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Design of immersive virtual reality system to improve communication skills in individuals with autism
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Kassel University Press GmbH
, 2017 , Article)
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) regularly experience situations in which they need to give answers but do not know how to respond; for example, questions related to everyday life activities that are asked ...
Spatial variation in coral reef fish and benthic communities in the central Saudi Arabian Red Sea
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PeerJ
, 2017 , Article)
Local-scale ecological information is critical as a sound basis for spatial management and conservation and as support for ongoing research in relatively unstudied areas. We conducted visual surveys of fish and benthic ...
Turbulence effects on the autoignition of DME in a turbulent co-flowing jet
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Elsevier
, 2017 , Article)
Dimethyl ether (DME) autoignition in turbulent co-flowing jets with preheated air is studied using the one-dimensional turbulence (ODT) model. We investigate the effects of molecular and turbulent transport on the autoignition ...
A concept analysis scheme of simple stories for learning resources through extraction of domain-based multimedia elements
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International Association of Online Engineering
, 2017 , Article)
Children with special needs face major difficulties to understand the script of stories. They cannot comprehend the words' meaning properly. Instructors use different techniques to explain them. They read the script several ...
Hierarchy based information requirements for sustainable operations of buildings in Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2017 , Article)
Information flows in construction projects are generally focused on the needs of the design and construction phases. This creates disruption of workflows across the project stages and in particular with the information ...
The many benefits of annotator rationales for relevance judgments
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International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
When collecting subjective human ratings of items, it can be difficult to measure and enforce data quality due to task subjectivity and lack of insight into how judges arrive at each rating decision. To address this, we ...
Technology Innovation and Engineering' Education and Entrepreneurship (TIEE) in engineering schools: Novel model for elevating national knowledge based economy and socio-economic sustainable development
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MDPI
, 2017 , Other)
The Technology Innovation and Engineering Education (TIEE) is a proposed Unit/Center/Department concept model inside a college of engineering. The TIEE concept has been developed in particular taking in consideration the ...
Effect of soil moisture on the response of soil respiration to open-field experimental warming and precipitation manipulation
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
, 2017 , Article)
Soil respiration (RS, Soil CO2 efflux) is the second largest carbon (C) flux in global terrestrial ecosystems, and thus, plays an important role in global and regional C cycling; moreover, it acts as a feedback mechanism ...
A Novel Green Synthesis of Thalidomide and Analogs
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Hindawi Limited
, 2017 , Article)
Thalidomide and its derivatives are currently under investigation for their antiangiogenic, immunomodulative, and anticancer properties. Current methods used to synthesize these compounds involve multiple steps and extensive ...
The World (of Warcraft) through the eyes of an expert
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PeerJ
, 2017 , Article)
Negative correlations between pupil size and the tendency to look at salient locations were found in recent studies (e.g., Mathôt et al., 2015). It is hypothesized that this negative correlation might be explained by the ...