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Klimasara, Anthony J. "Electronic Spreadsheets for XRF - Survey and Comparison." Advances in X-ray Analysis 39 (1995): 805–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1154/s0376030800023272.
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The electronic spreadsheet market for the IBM or compatible PC has become competitive. One can find a dozen or more different spreadsheet programs available today which are very nicely graphically “dressed,” Computer journals indicate that the main spreadsheet competitors.
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Shtonda, Oksana, Oleksii Proskurnia, Tamara Deinichenko, and Gennadii Deynychenko. "Forms and Means of Information and Communication Support for Students of Mathematics in the Pedagogical Institution of Higher Education." Professional Education: Methodology, Theory and Technologies, no. 14 (November 30, 2021): 287–312. http://dx.doi.org/10.31470/2415-3729-2021-14-287-312.
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The article is devoted to the forms and means of information and communication support for students of mathematics in the pedagogical institution of higher education. The main purpose of the article is to define and characterize the forms and means of information and communication support for teaching mathematics in a pedagogical institution of higher education. To achieve this goal, the authors used the following research methods: analysis and generalization of scientific and methodological sources, government documents on the research topic for theoretical justification of the problem, modeling, synthesis of data. The results. The introduction to this article presents a theoretical analysis of educational technologies, in particular, highlights the «information technology» and defines the essence of this concept. The authors define the pedagogical goals of the use of information technology, as well as provide a classification of pedagogical software. The article highlights and substantiates computer training programs used in higher education institutions in the study of some disciplines, which by their purpose are divided into control (tests, questionnaires, etc.), reference and information (databases, dictionaries), modeling and electronic textbooks. In the process of analysis, the means of information and communication support for teaching mathematics in a pedagogical institution of higher education are identified: computer training and control programs (electronic textbooks, workshops, test systems, simulators), expert systems, electronic libraries, telecommunications, e-mail, teleconferences) and multimedia systems. Conclusions. The authors proved that spreadsheets and integrated mathematical packages can also be widely used in teaching students of mathematical disciplines. Integrated mathematical packages such as Matlab, MathCad, Maple, Mathematica are singled out and briefly described. It is noted that one of the leading types of ICT is computer telecommunications, in the system of mathematics education the use of the following types of computer telecommunications as teleconferencing, e-mail, electronic bulletin board and other Internet capabilities is quite possible. So, modern MultiMedia tools allow you to create a variety of information environments that increase the level of emotional perception of information, and to develop the ability to implement various forms of independent activities for information processing.
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Beattie, David J., and Lawrence C. Ragan. "Teaching the Principles of Landscape Bidding with an Electronic Spreadsheet." HortScience 25, no. 10 (October 1990): 1299–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.25.10.1299.
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An interactive spreadsheet program was developed to demonstrate how a landscape bid is estimated. Information from a profit and loss statement, entered periodically, is retained for succeeding bids. Machine and labor costs are determined separately. For an individual bid, inputs include cost of materials, overhead, labor and machine times, contingency, and profit. Labor costs are automatically modified to reflect crew efficiency, and materials costs reflect storage, freight, and other charges. Overhead is based on the relationship between annual direct and indirect costs. The calculations section displays intermediate steps of the final bid estimate. Summaries from calculations include a final bid estimate. A printing option allows the user to selectively print any of the sections, a customer's copy, or the entire bid. The program uses an Apple Macintosh computer, was written for Microsoft Excel software, and uses macro programs. Its concept can be adapted to any electronic spreadsheet and can be protected to allow entry of only certain input data. The program can be used for small landscape businesses, classroom instruction, and/or extension instruction in which higher-order thinking skills are emphasized.
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Zubrilin, A. A. "A unified approach to training future informatics teachers in terms of the formation of digital competencies." Informatics and education 37, no. 2 (July 15, 2022): 42–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.32517/0234-0453-2022-37-2-42-49.
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Today, an important and significant direction in education is the unification of the training of teaching staff at the university. In this regard, it is important the experience of the development by the Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering of the Mordovian State Pedagogical University named after M. E. Evseviev of work programs of academic disciplines within the framework of the project “The core of higher pedagogical education” in the subject-methodical module (profile “Informatics”). A set of academic disciplines is substantiated, which should be mastered by students of undergraduate programs in the direction of training 44.03.05 “Pedagogical education” (with two training profiles). The purpose of each of the disciplines presented in the set is determined, their specificity is revealed in terms of the content being studied and mastering digital competencies. It is shown what digital competencies can be formed in each of the disciplines and what tools should be used. A description of some of the digital competencies is given, in particular, when working with electronic texts, solving applied problems on a computer, creating digital content, conducting research using spreadsheet processors and programming languages, organizing project activities, preparing for school Olympiads in informatics. It is concluded that the proposed set of academic disciplines will fully prepare the student for the professional activity as an informatics teacher, including technical, technological, and methodological components.
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Wilson, Virginia. "Female Public Library Patrons Value the Library for Services, Programs, and Technology." Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 4, no. 1 (March 8, 2009): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.18438/b8dp58.
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Fidishun, Dolores. “Women and the Public Library: Using Technology, Using the Library.” Library Trends 56.2 (2007): 328-43.
Objective – This study attempts to give insight into why and how women use the public library and information technology, and how they learned to use the technology.
Design – Qualitative survey.
Setting – The research took place at the Chester County Library in Exton, Pennsylvania, USA.
Subjects – One hundred and eighty-four female library patrons 18 years and older.
Methods – An anonymous qualitative survey was handed out to all patrons at the Chester
County Library 18 years of age and older who came into the library on four separate days and times. Times were chosen to obtain a good representation of library patrons, and
included daytime, evening, and weekend hours. The survey consisted of questions about library use, information sought, information seeking behaviour, technology used, and how the respondents learned to use the technology. The surveys were collated and spreadsheets were created that reported answers to yes/no and other data questions. Word documents facilitated the listing of more qualitative answers. The data were analyzed using a thematic content analysis to find themes and patterns that emerged to create grounded theory. In thematic content analysis, “the coding scheme is based on categories designed to capture the dominant themes in a text (Franzosi 184). There is no universal coding scheme, and this method requires extensive pre-testing of the scheme (Franzosi 184). Grounded theory “uses a prescribed set of procedures for analyzing data and constructing a theoretical model” from the data (Leedy and Ormrod 154).
Main Results – The survey asked questions about library use, reasons for library use, using technology, finding information, and learning to use online resources. A total of 465 surveys were distributed and 329 were returned. From the surveys returned, 184 were from female patrons, 127 from male patrons, and 18 did not report gender. The data for this article are primarily taken from the 184 female respondents who reported ages between 18 and 79 years. Seventy-one percent of these reported having a bachelor’s degree or higher. The study uses some contrasting data from the men’s responses where appropriate. In terms of library use, out of the 184 respondents, 42% came to the library monthly, while 36% visited the library weekly. Sixty-two percent of respondents knew they could email the library and 72% knew that they could call the library with questions. As for reasons for library use, the most prominent response was to borrow books rather than buying them. The second most common reason for using the library related to children’s books and programming for children. Other common reasons for library use included research activities, using public computers, reading, use of services such as photocopying and tax forms, and to volunteer or tutor. The library was also used as a place of solitude, where women could find a place and time for themselves. The author compared the men’s results to the women’s responses, and found that coming to the library for books was lower on the list, and very few men mentioned children’s library services. Men came to the library more often than women to study or read.
In terms of using technology, the female respondents were fairly tech-savvy. Seventy-four percent of respondents felt comfortable using computers. Only 5% replied that using computers meant more work for them. Eighty-two percent said they used a computer on a regular basis, and 98% reported that they had used the Internet. Out of those who use the Internet, 91% used it at home, 64% used it at work, and 34% used it at the public library. Ninety-eight percent of women who used the Internet used a search engine such as Google or Yahoo to find information. Topics frequently mentioned were medical and travel information, information for their children, and shopping. Men, by contrast, listed shopping and finding medical information as their second reason for using the internet. General research topics were most frequently cited by men.
Seven survey questions focused on finding information. The Internet was the number one choice for finding health information, sports scores, the date of Thanksgiving, and the phone number of their state Senator. The library was the first place to find a good book. Results indicated that although women use libraries to find information, they use the Internet more, as libraries were at least third on the list of places women looked for most of the topics inquired about.
When asked about their computer use, 71% of respondents said they used a computer to gain information for work, 74% said they used it for hobbies, and 81% used it to access medical information on the Internet. Sixty-five percent of respondents used email and chat to keep in touch with family and friends. 30% of the women asked felt that books were more valuable than using a computer. Forty-six percent reported that being able to ask a librarian for help was an appreciated service. The use of library technology figured in the survey. Seventy-two percent of respondents reported that they were comfortable using the online catalogue and 53% said they used the library’s webpage. Only 19% said they used the library’s databases. The comments section of the survey included evidence that the women either did not know these electronic resources existed, or they did not understand what databases are for. However, 47% said they had access to online databases from other sources, for example, higher education institutions, public schools, businesses.
Those who did use online databases were asked how they learned to use them. Sixteen percent were self-taught. Only a few had formal training, including 3% who were taught by a public library staff member. Sixty percent of respondents indicated they would like formal training: 23% preferred individual training, while 77% preferred training in a class setting.
The survey attempted to discern the value of participants’ library experience by using positive and negative critical incidents. The participants responded to questions about their best and worst experiences using the library. Best experiences included those involving books; children’s literature, programs, and family projects; library technology; access to non-print materials; the library as a place for solitude; other library services; and library staff. The negative experiences included library issues such as having to return books on time, getting an overdue notice or fine on an item already returned, and desired books being out of the library, noise in the library. The number of positive experiences reported was higher than the number of negative experiences.
Conclusions – Although definitive conclusions are difficult to make using qualitative analysis, Fidishun summarizes her findings by reporting that her study of women public library patrons found that technology features prominently in women’s lives, and that they regularly use the Internet to find information. However, many women were not aware of the databases available at the public library. Books were an important part of the library experience for these women, as were traditional library services, such as asking a librarian for help. Women often are the ones who bring children to the library and seek information for them. And the women surveyed valued the library as place.
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Ploger, Don, Michael Rooney, and Lee Klingler. "Computer spreadsheets and draw programs in the classroom." TechTrends 41, no. 3 (April 1996): 26–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02818876.
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Beitman, Lawrence. "Reviewing Electronic Spreadsheets." EDPACS 13, no. 10 (April 1986): 8–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07366988609450036.
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Cheng, Songlin. "TRILINEAR DIAGRAM REVISITED: APPLICATION, LIMITATION, AND AN ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET PROGRAM." Ground Water 26, no. 4 (July 1988): 505–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6584.1988.tb00417.x.
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Aurigemma, Salvatore, and Ray Panko. "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Static Analysis Programs Versus Manual Inspection in the Detection of Natural Spreadsheet Errors." Journal of Organizational and End User Computing 26, no. 1 (January 2014): 47–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/joeuc.2014010103.
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Spreadsheets are widely used in the business, public, and private sectors. However, research and practice has generally shown that spreadsheets frequently contain errors. Several researchers and vendors have proposed the use of spreadsheet static analysis programs (SAPs) as a means to augment or potentially replace the manual inspection of spreadsheets for errors. SAPs automatically search spreadsheets for indications of certain types of errors and present these indications to the inspector. Despite the potential importance of SAPs, their effectiveness has not been examined. This study explores the effectiveness of two widely fielded SAPs in comparison to manual human inspection on a set of naturally generated quantitative errors in a simple, yet realistic, spreadsheet model. The results showed that while manual human inspection results for this study were consistent with previous research in the field, the performance of the static analysis programs at detecting natural errors was very poor for every category of spreadsheet errors.
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LeBlanc, Larry J., and Michael R. Galbreth. "Designing large-scale supply chain linear programs in spreadsheets." Communications of the ACM 50, no. 8 (August 2007): 59–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1278201.1278207.
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Hall, Maria Jean. "The A.D.E. taxonomy of spreadsheet application development." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1992. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1696.
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Spreadsheets are a major application in end-user computing, one of the fastest growing areas of computing. Studies have shown that 30% of spreadsheet applications contain errors. As major decisions are often made with the assistance of spreadsheets, the control of spreadsheet applications is a matter of concern to enduser developers, managers, EDP auditors and computer professionals.
The application of appropriate controls to the spreadsheet development process requires prior categorisation of the spreadsheet application. The special-purpose A.D.E. (Application, Development, Environment) taxonomy of spreadsheet application development was evolved by mathematical taxonomic methods to categorise spreadsheet development projects to facilitate their management and control.
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Kenyon, Mitchell Alan William. "The value of spreadsheet programs to planners." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28088.
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According to Brail, a planning professor at Rutgers University,
it is abundantly clear that the electronic spreadsheet is the single most important computer tool available to the practicing planner, (working paper, 1985,1)
What is the value, measured in increased productivity, of spreadsheet programs to planners? Spreadsheet programs, referred to simply as spreadsheets, are an enhanced version of the paper spreadsheet. Paper spreadsheets are tabular forms commonly used by bookkeepers and accountants. Spreadsheets perform computations that would be tedious and perhaps impossible on a paper spreadsheet.
A number of factors influence the value of spreadsheets to planners. This thesis discuses three factors in detail: the capabilities of spreadsheets, the utility of the planning models whose computations sometimes involve spreadsheets, and the savings in development time by employing spreadsheet templates.
Assessing the capabilities of spreadsheets requires clarifying the concept of spreadsheets and describing their general applications. Clarifying the concept includes defining spreadsheet terms such as worksheet, functions, macros, and templates', depicting the evolution of spreadsheets; highlighting differences between spreadsheet packages; and noting the limitations of spreadsheets. Describing the general applications involves discussing the three major uses of spreadsheets: table production, numerical analysis, and the testing of "what if scenarios.
Evaluating the utility of the planning models whose computations sometimes involve spreadsheets requires two steps. The first step establishes the relationship between models and spreadsheets in data analysis for planning. The second step examines the advantages and disadvantages of the planning models.
Determining the savings in development time by employing templates involves three steps. The first step constructs criteria by which to evaluate the structure of a template for accuracy and ease of use. The second step examines how well available templates fit the planning model discussed. The third step evaluates the structure of each of the templates using the criteria constructed.
Five chapters compose the body of the thesis. The first chapter explains the concept of the spreadsheet. The second chapter illustrates the general applications of spreadsheets, determines the role of spreadsheets in data analysis for planning, and develops criteria by which to evaluate a template's structure. Each of the last three chapters demonstrates the potential of spreadsheets to planners by describing and evaluating planning models and spreadsheet templates.
There are many factors influencing the value of spreadsheets to planners not covered in this thesis which may prove grounds for further research. The thesis ignores the affect the planner's access to computers and programs, knowledge of computers, and attitude towards computers has on the value of spreadsheets. Furthermore, the thesis does not establish the relative worth of spreadsheets in comparison to other possible tools for performing the computation of a planning model.
Therefore, this thesis is unable to confirm Brail's claim that spreadsheets are the most important computer tool. Nevertheless, this thesis provides reasons for Brail's enthusiasm towards spreadsheets.Applied Science, Faculty of
Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of
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Whitmer, Brian C. "Improving Spreadsheets for Complex Problems." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2361.pdf.
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Mobarak, Barbara Ann. "The development of a computer literacy curriculum for California charter schools." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2683.
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To develop leaders for the 21st century, schools must be able to prepare students to meet the high academic, technical and workforce challenges. Charter schools are increasingly attempting to meet these challenges by educating students through innovative means and by creating effectual educational programs that are more conducive to the needs of the student. This document provides a computer literacy curriculum, which will facilitate student learning of computer literacy skills.
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Davidson, Conda. "Comparative analysis of teaching methods and learning styles in a high school computer spreadsheet unit /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9974620.
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Dandolu, Rajesekhar R. "Excel Sheet Based Semantic Email." TopSCHOLAR®, 2004. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1101.
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EXCEL SHEET BASED SEMANTIC EMAIL Rajesekhar R, Dandolu December 10, 2004. 47 Pages Directed by: Dr. Guangming Xing Department of Computer Science Western Kentucky University The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation. The Semantic Web envisions a portion of the World-Wide Web in which the underlying data is machine understandable and can thus be exploited for improved querying, aggregation, and interaction. Excel Sheet Based Semantic Email is a type of Semantic Web application, which deals with the understanding of emails received and performing corresponding actions according to the schema specified in the email. The user can compose an email structure and specify all the semantic actions and necessary information related to a particular schema. The emails received are processed according to the schema format to which they belong and corresponding semantic actions are taken. In this project, Semantic Email is implemented by encoding the information in Excel Sheets. It could be reengineered to support heterogeneous semantic actions based on the particular application. The project can be enhanced providing a web interface, apart from the email system that is currently used as the way of communication. The clients can directly use the web page,
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McManigal, Gerald F. "An electronic bulletin board for UNIX based systems." Thesis, Kansas State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/9935.
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Marlow, Simon David. "Deforestation for higher-order functional programs." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1995. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4818/.
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Functional programming languages are an ideal medium for program optimisations based on source-to-source transformation techniques. Referential transparency affords opportunities for a wide range of correctness-preserving transformations leading to potent optimisation strategies. This thesis builds on deforestation, a program transformation technique due to Wadler that removes intermediate data structures from first-order functional programs. Our contribution is to reformulate deforestation for higher-order functional programming languages, and to show that the resulting algorithm terminates given certain syntactic and typing constraints on the input. These constraints are entirely reasonable, indeed it is possible to translate any typed program into the required syntactic form. We show how this translation can be performed automatically and optimally. The higher-order deforestation algorithm is transparent. That is, it is possible to determine by examination of the source program where the optimisation will be applicable. We also investigate the relationship of deforestation to cut-elimination, the normalisation property for the logic of sequent calculus. By combining a cut-elimination algorithm and first-order deforestation, we derive an improved higher-order deforestation algorithm. The higher-order deforestation algorithm has been implemented in the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. We describe how deforestation fits into the framework of Haskell, and design a model for the implementation that allows automatic list removal, with additional deforestation being performed on the basis of programmer supplied annotations. Results from applying the deforestation implementation to several example Haskell programs are given.
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Collins, Graham Richard McFarlane. "Supporting formal reasoning about functional programs." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2001. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4609/.
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It is often claimed that functional programming languages, and in particular pure functional languages are suitable for formal reasoning. This claim is supported by the fact that many people in the functional programming community do reason about languages and programs in a formal or semi-formal way. Different reasoning principles such as equational reasoning, induction and co-induction, are used, depending on the nature of the problem. Using a computer program to check the application of rules and to mechanise the tedious bookkeeping involved can simplify proofs and provide more confidence in their correctness. When reasoning about programs, this can also allow experiments with new rules and reasoning styles, where a user may not be confident about structuring a proof on paper. Checking the applicability of a rule can eliminate the risk of mistakes caused by misunderstanding the theory being used. Just as there are different ways in which formal or informal reasoning can be applied in functional programming, there are different ways in which tools can be provided to support this reasoning. This thesis describes an investigation of how to develop a mechanised reasoning system to allow reasoning about algorithms as a functional programmer would write them, not an encoding of the algorithm into a significantly different form. In addition, this work aims to develop a system to support a user who is not a theorem proving expert or an expert in the theoretical foundations of functional programming. The work is aimed towards a system that could be used by a functional programmer developing real programs and wishing to prove some or all of the programs correct or to prove that two programs are equivalent.
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Mareček, Jakub. "Exploiting structure in integer programs." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49276/.
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The thesis argues the case for exploiting certain structures in integer linear programs. Integer linear programs are optimisation problems, where one minimises or maximises a linear function of variables, whose values are required to be integral as well as satisfying certain linear equalities and inequalities. For such an abstract problem, there are very good general-purpose solvers. The state of the art in such solvers is an approach known as “branch and bound”. The performance of such solvers depends crucially on four types of in-built heuristics: primal, improvement, branching, and cut-separation or, more generally, bounding heuristics. However, such heuristics have, until recently, not exploited structure in integer linear programs beyond the recognition of certain types of single-row constraints. Many alternative approaches to integer linear programming can be cast in the following, novel framework. “Structure” in any integer linear program is a class of equivalence among triples of algorithms: deriving combinatorial objects from the input, adapting them, and transforming the adapted object to solutions of the original integer linear program. Many such alternative approaches are, however, inherently incompatible with branch and bound solvers. We, hence, define a structure to be “useful”, only when it extracts submatrices, which allow for the implementation of more than one of the four types of heuristics required in the branch and bound approach. Although the extraction of the best possible submatrices is non-trivial, the lack of a considerable submatrix with a given property can often be recognised quickly, and storing useful submatrices in a “pool” makes it possible to use them repeatedly. The goal is to explore whether the state-of-the-art solvers could make use of the structures studied in the academia. Three examples of useful structures in integer linear programs are presented. A particularly widely applicable useful structure relies on the aggregation of variables. Its application can be seen as a decomposition into three stages: Firstly, we partition variables in the original instance into as small number as possible of support sets of constraints forcing convex combinations of binary variables to be less than or equal to one in the original instance, and one-element sets. Secondly, we solve the “aggregated” instance corresponding to the partition of variables. Under certain conditions, we obtain a valid lower bound. Finally, we fix the solution of the aggregated instance in primal and improvement heuristics for the original instance, and use the partition in hyper-plane branching heuristics. Under certain conditions, the primal heuristics are guaranteed to find a feasible solution to the original instance. We also present structures exploiting mutual-exclusion and precedence constraints, prevalent in scheduling and timetabling applications. Mutual exclusion constraints correspond to instances of graph colouring. For numerous extensions of graph colouring, there are natural primal and branching heuristics. We present lower bounding heuristics for extensions of graph colouring, based on augmented Lagrangian methods for novel semidefinite programming relaxations, and reformulations based on a novel transformation of graph colouring to graph multicolouring. Precedence constraints correspond to an instance of precedence-constrained multi-dimensional packing. For such packing problems, we present heuristics based on an adaptive discretisation and strong discretised linear programming relaxations. On in- stances of packing unit-cubes into a box, the reformulation makes it possible to solve instances that are by five orders of magnitude larger than previously. On instances from complex timetabling problems, which combine mutual- exclusion and packing constraints, the combination of heuristics above can often result in the gap between primal and dual bounds being reduced to under five percent, orders of magnitude faster than using state of the art solvers, without any information being used that is outside of the instance.
Books on the topic "Electronic spreadsheets – Computer programs"
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Dinwiddie, Robert. Spreadsheets: Creating worksheets. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2000.
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Etherington, Sue. Spreadsheets: Formatting & printing. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2000.
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Panne, Cornelis Van de. Introductory financial economics with spreadsheets. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publ., 1999.
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Smith, Gaylord N. Electronic spreadsheet applications for cost accounting. 2nd ed. Cincinnati: South Western Publishing, 1989.
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Smith, Gaylord N. Electronic spreadsheet applications for cost accounting. USA: South Western Publishing, 1988.
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Smith, Gaylord N. Electronic spreadsheet applications for accounting principles. Cincinnati, Ohio: South-western Publishing, 1990.
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Thommes, Maureen C. Proper spreadsheet design. Boston: Boyd & Fraser Pub. Co., 1992.
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Akiba, Kazuto. "Appendix: Computer Programs Composed for This Study." In Electronic States of Narrow-Gap Semiconductors Under Multi-Extreme Conditions, 119–43. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7107-3_6.
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"Appendix 1:Useful spreadsheets and computer programs." In Small Hydroelectric Engineering Practice, 215–20. CRC Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b16627-20.
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"Computer programs, the electronic world and websites." In Copyright, 157–74. Facet, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.29085/9781783304257.012.
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Pantanowitz, Liron. "Computer Assisted Cervical Cytology." In Medical Informatics in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 160–84. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-078-3.ch011.
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Automation and emerging information technologies are being adopted by cytology laboratories around the world to augment Pap test screening and improve diagnostic accuracy. Informatics, the application of computers and information systems to information management, is therefore essential for the successful operation of the cytopathology laboratory. This chapter describes how laboratory information management systems can be used to achieve an automated and seamless workflow process. The utilization of software, electronic databases and spreadsheets to perform necessary quality control measures will be discussed. The emerging role of computer assisted screening and application of digital imaging to the field of cervical cytology will be described, including telecytology and virtual microscopy. Finally, this chapter will reflect on the impact of online cytology resources and the emerging role of digital image cytometry.
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Boateng, Beatrice A., and Kwasi Boateng. "Open Source LMS for Management and E-Business Applications." In Electronic Business, 1023–28. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-056-1.ch063.
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Advances in computer technology have led to the increase in the use of information technology in business (Barron, 2002). Computer-mediated communication in the form of the Internet offers unprecedented avenues for the exchange of information and the delivery of instructional materials globally and locally (NHDP, 2003; Robey, Boudreau, & Rose, 2000). Through the Internet and related technologies, people are able to acquire skills and knowledge, adapt learning experiences to their own needs, and assimilate information faster (Azad, Erdem, & Saleem, 1999; NHDP). An organization that is making use of such etechnologies for the advancement of e-business is the Advance Information Technology Institute’s Kofi Annan Center of Excellence for Communications and Information Technology (AITI-KACE), established in 2003 in Ghana. The center is a collaborative initiative between Ghana and India, and is aimed at bridging the gap between education and industry. This initiative was in response to Ghana’s recognition of the social and economic benefits of information and communications technologies. The center is considered part of a national initiative to educate Ghanaians and unleash their creative potential in the use of digital communication technologies for business and education. It is a major skills-development and training institution whose graduates can transition into industry immediately as employees or employers. Ghana’s main challenge is that computer education at all levels is inadequate, and businesses are struggling to incorporate computer applications in their operations. Despite the relative advances made in the adoption of e-technologies in businesses and education, the greatest challenge lies in the fact that a greater part of the adult population does not have adequate knowledge and skills in computer software applications or hardware in order to explore their use in everyday activities or at their workplaces. It is therefore expected that by enrolling in the programs at AITI -KACE, a participant1 can either be employable or have skills to venture out into self-employment. AITI -KACE targets adults—at least those who have completed high school.
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"Computer-Based Mathematics Education." In Advances in Early Childhood and K-12 Education, 28–51. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5718-1.ch003.
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In this chapter, the authors mention, briefly, the attempts made from the 1970s to today to insert modern technologies in the teaching/learning of mathematics. They start with the first pocket calculators in the 1970s, which had a rapid technological diffusion that still exists. They focus on the impact that digital electronic technology has had on teaching/learning math. They will not follow a strictly chronological order, preferring to dwell on what, in their opinion, are the fundamental stages. So, the advent of the PC and programming languages—Logo, Basic, Pascal—CAI programs, DGS software, CAS. They conclude with their MatCos Project, after mentioning the new coding languages, including Scratch.
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Cyr, Dianne. "Enhancing E-Collaboration Through Culturally Appropriate User Interfaces." In Human Computer Interaction, 1761–68. IGI Global, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-87828-991-9.ch114.
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Prior to the Internet, forms of social expression, communication, and collaborative behavior are known to be sensitive to cultural nuances. According to researcher Geert Hofstede (1991), a widely used definition of culture is proposed where “Every person carries within him or herself patterns of thinking, feeling, and potential acting which were learned through their lifetime” (p. 4). Hofstede referred to such patterns as mental programs or “software of the mind.” It is expected that such mental programming related to cultural differences will affect perceptions of the electronic medium as well (Raman & Watson, 1994). Related to the topic of this volume, culture has a place in the consideration of e-collaboration when individuals come together to work toward a common goal using electronic technologies. This may include various domains including e-business, e-learning, distributed project management, working in virtual teams of various forms, to name a few. While there is little work to date on the explicit topic of culture and e-collaboration, there is evidence that creating culturally appropriate user interfaces (Cyr & Trevor-Smith, 2004) contributes to a better perception of the interface (Kondratova & Goldfarb, 2005), and indeed to enhanced levels of Web site trust and satisfaction (Cyr, 2006). In e-commerce settings, Web sites that are perceived as appropriate to the user have also resulted in greater commitment (Oliver, 1999). In this article, and building on previous work in related areas, it is argued that the development of culturally appropriate electronic interfaces can enhance user involvement, ultimately resulting in enhanced e-collaboration. In the following sections, culture as a context for e-collaboration is outlined followed by considerations of the Web used as a communication tool, and how trust and satisfaction are related to the online collaborative process. The article ends with concluding remarks.
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Peacock, Janet L., and Philip J. Peacock. "Choosing and using statistical software for analysing data." In Oxford Handbook of Medical Statistics, 155–71. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199551286.003.0005.
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Statistical software packages 156 Choosing a package 158 Using a package 160 Examples of using statistical packages 162 Using spreadsheets for analysis 166 Transferring data between packages 168 Common packages 170 In this chapter we will describe the main features of statistics packages, what they do, and what they do not do. We will describe how we as users interact with packages, how we transfer data between packages, and how to decide which package to use. There are many statistical analysis computer packages and programs on the market and this chapter will not provide a review of what is available. Instead we will discuss the main issues that drive the choice of package to use. To illustrate, we will briefly describe a few packages that we know well....
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Baker, J. "Open Source Survey Software." In Handbook of Research on Electronic Surveys and Measurements, 273–75. IGI Global, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-792-8.ch030.
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One of the significant advances in software design afforded by the internet has been the open source movement, an effort to collaboratively create software and make it widely and freely available to the online community. Although the open source movement started with Unix-like computer operating systems, it has expanded to include a wide variety of software programs, including tools to publish and analyze online surveys. This article introduces the open source movement and then profiles three leading open source survey programs: php Easy Survey Package (phpESP), PHP Surveyor, and the Moodle course management system.
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Akkucuk, Ulas. "From Local Information Systems to Global Customer Relationship Management." In Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development, 299–305. IGI Global, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4639-1.ch023.
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Advances in computer and information technologies have been utilized by companies all over the world since the 1990s. Corresponding roughly to the same period, global trade has increased dramatically. The opening up of large markets like China and the Eastern Europe contributed to this trend. National companies turned global and had to manage operations in a number of different countries. Companies strived to maintain better customer relationships through CRM programs aimed at managing the flow of information, interacting with the customers, and in the end, formulating individualized offerings for them. Globalization has led to the development of the new notion of Global Customer Relationship Management as opposed to having independent local CRM programs operating in the subsidiaries. This chapter presents the issues facing the implementation of such Global CRM programs and provides the important conceptual frameworks proposed in the literature.
Conference papers on the topic "Electronic spreadsheets – Computer programs"
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Khosrowjerdi, Mohammad. "Applications of Electronic Spreadsheets in Mechanical Engineering." In ASME 1992 International Computers in Engineering Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/cie1992-0124.
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Abstract Electronic spreadsheet packages which were originally developed to create budget and do financial computations can now be used to perform innovative computer-based analyses. As these packages make increasing inroads into engineering profession, variety of new and innovative professional and instructional applications are being emerged. No longer confined to accountants and business people — electronic spreadsheet utilizations in engineering ranging from sensitivity (parametric) analysis to optimization are becoming more popular. Recently, those engineers who have recognized the usefulness and power of newly added features to these programs have started exploring the possibility of using these packages as a decision-making tool in the area of computer-aided engineering. This growing use of spreadsheets stems from their ability to perform repetitive sophisticated calculations on real time and the availability of built in procedures desirable for technical presentation. To enhance their teaching and expose students to the applications of electronic spreadsheets, some engineering educators have started integrating these productivity tools into their courses. The computational power of new generation of personal computers in conjunction with ever increasing graphics and advanced mathematics capabilities of spreadsheets can now be employed to perform parametric or what-if analyses. It is the intent of this paper to demonstrate the use of spreadsheet packages to solve a wide spectrum of problems in mechanical engineering. The case studies used in this paper are taken directly or in some cases with slight modifications from undergraduate text books. The Borland Quattro Pro spreadsheet package version 3 has been utilized to perform spreadsheet-based engineering analyses.
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Politz, Joe Gibbs, Kathi Fisler, Shriram Krishnamurthi, and Benjamin S. Lerner. "From Spreadsheets to Programs." In SIGCSE '18: The 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3159450.3162371.
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Khosrowjerdi, Mohammad, and Gary A. Sniezak. "Design and Analysis of Mechanical Systems Using Electronic Spreadsheet Packages." In ASME 1993 International Computers in Engineering Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/cie1993-0073.
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Abstract In the past decade, sophisticated mathematical, statistical and graphical routines have been added to spreadsheet packages, thus converting them to serious analytical tools. The engineering community has adopted these packages to perform various sensitivity analyses on design problems which lend themselves to these types of applications. Design engineers can now rapidly and conveniently utilize these tools to perform a wide variety of analyses on design problems having simple geometries and loading conditions, without having to develop any FORTRAN, Basic or C code. This paper is concerned with the applications of spreadsheet packages in the area of steady and transient thermal analysis, design optimization and solution of initial-value differential equations. Lotus 1-2-3 in conjunction with the explicit finite difference method (Gauss-Seidel method) has been used to predict transient temperature distribution in an axi-symmetric model of the barrel of a handgun. Borland International Quattro Pro spreadsheet program along with Runge-Kutta and Newmark numerical integration techniques have been employed to optimally design the recoil system of a handgun. Also, the use of Quattro Pro for constructing the contour plots of temperature in a Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) chip and the IBM 3081 TCM cold plate are demonstrated. Finally, the built-in Error and Bessel functions in Microsoft Excel have been used to find temperature distribution in a semi-infinite and cylindrical objects.
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Han, Seokhyun. "Verification of Java programs in Coq." In 2010 2nd Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Conference (CEEC). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ceec.2010.5606499.
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Foster, Frank, and Joan Collins. "Computer animation festival/electronic theatre." In ACM SIGGRAPH 95 Visual Proceedings: The art and interdisciplinary programs of SIGGRAPH '95. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/216037.225466.
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Al-Jaafari, A. M., and S. A. Sherif. "Comparative Analysis of Vapor Compression and Hybrid Liquid Desiccant Dehumidification Systems." In ASME 2005 Summer Heat Transfer Conference collocated with the ASME 2005 Pacific Rim Technical Conference and Exhibition on Integration and Packaging of MEMS, NEMS, and Electronic Systems. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ht2005-72767.
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The objective of this study was to evaluate the energy savings of a commercially available hybrid liquid desiccant (HLD) cooling system relative to a conventional vapor compression system used for an existing school building where 100% outside air is used for ventilation. Psychrometric analysis and hour-by-hour simulations for three energy models were developed for three cities in the United States using available weather data assuming normal operation and typical building occupancy. Energy calculation software such as the Carrier Hourly Analysis Program (HAP 4.1) and Desicalc along with generated spreadsheets was used to compute the energy consumption for the models under study. Results of each model are summarized and comparisons are made. The annual energy savings employing the HLD system were found to reach 46% for Chicago, 37% for Gainesville and 32% for Miami. Simple cost analysis and associated payback periods were also performed.
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Van der Velden, Alex. "CAD to CAE Process Automation Through iSIGHT-FD." In ASME Turbo Expo 2007: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2007-27555.
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iSIGHT-FD manages the computer software required to execute simulation-based design processes, including commercial CAD/CAE software, internally developed programs, and Excel spreadsheets. The software enables the rapid integration of these programs and automates their execution to accelerate the evaluation of many more design alternatives. It provides design exploration and optimization technology to help the user find better designs than those that can be found manually. Inside of this framework, a set of interoperable CAD and CAE components is used to define how changes in the geometry affect the product performance. In the past year Engineous worked with several of its partners to create a seamless and automated process. We will illustrate how to setup and drive geometric changes in CAD models using the translation technologies component in iSIGHT-FD. The user can set loads & boundary conditions on the part/assembly that move with the geometric modifications. The changed geometry with loads & boundary conditions can be automatically meshed and analyzed with FEM solvers and pre/postprocessors. The user is allowed to store and view parametric and non-parametric results for every run. These 3D CAE & CAD results can then be easily embedded into Microsoft office.
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Gharib, Mohamed, Tala Katbeh, G. Benjamin Cieslinski, and Brady Creel. "A Novel Trilogy of e-STEM Programs." In ASME 2021 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2021-69012.
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Abstract In recent years, pre-college educational programs have been introduced to increase the interest and supply of skillful people to work in STEM fields. While the emphasis has previously been primarily focused on the content of project-based learning programs, another factor that needs to be accounted for is the accessibility of the said programs. Unprecedented issues such as the sudden closure of educational facilities, as was experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, should not hinder the learning opportunities that the students are after. Therefore, the shift from hosting conventional STEM programs to online platforms has become a crucial element in the expansion of STEM education. Delivering engineering-based projects through online STEM programs to school students includes wide expansion of the participating audience — which is not confined by the capacity limit of in-person programs — as well as ease of access. This has value not only on the individual level but also at the social level. Three successful e-STEM (electronic STEM) programs are presented in this paper that are designed to support and enhance students’ learning of engineering concepts while also increasing students’ understanding of real-life applications. This has a close connection to the desire to increase online education in developing countries over recent years. The first program is called Innovate, Design and Engineer an App (IDEA). In this program, the students explore the fundamentals of programming and mobile app development. This provides the students with the foundation of coding, algorithms, and refining their ideas to produce a working mobile phone app that is created to meet a specified challenge. The second program is called Creative Fusion and Innovation (CFI). In this program, the students learned the basics of creating, editing, and analyzing their 3D designs; recognize the importance of creating 3D models in engineering; and understand how 3D printing works as they create their own 3D models. The third program is called Virtual Robotics Games (VRG). In this program, the students learn the fundamentals of designing, building, programming, and testing robots in a virtual environment. Through this program, the students learn the basics of robot design in addition to coding and simulation, which are all necessary tools for aspiring engineers. These programs aim to provide STEM education access to build communities specifically in engineering, which is in high demand. Throughout these programs, the students are able to learn important computer skills and the concepts of the engineering design process. The programs also equip them with the required knowledge and problem-solving skills to tackle challenges. At the end of each program, the students will have created successful designs as solutions to the real-life problems that they were tasked with. In this paper, the details behind the planning, formation and production, and implementation of the three online programs are presented.
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Jafar Naqvi, Syed. "An Overview: Approaches for the Development of Basic IT Skills." In InSITE 2005: Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/2884.
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There is a growing importance of computerization, information flow and the tremendous use of Information Technology (IT) in all the fields including business, education, government and medicine. The significant improvements in IT continue to occur at an ever-increasing pace. The speed, size, cost, and capabilities associated with computers and telecommunications provide a wealth of highly attractive opportunities for using this technology to help solve business problems or enhance current ways of doing business. There is a general recognition that students in secondary, further and higher education need to acquire IT skills that match the IT needs of the contemporary businesses. The major focus of this investigation concerns the development of IT skills among new entrants to the institute of higher learning to meet the changing needs of IT, especially in the businesses environment. Traditionally, the introductions to IT courses offered in the past were through the programming languages. There seems to be a trend to acquire IT skills moving away from programming and getting skills through off-the- shelf software packages. There are many reasons for this, including the availability of powerful and user-friendly software, such as word processing, databases and spreadsheets, which have raised the level of expectations in the use of IT for business and removed the need to learn to write computer programs in a traditional block structure language. If the software packages are considered, then the obvious question, “What should be the order of their presentation in a basic IT course?” emerges. The popularity of the Internet and its use in the business environment has made it necessary be included in the introduction to computers course. This paper explores several possible approaches for the acquisition of basic IT skills among new IT enthusiasts and proposes an Information Systems Approach for the acquisition of basic IT skills used in business.
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Lunt, Barry, Joseph Ekstrom, Edith Lawson, Reza Kamali, Jacob Miller, Sandra Gorka, and Han Reichgelt. "Defining the IT Curriculum: The Results of the Past 3 Years." In InSITE 2005: Informing Science + IT Education Conference. Informing Science Institute, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/2864.
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Efforts to define IT curriculum and accreditation standards began at the first Conference on Information Technology Curriculum (CITC-1) in December 2001, which included representatives from 15 Information Technology (IT) programs at four-year schools in the United States, and representatives from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Since this conference, this work has been ongoing at CITC-2 (April 2002), CITC-3 (September 2002), and CITC-4 (October 2003), and through committee work which has progressed between these conferences. The three main thrusts of this work have been to define standards for accreditation of IT programs, to define a model curriculum for IT programs, and to distinguish IT programs from the most closely-related academic programs, such as Information Systems and Computer Science. Membership in SIGITE (Special Interest Group on Information Technology Education) of the ACM is now over 300 members and represents most 4-year IT programs and several 2-year IT programs in the United States; the outcome of these three main thrusts should therefore be of wide interest to all those in related programs or at institutions considering forming a similar program. This paper gives some of the details of the results of the work on these three thrusts.
Reports on the topic "Electronic spreadsheets – Computer programs"
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Modlo, Yevhenii O., Serhiy O. Semerikov, Stanislav L. Bondarevskyi, Stanislav T. Tolmachev, Oksana M. Markova, and Pavlo P. Nechypurenko. Methods of using mobile Internet devices in the formation of the general scientific component of bachelor in electromechanics competency in modeling of technical objects. [б. в.], February 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/123456789/3677.
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An analysis of the experience of professional training bachelors of electromechanics in Ukraine and abroad made it possible to determine that one of the leading trends in its modernization is the synergistic integration of various engineering branches (mechanical, electrical, electronic engineering and automation) in mechatronics for the purpose of design, manufacture, operation and maintenance electromechanical equipment. Teaching mechatronics provides for the meaningful integration of various disciplines of professional and practical training bachelors of electromechanics based on the concept of modeling and technological integration of various organizational forms and teaching methods based on the concept of mobility. Within this approach, the leading learning tools of bachelors of electromechanics are mobile Internet devices (MID) – a multimedia mobile devices that provide wireless access to information and communication Internet services for collecting, organizing, storing, processing, transmitting, presenting all kinds of messages and data. The authors reveals the main possibilities of using MID in learning to ensure equal access to education, personalized learning, instant feedback and evaluating learning outcomes, mobile learning, productive use of time spent in classrooms, creating mobile learning communities, support situated learning, development of continuous seamless learning, ensuring the gap between formal and informal learning, minimize educational disruption in conflict and disaster areas, assist learners with disabilities, improve the quality of the communication and the management of institution, and maximize the cost-efficiency. Bachelor of electromechanics competency in modeling of technical objects is a personal and vocational ability, which includes a system of knowledge, skills, experience in learning and research activities on modeling mechatronic systems and a positive value attitude towards it; bachelor of electromechanics should be ready and able to use methods and software/hardware modeling tools for processes analyzes, systems synthesis, evaluating their reliability and effectiveness for solving practical problems in professional field. The competency structure of the bachelor of electromechanics in the modeling of technical objects is reflected in three groups of competencies: general scientific, general professional and specialized professional. The implementation of the technique of using MID in learning bachelors of electromechanics in modeling of technical objects is the appropriate methodic of using, the component of which is partial methods for using MID in the formation of the general scientific component of the bachelor of electromechanics competency in modeling of technical objects, are disclosed by example academic disciplines “Higher mathematics”, “Computers and programming”, “Engineering mechanics”, “Electrical machines”. The leading tools of formation of the general scientific component of bachelor in electromechanics competency in modeling of technical objects are augmented reality mobile tools (to visualize the objects’ structure and modeling results), mobile computer mathematical systems (universal tools used at all stages of modeling learning), cloud based spreadsheets (as modeling tools) and text editors (to make the program description of model), mobile computer-aided design systems (to create and view the physical properties of models of technical objects) and mobile communication tools (to organize a joint activity in modeling).
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Лукаш, ,. Людмила Вікторівна. The didactic model of education of the future elementary school teachers to activities for the prevention of violations of children’s posture. Wydawnictwo Naukowe Wyzszej Szkoly Informatyki i Umiejetnosci, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/0564/1459.
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The state of musculoskeletal system incidence of pupils of secondary schools remains a pressing problem in all regions of Ukraine, in spite of significant achievements in this direction. The determination of the readiness of teachers and senior students of pedagogical college for implementation of health-keeping technologies, which are aimed at creating a physiological posture of schoolchildren, to the educational process was conducted by our questioning method. 95% of teachers and 77.6% of students (according to polls) need methodological assistance for effective use of health-keeping technologies. We consider the main task of high school to be an optimization of the informational flow regarding health-keeping during the educational process and adaptation of the ways of presenting information to the perception of modern youth. The self-education has a great value for getting mastery, so it is necessary that a student or a teacher could have a wide access to both literature and electronic media. The Internet conferences, Internet sites, electronic textbooks, computer programs will be useful.