching session, and after the second session. Results from a Repeated Measure ANOVA indicated that the practice sessions influenced changes in participants’ personal teaching efficacy but not teaching outcome expectancy. In addition, the results indicated significant difference between groups on their personal teaching efficacy after the second practice session, but not on teaching outcome expectancy. The difference between the two groups is attributed to the different methods in preparing for the practice session, practicing the teaching, and the reflection methods posed to each group of participants. This research suggests that pre-service teachers can gain valuable teaching practice in Second Life, and furthermore that collaborative practice teaching is more effective way than individual approaches to practicing teaching.     

汽车发展对现代生活方式的影响

随着2008年中国汽车产销量突破1000万辆,汽车在中国老百姓中的影响越来越大。汽车作为科技、社会、设计、时尚、潮流发展的综合体,其反映了一个民族的生存状态和生活方式以及社会进步。人们生活水平的提高促进了汽车的发展,而汽车的发展又会反过来影响原有的传统生活方式和传统文化——汽车让传统生活更加便捷;让家的舒适得以延伸;让时尚包裹着我们周边的每一个角落,让我们更加懂得在工作之余去享受生活。     

设计引导合理健康的生活方式

设计,虽然不是生产力,它不能决定社会、经济、甚至生态环境的发展,但是它的本质特征所表现出的那种协调性,却起到了很大的引导作用,在人类共同的大课题面前,只有设计能担负起"创造更合理,更健康的生活方式"的历史使命。     

移动基站无线传感器网络2个参数的优化

针对一种移动基站协助数据收集模式,研究移动基站最佳缓冲区位置的设计问题,得出节点在发射半径r=R的情况下,当移动基站缓冲区的中心位于2／3R时,网络的总能量消耗最小,当中心位于1／2R时,网络的寿命最长。在r〈〈R的情况下,节点的发射功率可选择{l..k}中的一种传送数据,并给出通过插值作图法得到最佳基站缓冲区位置的设置与节点最佳发射功率的计算方法,相比采用固定功率发射方法,能够将网络寿命提高5倍。     

面向手机短信的隐私保护方案

针对手机短信存在的用户隐私泄露问题,设计一种面向手机短信的隐私保护方案.本方案结合非对称加密技术,通过使用信息接收者的公钥对原始短信进行加密获得短信密文,并结合预设的生命周期信息封装成短信自毁对象(Message Self-destructing Object,MSO)并通过运营商发送给接收者,接收者接收到MSO后对其生命周期进行验证,只有当前时间处于其生命周期内时,才能进一步使用其私钥对短信密文进行解密获取原始短信内容,一旦超过MSO的生命周期,则MSO将被自动删除以保护用户隐私安全.实验分析表明,本方案能够有效保护用户手机短信的隐私安全,实现生命周期控制并自动删除过期短信,并且对硬件系统要求低,开销合理,适合在人们日常生活中进行推广使用.     

基于移动—能量代价函数的无线自组织网络路由策略研究

能量均衡技术一直是无线自组织网络的热点研究领域.在深入研究网络信息传输特性的基础上,提出了一种基于移动-能量代价函数的无线自组织网络路由策略,并用于网络信息传输.首先,本文考虑节点连通性、能量均衡性,提出了一种节点移动策略;然后,以传输路径节点集合中的瓶颈节点剩余能量、传输链路数量作为准则,建立以网络节点为对象的能量代价函数.基于移动-能量代价函数的路由策略从链路层的决策转移到节点层的决策.最后,采用MATLAB数值仿真该路由策略的性能,结果显示:本文提出的移动-能量代价函数的路由策略既保持了原有路由优化的精度,延迟网络瓶颈节点能量下降速度,提高网络生存时间.     

Estimating life-form cover fractions in California sage scrub communities using multispectral remote sensing

The California sage scrub (CSS) community type in California's Mediterranean-type ecosystems is known for its high biodiversity and is home to a large number of rare, threatened, and endangered species. Because of extensive urban development in the past fifty years, this ecologically significant community type is highly degraded and fragmented. To conserve endangered CSS communities, monitoring internal conditions of communities is as crucial as monitoring distributions of the community type in the region. Vegetation type mapping and field sampling of individual plants provide ecologically meaningful information about CSS communities such as spatial distribution and species compositions, respectively. However, both approaches only provide spatially comprehensive information but no information about internal conditions or vice versa. Therefore, there is a need for monitoring variables which fill the information gap between vegetation type maps and field-based data. A number of field-based studies indicate that life-form fractional cover is an effective indicator of CSS community health and habitat quality for CSS-obligated species. This study investigates the effectiveness of remote sensing approaches for estimating fractional cover of true shrub, subshrub, herb, and bare ground in CSS communities of southern California. Combinations of four types of multispectral imagery ranging from 0.15 m resolution scanned color infrared aerial photography to 10 m resolution SPOT 5 multispectral imagery and three image processing models - per-pixel, object-based, and spectral mixture models - were tested.An object-based image analysis (OBIA) routine consistently yielded higher accuracy than other image processing methods for estimating all cover types. Life-form cover was reliably predicted, with error magnitudes as low as 2%. Subshrub and herb cover types required finer spatial resolution imagery for more accurate predictions than true shrub and bare ground types. Positioning of sampling grids had a substantial impact on the reliability of accuracy assessment, particularly for cover estimates predicted using multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis (MESMA) applied to SPOT imagery. Of the approaches tested in this study, OBIA using pansharpened QuickBird imagery is one of the most promising approaches because of its high accuracy and processing efficiency and should be tested for more heterogeneous CSS landscapes. MESMA applied to SPOT imagery should also be examined for effectiveness in estimating factional cover over more extensive habitat areas because of its low data cost and potential for conducting retrospective studies of vegetation community conditions.     

Optimal allocation of change points in simple step-stress experiments under Type-II censoring

In simple step-stress experiments under Type-II censoring with the cumulative exposure model and exponentially distributed lifetimes, maximum likelihood estimates (MLE) of the expected lifetimes may not exist due to the absence of failure times either before or after the stress change point. For this reason, when planning a step-stress experiment, the change point could be chosen so as to minimize the probability of non-existence of the MLE. These non-existence probabilities are examined and compared in the one- as well as the two-sample situations. Moreover, the optimal allocations of the change points are discussed and the effects of the use of non-optimal choices for the change points are assessed.     

面向数据对象实体类的需求分析方法

文章介绍一种作者在多个管理信息系统开发中采用的面向数据对象实体类的需求分析方法（ＤＩＣＡＭ）。该方法以数据为中心分析系统的结构。该方法根据数据来源将数据客体分为三类：源数据客体、混合数据客体和生成数据客体。该方法一方面从纵向分析数据客体的属性组成和结构,另一方面从横向分析数据实例特征,将各个数据客体的数据划分为不同的实例类,以实例类的状态、生命过程、组成组描述系统中的数据产生变化,通过实例类状态的获得反映系统的功能。     

近线性神经和元非线性神经元

人工神经网络(ANN)中普遍采用的神经元模型具有单调有界的I／O特性,该文称其为近线性神经元(ALN,approximate－linear neuron),ALN既简化了网络的复杂性,也是限制ANN能力的一个瓶径.通过比较Hopfield神经网络的稳定性和Conway生命游戏的复杂行为,该文提出非线性神经元(NLN,non－linear neuron)的概念,其I／O特性是完全非线性的.ALN可以进一步提高ANN的非线性,从而增强它的功能,余数制神经网络是一个例子.