Search Results - language and languages (ability OR mobility) testing

Language testing / by McNamara, Tim

Subjects: “…Language and languages Ability testing. 35451…”

Language functions revisited : theoretical and empirical bases for language construct definition across the ability range / by Green, Anthony

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Language assessment in practice : developing language assessments and justifying their use in the real world / by Bachman, Lyle

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Criterial features in L2 English : specifying the reference levels of the Common European Framework / by Hawkins,John A.

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Using informative assessments towards effective literacy practices

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English Language Teaching Research in the Middle East and North Africa Multiple Perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction, Sahbi Hidri -- PART ONE: TESTING, EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT -- Chapter One: Assessing Second Language Proficiency under "Unequal" Perspectives: A Call for Research in the MENA Region, Lee McCallum -- Chapter Two: State-of-the-Art of Assessment in Tunisia: The Case of Testing Listening Comprehension, Sahbi Hidri -- Chapter Three: Cultural Content Evaluation of English Language Textbooks (Link Up Series Elementary & Intermediate), Hala Salih Mohamed Nur, Asjad Ahmed Saeed and Abdelkaliq Abbood -- Chapter Four: The Washback Effect of the Thanaweya Amma English Test: Drawbacks and Solutions, Mahmoud Ibrahim -- PART TWO: INTERFACES BETWEEN TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT -- Chapter Five: A Proposed Metacognitive-Based Approach to Promoting EFL Cohesion and Coherence in Essay Writing of Algerian Master Students, Manal Boudghene Stambouli and Amine Belmekki -- Chapter Six: More than a Pyramid of Papers: Students' Portfolios and Developmental Language Assessment in the ESL Classroom, Charles Edonmi -- Chapter Seven: The Effectiveness of Pre-assessment to Differentiate the Reading Tasks for the Mixed-Abilities EFL Learners, Syeda Saima Ferheen Bukhari -- Chapter Eight: Self-Esteem, Self-Expectancy and Oral Achievement in the Tunisian EFL Context, Marwa Mekni Toujani and Tarek Hermessi -- Chapter Nine: Investigating the Quality of Argument Structure in First-Year University Writing, Besma Allagui -- PART THREE: ARGUMENTATION IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS -- Chapter Ten: Aspects of Cohesion and Coherence in Moroccan EFL Learners' Written Discourse, Ahmed Sahlane -- Chapter Eleven: Publish or Perish: The Research Letter Genre and Non-Anglophone Scientists' Struggle for Academic Visibility, Mimoun Melliti -- Chapter Twelve: Hedging in Applied Linguistics Theses: An Exploratory Comparative Study, Nourhan Sorour -- Chapter Thirteen: Analyzing Argumentative Essay as an Academic Genre on Assessment Framework of IELTS and TOEFL, Zulfiqar Ahmad -- PART FOUR: TEACHING DIGLOASSIA AND VOCABULARY -- Chapter Fourteen: Including Diglossia in Teaching Arabic as Second Language Programmes: Suggestions and Implications from a Darija Course in Casablanca, Fracesca Tabloni -- Chapter Fifteen: Vocabulary Instruction through Patterns of Activity Sequencing Use: Revising the Understanding of Integration in Language Teaching, Ahlam Bouirane -- Chapter Sixteen: Arabic-Speaking Students of EFL, Vocabulary and the Art of Structured Review, Nathaniel Lotze -- PART FIVE: ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING PROBLEMS -- Chapter Seventeen: Understanding English Speaking Difficulties: Implications for the English Language Curriculum for the Arab Students in a Pakistani University, Musharraf Aziz -- Chapter Eighteen: Domain-Specific and Domain-General Processing Accounts in Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI): Contribution of Cross Linguistic Evidence, Areej M. …”
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The Everyday Life of an Algorithm by Neyland, Daniel

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School-based interventions for struggling readers, K-8

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Engineering Safe and Secure Cyber-Physical Systems The Specification PEARL Approach / by Gumzej, Roman

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Towards a Synergistic Combination of Research and Practice in Software Engineering

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Applied Computing & Information Technology

Table of Contents: “…Meal-Assistance Robot Operated by Head Movement -- Decision Tree Analysis in Game Informatics -- Binary Blockchain: Solving the Mining Congestion Problem by Dynamically Adjusting the Mining Capacity -- An Efficient Signature Scheme for Anonymous Credentials -- Improve Example-Based Machine Translation Quality for Low-Resource Language Using Ontology -- A Fast Area Labeling Method using Auxiliary Lines -- Heuristic Test Case Generation Techniques Using Extended Place/Transistion Net -- Risk Assessment of Security Requirements of Banking Information Systems Based on Attack Patterns -- mCITYPASS: Privacy-preserving Secure Access to Federated Touristic Services with Mobile Devices -- Heuristic-Based Usability Evaluation Tool for Android Applications -- Automated Essay Scoring System Based on Rubric -- Mobile Development Tools and Method Integration.…”
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Advances in Cross-Cultural Decision Making Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Cross-Cultural Decision Making, July 17-21, 2017, The Westin Bonaventure Hotel,...

Table of Contents: “…A cross-cultural comparison of the accuracy of personality judgements made through social media -- Autochthonous materials & traditional manufacturing methods: Analysis based on cultural and historical features -- Comparison of cross-cultural reactions to crisis events via language and emoticon use -- Geo-tagged social media data as a proxy for urban mobility -- Veterans in STEM: Supporting the transition from military culture to the culture of college -- Nationalism, patriotism and multinational decision-making competence: Evidence from a situation judgment test -- Cultural and social determinants of working conditions in Europe -- Organization & cultural impact of microservices architecture -- Enabling mixed method modeling through the use of causal networks -- A fast track approach towards automatic detection of Gray Zone activities from text -- Challenges and opportunities in gray zone "combat" -- Intra-group tension under inter-group conflict: A generative model using group social norms and identity -- Designing culturally appropriate responses to culturally influenced computer usage behaviours -- Analyzing various functions of prefrontal cortex (PFC) in decision making via brain imaging techniques. .…”
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Multimodal Interaction with W3C Standards Toward Natural User Interfaces to Everything /

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Learning disabilities and e-information : navigating the electronic hypermaze / by Williams, Peter

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EAI International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education TIE'2017 /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Big Data, the Internet of Things and Smart Cities Research: A Literature Review and Research Agenda -- B2C relationship quality on sharing economy under Chinese context -- Improving Higher Education Quality in Jordan using Mobile Technologies for Better Socio-economic Diversity Integration of Disadvantaged Groups using a Mobile Multimedia /Augmented Reality workflow -- Holonovel: Perspective on Enactive Narrative Intelligence -- A Scenario Centred Approach to Emotion Profiling based on EEG Signal Processing -- A Responsive Templating Approach for Generating Collaborative Spaces -- A Study of Digital Science Fiction Prototyping in an Elementary School Setting -- CSF Dream Academy: Using Fiction, Cardboard and Simple Electrical Circuits as Educational Tools to Lift Disadvantaged Children Out of the Poverty Trap -- Using a Creative Science Approach for Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Postgraduate Students -- Developing the Business Process Management Performance of an Information System Using the Delphi Study Technique -- Logistic Model Based Evaluation of Anti-Counterfeiting Effectiveness for Consumer Goods -- Idea validation for an acceleration program connected with equity based crowdfunding -- Omni-channel Service Architectures in a Technology-based Business Network: An Empirical Insight -- Science Fiction Prototypes Illustrating Future Digital See-Through Structures in Mobile Work Machines -- Teaching Creativity in the Context of a Business School -- Enhancing Student Retention and Engagement within Higher Education -- Educating Responsible Innovators-to-be: Hands-on Participation with Biotechnology -- Smart Enhanced Context-Aware for Flipped Mobile Learning: SECA-FML -- Designing interactive tools for learning in the digital age -- Semantic-based Search Engine System for Graph Images in Academic Literature -- A Low-Cost Portable Health Platform for the Monitoring of Human Physiological Signals -- ICT Technologies that are Essential to Smart Cities Dimensions -- Creating Content for Educational Testing Using a Workflow that Supports Automatic Item Generation -- Alternative Learning Experiences: An Innovative Project Stimulating Creative faculty of Humanities Students -- The shape of firms: opportunities from rapid manufacturing -- Conclusion.…”
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Advanced Topics in Intelligent Information and Database Systems

Table of Contents: “…Origins, assumptions and goals -- The Impact of User Sentiment Aroused by The-day-of-the-week on the Recommendation Effectiveness in Microblog -- Multi-Sentence Compression Using Word Graph and Integer Linear Programming -- A Performance Comparison of Feature Extraction Methods forSentiment Analysis -- A Study of Plagiarism Checker System Based on Chinese Word Segmentation and SQL Intersection Operation Technique -- Text Summarization Based on Classification Using ANFIS -- Part V: Innovations in Web and Internet Technologies -- Analysis of Indoor Positioning Based on BLE -- A Fusion Technique of Schema and Syntax Rules for Validating Open Data -- Job Description Language for a Browser-Based Computing Platform - A Preliminary Report -- Measuring the Effectiveness of Knowledge Driven Web Applications -- Responsive Data Table Solution with New Scrolling Control Gesture for Better User Experience -- Part VI: New Methods and Applications in Software Engineering -- Adaptation of an ANN-Based Air Quality Forecasting Model to a New Application Area -- Checking Compliance of Program with SecureUML Model -- Generation of Test Data using Genetic Algorithm and Constraint Solver -- Investigating the Issues of using Agile Methods in Offshore Software Development in Sri Lanka -- A Method forAutomated Test Cases Generation from UML Models with String ConstraintS -- Mobile Application for Calculation of Optimal Route Between Searched Points of Interest -- On Implementation of the Assumption Generation Method for Component-Based Software Verification.…”
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Information Technology - New Generations 15th International Conference on Information Technology /

Table of Contents: “…Part I Cybersecurity -- Safeguarding Personal Health Information: Case Study -- Cybersecurity as People Powered Perpetual Innovation -- Performance Study of the Impact of Security on 802.11ac Networks -- Training Neural Tensor Networks with the Never Ending Language Learner -- PERIA-Framework: A Prediction Extension Revision Image Annotation Framework -- The Modern State and the Further Development Prospects of Information Security in the Republic of Kazakhstan -- Evaluating Cyber Threats to the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) Spine Network -- A Virtual Animated Commentator Architecture for Cybersecurity Competitions -- Malicious Software Classification using VGG16 Deep Neural Network's Bottleneck Features -- Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Assessment (A Systematic Review Approach) -- A Self Proxy Signature Scheme over NTRU Lattices -- Towards an Ontology of Security Assessment: a core model proposal -- Integration of Mobile Forensic Tool Capabilities -- Deep Packet Inspection: A Key Issue for Network Security -- What Petya/NotPetya Ransomware is and What its Remidiations are -- Analysis of Security Vulnerability and Analytics of Internet of Things (IOT) Platform -- New Techniques for Public Key Encryption with Sender Recovery -- Cloud Intrusion Detection and Prevention system for M-voting application in South Africa -- Protecting Personal Data with Blockchain Technology -- The Role of CAE-CDE in Cybersecurity Education for Workforce Development -- Software Optimizations for DES -- Part II Networking and Wireless Communications -- Design and Development of VXLAN based Cloud Overlay Network Monitoring System and Environment -- End to End Delay Analysis in a Two Tier Cluster Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks -- Tools to Support SMEs to Migrate to the Cloud: Opportunities and Challenges -- A Dual canister medicine IoT Dispenser -- Local Clock Synchronization without Transmission Delay Estimation of Control Messages in Wireless Sensor Networks -- Denial of service attacks inwireless sensor networks with proposed countermeasures -- Part III Education and Technology -- Internet-Based Education: A New Milestone for Formal Language and Automata Courses -- Teaching Communication Management in Software Projects through Serious Educational Games -- Gamification applied in the teaching of agile Scrum methodology -- An Experience of Using a Board Serious Virtual Game for Teaching the SCRUM Framework -- Part IV Agile Software Testing and Development -- Teaching Scrum by Doing Scrum in Internships in South Africa to Prepare Interns for Agile Projects -- Alignment of Requirements and Testing in Agile: an Industrial Experience -- Health Care Information Systems: A Crisis Approach -- Using Correct-by-Construction Software Agile Development -- Service-Centered Operation Methodology (MOCA) application supported by computer science to improve continuously care quality in public services -- Improving Agile Software Development with Domain Ontologies -- A Stratified Sampling Algorithmfor Artificial Neural Networks -- Part V Data Mining/Machine Learning -- Mining ENADE Data from the Ulbra Network Institution -- Fault diagnostic of variance shifts in clinical monitoring using an Artificial Neural Network Input Gain Measurement Approximation (ANNIGMA) -- Investigating Attribute Assessment for Credit Granting on a Brazilian Retail Enterprise -- Cross-language approach for sentiment classification in Brazilian Portuguese with ConvNets -- Thematic Spatiotemporal Association Rules to Track the Evolving of Visual Features and their Meaning in Satellite Image Time Series -- DeRis: Information system supporting the prediction of default risk in companies -- Taking a Steppe towards optimizing Note-Taking Software by creation of a Note Classification Algorithm -- Pattern Recognition for Time Series Forecasting: A Case Study of a Helicopter's Flight Dynamics -- A model for hour-wise prediction of mobile device energy availability -- Enhancing Lipstick Try-On with Augmented Reality and Color Prediction Model -- A Traffic Light Recognition Device -- An Approach to Prepare Data to Feed Visual Metaphors in a Multiple View Interactive Environment -- Reproducible Research in Document Analysis and Recognition -- Music Genre Classification using Data Mining and Machine Learning -- Improving word representations using Paraphrase dataset -- A Initial Experimental Evaluation of the NeuroMessenger: A Collaborative Tool to Improve the Empathy of Text Interactions -- Dual Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Sub-Character Representation Learning -- Business Intelligence Dashboard Application for Insurance Cross Selling -- Speech Features Analysis for Tone Language Speaker Discrimination Systems -- Selection of Transformations of Continuous Predictors in Logistic Regression -- Part VI Software Engineering -- A Generic Approach to Efficiently Parallelize Legacy Sequential Software -- Clustering and Combinatorial Methods for Test Suite Prioritization of GUI and Web Applications -- A Timed Petri NetModel to Specify Scenarios of Video Games -- Survey of Biometric Techniques for Automotive Applications -- A Survey on adoption Good Practices for ICT Governance at Enhanced Organizations -- Budget and User Feedback Control Strategy-based PRMS Scenario Web Application -- A Controlled Natural Language Editor for Semantic of Business Vocabulary and Rules -- An Approach Based on Possibilistic WorkFlow Nets to Model Multiplayer Video Games -- A Requirements Engineering-based Approach for evaluating Security Requirements Engineering Methodologies -- Increasing the prediction quality of software defective modules with automatic feature engineering -- Part VII High Performance Computing Architectures -- NSF Noyce Recruitment and Mentorship -- Mining Associations between Two Categories using Unstructured Text Data in Cloud -- A Note on Computational Science Curriculum -- Development of a Local Cloud-Based Bioinformatics Architecture -- Part VIII Computer Vision, Image Processing/Analysis -- AComputer Vision Based Algorithm for Obstacle Avoidance -- The ST-Vis tool for SpatioTemporal Visualization -- Detection of early gastric cancer from endoscopic images using Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima -- Detection method of early esophageal cancer from endoscopic image using dyadic wavelet transform and four-layer neural network -- Study of Specific Location of Exhaustive Matching in Order to Improve the Optical Flow Estimation -- Solarpowered UAV Platform System: a Case Study for Ground Change Detection in BRIC Countries -- Part IX Health, Bioinformatics, Pattern Detection and Optimization -- Benefits of Establishing Makerspaces in Distributed Development Environment -- Semantic Description of Healthcare Devices to Enable Data Integration -- Applying transfer learning to QSAR regression models -- Investigating the Recognition of Non-Articulatory Sounds by using Statistical Tests and Support Vector Machine -- A Complete Diabetes Management and Care System -- On the use of van der PauwTechnique to Monitor Skin Burning in Patients Undergoing Interferential Current Therapy (IFC) with Extension to Other E-Stim Monitoring -- Part X Potpourri -- Smart Lighting Controlling System: Case Study of Yarmouk University Museum -- Incremental Topology Generated for ANN A Case Study on a Helicopter's Flight Simulation -- Degree Aware Triangulation of Annular Regions -- Heuristic Approaches for the Open-Shop Scheduling Problem -- Continuous State Power-down Systems for Renewable Energy Management -- Extracting Timing Models from Component-based Multi-criticality Vehicular Embedded Systems -- Part XI Short Papers -- Customer services management and satisfaction of Internet-related banking of First National Bank -- BIG IoT - Interconnecting IoT Platforms from different domains - First success story -- Cross-Cultural Perspective of E-Commerce -- Website Usability Requirements: Through the Lens of Individual's Perception -- Methods of Ensuring the Reliability and Fault Tolerance of Information Systems -- Applying a Method for Credit Limit Reviews in a Brazilian Retail Enterprise -- Application of an Effective Methodology for Analysis of Fragility and Its Components in the Elderly -- A Classifier Evaluation for Payments' Default Predictions in a Brazilian Retail Company -- Confidentiality, Integrity & Availability in Electronic Health Records:An Integrative Review -- Operating System Security Management and…”
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Advances in Dependability Engineering of Complex Systems Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Dependability and Complex Systems DepCoS-RELCOMEX, July 2 - 6, 2017,...

Table of Contents: “…Zarandi -- 16.Comparative analysis of calculations in cryptographic protocols using a combination of different bases of finite fields -- 17.Dynamic Redundancy in Communication Network of Air Traffic Management System -- 18.Availability models and maintenance strategies for smart building automation systems considering attacks on component vulnerabilities -- 19.Concept of multi-criteria evaluation of the airport security control process -- 20.Extending Continuous Integration with post-mortem debug automation of unhandled exceptions occurred in kernel or user mode applications -- 21.The Methodology of Studying of Active Traffic Management Module Self-Oscillation Regime -- 22.Effectiveness examination of a multi-channel CSMA/CA detector -- 23.IaaS vs. traditional hosting for web applications - cost effectiveness analysis for a local market -- 24.High quality stabilization of an inverted pendulum using the controller based on trigonometric function -- 25.The application of RFID technology in supporting the process of reliable identification of objects in video surveillance systems -- 26.Aspect-oriented management of service requests for assurance of high performance and dependability -- 27.Process of mobile application development from the security perspective -- 28.Managing and Enhancing Performance Benchmarks;Jakub Maleszewski and Janusz Sosnowski -- 29.Reliability Optimization for Controller Placement in Software-Defined Networks -- 30.Agent Approach to Network Systems Experimental Analysis in Case of Critical Situations -- 31.RELIABILITY ASSESSMENT OF DRIVING SYSTEMS OF CITY BUSES;Marek M³yñczak -- 32.Testing the significance of parameters of models estimating execution time of parallel program loops according to the Open MPI standard -- 33.On application of regime-switching models for short-term traffic flow forecasting -- 34.Critical information infrastructure protection model and methodology -- 35.The method of creating players in the marketing strategy;Henryk Piech -- 36.Principles of mobile walking robot control in scope of technical monitoring tasks -- 37.Computer Systems - Simple -- 38.Improving FPGA Implementations of BLAKE and BLAKE2 Algorithms with Memory Resources -- 39.Assurance Case Patterns On-line Catalogue;Monika Szczygielska and Aleksander Jarzêbowicz -- 40.Information system as a cause of cargo handling process disruption in intermodal terminal -- 42.Stability Enhancement Against Fluctuations in Complex Networks by Optimal Bandwidth Allocation -- 43.The scope of the collected data for a holistic risk assessment performance in the road freight transport companies -- 44.Language Processing Modelling Notation - orchestration of NLP microservices -- 45.Type Variety Principle and the Algorithm of Strategic Planning of Diversified Portfolio of Electricity Generation Sources.…”
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Cognitive Technologies

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Recent Developments in Intelligent Computing, Communication and Devices Proceedings of ICCD 2017 /

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