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A framework for provisioning restful services on mobile devices 在移动设备上提供restful服务的框架

2013 International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology Pub Date : 2013-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICASTECH.2013.6707523

C. van der Westhuizen, M. Coetzee

引用次数: 7

The roles and needs of community health workers in developing countries: An exploratory case study in South Africa 发展中国家社区卫生工作者的作用和需要:南非探索性案例研究

2013 International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology Pub Date : 2013-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICASTECH.2013.6707498

Gugu Khalala, I. Makitla, A. Botha, R. Alberts

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引用次数: 4

Relative permittivity of the dielectric composite with small doping of conductive nanoparticles 掺杂少量导电纳米颗粒的介电复合材料的相对介电常数

2013 International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology Pub Date : 2013-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICASTECH.2013.6707491

V. Chetverikov, V. Saenko, A. Tyutnev

引用次数: 2

Prioritizing students' mobile centric information access needs: A case of postgraduate students 优先考虑学生以移动为中心的信息访问需求:以研究生为例

2013 International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology Pub Date : 2013-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICASTECH.2013.6707519

Baldreck Chipangura, J. van Biljon, A. Botha

{"title":"Prioritizing students' mobile centric information access needs: A case of postgraduate students","authors":"Baldreck Chipangura, J. van Biljon, A. Botha","doi":"10.1109/ICASTECH.2013.6707519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASTECH.2013.6707519","url":null,"abstract":"Students enrolled at Open and Distance Learning (ODL) institutions tend to combine study and work and to succeed they have to optimize free time for studying. Therefore, many ODL students access and interact with information in a mobile context, which implies that interaction takes place in dynamic and changing environments. This presents students with a number of overlapping contextual challenges that need to be managed when accessing and interacting with information. Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) are also confronted by these challenges as they strive to provide access through technologies that are accessible, usable, scalable and sustainable to students. Against this background, it is important to have an understanding of the categories of information that students would want to access and interact with through the devices that they privately own, of which mobile phones are the most common. This study investigated the categories of information that students would want to access through mobile cellular phones. The data capturing involved both qualitative and quantitative data. In order to get a comprehensive and representative set of information access needs it was necessary to start with open-ended questions. Based on the analysis of the 50 responses to the open-ended questions, fixed-response questions were formulated. The 84 responses to the fixed-response questions were then analyzed to determine the importance of the information access needs as well as the access frequency. The contribution of this paper is a set of prioritized information needs that provide some insight into the mobile centric information needs of students at the University of South Africa (UNISA) as an example of an ODL institution.","PeriodicalId":173317,"journal":{"name":"2013 International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122555835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Integrating explicit problem-solving teaching into activemath, an intelligent tutoring system 将明确的问题解决教学融入activemath智能辅导系统

2013 International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology Pub Date : 2013-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICASTECH.2013.6707521

Diana Pholo, S. Ngwira

引用次数: 5

Guiding principles for adopting and promoting enterprise 2.0 collaboration technologies 采用和推广企业2.0协作技术的指导原则

2013 International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology Pub Date : 2013-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICASTECH.2013.6707502

R. Louw, J. Mtsweni

引用次数: 8

A critical review of ICT skills for higher education learners 对高等教育学习者的信息通信技术技能进行批判性审查

2013 International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology Pub Date : 2013-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICASTECH.2013.6707503

M. M. Maneschijn, A. Botha, J. van Biljon

引用次数: 6

Dynamic composition of portal interface for GUISET services GUISET服务的门户接口的动态组合

2013 International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology Pub Date : 2013-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICASTECH.2013.6707512

S. Sihawu, M. Adigun, S. S. Xulu, E. Jembere, J. Oladosu

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引用次数: 0

Unicorn: A unified communication solution for marginalized communities 独角兽:面向边缘社区的统一通信解决方案

2013 International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology Pub Date : 2013-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICASTECH.2013.6707506

Okelitsi Nyathi, A. Terzoli, Mosiuoa Tsietsi

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引用次数: 3

Topic modelling in the information warfare domain 信息战领域的主题建模

2013 International Conference on Adaptive Science and Technology Pub Date : 2013-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/ICASTECH.2013.6707492

Alta de Waal, Francois Mouton

引用次数: 0