(UWG) will inform, facilitate and promote usability and accessibility initiatives for online services (e.g., digital collections, the Libraries ’ web site and intranet, etc.) provided by the Bloomington Libraries in support of teaching, learning and research. The UWG will bring together usability practitioners from the Libraries and serve an advisory role for user assessment issues by providing guidance and coordination for usability and accessibility activities conducted to improve the online services offered

To comprehend the results of a randomized, controlled trial (RCT), readers must understand its design, conduct, analysis, and interpretation. That goal can be achieved only through complete transparency from authors. Despite several decades of educational efforts, the reporting of RCTs needs

MPI (Message Passing Interface) is a specification for a standard library for message passing that was defined by the MPI Forum, a broadly based group of parallel computer vendors, library writers, and applications specialists. Multiple implementations of MPI have been developed. In this paper, we

approaches to learning retrieval functions from examples exist, they typically require training data generated from relevance judgments by experts. This makes them difficult and expensive to apply. The goal of this paper is to develop a method that utilizes clickthrough data for training, namely the query

that represent mobile nodes whose movements are dependent on each other (i.e., group mobility models). The goal of this paper is to present a number of mobility models in order to offer researchers more informed choices when they are deciding upon a mobility model to use in their performance evaluations. Lastly

advocate for changes within their workplaces.We provide a social and historical background on LGBT employee groups and provide a framework/continuum for understanding different approaches to operating these groups.These groups vary in their organizational structures and in their goals. Groups can adopt

In many respects the task of putting together a dedication for such a significant piece of work can be harder to begin than the work itself. There are so many people to thank for the supervision and help I have received along the way, that looking back, you realize how much you have relied on colleagues and family. I would like to thank Professor Glenn Lowry (Retired) and Dr Bob McKay, formerly at the University of New South Wales for both getting me started on the PhD and for many interesting conversations. I would also like to thank Dr Justin Wang from Latrobe University and Dr Stephen Burgess from Victoria University for being a listening post over many years. In particular, I would

This paper presents two studies investigating the influence of social perceptions (perceived loafing, collective efficacy, and cohesion) on group goal processes (difficulty and commitment) and group performance. The role of group goal processes as mediators of the relationships between social

of locomotion. Combinations of steering behaviors can be used to achieve higher level goals (For example: get from here to there while avoiding obstacles, follow this corridor, join that group of characters...) This paper divides motion behavior into three levels. It will focus on the middle level of steering

two of the fundamental problems in unsupervised learning (Duda & Hart, 1973; Chapter 6). In clustering, the goal is to group data points by similarity between their features. Conversely, in dimensionality reduction, the goal is to group (or compress) features that are highly correlated