game mechanics in products services and user interfaces

... Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering for their kind attention and advice in my study and research I am also grateful to Fengling, Tang Yong, Yanni, Priya, Peichin, Gao Fei, Shubin, He Bin, ... Learning Program 71 5.1.3 Internet-based Learning 72 5.1.4 E-learning Services and System Provided by Huaxia Dadi Distance Learning Web 5.2 Measuring Service Quality of Internet-based Learning ... extra-curricula activities Second, distance learning is increasingly popular and becoming a complementary way of learning in formal education at schools as well as in continuous education of employees, because...

Ngày tải lên: 29/09/2015, 13:01

... reduction in the context of linear and nonlinear methods 2.6 Nonlinear Principal Components: Intrinsic Dimensionality x1 43 x1 x2 x2 x3 x3 H-Units x4 x4 Inputs Outputs FIGURE 2.11 Linear principal ... network link the input variables x to the encoding neurons C11 and C12, and to the nonlinear principal components The parameters also link the nonlinear principal components to the decoding neurons ... model and the pure linear model 2.6 Nonlinear Principal Components: Intrinsic Dimensionality 41 2.6 Nonlinear Principal Components: Intrinsic Dimensionality Besides forecasting specific target...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... bootstrapping the initial training set As we discuss in Section 4.2.8, bootstrapping involves resampling the original training set with replacement, and then taking repeated forecasts Bagging is ... point for quite some time during the training period Unfortunately, there is no silver bullet for avoiding the problems of local minima in nonlinear estimation There are only strategies involving ... Begin by randomly drawing two real numbers r1 and r2 from the [0, 1] interval and one random number s from a standard normal distribution The mutated coefficient Ω i,p is given by the following...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... model, we begin by dividing the data into an in- sample estimation or training set for obtaining the coefficients, and an out-of-sample or test set With the latter set of data, we plug in the coefficients ... recursive estimation an expanding window The sample size, of course, becomes larger as we move forward in time An alternative to the expanding window is the moving window In this case, for the first ... based on the fixed training set and one fixed test set of several observations 4.2.1 Recursive Methodology An alternative to a once -and- for-all division of the data into training and test sets is the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... particularly in volatile emerging-market economies Following Bates (1996) and Craine, Lochester, and Syrtveit (1999), we present this process in continuous time by the following equations: √ dS = (µ ... gives a marginal improvement relative to the linear benchmark The paths of the linear and network out-of-sample errors appear in Figure 5.10 We see, not surprisingly, that both the linear and network ... as the linear model What will be more interesting is the forecasting of the switches in volatility, rather than the return itself, in this series We return to this subject in the following section...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... (7.20) The in ation model in the NNRS model has a core linear component, including autoregressive terms, a moving average component, and a nonlinear component incorporating switching regime effects, ... of interest rates They were lowering interest rates, but not enough during the period of deflation, so that real interest rates were in fact increasing We see this in Figure 7.18 192 In ation and ... dependence, since it is well known that when the forecasting interval h exceeds the sampling 176 In ation and Deflation: Hong Kong and Japan interval (in this case we are forecasting for one year...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... Neural Networks,” in Quagliarella, D., J Periaux, C Poloni, and G Winter (eds.), Genetic Algorithms and Evolution Strategy in Engineering and Computer Science: Recent Advances and Industrial Applications ... Economic Modeling, forthcoming Ha, Jimmy, and Kelvin Fan (2002), “Price Convergence Between Hong Kong and the Mainland.” Hong Kong Monetary Authority Research Memoranda Hannan, E.J., and B.G Quinn (1979), ... Forecasting 0.9 Linear Principal Component 0.8 0.7 Nonlinear Principal Component 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 FIGURE 9.2 Hong Kong linear and nonlinear principal...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... proliferation and promotion of apoptosis in this model Dietary supplement containing Schisandra chinensis has been shown to reduce prostate cancer cell growth and induce apoptosis by inhibiting androgen ... contain various anti-carcinogenic compounds including lunasin and lectins that were shown to induce apoptosis in malignant cells [13] As CKBM contains these compounds, this would partially explain ... Cruz) for 90 min, and then incubated with Link reagent (LSAB kit, DAKO) for 60 at room temperature Sections were incubated with Streptavadin (LSAB kit, DAKO) for 60 min, and further incubated with...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:54

... also only showing a few of the bind operations (the dotted lines with arrows pointing to the left) Please take a look, and I’ll point out some of the most important and interesting points Figure ... WordSearchMain.fx file related to creating the Word Search Builder application’s toolbar firstPress: Creating User Interfaces in JavaFX Listing 3-5 Creating the ToolBar Widget in WordSearchMain.fx ... ANDALE_SANS, ANDALE_SANS_UI, ARIAL, ARIAL_BLACK, ARIAL_NARROW, etc faceName : String? size:Integer style:FontStyle* BOLD, PLAIN, ITALIC styleStr:String (Continued) firstPress: Creating User Interfaces...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2013, 12:20

... are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves Our vision is continually active, continually moving, continually holding things in a circle around itself, constituting what is present ... improving services to the general public Public accessibility in terms of time and space was considered to be a vital factor as well as support in handling errands and helping the public to interpret ... civil servants understand, interpret and define the role of research when viewed from their own particular needs and perspectives Since I had received instruction and training in web design from...

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2013, 20:15

... therefore, requires a finer grain substation method than simply inserting the highest level non-terminals in the in the ellipsed input in place of the matching non-terminals in the parse tree of ... record of all interactions The user wassituated at one terminal and was told he or she was communicating with a real natural language interface to an operating system (and an accompanying intelligent ... rather than replacing only "disks" and producing the phrase "fixed head tape drives", which is meaningless in the current domain In these instances the semantic relations captured in a case frame...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... West’ in cutting interest rates and launching stimulation packages, China, India and a host of emerging economies have continued to grow: China at an annual rate of more than 10 per cent and India ... not in ‘sticking to the middle’, ‘retaining two extremes’ or ‘synthesising into a higher whole’, but in getting business just right, appropriate, itting with ever-changing circumstances Winning ... reasoning vs suggestive exemplars; hierarchical vs circular knowledge; polarising -and- choosing vs associating -and- complementing; and brain-driven vs heart-inspired thinking styles By appreciating...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 07:20

... used in economics and the social sciences Hence, leveraging game theory for use in engineering applications is accompanied by many difficulties For instance, researchers interested in applying game- theoretic ... researchers and engineers working in communications and networking with a comprehensive and detailed introduction to game theory, as relevant to wireless and communication networks After introducing ... Applications in wireless communications and networking 4.2.1 Packet-forwarding game 4.2.2 K -player Bayesian water-filling game 4.2.3 Channel-access game 4.2.4 Bandwidth-auction game 4.2.5 Bandwidth-allocation...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 20:20

... (Chapter 6) His inquiry into Chinas football fandom and football-related social disorder delivers a fascinating insight into the difficulties of establishing a national league in the incredible vastness ... lived and worked in Singapore for three years in the 1980s He has had a long research interest in sport in the Peoples Republic of China and has travelled extensively in the country, meeting sports ... European model and receives the bulk of its financing from public governing bodies, both directly (subsidies and purchase of services) and indirectly (building of stadiums) (Andreff 2000; Durand 1999;...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 21:21

... construct and update a model of the user s interests, goals and level of understanding From a QA point of view, the main goal of the dialogue component is to provide users with a friendly interface ... processing We perform query expansion, which consists in creating additional queries using question word synonyms in the purpose of increasing the recall of the search engine Synonyms are obtained ... Strapparava 2001 Improving user modelling with content-based techniques In UM: Proceedings of the 8th Int Confer0,68 ence, volume 2109 of LNCS Springer Who painted the Sistine Chapel? 0,85 0,72...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... DETERMINATION SULPHONAMIDES RESIDUES IN FOOD BY HIGH PERFOPvMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY PART SEPARATION AND QUANTIFICATION SULFAGUANIDINE, SULFAMETHOXYPYRIDINE, SULFADOXINE AND SULFAMETHOXAZONE IN ... (SGU), sulfamethoxypyridine (SMP) and sulfamethoxazone (SMX) in animal foodstuffs (for fish, shrimp, chicken and pig) and food products (frozen shrimp, chicken liver and pig liver) The proposed ... Revired and Expanded, Marcel Dckker Inc 2000 pp 621-693 Ivan Pecorelli, Rita Bibi, Laura Fioroni, Roberta Galarini - Validation of a confirmatorymethod for determination of sulphonamides in muscle...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 21:20

... substances in a variety of products and processes, serving manifold functionalities including cleaning operations (metal parts, facades, textiles), coating and painting (marine anti-foulings, wood ... Approach and definition: The findings of this study are based on literature reviews and stakeholder consultation SUBSTITUTION OF HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS IN PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES FINAL REPORT In order ... facades, textiles), coating / painting / inking operations (marine anti-foulings, wood preservation), fire resistance (flame retardants in printed circuit boards), lubricants and process fluids (loss...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:21

... closure and 90 have already been closed They are also moving most citizen- and businessfacing services and related information on to two websites: Direct.gov.uk and businesslink.gov.uk.35 Transferring ... non-text content and making all content readable and understandable Direct.gov.uk and businesslink.gov.uk meet these standards and the Central Office for Information is consulting with representative ... estate Environment Agency: Building and maintaining river and coastal flood defences in England Evasion of Vehicle Excise Duty Department of Health: Improving Services and Support for People with...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 19:20

... designing and building natural user interfaces, taking advantage of modern input technology, we stand at the brink of a new era, one in which technology can truly integrate into our lives, liberating ... experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information or methods described herein In using such information or methods they should be Mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including ... in terms of both size and range/diversity This underlying driver is the reduction in time and effort that users incur in adopting new ways of interacting with machines In other words, as the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/05/2014, 23:29

... researchers and practitioners in usability and software engineering, and generally to anyone interested in the problem of developing and validating multi-devices or cross-platform user interfaces User interface ... discuss in Chapter 12 the role of HCI patterns and software reengineering techniques in migrating traditional GUIs to web and mobile user interfaces In Chapter 13, Anind Dey, from Intel Research in ... Variable in Redesign Research Directions for the Use of Patterns in Reengineering User Interfaces 12.4.1 Pattern-Assisted Reengineering 12.4.2 Comparing Reengineering to Redesign Conclusion and Future...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 09:59