scholarly journals JARET: A Human Assistive A.I. Agent for Goal Review and Time Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 392
Author(s):  
Andrew Schwabe
Keyword(s):  
Time Management ◽  
Value Function ◽  
Interactive System ◽  
Student Preferences ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Load Theory ◽  
A Value ◽  
Perceived Difficulty ◽  
Hard And Soft Constraints ◽  
Best Fit

Many students do not set goals or plan their time weekly (due to lack of ability, perceived difficulty, and other reasons) resulting in procrastination, stress, and lower academic performance. This paper presents the design methodology and considerations for a human assistive AI agent that helps students review and plan for study goals, reducing a large abstract problem into a set of simpler review tasks.  J.A.R.E.T. (Just A Recommender Engine for Time) uses key principles from Self-Regulated Learning and Cognitive Load Theory in an interactive system that guides students through focused goal review and planning tasks, then uses a constraint satisfaction AI agent to assemble a proposed calendar schedule designed to help achieve the student’s goals.  The AI agent uses hard and soft constraints with a value function designed and searches for a best fit that follows constraints while trying to also fit student preferences.  Results show that the design is able to reliably build recommended solutions when constraints and preferences are reasonable and not overly restrictive.

Postmoney theory: value function in the domain of postmoney

foresight ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 554-570
Author(s):  
Boyan Christov Ivantchev
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Value Function ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Strong Base ◽  
Content Type ◽  
A Value ◽  
First Time

Purpose The purpose of this study is to research the latest quantitative and qualitative transformations of money and its interaction with the market economy and societies in terms of their influence on the inner nature of money and its transformation from a simple tool to an aim per se, i.e. postmoney. Transforming the perception of the intrinsic value and “soul” of the money into the postmoney, influenced by the rising longevity and wide expectation for the ability to scientifically prolong the human life, will be discussed. This transformation will be confirmed by analysing the results from a national representative sociological survey (panel study with sample size n = 1,000). Design/methodology/approach The author uses the following philosophical methodological approaches – comparative-constructive, phenomenological, cognitive and deconstructive analysis. Findings The objective and qualitative reasons offered by the postmoney theory (PMT) for the transformation of money into postmoney, are related to the being of temporality, as well as to technologization and the sixth factor of production, scientific exponentiality and mental changes in the human being. A current postmoney survey gives a strong base to believe that the perception of an intrinsic value of postmoney changes the shape of a value function – from logarithmic to linear or even stochastic. This is the reason to believe that increasing of a postmoney quantity will lead to a qualitative transformation and psychological increase of postmoney sensitivity. Research limitations/implications The author intends to expand the postmoney survey on the international level so to confirm local findings. Practical implications Postmoney survey might be used as a powerful tool in creating and legalizing non-monistic money based on blockchain technologies and philosophical and socio-economic research of the postmoney issue. Social implications The future of money is of great importance for the exponentiality of the socio-economic environment and societies. Social impact of the money will be inevitably rising in the domain of postmoney perception. Originality/value The author of the current paper coined for the first-time notion of postmoney and now is expanding research developing PMT. As per the best knowledge of the author, shape of the curve of value function was not questioned and believes it might be of help to better understand the money phenomenon.

scholarly journals Structural Relationship among Mobile Phone Dependence, Self-Efficacy, Time Management Disposition, and Academic Procras-tination in College Students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Sheng Chen ◽  
Jing Li ◽  
Seung-Yong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Academic Procrastination ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
The Relationship

Background: We aimed to investigate the relationship among mobile phone dependence, self-efficacy for self-regulated learning, time management disposition, and academic procrastination in Chinese students majoring in physical education. In addition, we explored the mediating roles of self-efficacy for self-regulated learning and time management disposition in the relationship between mobile phone dependence and academic procrastination. Methods: We adopted a random sampling method to identify 324 physical education majors at five universities in Shaanxi Province, China in 2020. Data were analyzed via exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis, structural equation model analysis, and path analysis. Results: Mobile phone dependence had significant positive effects on academic procrastination (P<0.001) and self-efficacy for self-regulated learning (P<0.05) but a significant negative effect on time management disposition (P<0.001). Self-efficacy for self-regulated learning had a significant positive effect on academic procrastination (P<0.001), while time management disposition had a significant negative effect on academic procrastination (P<0.01). Notably, self-efficacy for self-regulated learning and time management disposition mediated the relationship between mobile phone dependence and academic procrastination (P<0.05). Conclusion: In addition to its direct effect on academic procrastination, mobile phone dependence exerts an indirect effect via time management disposition and self-regulated learning efficacy. Reducing students’ dependence on mobile phones is necessary for attenuating academic procrastination on university campuses. Thus, universities should aim to restrict the use of mobile phones in the classroom, actively cultivate students’ confidence in their self-regulated learning ability, and educate them regarding appropriate time values.

scholarly journals Examining Procrastination among University Students through the Lens of the Self-Regulated Learning Model

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Pierpaolo Limone ◽  
Maria Sinatra ◽  
Flavio Ceglie ◽  
Lucia Monacis
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
Academic Settings ◽  
Account Due

Generally considered as a prevalent occurrence in academic settings, procrastination was analyzed in association with constructs such as self-efficacy, self-esteem, anxiety, stress, and fear of failure. This study investigated the role played by self-regulated learning strategies in predicting procrastination among university students. To this purpose, the relationships of procrastination with cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies and time management were explored in the entire sample, as well as in male and female groups. Gender differences were taken into account due to the mixed results that emerged in previous studies. This cross-sectional study involved 450 university students (M = 230; F = 220; Mage = 21.08, DS = 3.25) who completed a self-reported questionnaire including a sociodemographic section, the Tuckman Procrastination Scale, the Time Management Scale, and the Metacognitive Self-Regulation and Critical Thinking Scales. Descriptive and inferential analyses were applied to the data. The main findings indicated that temporal and metacognitive components play an important role in students’ academic achievement and that, compared to females, males procrastinate more due to poor time management skills and metacognitive strategies. Practical implications were suggested to help students to overcome their dilatory behavior.

scholarly journals Goal Setting and MOOC Completion

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erwin Handoko ◽  
Susie L. Gronseth ◽  
Sara G. McNeil ◽  
Curtis J. Bonk ◽  
Bernard R. Robin
Keyword(s):  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Causal Attribution ◽  
Course Completion ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
And Performance

Despite providing advanced coursework online to learners around the world, massive open online courses (MOOCs) have had notoriously low completion rates. Self-regulated learning (SRL) frames strategies that students can use to enhance motivation and promote their engagement, persistence, and performance self-monitoring. Understanding which SRL subprocesses are most relevant to the MOOC learning context can guide course designers and instructors on how to incorporate key SRL aspects into the design and delivery of MOOCs. Through surveying 643 MOOC students using the Online Self-Regulated Learning Questionnaire (OSLQ), the present study sought to understand the differences in the use of SRL between those who completed their course and those who did not. MOOC completers were found to have significantly higher applications of one SRL specific subprocess, namely goal setting. Additional SRL subprocesses of task interest/values, causal attribution, time management, self-efficacy, and goal-orientation also emerged from an analysis of open-ended responses as key contributors to course completion. The findings from this study provide further support regarding the role of SRL in MOOC student performance and offer insight into learners’ perceptions on the importance of SRL subprocesses in reaching course completion.

scholarly journals Optimal Foreign Exchange Rate Intervention in Lévy Markets

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masimba Aspinas Mutakaya ◽  
Eriyoti Chikodza ◽  
Edward T. Chiyaka
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Impulse Control ◽  
Value Function ◽  
Quasivariational Inequalities ◽  
Expected Number ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Exchange Rate ◽  
Intervention Costs ◽  
Exchange Rate Intervention

This paper considers an exchange rate problem in Lévy markets, where the Central Bank has to intervene. We assume that, in the absence of control, the exchange rate evolves according to Brownian motion with a jump component. The Central Bank is allowed to intervene in order to keep the exchange rate as close as possible to a prespecified target value. The interventions by the Central Bank are associated with costs. We present the situation as an impulse control problem, where the objective of the bank is to minimize the intervention costs. In particular, the paper extends the model by Huang, 2009, to incorporate a jump component. We formulate and prove an optimal verification theorem for the impulse control. We then propose an impulse control and construct a value function and then verify that they solve the quasivariational inequalities. Our results suggest that if the expected number of jumps is high the Central Bank will intervene more frequently and with large intervention amounts hence the intervention costs will be high.

Mass transfer and kinetics of the chemical vapor deposition of SiC onto fibers

1998 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 2251-2261 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Jack Lackey ◽  
Sundar Vaidyaraman ◽  
Bruce N. Beckloff ◽  
Thomas S. Moss III ◽  
John S. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Chemical Vapor Deposition ◽  
Vapor Deposition ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
Chemical Vapor ◽  
Total Flow ◽  
A Value ◽  
Factor Expression ◽  
Kinetics Of ◽  
Best Fit

An internally consistent set of data was generated for the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of SiC from methyltrichlorosilane (MTS) and H2 at atmospheric pressure. A moving fiber tow was used as the substrate. Coating rates between 0.3 and 3.7 µm/min and deposition efficiencies between 24 and 48% were obtained for MTS and H2 flow rates in the range 30 to 200 cm3/min and 300 to 2000 cm3/min, respectively. The data were analyzed and found to be best fit under a mass transfer regime. Based on this fit, a value of the constant in the Chilton–Colburn j factor expression for a moving fiber tow was estimated to be 2.74 × 10−6 with a standard deviation of 3.2 × 10−7. The efficiency of the reaction was found to decrease with increases in the total flow rate, indicating that the effect of the decreased residence time of reagents in the reactor was larger than the increase in the mass transfer coefficient. Finally, a comparison between the efficiencies for a stationary and a moving tow revealed that the moving tow had a higher efficiency, possibly due to a disruption of the boundary layer by the tow motion or due to the decrease in the canning of the moving tow.

scholarly journals The relationship between flexible and self-regulated learning in open and distance universities

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Bernard Bergamin ◽  
Simone Ziska ◽  
Egon Werlen ◽  
Eva Siegenthaler
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Flexible Learning ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Regulated Learning ◽  
The Face ◽  
High Flexibility ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Flexibility in learning provides a student room for volitional control and an array of strategies and encourages persistence in the face of difficulties. Autonomy in and control over one’s learning process can be seen as a condition for self-regulated learning. There are a number of categories and dimensions for flexible learning; following professional publications, time, location, lesson content, pedagogy method, learning style, organization, and course requirements are all elements to consider. Using these categories and the dimensions of flexible learning, we developed and validated a questionnaire for an open and distance learning setting. This article reports on the results from a study investigating the relationship between flexible learning and self-regulated learning strategies. The results show the positive effects of flexible learning and its three factors, time management, teacher contact, and content, on self-regulated learning strategies (cognitive, metacognitive, and resource-based). Groups that have high flexibility in learning indicate that they use more learning strategies than groups with low flexibility.</p>

scholarly journals The Self-Regulation-View in Writing-to-Learn: Using Journal Writing to Optimize Cognitive Load in Self-Regulated Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 1089-1126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Nückles ◽  
Julian Roelle ◽  
Inga Glogger-Frey ◽  
Julia Waldeyer ◽  
Alexander Renkl
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Cognitive Load Theory ◽  
Journal Writing ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Writing To Learn ◽  
Self Regulated Learning ◽  
Load Theory ◽  
Regulated Learning

Abstract We propose the self-regulation view in writing-to-learn as a promising theoretical perspective that draws on models of self-regulated learning theory and cognitive load theory. According to this theoretical perspective, writing has the potential to scaffold self-regulated learning due to the cognitive offloading written text generally offers as an external representation and memory aid, and due to the offloading, that specifically results from the genre-free principle in journal writing. However, to enable learners to optimally exploit this learning opportunity, the journal writing needs to be instructionally supported. Accordingly, we have set up a research program—the Freiburg Self-Regulated-Journal-Writing Approach—in which we developed and tested different instructional support methods to foster learning outcomes by optimizing cognitive load during self-regulated learning by journal writing. We will highlight the main insights of our research program which are synthesized from 16 experimental and 4 correlative studies published in 16 original papers. Accordingly, we present results on (1) the effects of prompting germane processing in journal writing, (2) the effects of providing worked examples and metacognitive information to support students in effectively exploiting prompted journal writing for self-regulated learning, (3) the effects of adapting and fading guidance in line with learners’ expertise in self-regulated learning, and (4) the effects of journal writing on learning motivation and motivation to write. The article closes with a discussion of several avenues of how the Freiburg Self-Regulated-Journal-Writing Approach can be developed further to advance research that integrates self-regulated learning with cognitive load theory.

scholarly journals θ13, μτ SYMMETRY BREAKING AND NEUTRINO YUKAWA TEXTURES

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (24) ◽  
pp. 1350118 ◽  
Author(s):  
BISWAJIT ADHIKARY ◽  
AMBAR GHOSAL ◽  
PROBIR ROY
Keyword(s):  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Neutrino Mass ◽  
Charged Lepton ◽  
Heavy Neutrino ◽  
Type I ◽  
Mixing Angles ◽  
Order Analysis ◽  
A Value ◽  
Mass Matrices ◽  
Best Fit

Within the type-I seesaw and in the basis where charged lepton and heavy neutrino mass matrices are real and diagonal, μτ symmetric four and three zero neutrino Yukawa textures are perturbed by lowest order μτ symmetry breaking terms. These perturbations are taken to be the most general ones for those textures. For quite small values of those symmetry breaking parameters, permitting a lowest order analysis, current best-fit ranges of neutrino mass squared differences and mixing angles are shown to be accommodable, including a value of θ13 in the observed range, provided all the light neutrinos have an inverted mass ordering.

scholarly journals A Value Function for Assessing Sustainability: Application to Industrial Buildings

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bibiana Alarcon ◽  
Antonio Aguado ◽  
Resmundo Manga ◽  
Alejandro Josa
Keyword(s):  
Value Function ◽  
A Value ◽  
Industrial Buildings
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