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Rapid advances in technology, economic globalization require engineering education to design itself towards an outcome based education module. This article reviews the current structure of teaching quality evaluation practices conducted in engineering institutes of Pakistan and focuses on the development of a meaningful Systematic Evaluation of Teaching that would generate meaningful feedback for...
This paper presents the details of experimental set-up to determine the ballistic limit for the aluminium tank for two cases, empty and water-filled tank. The experiment was carried out at Science and Technology Research Institute for Defense (STRIDE) Batu Arang. The aluminum tank was 3 mm thick, 150 mm wide and 750 mm long. At the end of the tank were closed with two Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA)...
Research methodology education is one of the less studied and discussed areas of computing education. Underplaying methodological education starts from computing curricula, which discuss methodology to different degrees, depending on the branch of computing. In computer science education research, programming courses have been analyzed through and through, but methodology courses in computing are...
In this paper we will present a case study and an analysis conducted to evaluate the use of lecture learning as a helpful companion to the classical teaching. This effort is done around the Opencast Matterhorn software, a system that is able to record classroom presentations and publish them on a LMS automatically, without the intervention of a technician dedicated to it. So we delivered a university-wide...
Spectral angle mapping is used to identify materials in Terahertz images. We test the performance of several spectral characteristics derived from the measured spectra. Robustness is studied by investigating the Receiver-Operating-Characteristics.
In this study we focus on the influence of the voice of a speech corpus on the quality of text-to-speech (TTS) systems. Therefore, we selected a set of attribute scales which consists of items related to the 5 perceptual quality dimensions of TTS systems and of items which are used in studies concerning the likeability of voices. We selected 5 different voices of the TTS systems IVONA and ACAPELA...
71 maize inbred lines from Jilin Province were selected as experimental material and field split-plot experimental design was adopted to study the relationship between the main traits of rootstock and lodging resistance. The result showed that there was an obvious or an extremely obvious correlation between maize lodging resistance and stalk tension, stalk puncture force, planting density, stem diameter,...
The teaching materials used by Taiwanese students in class are compiled by different publishers according to the curriculum outline established by the Ministry of Education. However, limited by the layout of teaching materials, it is impossible to incorporate all knowledge referred by the curriculum outline into teaching materials, thus, some are selected and some are abandoned. For example, as the...
In this article, based on grey relational analysis method, relational polarity analysis for the anti-respiratory syncytial virus effect of compositions from Baikal skullcap root was studied. The compositions with reinforcement effect on the therapeutic index of anti-respiratory syncytial virus were found and ranked.
Base on the Landsat TM/ETM+ data on August of 2001 and 2010, the surface urban heat island (SUHI) intensity on prevailing wind direction belt using three sampling belts with 1 km width within the third circle freeway of Shenyang were calculated, and its relationships with land use types, source-sink distribution, normal differential vegetation index (NDVI), normal differential built-up index (NDBI),...
Journal rankings and journal ratings are important to government, research institutes and scientific research, which use as the criteria for evaluating researcher's performance to determine whether he or she can get a promotion or research funds. The only widely adopted journal assessment method is impact factor, focusing on the citations between academic journals. However, impact factor disregards...
Finite element analysis was used to predict the thermal cycle fatigue life of flip chip solder joints. Three different data sets of measured thermal cycle fatigue life were simulated to assess model correlation. Variables in the measured data included solder resist opening diameter, UBM diameter, joint height, solder volume, underfill material, package structure, and temperature range. Viscoplastic...
Recent technological advances in atom probe tomography (APT) have led to unprecedented data acquisition capabilities that routinely generate data sets containing hundreds of millions of atoms. Detecting nanoscale clusters of different atom types present in these enormous amounts of data and analyzing their spatial correlations with one another are fundamental to understanding the structural properties...
Vertebral compression fractures represent one of the most common injuries resulting from osteoporosis with an incidence rate of 700,000 per year in the United States[1]. We investigated the biomechanical shear strength of different regions of the tenth thoracic (T10) vertebra of six different human cadaveric spines. We observed a significant increase in shear strength from central to peripheral regions...
The proliferation of mobile ubiquitous devices faces a hurdle in the form of high resource consumption rates that restrict longevity. Several low-power devices and application designs and optimization techniques have been proposed. Simultaneously, energy harvesting technologies are increasingly being viewed as a complementary technique to drive down resource consumption rates and even achieve self-sustenance...
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has a great potential for enriching learning experience especially in early childhood education. The need to integrate ICT at preschool level has become greater. The teacher as a mediator influences the use of ICT in teaching and learning. The aim of the research is to investigate teachers' attitudes toward use of ICT and examine whether there are a relationship...
In this research, the authors examined the value of air temperature data of big cities as data-mining introduction teaching material for schoolchildren and young students. The data examined in this research was the air temperature data of all of the 47 prefectural capitals in Japan. The results of the research showed that we can clearly see statistical patterns in the data using diagrams and graphs...
Most of the students are forced to take different courses based on their parent's interest, not of their interest. Some students are selecting their courses without knowing their inner ability. In this paper, how the student should select the different courses based on their learning styles in different levels is derived. This is achieved by eliminating the outliers in collected data from students...
In this paper, we introduce a refined Educational Data Mining approach, which refrains from explicit learner modeling along with an evaluation concept. We use a Data Mining technology, which models students' learning characteristics by considering real data instead of deriving their characteristics explicitly. It aims at mining course characteristics similarities of former students' study traces and...
We investigate eye movement measures and methods for predicting reading comprehension. This builds on previous work on factors affecting reading comprehension, namely perceived familiarity with the text content. We further investigate answer-seeking behavior and present a method for measuring and comparing this behavior. The number of fixations, number of regressions, and total fixation time are an...
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