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The Impact of Contact Sessions and Discussion Forums on the Academic Performance of Open Distance Learning Students

open access: yesInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2016
This study investigated the impact of face-to-face contact sessions and online discussion forums on the academic performance of students at an Open Distance Learning (ODL) university (N = 1,015).
Benjamin Olivier
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“All Is Fair in… Meme!” How Heterosexual Users Perceive and React to Memes, News, and Posts Discriminating against Sexual Minorities

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2023
Digital discrimination against sexual minorities is becoming prevalent. It increasingly spreads through discriminatory content that mixes text and images (e.g., memes), thus, making online discrimination more difficult to detect. The present survey study
Chiara Imperato   +2 more
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Online Intelligent Perception of Pantograph and Catenary System Status Based on Parameter Adaptation

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2021
Online autonomous perception of pantograph catenary system status is of great significance for railway autonomous operation and maintenance (RIOM). Image sensors combined with an image processing algorithm can realize the automatic acquisition of the ...
Yuan Shen, Xiao Pan, Luonan Chang
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Live Social Semantics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Social interactions are one of the key factors to the success of conferences and similar community gatherings. This paper describes a novel application that integrates data from the semantic web, online social networks, and a real-world contact sensing ...
Alani, Harith   +5 more
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Online lubricant degradation monitoring using contact charging of polymers

open access: yesApplied Surface Science, 2022
Lubrication of machine parts is necessary to prevent friction and wear in machine operation. However, oxidation of lubricants upon operation changes their chemical and physical properties and causes lubrication performance to deteriorate. Besides, one liter of wasted/used lubricant oil can contaminate a million liters of water.
Baytekin, Bilge   +3 more
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Deconstructing eye contact perception: Measuring perceptual precision and self-referential tendency using an online psychophysical eye contact detection task.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Eye contact perception-the ability to accurately and efficiently discriminate others' gaze directions-is critical to understanding others and functioning in a complex social world.
Carly A Lasagna   +4 more
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Online Contact Impedance Identification for Robotic Systems

open access: yes2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2008
In this paper, we study the performance of various algorithms for fast online identification of environment impedance during robotic contact tasks. In particular, we evaluate and compare algorithms with regard to their convergence rate, computational complexity and sensitivity to noise for different environments using a single degree-of-freedom ...
Haddadi, Amir, Hashtrudi-Zaad, Keyvan
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Eye contact and trust online : The effect of profile pictures on Airbnb booking [PDF]

open access: yes2018 IEEE 12th International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT), 2018
This study investigates uncertainty and trust in peer-to-peer (P2P) e-commerce in the shared economy of Airbnb. On P2P marketplaces individuals do business with each other based on the concept of sharing. This type of business may cause a feeling of risk and uncertainty. Hence, trust fulfils a key element in the transactions.
Broeder, Peter, Remers, Elena
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SOCRATES-CoMix: a platform for timely and open-source contact mixing data during and in between COVID-19 surges and interventions in over 20 European countries

open access: yesBMC Medicine, 2021
Background SARS-CoV-2 dynamics are driven by human behaviour. Social contact data are of utmost importance in the context of transmission models of close-contact infections.
Frederik Verelst   +16 more
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