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An Analysis of Capstone Courses Given Through Distance Education in Turkey

Kaysi, Feyzi - In: International Journal of Distance Education … 16 (2018) 3, pp. 1-17

The purpose of this article is to determine the opinions and experiences of participants who took both distance and formal education courses concerning practice. The case study method was employed for this study. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews. Distance education...

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Priority-Based Stippling and its Stylization Applications

Mould, David; Li, Hua - In: International Journal of Creative Interfaces and … 8 (2017) 2, pp. 31-53

This article presents a new and efficient automatic method for structure-preserving stippling. The core idea is to concentrate on structure preservation by using a priority-based scheme that treats extremal pixels first and preferentially assigns positive error to lighter pixels and negative...

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An Approach to Improve Generation of Association Rules in Order to Be Used in Recommenders

Hamidi, Hodjat; Hashemzadeh, Elnaz - In: International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining (IJDWM) 13 (2017) 4, pp. 1-18

recommender systems. Combining sampling and parallelism in the process, the proposed method, in addition to help perform the … number of rules will be evaluated. One of the innovations of this article is the method of sampling of the database. Instead … of random sampling, information about the best users and items was isolated. After determining the precise amount of …

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Integrating Systems Modelling and Data Science: The Joint Future of Simulation and ‘Big Data' Science

Pruyt, Erik - In: International Journal of System Dynamics Applications … 5 (2016) 1, pp. 1-16

Although System Dynamics modelling is sometimes referred to as data-poor modelling, it often is –or could be– applied in a data-rich manner. However, more can be done in the era of ‘big data'. Big data refers here to situations with much more available data than was until recently...

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Analysis and Evaluation of a Framework for Sampling Database in Recommenders

Hamidi, Hodjat; Mousavi, Reza - In: Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM) 26 (2018) 1, pp. 41-57

In this paper the authors proposed a database sampling framework that aims to minimize the time necessary to produce a … sample database. They argue that the performance of current relational database sampling techniques that maintain the data … integrity of the sample database is low and a faster strategy needs to be devised. The sampling method targets the production …

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Impact Assessment of a National Park Under the Auspices of Unesco

Baourakis, George; Fakotakis, George; Drakos, Periklis; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economies … 5 (2016) 3, pp. 68-84

Crete features many protected areas of exceptional natural beauty that attract thousands of visitors every season. Many local enterprises count on that touristic activity to increase their revenues. One of the most important and well known protected areas of Crete is the Samaria National Park....

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Adjustment of Medical Observations Influenced by Emotional State

Zekri, Firas; Ellouze, Afef Samet; Bouazi, Rafik - In: International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE) 9 (2018) 1, pp. 1-22

Research in neurophysiology and neuropsychology have established a strong dependence between emotion, subjectivity and decision-making. Otherwise, medical observations are used as one of the main inputs of clinical decision support systems (CDSS) which are designed to support patients with...

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Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exportation of Turkey and its Contribution to the Economic Growth

Gökmen, Aytaç; Dinç, Dilek Temiz; Soygür, Seda - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economies … 7 (2018) 3, pp. 1-18

Economic growth is indispensable for the development of a country and welfare of its citizens. Economic activities can be improved with the enhancement of business sectors within its structure. Furthermore, exportation is a substantial means of reinforcing economic growth. In this research, the...

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