Eliciting Importance of Attributes, Still an Easy Task?

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Orfelio Leon
Keyword(s):  
Easy Task

Towards Open Graphical Tool-Building Framework

2011 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgars Rencis ◽  
Janis Barzdins ◽  
Sergejs Kozlovics
Keyword(s):  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Activity Diagrams ◽  
Graphical Tool ◽  
One Step ◽  
Uml Activity Diagrams ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Tool Building

Towards Open Graphical Tool-Building Framework Nowadays, there are many frameworks for developing domain-specific tools. However, if we want to create a really sophisticated tool with specific functionality requirements, it is not always an easy task to do. Although tool-building platforms offer some means for extending the tool functionality and accessing it from external applications, it usually requires a deep understanding of various technical implementation details. In this paper we try to go one step closer to a really open graphical tool-building framework that would allow both to change the behavior of the tool and to access the tool from the outside easily. We start by defining a specialization of metamodels which is a great and powerful facility itself. Then we go on and show how this can be applied in the field of graphical domain-specific tool building. The approach is demonstrated on an example of a subset of UML activity diagrams. The benefits of the approach are also clearly indicated. These include a natural and intuitive definition of tools, a strict logic/presentation separation and the openness for extensions as well as for external applications.

The Solidarity Solution

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristi A. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Gender Wage Gap ◽  
Measurement Problem ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Ronald Dworkin ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Political Philosopher ◽  
Equal Income ◽  
Ideal Part

What is a fair income distribution? The empirical literature seems to assume that equal income would be fair, but the equal income answer faces two objections. First, equal income is likely to be inefficient. This book sets aside efficiency concerns as a downstream consideration; it seeks to identify a fair distribution. The second objection—pointed out by both leftist political philosopher G. A. Cohen and conservative economist Milton Friedman—is that equal income is unfair to the hardworking. Measuring labor burdens in order to adjust income shares, however, is no easy task. Some philosophers and economists attempt to sidestep the measurement problem by invoking the envy test. Yet a distribution in which no one prefers someone else’s circumstances to her own, as the envy test requires, is unlikely to exist—and, even if it does exist, the normative connection between the envy test and fairness has not been established. The Solidarity Solution provides a novel answer: when someone claims that her situation should be improved at someone else’s expense, she must be able to give a reason that cannot be rejected by a free and equal individual who regards everyone else as the same. Part I develops the solidarity solution and shows that rigorous distributive implications can be derived from a relational ideal. Part II uses the solidarity solution to critique the competing theories of Ronald Dworkin, Philippe Van Parijs, and Marc Fleurbaey. Finally, part III identifies insights for the gender wage gap and taxation.

Effects of a Moderately Difficult Task on Preschool Children's Concentration and Their Subsequent Choices of Task

1994 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 699-700
Author(s):  
Sachiyo Tanaka
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Easy Task

97 preschool children (4 to 6 years old) were assigned three tasks, easy, moderate, and difficult. The group's concentration on the moderate task and the subsequent choices of task were compared with those in the groups given the easy and difficult tasks. Analysis showed that (1) on the moderate task the group's concentration was high as well as on the easy task. (2) The moderate-task group's subsequent choices of task were different from those given the easy and the difficult tasks. They were not inclined toward the easier or the same and more difficult tasks.

Transfer of Training and Skill Assumptions in Tracking Tasks

1951 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. B. Gibbs
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Of Training ◽  
The Other ◽  
Positive Transfer ◽  
Transfer Effects ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Tracking Tasks ◽  
Initial Learning ◽  
Transfer Measurement ◽  
Rate Of Learning ◽  
The Relationship

Matched groups of subjects were used to test the learning and transfer effects that follow changes in the display, the muscular reactions and the directional relationship between stimulus and response in a tracking task. Two arrangements were compared in the relationship studies: one arrangement of the stimuli and reactions was similar, and the other was opposed to that used in many every-day skills. The familiar arrangement was easier to learn. There was high positive transfer from the unfamiliar to the familiar, and little transfer from the familiar to the unfamiliar. The physical dimensions of the display were varied to give two tasks with different stimuli. The initial learning times were equal for both tasks, and the transfer between them was high, positive, and equal. Two further tasks varied in the extent, speed and force of the required muscular movements. One task proved more difficult to learn initially, and there was greater transfer from the difficult to the easy task than from the easy to the difficult. A further experiment tested the effects of changing the difficulty of a tracking course, and it was found that learning was more rapid on the more difficult course. A difference in difficulty between two tasks, therefore, determined both the amount of transfer between them and the rate of learning the tasks. New measures were developed to test the transfer between tasks of unequal content, and the effect of such inequalities upon the rate of learning. The findings are discussed, as are their possible implications for transfer measurement and their bearing upon existing theories of transfer.

SOCIAL LOAFING AND SELF-BELIEFS: PEOPLE'S COLLECTIVE EFFORT DEPENDS ON THE EXTENT TO WHICH THEY DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES AS BETTER THAN OTHERS

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuelle Charbonnier ◽  
Pascal Huguet ◽  
Markus Brauer ◽  
Jean-Marc Monteil
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Loafing ◽  
Significant Component ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Collective Effort ◽  
Better Than

An experiment tested whether the belief that one is better than others on performance aspects of the self moderates social loafing, the tendency for individuals to expend less effort when working collectively than when working individually. French students performed an easy task either coactively or collectively. They were then asked to rate how they individuate themselves from others on personal abilities within various domains of social life. The loafing effect was especially strong in participants who perceived themselves as better than others, suggesting that self-beliefs related to one's feeling of uniqueness is a significant component of social loafing. This finding is discussed from the perspective of Karau and Williams' (1993) Collective Effort Model.

The MLA and the Study of Foreign Languages

PMLA ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G. Mead
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Foreign Language Study ◽  
Language Study

In surveying the contributions of the Modern Language Association of America to the teaching and study of foreign languages in our country, especially during the last three decades, I hope to recapture the mood and spirit of past events and to pay tribute to those colleagues who took leading parts in them. This is not an easy task, but it is a welcome and a challenging one. Many of these colleagues are deceased, others are retired, and few if any of us during those intensely active years, I suspect, gave much thought to the task of gathering materials and memories for a chronicle of the MLA's role in the development of foreign language study. But it was an inspired and inspiring time—one happier than the present for education in our country—and I am grateful for the opportunity to set down a brief, personal, and inevitably incomplete memoir.

VI.—Post-Reformation Ecclesiastical Seals of Durham

Archaeologia ◽  
1928 ◽  
Vol 77 ◽  
pp. 165-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.H. Hunter Blair
Keyword(s):  
Exhaustive Search ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Complete Series

This Society published in vol. lxxii of Archaeologia an illustrated description of the almost complete series of the seals of the bishops of Durham, from William of St. Calais (1081) to Cuthbert Tunstall (1559), preserved in the treasury of the dean and chapter of Durham. This paper with the ensuing catalogue is an attempt to record the seals of later date belonging to the see and to the cathedral church of Durham, up to the abolition of what remained of the palatinate powers of the bishops in 1836. The writer thought that this would be a comparatively easy task but it has not been so, for after an exhaustive search in all likely places, the result has been disappointing; examples have been difficult to find, some of the bishops are not represented at all and others only by their great seals in chancery. The only examples of episcopal seals of dignity which have been found later than that of Barnes (pi. xiv, no. 2) are that of Cosin (pi. xvi, no. 3) and those of Trevor, Egerton, and Barrington (pi. xvii).

scholarly journals PEREMPUAN MENGGUGAT: Telaah Perceraian Wanita Muslimah Berkarir di Kota Medan

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 319
Author(s):  
Fatimah Zuhrah
Keyword(s):  
Early Stage ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Human History ◽  
Religious Observance ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
The Past ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
The Ideal

<p><strong>Abstrak:</strong> Baiknya pondasi sebuah rumah tangga secara tidak langsung berpengaruh terhadap jatuh bangunnya sebuah negara, dan sebaliknya rusaknya pondasi sebuah keluarga berpengaruh terhadap merosot dan berkembangnya sebuah negara. Beberapa tahun belakangan ini jumlah permintaan gugat cerai istri terhadap suami mengalami peningkatan terutama dari isteri yang berkarir. Penelitian ini melihat permasalahan yang dibangun dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif fenomenologis untuk melihat dan memahami faktor perceraian wanita muslimah berkarir di kota Medan berdasarkan fenomena, fakta dan data yang peneliti temui di lapangan. Berdasarkan temuan penelitian didapat bahwa untuk menegakkan konsep ideal sebuah keluarga sangat sulit untuk dilakukan pada masa sekarang. Kondisi perkawinan sekarang sangat berbeda dengan masa dahulu dalam pemaknaan relasi suami isteri. Dahulu pernikahan memiliki posisi sangat sakral, pernikahan dianggap sebagai ibadah, sehingga orang takut untuk bercerai, karena cerai dianggap aib dan dosa.</p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> <strong>Women Prosecute: A Study of Divorce in Careered-Muslim Women in Medan City</strong>. The good foundation of a household indirectly affects the rise and fall of a country, and vice versa, the damage to a family’s foundation affects the decline and development of a country. In the last decade, the number of divorce petition against husbands has increased, especially from careered-wives. This paper attempts to study the problems using a phenomenological qualitative approach to thoroughly comprehend the factors of divorce of careered-Muslim women in Medan city based on the phenomena, facts and data that researchers encountered in the field. This study finds that to enforce the ideal concept of a family is not an easy task to do at present. The current condition and perception of marital tie within the society is very different from the past. At the early stage of development of human history, marriage were regarded as inherent in religious observance, and thus, people were reluctant to divorce since it was a disgrace and sin.</p><p><strong>Kata Kunci:</strong> gender, feminisme, cerai, wanita karir, Muslimah</p>

scholarly journals Raising Collocational Awareness with Humour

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-113
Author(s):  
Tünde Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Specific Meaning ◽  
Linguistic Structures

AbstractDespite the increased interest that collocations have received in EFL methodology lately, making language learners aware of these multiword constructions continues to represent a challenge for teachers. While there may be different ways of teaching collocations, finding activities that raise collocational awareness efficiently is no easy task. Collocational awareness can be defined as the ability of language learners (and users) to use and acknowledge word combinations in their entirety. Humour can be useful in this regard as it not only ensures a more relaxed atmosphere in the classroom but can also help students to acknowledge and remember specific linguistic structures (among them, also collocations) more easily. In line with Construction Grammar (Goldberg 1995, 1997, 2006), it is believed that collocations are to be treated as constructions, pairings of form with a specific meaning and varying degrees of predictability – teaching them as such can contribute to a better understanding and acquisition of these constructions. After offering a brief overview of the characteristics of collocations and reflecting on the possible advantages of using humour in class, the paper shows possible ways of teaching collocations with humour. The exercises and activities suggested focus on both the productive and receptive competence of language learners and also incorporate the necessary skills required in the language learning process: listening, reading, writing, and speaking.

scholarly journals OPTIMASI RONGGA TERHADAP VARIASI DERAJAT KEVAKUMAN SEBAGAI ISOLATOR

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
MULYONO MULYONO
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Thermal Resistance ◽  
Heat Convection ◽  
Vacuum Pressure ◽  
Temperature Conductivity ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Insulation Materials ◽  
The World ◽  
Natural Heat Convection

In the world of industry, insulation materials are often utilized to maintain the temperature,either low or high. However, since the insulation materials often need to be thick, thus,costly, they are frequently deemed impractical. Therefore, in the attempt to replace the insulationmaterials, a cavity with low vacuum pressure is opted for. Yet, to attain a total (100%) airfreecavity is not an easy task. Such, the cavity usually still bears some amount of air pressurewhich results in natural heat convection through the two surfaces making up the cavity. Thetransfer coefficient of natural heat convection (h) is influenced by some factors, such as, the temperaturedifference, geometry of the cavity, cavity orientation, and characteristics of the fluid,for instance, its pressure, temperature, conductivity, specific gravity (density), and viscosity.The purpose of the study is to find answers to the following question: “How do vacuum pressurevariation and cavity ratio affect the rate of natural heat convection through the a cavity?” Pertinentto the question, the study was aimed to find the appropriate value of the vacuum pressurewhich can function well as an insulator. This study is significant in the attempt to lower downthe rate of heat transfer taking place in a system vis-à-vis the surrounding media. The studyfound out that the degree of emptiness of -60 cm Hg and =5.96, results in a lower rate of heattransfer compared with -20 cm Hg and -40 cm Hg. This means that the vacuum pressure of-60cm Hg bears a bigger thermal resistance than the -20 cm Hg and -40 cm Hg do.

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