Search

The analyzed period belongs to the winter season in the hot and humid climate of southeastern Mexico, the space selected as a case study corresponds to a naturally ventilated office, which is located in the city of Coatzacoalcos (Veracruz), at 18 ° 08' north latitude and 94° 42' west longitude. At this latitude, the climate is mainly influenced by the trade winds of the northern hemisphere, which are the cause of precipitation. This region is characterized by having a clear sky with high solar radiation most days of the year. Based on measurements of the interior and exterior temperature of the space for an interval of 16 consecutive days, a parametric analysis of the behavior of this variable on the days of highest and lowest temperature, as well as its influence on thermal comfort, has been carried out. This evaluation proposes a thermal comfort equation for the region and type of space analyzed. Likewise, it is intended to leave a precedent for the thermal behavior of a space built in the winter season in the hot and humid climate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on a vital issue faced by the English teachers regarding correcting grammatical mistakes, which involves not only identifying, correcting and commenting on mistakes, but also producing a valid and relevant grammar rule, usually modified and different from the prescriptive grammar books. Though this process of correcting mistakes may seem primitive, the research shows that problems arise at the initial stage of mistake identification and tend to have a snowball effect and result into communicative failures if not properly addressed. The main research methods employed are observation, question and answer sessions and written work screening. A total of 243 second-year students' written samples (tests, quizzes, homework exercises) with formulated grammar rules over the period of 2018-2021 as well as their oral answers in class have been analyzed. First all of all, the reasons for the students' inability to spot and correct grammatical mistakes are ignorance of the grammatical rules and their inability to matchconf2022@iseic.cz mistakes with a particular grammatical principle. The second reason is students' lack of experience in grasping concepts from English grammar textbooks for teaching schoolchildren. Finally, faulty correction of mistakes is put down to lack of skills to synthesizing grammatical information. To overcome these problems, exercises on grammar rules from authentic textbooks of varying complexity, critical discussions on student presentations aimed at correcting grammar mistakes and introducing the corresponding rules, and role-plays where the aspiring teachers must respond to the students' answers and correct their mistakes are suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Congreso Internacional de Investigacion Academia Journals is the property of PDHTech, LLC and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Conference Proceedings of the Société d'Ergonomie de Langue Française (SELF) is the property of Societe d'Ergonomie de Langue Francaise and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Choosing descriptive keywords to best describe digital media content is crucial for many applications, especially those involving content-based indexing or retrieval. Traditionally such keywords are selected manually, which is labor intensive, restrictive to a limited set of words and inherently subjective to the annotator. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an automatic and objective keyword selection method for annotating video. We specifically used lecture videos and surrogate documents, e.g. transcripts, to extract potential candidate keywords. These potential keywords are then filtered based on a set of seed words to select fewer but more descriptive keywords. The seed words are extracted from the title of the video and subject category. We propose a new objective method to select top ranking keywords based on visual similarity and word sense disambiguation. To validate this approach, the selected keywords are compared to subjectively selected keywords obtained experimentally. Furthermore, the proposed ranking method is also compared to traditional term frequency inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) and state of the art latent dirichlet allocation (LDA) method. The obtained results show that the words selected by the proposed objective method correlate highly with those selected by viewers. In general, the proposed method performs better than TF-IDF and LDA. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The paper presentes a method for the evaluation of biometric systems based on an open ontology of selected segments of biometrics. The ontology was developed in F-logic using the Flora-2 system. Descriptive parameters of biometric characteristics as well as organizational contingency parameters are taken into consideration and a metric for grading a biometric system's adjustment with organizational needs- the adequacy level is introduced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjective, descriptive and injunctive norms are often used synonymously in studies and are simply referred to as the social norms approach. This thesis examined the three types of norms to determine if they are alternate indicators of the same underlying construct of if they are three separate constructs. A survey measuring these types of norms and their influence on behavior was conducted. The results suggest that the three types of norms are, in fact, three separate constructs. This is evidenced by the low correlation between the three types of norms and by the different relationships each norm type has with behavior. The findings of this study have large implications for future studies and campaigns employing norms. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the early work done by Asch (1952), Sherif (1935), and Deutsch and Gerard (1955), the study of normative influences seems to be making a comeback in recent years. Although there is some evidence to support the idea that restructuring normative beliefs can result in behavior change, the norms literature is silent about how or why this influence occurs. The literature also confounds descriptive and injunctive norms. Through a 2 (descriptive norms: high or low) x 2 (perceived benefits: high or low) x 2 (similarity: high or low) between-subjects (N = 174) experiment, we tested whether two cognitive mechanisms moderated the norms-behavior link. Results indicated that descriptive norms do not exert a direct influence on behavior. Rather, perceived benefits moderated the relation between descriptive norms and behavioral intention and perceived similarity moderated the relation between descriptive norms and self-efficacy. Recommendations for norms-based campaigns include (a) making distinctions between descriptive and injunctive norms, (b) specifying the underlying moderating variables, and (c) distinguishing strategies to improve self-efficacy from those to change behaviors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]