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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"usage data"”.
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ScratchStats : a site for visualizing and understanding scratch usage data
… where users can view and understand Scratch usage data through a series of interactive visualizations. Scratch is a visual programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, games, and artwork. Accompanying the Scratch application is the Scratch Online Community, a website …
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GlobalLit : a platform for collecting, analyzing, and reacting to children's usage data on tablet computers
… and provide an opportunity to collect field data from children using tablets and ultimately about child-driven learning. This thesis describes a system, GlobalLit, through which researchers and educators can collect, analyze and react to data from various deployments around the world. The …
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File Usage Analysis and Resource Usage Prediction: A Measurement-Based Study
… demonstrates a practical methodology for file usage analysis and resource usage prediction using trace-data from a production system. A VAX 11/780 system running Berkeley UNIX was instrumented to gather file usage data, in the form of file-related system calls, and resource usage data for each …
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Privacy-preserving power usage control in smart grids
… for a neighborhood. Whenever the total power usage from the neighborhood exceeds the threshold, some or all of the households need to reduce their energy consumption to avoid the possibility of a power outage. This problem is referred to as threshold-based power usage control (TPUC) in the …
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Electronic resources and institutional repositories in informal scholarly communication and publishing
… flow processes. Repository managers consider usage data important and its most popular uses are for advocacy and securing funding. Interpretation of usage data focuses on formal resources but evidence suggests that non-formal resources play an important part in repository visibility. Blogs, …
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Analysis of patient drug usage trends in the POYC scheme
… The aim of this study was to analyse drug usage data within the POYC system using a community pharmacy in Malta as an example. POYC patients who are registered with the pharmacy were selected randomly using an online random number generator. Patient details and drug usage history were …
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Web mining techniques for recommendation and personalization
… through developing and employing Web data mining paradigms. Web data mining is a process that discovers the intrinsic relationships among Web data, which are expressed in the forms of textual, linkage or usage information, via analysing the features of the Web and web-based data using …
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An Evaluation of an i-Ready Math Program for 5th Graders in One School District
… Equally important, I analyzed student assessment data and online program usage data to ascertain the program’s impact on student achievement. The results of this study revealed a lack of fidelity of implementation of the i-Ready Math program. Based on these findings, I proposed an extension to the …
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Saving water in schools: evidence on the use of smart water meters and behavioural insights
… interventions to encourage responsible water usage: detailed water usage data feedback from smart meters, and an interschool competition. Interventions reduced water usage in these schools by 15 to 26%. The information feedback was found to be more effective in reducing night time water use, …
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Student affairs administrators' university relationships: a study of language usage in departmental meetings
… development. The study of figurative language usage provides revealing analogs to the culture, represented through attitudes, values, beliefs, and assumptions. Organizational meetings of four units of a division of student affairs at a large state university were observed over a period of eight …
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Development and Exploratory Findings of a Smartwatch Interface to Facilitate Group Cohesion in a Statewide Health Promotion Program
… In this explanatory mixed-methods study, system usage data were analyzed (e.g., frequency of interaction with smartwatch and smartphone) and participant physical activity (e.g., participant steps tracked by the system). To provide a richer picture of the user experience, use of features, and …
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Cross-user subsidy in residential broadband service
… service quality. The increase in the broadband usage impacts the cost of an ISP through usage-associated costs such as incremental usage cost, cost for expanding the network capacity, and cost from subscriber churns. This paper attempts to understand the relation between broadband usage and …
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Discovering the hidden users of Scratch
Usage statistics ("telemetry data") have become an essential tool for understanding how complex systems are used and how to improve them. However, many of these systems are deployed in areas with limited internet connectivity which hampers the ability to collect telemetry data. In this thesis, we …
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Germanic future constructions: A usage-based approach to grammaticalization
… whose meanings persist to some degree in modern usage. Future constructions thus convey not only future time reference, but also modal meanings of volition, obligation, or possibility. This multifunctionality has been a challenge for previous accounts that aimed to delimit their function to …
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Statistics for electronic resources
… in libraries during the 1990's the topic of usage statistics has been on librarians' lips. The expectations that librarians had of being able to compare resources based on usage statistics were soon dashed as it became apparent that electronic resource providers were not measuring usage …
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Lazy Preservation: Reconstructing Websites from the Web Infrastructure
… crawler Warrick is presented, and real usage data from the public is analyzed. Finally, a novel technique for recovering the generative functionality (i.e., CGI programs, databases, etc.) of websites is presented, and its effectiveness is demonstrated by recovering an entire Eprints …
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Interrelationships Between Urban Travel and Other Infrastructure
… urban systems by demonstrating how alternative data sources can reveal mobility patterns and human activity in near real time. Traditional transportation research depends on household surveys and administrative records, which are costly and slow to capture change. In response, this work examines …
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An adaptive user interface for open educational content
… project, I have developed a framework of meta- data around open educational resources that are used by students to master a given concept. Based on the assumption that a course can be broken down into specfic concepts and that there are several resources available to students both on sites such …
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Using Incumbent Channel Occupancy Prediction to Minimize Secondary License Grant Revocations
… pattern obtained from historical spectrum usage data. Using an example model trained on 48 hours of an incumbent user transmission information, we demonstrate prediction of future incumbent user spectrum occupancy for the next 15 hours with 94.4% accuracy. The SAS uses this information to …
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