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LEARNING DIFFERENT READING STRATEGIES AS A BASIS FOR LEARNING SKILLS

2020

Based on the latest OECD International Studies (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD], 2019) on reading literacy of Latvian primary school pupils, the overall reading literacy has fallen.The ability to read and understand text is one of the first skills students need at school. Based on observations during practice, primary school learners are technically well literate, that is, they can clearly read what has been written, acknowledge sentence boundaries, and read with appropriate intonation. However, the task of the school is not to teach students to read technically, but to read thoughtfully, so that the information could be understood and used in further learn…

An Intra-Subject Approach Based on the Application of HMM to Predict Concentration in Educational Contexts from Nonintrusive Physiological Signals in…

2021

Previous research has proven the strong influence of emotions on student engagement and motivation. Therefore, emotion recognition is becoming very relevant in educational scenarios, but there is no standard method for predicting students’ affects. However, physiological signals have been widely used in educational contexts. Some physiological signals have shown a high accuracy in detecting emotions because they reflect spontaneous affect-related information, which is fresh and does not require additional control or interpretation. Most proposed works use measuring equipment for which applicability in real-world scenarios is limited because of its high cost and intrusiveness. To tackle this…

Anion and ionic liquid effects on ionogel phases formation

Geminal organic salts have been recently introduced as the third generation of ionic liquids.1 Like their monocationic precursors they generally show high thermal stability and low corrosiveness, as well as high polarity and structural order degree.2 All these features make them good candidates to be used in the formation of conductive gel phases, that afterwards may find application as organized reaction media or in the preparation of dye sensitized solar cells.3 In this context, we have recently synthesized some task specific geminal organic salts and investigated their behaviour as gelators. The obtained salts were able to gel ionic liquid solutions. In order to have information about th…

La nuova disciplina delle mansioni tra flessibilità organizzativa e tutela del prestatore di lavoro

2016

Il saggio analizza la liberalizzazione della disciplina delle mansioni introdotta dal d.lgs. 81/2015 (Jobs Act). The essay analyses the liberalisation of the Italian legal framework on task introduced by Legislative decree no. 81/2015 (Jobs Act).

Reducing the Human Effort in Text Line Segmentation for Historical Documents

2021

Labeling the layout in historical documents for preparing training data for machine learning techniques is an arduous task that requires great human effort. A draft of the layout can be obtained by using a document layout analysis (DLA) system that later can be corrected by the user with less effort than doing it from scratch. We research in this paper an iterative process in which the user only supervises and corrects the given draft for the pages automatically selected by the DLA system with the aim of reducing the required human effort. The results obtained show that similar DLA quality can be achieved by reducing the number of pages that the user has to annote and that the accumulated h…

A Task Execution Scheme for Dew Computing with State-of-the-Art Smartphones

2021

The computing resources of today’s smartphones are underutilized most of the time. Using these resources could be highly beneficial in edge computing and fog computing contexts, for example, to support urban services for citizens. However, new challenges, especially regarding job scheduling, arise. Smartphones may form ad hoc networks, but individual devices highly differ in computational capabilities and (tolerable) energy usage. We take into account these particularities to validate a task execution scheme that relies on the computing power that clusters of mobile devices could provide. In this paper, we expand the study of several practical heuristics for job scheduling including executi…

Some thoughts about the conceptual / procedural distinction in translation: a key-logging and eye-tracking study of processing effort

2014

This article builds on the conceptual / procedural distinction postulated by Relevance Theory to investigate processing effort in translation task execution. Drawing on relevance-theoretic assumptions, it assumes that instances related to procedural encodings will require more effortful processing not only in relation to the time spent on the task but also in terms of product indicators such as seconds per word and number of micro translation units per word. Drawing on key-logging and eye-tracking data, the article shows that there are statistically significant differences when conceptual and procedural encodings are analysed in selected areas of interest, with instances related to procedur…

Extending the sGLOH descriptor

2015

This paper proposes an extension of the sGLOH keypoint descriptor [3] which improves its robustness and discriminability. The sGLOH descriptor can handle discrete rotations by a cyclic shift of its elements thanks to its circular structure, but its performance can decrease when the keypoint relative rotation is in between two sGLOH discrete rotations. The proposed extension couples together two sGLOH descriptors for the same patch with different rotations in order to cope with this issue and it can be also applied straightly to the sCOr and sGOr matching strategies of sGLOH. Experimental results show a consistent improvement of the descriptor discriminability, while different setups can be …

An AHP-based approach to PMISs assessment

2015

The project management environment gets complex and subject to uncertainty. The firm's managers need of tools supporting the decision–making process in order to properly manage project information. PMISs provide features facilitating the project management. The variety of software and the ambiguity of features meaning make the choice of the PMIS a difficult task. The literature analysis confirms the importance of user engagement in features and PMIS assessment and the lack of methodologies satisfying such a task. The paper focuses on the classification and assessment of features of PMIS considering the firm's needs. A case study is presented for the evaluation of a PMISs sample.

Verbal and visual representations in task redesign: how different viewpoints enter into information systems design discussions

2005

We explore an important phase of information systems design (ISD), namely task redesign, and especially how different viewpoints enter into the dis- cussions. We study how one particular visual representation, a process diagram, is interpreted and how alternative, even competing, representations are produced verbally. To tie the visual and verbal representations and the representational prac- tices to wider social practices, we develop and use the Extended Three-dimen- sional Model of discourse. Visual representations emerged as focal in bringing in the different viewpoints and as reference points for discussions. Our model pro- vided a focused and powerful means to unveil for the outside r…