Case studies (CS) attempt to help students increase critical thinking skills and engagement while working through a real-life scenario in various disciplines, including medicine, law, and business. However, the CS method has not been heavily utilized in biological sciences. The present study investigated the effect of the CS method on undergraduate biology students’ conceptual understanding, academic outcomes, and perspectives. A case study was applied in a one-semester undergraduate biology course, which was compared to ten semesters of standard sections. Participants completed course pre- and post-tests, pre- and post-case tests, and an online survey to assess their conceptual understanding and engagement. The initial lowest quartiles were determined from the individual course pre-test scores, which were lower than class averages. Results suggested that the CS method helped students in learning outcomes, critical thinking, and conceptual understanding toward biology. In post-test learning gains, the CS group did 20% better than the non-CS group, with the largest benefit seen in the initially lowest pre-test quartile of the class. Moreover, post-case learning gains were 55% improved in the case test. Survey results indicated that students had positive attitudes toward CS for their engagement in plant biology content. Overall, the distribution of A grades improved by 2.6-fold from standard to CS groups. We conclude that the use of CS may address course content engagement and have the potential to effectively boost academic performance, especially for the initially lowest quartile in undergraduate plant biological sciences courses.
This chapter deepens cartographic communication through a cartographic multirepresentation exercise. Using a single dataset on World population data, the chapter presents a series of 13 different maps to illustrate how mapping is primarily a matter of choices and methods.
This paper will explore ways of computationally accounting for the metacognitive threshold -- the minimum amount of stimulus needed for a mental state to be perceived -- and discuss potential cognitive mechanisms by which this threshold can be influenced through metacognitive training and meditation.
This report describes the results of the eSCF Awareness Workshop on Handling Uncertainty for Data Quality Management - Challenges from Transport and Supply Chain Management that was held on June 5, 2018 in Heeze, The Netherlands. The goal of this workshop was to create and enhance awareness into data quality management issues that are encountered in practice, for business organizations that aim to integrate a data-analytical mind set into their operations.
The paper presents web based information system for heat supply monitoring. The proposed model and information system for gathering data from heating station heat-flow meters and regulators is software realized. The novel system with proved functionality can be commercialized at the cost of minimal investments, finding wildly use on Bulgarian market as cheap and quality alternative of the western systems.
La transición de la guerra a la paz puede conllevar un cambio en el centro de gravedad de la violencia hacia micro-espacios deprimidos de las ciudades que constituyen lo que se puede denominar, adaptando el concepto de Guillermo O’Donnell, zonas marrones urbanas. Las situaciones de postconflicto altamente violento y las de alta violencia societal que corresponden al tipo de casos que se pueden caracterizar como casos de paz violenta, requieren un enfoque de seguridad ciudadana urbana que vaya en sintonía con el giro local que se ha dado en las aproximaciones críticas de la construcción de paz.
In recent years sports analytics has gotten more and more popular. We propose a model for Rugby data - in particular to model the 2014 Six Nations tournament. We propose a Bayesian hierarchical model to estimate the characteristics that bring a team to lose or win a game, and predict the score of particular matches. This is intended to be a brief introduction to Probabilistic Programming in Python and in particular the powerful library called PyMC3.
The objective of this research was to design a 2.4 GHz class AB Power Amplifier, with 0.18 um SMIC CMOS technology by using Cadence software, for health care applications. The ultimate goal for such application is to minimize the trade-offs between performance and cost, and between performance and low power consumption design. The performance of the power amplifier meets the specification requirements of the desired.
The study, based on a documental classic analysis, presents conceptual and methodological guidelines concerning the design of methodologies that help to measure the quality of information that is managed in organizations. It is described the process of information management and the importance of implementing quality principles in it. There are exposed the four dimensions of information quality as part of an indicators integration which characterize the informational contents. There are defined each of the phases in the methodological design to evaluate the information. There also are indicated the implications of this activity for information professionals.
The Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) technology is an attractive approach for the design of high performance microwave and millimeter wave components, as it combines the advantages of planar technology, such as low fabrication costs, with the low loss inherent to the waveguide solution. In this study, a substrate integrated waveguide power divider, circulator and coupler are conceived and optimized in [10-15] GHz band by Ansoft HFSS code. Thus, results of this modeling are presented, discussed and allow to integrate these devices in planar circuits.
Here, by introducing a version of "Unexpected hanging paradox" we try to open a new way and a new explanation for paradoxes, similar to liar paradox. Also, we will show that we have a semantic situation which no syntactical logical system could support that. In the end, we propose a claim as a question. Based on this claim, having an axiomatic system for computability theory is not possible. In fact we will show that the method applied here could yields us as a generalized result, some Theories like Physic is not axiomatizable.
The computer-assisted analysis is not currently a novelty, but a necessity in all areas of psychology. A number of studies that examine the limits of the computer assisted and analyzed interpretations, also its advantages. A series of studies aim to assess how the computer assisting programs are able to establish a diagnosis referring to the presence of certain mental disorders. We will present the results of one computer application in clinical psychology regarding the assessment of Theory of Mind capacity by animation.
This piece of work presents a meaningful example for the advantages of using bitwise operations for creating effective algorithms in programming. A task connected with mathematical modeling in weaving industry is examined and computed.
The regular autonomous asynchronous systems are the non-deterministic Boolean dynamical systems and universality means the greatest in the sense of the inclusion. The paper gives four definitions of symmetry of these systems in a slightly more general framework, called semi-regularity and also many examples.
The feeling of good or bad luck occurs whenever there is an emotion contrast between an event and an easily accessible counterfactual alternative. This study suggests that cognitive simplicity plays a key role in the human ability to experience good and bad luck after the occurrence of an event.
Millimeter wave technology being an emerging area is still very undeveloped. A substantial research needs to be done in this area as its applications are numerous. In the present endeavor, a rectangular patch antenna is designed on thick substrate and simulated using SONNET software, also a novel analysis technique is developed for circular patch antenna for millimeter wave frequency. The antenna is designed at 39 GHz on thick substrate and has been analyzed and simulated.The results of the theoretical analysis are in good agreement with the simulated results.
Today's peer review process for scientific articles is unnecessarily opaque and offers few incentives to referees. Likewise, the publishing process is unnecessarily inefficient and its results are only rarely made freely available to the public. Here we outline a comparatively simple extension of arXiv.org, an online preprint archive widely used in the mathematical and physical sciences, that addresses both of these problems. Under the proposal, editors invite referees to write public and signed reviews to be attached to the posted preprints, and then elevate selected articles to "published" status.
This paper presents an original solution for flexible hand-written text division into rows. Unlike the standard procedure, the proposed method avoids the isolated characters extensions amputation and reduces the recognition error rate in the final stage.
In this paper, we analyze the performance of the encoding and the modulation processes in the downlink and uplink of the EPCglobal Gen2 system through the analysis and simulation. Furthermore, the synchronization issues on time and frequency domain and the preamble architecture are evaluated. Through the simulation in the uplink, we find that the detection probability of FM0 and Miller coding approaches 1 at 13dB Eb/N0.