Short cue presentations encourage advance task preparation: A recipe to diminish the residual switch cost.

In the task-switching literature, it has frequently been demonstrated that although advance task preparation reduces the switch cost, it never really eliminates the switch cost. This remaining residual switch cost received much attention, and it has been argued that advance preparation is restricted in nature. In the present study, the role of task-cue presentation in the establishment of the residual switch cost was investigated. In 4 experiments, the cue was removed during the preparation interval, and it was hypothesized that this would encourage participants to complete advance task preparation. The results of all 4 experiments provided support for this hypothesis: When the cue was presented for a short time and then removed, the residual switch cost completely disappeared. This was found for different cue types. Furthermore, Experiment 3 demonstrated that it was not the presence of the cue itself but merely differences in advance task preparation that caused the effects. This suggests that advance task preparation is not as restricted in nature as previously assumed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Computer-assisted techniques to enhance transformative learning in first-year literature courses

When students use computers as learning tools, the whole process of learning, and, indeed, the learners themselves, are transformed. This article illustrates some techniques that foster transformative learning in computer-assisted first-year literature classes: first, a lesson plan on A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning that uses Microsoft Word functions, including format painter, tables, and annotation to explore meaning in context; second, a plan for learners to use subconference options in the Daedalus Interactive Writing Environment to analyze Oedipus Rex; finally, a demonstration of how students engage in a meta-reflection process as they explore Barn Burning with Freelance Graphics.Marguerite Jamieson is an English instructor at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland, and a doctoral student at George Mason University. Her research interests include forming bridges between adult learning theory and contemporary literary theory — especially drawing on transformational learning theory and the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Lev Vygotsky.Rebecca Kajs holds a doctorate in English from Texas Woman's University with a concentration in rhetoric. For ten years, she taught the use of heuristic tools for reading analysis at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is currently an associate professor of English and Philosophy at Anne Arundel Community College.Anne Agee holds a doctorate in rhetoric from The Catholic University of America. A professor of English and formerly director of the Humanities Computer Center at Anne Arundel Community College, she is currently the college's Coordinator of Instructional Technology. Dr. Agee and Professor Jamieson have collaborated in a study of the learning environment in a computer classroom, the results of which were published in the Fall 1995 issue of Teaching/Learning Conversations. Dr. Agee has also published Using [Daedalus] InterChange as a Teachers' Journal in the Fall 1995 issue of Wings.     

Optimized element positions for prescribed radar cross section pattern of linear dipole arrays

Approximate closed‐form expression is derived for the scattering from dipole arrays based on the equivalent circuit theory. Then, a method is proposed for synthesis of dipole arrays to produce desired scattering pattern using genetic algorithm (GA). In the synthesis method, the element positions in an array are considered as the optimization parameter and the derived expression is used to evaluate the fitness function of GA. To assess the validity and efficiency of the proposed method, several linear dipole arrays are designed to obtain scattering pattern with low sidelobe level (SLL). A good agreement between the patterns calculated using the expression and simulated by FEKO validates the accuracy of the presented expression. In addition, the numerical results show that the maximum SLL of the scattering pattern is considerably reduced by optimization. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2011.     

FDSS中的人工智能技术研究

从财务决策支持系统ＦＤＳＳ的概念出发,介绍了ＦＤＳＳ的结构框架、知识表示、知识推理,重点论述了人工智能技术在ＦＤＳＳ的应用,主要是在实现ＦＤＳＳ的过程中用到的财务知识表示与财务推理机制,并针对具体的财务实例,介绍如何用财务知识表示与如何用财务推理机制的,并给出了结论。     

Query Processing Techniques for Multimedia Presentations

A multimedia presentation is a synchronized, and possibly interactive, delivery of multimedia data to users. We expect that, in the future, multimedia presentations will be stored into and queried from multimedia databases. In an earlier work, we have designed a graphical query language, called GVISUAL, that allows users to query multimedia presentations based on content information. In this paper, we discuss GVISUAL query processing techniques for multimedia presentations. More specifically, we discuss the translation of GVISUAL queries into an operator-based language, called O-Algebra, with three new operators, and efficient implementations of the new O-Algebra operators using a coding system called nodecodes.     

基于T/2分数间隔的不同变步长盲均衡算法

在分析分数间隔均衡器(FSE)和多模算法的基础上,针对算法固定步长存在收敛速度和剩余误差的性能要求相矛盾的问题,研究以不同变步长的T/2分数间隔多模盲均衡算法.各变步长利用与误差项或均衡输出项的非线性关系自适应调整步长.利用QPSK信号进行仿真分析,结果表明,本算法在收敛速度和稳态误差方面的性能优于固定步长,且相同实验条件下,不同步长的盲均衡算法性能也不同.     

“原子结构”入门知识的教学设计

无机化学中原子结构作为物质结构的入门知识抽象、公式复杂,学生很难适应,难以转变思维模式,严重影响整个物质结构知识、元素化学和后续课程的学习,若从预备知识结合化学史、三种描述方式、多媒体演示几方面进行教学设计,不仅激发学生学习兴趣和自信心,且能事半功倍。     

粗糙管换热器带自旋流的复合强化传热技术

介绍了粗糙管换热器中沿传热管轴向间隔分置旋流片的两区协同强化传热方法。旋流片使流体产生螺旋流,螺旋流在离开旋流片之后依靠自身的运动惯性保持一定距离的自旋流,对管道近壁区与中心区产生互动的协同传热强化。此外,该方法也可用于管间,除了对管间管束的机械支撑外,旋流片也可使管间流体产生自旋运动,实现壳程流体的两区协同传热强化。对现有工业系统的换热器技术升级、实现节能降耗意义重大。