Annotations and the collaborative digital library: Effects of an aligned annotation interface on student argumentation and reading strategies

Recent research on annotation interfaces provides provocative evidence that anchored, annotation-based discussion environments may lead to better conversations about a text. However, annotation interfaces raise complicated tradeoffs regarding screen real estate and positioning. It is argued that solving this screen real estate problem requires limiting the number of annotations displayed to users. In order to understand which annotations have the most learning value for students, this paper presents two complementary studies examining the effects of annotations on students performing a reading-to-write task. The first study used think-aloud protocols and a within-subjects methodology, finding that annotations appeared to provoke students to reflect more critically upon the primary text. This effect was particularly strong when students encountered pairs of annotations presenting different viewpoints on the same section of text. Student interviews suggested that annotations were most helpful when they caused the reader to consider and weigh conflicting viewpoints. The second study used a between-subjects methodology and a more naturalistic task to provide complementary evidence that annotations encourage more reflective responses to a text. This study found that students who received annotated materials both perceived themselves and were perceived by instructors as less reliant on unreflective summary strategies than students who received the same content but in a different format. These findings indicate that the learning value of an annotation lies in its ability to provoke students to consider and weigh new perspectives on the primary text. When selected effectively, annotations provide a critical scaffolding that can support students’ critical thinking and argumentation activities. Collaborative digital libraries and applications for the Web 2.0 should be designed with this learning framework in mind.     

工程量清单招投标的实践探索

根据《中华人民共和国招标投标法》实施中的有关问题，探讨了采用工程量清单方式招投标的合理性和可行性，并给出了采用工程量清单法进行招投标的过程与步骤。     

基于XML的试题库模型与实现

由于试题的多样性的类型及半结构性的内容，实现试题规范的数据结构较为困难，造成现有的试题库系统的试题类型较少和内容格式单一。使用XML元数据表示试题的内容，可有效解决上述问题，论文提出一种基于XML的试题库模型，建立具有较高查询效率的试题库组织结构，在系统原型实现上，利用关系数据库的查询性能和XML技术的表现能力，较好地解决了试题库系统对试题类型多样性和查询效率的支持。     

Assessing pre- and post-deformation in the southern Arava Valley segment of the Dead Sea Transform, Israel by differential interferometry

Differential radar interferometry, using archived ERS data over the region of the Dead Sea Transform, allows to detect ground movement (subsidence or uplift) in playas within the southern Arava Valley segment of the Dead Sea Rift. These measurements are consistent with a mean displacement rate of about 0.4 cm/month, in the direction of the radar beam, during the 8-month period preceding the Nuweiba earthquake of 22 November 1995. In the 3 years following the earthquake, the measured rate was smaller by a factor of 10. These movements are not related to salt diapirs or water pumping activities in the area. The exact location, along faults, suggests a possible correlation with pre-seismic and post-seismic fault deformation.A simple fault model consistent with the observed phenomena associates the observed subsidence/uplift to right and left stepping en-echelon fault patterns related to inter-seismic tensional accumulation along the faults. Further observations are necessary on this site and similar fault areas to corroborate the correlation between seismic activity and the observed phenomena. Monitoring of these sites should continue with differential Global positioning system (GPS) measurements and radar interferometric analysis using Envisat and Radarsat as well as archived data (including J-ERS).     

一种按时间切换的最速控制方法

基于初始状态空间下的子空间概念，提出了一种按时间进行切换的最速控制方法，不需要求取开关线或开关面。数字仿真结果表明，采用这一方法是完全可行的。     

实时跟踪控制系统中的数字滤波技术

在高精度的实时跟踪控制系统中，由探测器等其他一些因素给系统带来的噪声将不容忽视，数字滤波将是滤除噪声的有效手段，，由于系统实时性和采样频率的要求，本文介绍几种时跟踪系统中常用的数字滤波方法，并对它们在实时跟踪系统中的作用进行了和比较。     

基于公共存储器进行数据交换的高速数字图象处理系统

本文介绍了一种基于公共存储器进行数据交换的高速数字图象处理系统．给出了公共存储器的设计，描述了处理器对公共存储器的进程同步控制．     

精密数显转台研制

光电传感和精密刻划技术 ,是开发精密数显转台的主要技术基础。本文详细介绍基本原理、结构要求、功能特点、工艺试验和精度测试等。样机系列表明 ,其精度和性能基本达到和部分指标超过 (国家 )部颁一级精度的标准。     

128×128元IRCCD成像技术

研制成功了１２８×１２８元ＰｔｓｉＩＲＣＣＤ，获得了清晰的室温目标热像。文章叙述了该摄像机驱动逻辑电路的设计、驱动方式的研究和视频信号、数字信号的处理。     

Saw and digital technologies in mutlicarrier demodulators

One key technology, for the implementation of future on-board processing payloads, is the multicarrier demodulator (MCD). The MCD is instrumental in allowing FDMA/TDM access schemes which optimize the use of on-board and ground resources in VSAT networks. This paper deals with the analogue and digital implementations of MCD, trying to assess the fields of application of each of the two technologies.