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Journal articles on the topic "General and miscellaneous specific topics"
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Gencer, Sinem, and Huseyin Akkus. "The topic-specific nature of experienced chemistry teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge in the topics of interactions between chemical species and states of matter." Chemistry Education Research and Practice 22, no. 2 (2021): 498–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d0rp00258e.
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This study aims to determine the topic-specific nature of two experienced chemistry teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in the topics of interactions between chemical species and states of matter. The teachers’ PCK on these topics was investigated in terms of the following components: orientations toward science teaching (OST), knowledge of curriculum (KoC), knowledge of instructional strategies (KoIS), knowledge of learner (KoL), and knowledge of assessment (KoA). Data for the study were collected over five months using multiple data collection tools, including semi-structured interviews, observations, card-sorting activity, and field notes. PCK is identified in the literature as a topic-specific knowledge. Similarly, chemistry teachers’ PCKs in this study were found to be topic-specific in the topics of interactions between chemical species and states of matter. However, it was seen that some dimensions of the PCK components were not topic-specific. The results indicated that one of the participants’ OST was topic-specific, while the other's was not topic-specific. Further, it was determined that the participants focused on abstract nature in the topic of interactions between chemical species, but they focused on daily life examples in the topic of states of matter. To overcome the students’ difficulties and misconceptions, the participants highlighted abstract nature in the topic of interactions between chemical species and familiar examples in the topic of states of matter. Their KoC differed in terms of relations with other disciplines and curriculum sequence across the topics. Lastly, it was found that the participants’ KoAs consisted of general pedagogical knowledge for both topics. In the light of the results of this study, implications are stated and suggestions on improving the understanding of the topic-specific nature of PCK are provided for in-service chemistry education, pre-service chemistry teacher education, and chemistry education researchers.
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Aydin, Sevgi, Patricia M. Friedrichsen, Yezdan Boz, and Deborah L. Hanuscin. "Examination of the topic-specific nature of pedagogical content knowledge in teaching electrochemical cells and nuclear reactions." Chem. Educ. Res. Pract. 15, no. 4 (2014): 658–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4rp00105b.
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The purpose of this study was to examine experienced chemistry teachers' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) for two different topics in chemistry to better understand how PCK is specific to topic, including whether all components of PCK are topic-specific and to what degree. To explore the topic-specific nature of PCK, we examined two experienced teachers' PCK using a case study methodology. Multiple data collection strategies were used, including a card-sorting activity, Content Representation (CoRe), semi-structured interviews, observations, and field notes. The data collected were analyzed both deductively and inductively. Results revealed that the teachers used more content-based and teacher-centered instruction to teach electrochemistry, whereas their instruction was less teacher-centered, and included Science–Technology–Society–Environment discussions and implicit NOS instruction to teach nuclear reactions. The teachers also varied in the extent of their knowledge of learners and curriculum in comparing their PCK for each topic. In regard to assessment, the teachers' assessment practices were at the general PK level; they lacked topic-specific PCK for either topic. We provided recommendations for professional development programs, pre-service teacher education programs, and curriculum developers to support teachers in developing topic-specific PCK.
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Marrone, Mauricio, Martina K. Linnenluecke, Grant Richardson, and Tom Smith. "Trends in environmental accounting research within and outside of the accounting discipline." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 33, no. 8 (2020): 2167–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-03-2020-4457.
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PurposeThe purpose of this article is to track the emergence of topics and research trends in environmental accounting research by using a machine learning method for literature reviews. The article shows how the method can track the emergence of topics and research trends over time.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis of the emergence of topics and shifts in research trends was based on a machine learning approach that allowed the authors to identify “topic bursts” in publication data. The data set of this study contained, 2,502 records published between 1972 and 2019, both within and outside of accounting journals. The data set was assembled through a systematic keyword search of the literature.FindingsFindings indicated that research studies within accounting journals have addressed sustainability concerns in a general fashion, with a recent focus on broad topics such as corporate social responsibility (CSR) and stakeholder theory. Research studies published outside of accounting journals have focussed on more specific topics (e.g. the shift to a low-carbon or circular economy, the attainment of the sustainable development goals [SDGs], etc.) and new methodologies (e.g. accounting for ecosystem services).Research limitations/implicationsThe method provides an approach for identifying “trending” topics within accounting and non-accounting journals and allows to identify topics and areas that could benefit from a greater exchange of ideas between accounting and non-accounting journals.Originality/valueThe authors provide a much needed review of research on the vitally important topic of environmental accounting not only in accounting journals but also in the broader research community.
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Champlin, Sara, Diana Stewart Hoover, and Michael Mackert. "Health Literacy in Adult Education Centers: Exploring Educator and Staff Needs." Health Promotion Practice 21, no. 2 (2018): 198–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524839918789690.
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Objective. Incorporating health content into adult education courses is promising for increasing health literacy skills among “hard-to-reach” populations. The purpose of this study was to gain previously untapped knowledge of adult education personnel (i.e., educators, staff) about the strategies and programs that would be beneficial for helping students learn about health. Method. Personnel ( N = 53) from three literacy coalitions completed an online survey that assessed interest and preferences for developing a health literacy curriculum. Results. Personnel indicated general concepts such as health services and insurance as those of greatest priority. Additionally, tools designed for general use (completion of forms) were favored. Personnel preferred programs that focused on general skills over those designed to address specific health topics, χ2(1) = 11.52, p = .001. Conclusions. Adult education personnel find greatest value in health literacy programs aimed at increasing general skills rather than disease-/topic-specific content. There were several mismatches in topics noted as a “priority” and those for which personnel felt comfortable teaching. A focus on fostering general health skills will help all students—not just those with specific health concerns such as diabetes and asthma. Teaching health literacy through general skill development could make health programs exciting, engaging, and accessible for students.
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Thompson, Denisse R., Sharon L. Senk, and Gwendolyn J. Johnson. "Opportunities to Learn Reasoning and Proof in High School Mathematics Textbooks." Journal for Research in Mathematics Education 43, no. 3 (2012): 253–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/jresematheduc.43.3.0253.
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This article addresses the nature and extent of reasoning and proof in the written (i.e., intended) curriculum of 20 contemporary high school mathematics textbooks. Both the narrative and exercise sets in lessons dealing with the topics of exponents, logarithms, and polynomials were examined. The extent of proof-related reasoning varied by topic and textbook. Overall, about 50% of the identified properties in the 3 topic areas were justified, with about 30% of the addressed properties justified with a general argument and about 20% justified with an argument about a specific case. However, less than 6% of the exercises in the homework sets involved proof-related reasoning, with developing an argument and investigating a conjecture as the most frequently occurring types of proof-related reasoning.
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Lüdering, Jochen, and Peter Winker. "Forward or Backward Looking? The Economic Discourse and the Observed Reality." Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 236, no. 4 (2016): 483–515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jbnst-2015-1026.
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Abstract Is academic research anticipating economic shake-ups or merely reflecting the past? Exploiting the corpus of articles published in the Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik) for the years 1949 to 2010, this pilot study proposes a quantitative framework for addressing these questions. The framework comprises two steps. First, methods from computational linguistics are used to identify relevant topics and their relative importance over time. In particular, Latent Dirichlet Analysis is applied to the corpus after some preparatory work. Second, for some of the topics which are closely related to specific economic indicators, the developments of topic weights and indicator values are confronted in dynamic regression and VAR models. The results indicate that for some topics of interest, the discourse in the journal leads developments in the real economy, while for other topics it is the other way round.
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Kozbagarov, Olzhas, Rustam Mussabayev, and Nenad Mladenovic. "A New Sentence-Based Interpretative Topic Modeling and Automatic Topic Labeling." Symmetry 13, no. 5 (2021): 837. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sym13050837.
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This article presents a new conceptual approach for the interpretative topic modeling problem. It uses sentences as basic units of analysis, instead of words or n-grams, which are commonly used in the standard approaches.The proposed approach’s specifics are using sentence probability evaluations within the text corpus and clustering of sentence embeddings. The topic model estimates discrete distributions of sentence occurrences within topics and discrete distributions of topic occurrence within the text. Our approach provides the possibility of explicit interpretation of topics since sentences, unlike words, are more informative and have complete grammatical and semantic constructions inside. The method for automatic topic labeling is also provided. Contextual embeddings based on the BERT model are used to obtain corresponding sentence embeddings for their subsequent analysis. Moreover, our approach allows big data processing and shows the possibility of utilizing the combination of internal and external knowledge sources in the process of topic modeling. The internal knowledge source is represented by the text corpus itself and often it is a single knowledge source in the traditional topic modeling approaches. The external knowledge source is represented by the BERT, a machine learning model which was preliminarily trained on a huge amount of textual data and is used for generating the context-dependent sentence embeddings.
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Bucklin, Carrie Jo, and Kristy L. Daniel. "Using Word Associations as a Formative Assessment for Understanding Phylogenetics." American Biology Teacher 79, no. 8 (2017): 668–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/abt.2017.79.8.668.
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It is commonly said that perception is everything. Political candidates are judged by how the public understands their platforms; consumers make purchases based on how they view the products; and business executives make corporate decisions based on potential outcomes of business deals. Likewise, a person's preconception of a topic can change how they learn about and associate that knowledge. Topics with a shared vocabulary between science and common language, such as the terms used when teaching evolution and phylogenetic trees, are especially subject to misconceptions stemming from a lack of understanding how the terminology is used in science. One way to assess the preconceptions students have about specific topics is through using free association techniques. Free association word recall (word association) activities ask students to recall words and phrases associated with stimulus term. Educators can use student responses to learn how students understand and organize prior knowledge, and thus structure subsequent instruction activities to target the revealed preconceptions of the topic.
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López-Chao, Vicente, and Antonio Amado Lorenzo. "Architectural Graphics Research: Topics and Trends through Cluster and Map Network Analyses." Symmetry 12, no. 12 (2020): 1936. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sym12121936.
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Graphic representation is a fundamental language in architecture and engineering because it facilitates the communication of any type of information. Therefore, professionals and students need continuous and updated training, with scientific references being the best source of knowledge. However, accessing the latest findings is a complex process for people in the professional world or without an extensive research background since there are no specific filters in the databases, such as architectural graphics. This manuscript aims to define the research topics and trends in architectural graphics as a point of reference for novel professors and new researchers in graphics or drawing. A database on the Scopus-indexed scientific production of the professors of architectural graphics from public architecture schools in Spain has been developed. Furthermore, cluster and map network analyses have been performed using VOSviewer with different levels of co-occurrence to define what this group of academics investigates and how the issues are related. The results evidenced a structure in four categories: the philosophy and theory of architectural graphics, the theory of geometry in architectural heritage, the application of digital graphics in architecture education and urban design management. Research gaps are mentioned and a base framework for the future of research in architectural graphics is proposed.
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Verhoeven, Marc. "Structure, diversity and context in neolithic ritual practice: A reply to Stuart Campbell and Jonathan Last." Archaeological Dialogues 7, no. 1 (2000): 73–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1380203800001628.
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I am most grateful for the critical, yet on the whole positive and inspiring reactions of Stuart Campbell and Jonathan Last, who offer ample opportunities for an archaeological dialogue. Besides specific questions, they raise a number of important issues which have a general theoretical significance. Last, moreover, presents some new and most interesting data on horned objects from Çatalhöyük West, whereas Campbell comes up with some additional and intriguing examples of the relations between death, fire and abandonment in the late Neolithic of the Near East. In my reply I wish to start with the specific issues before I move on to more general topics.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "General and miscellaneous specific topics"
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Verdizade, Allahverdi. "Selected topics in the grammar and lexicon of Matal." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-160776.
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This thesis describes basic grammatical features and lexicon of Matal, a Chadic language spoken by around 18 000 people in northern Cameroon. A translation of the New Testament is used as a parallel text for the purposes of this study. The identified language structures are compared with other Chadic languages. The results show that Matal is overall typical for the language family, except for the pronominal system, which lacks a clusivity distinction. Nouns and adjectives have a limited morphology, only expressing number as a grammatical category, whereas verbs have many categories that are expressed morphologically, by prefixation and suffixation. For finite verb forms, subject prefixes are obligatory. Tense is expressed either by altered tone in the stem vowel or morphologically. Several verbal suffixes with number and person variants have been identified, although their functions have not been entirely clarified. A system of complex adpositions that make extensive use of grammaticalized body concepts has also been inquired, within which the phenomenon of preposition agreement has been identified. Basic syntactic features, such as word order, negation and topicalization are also addressed. The analysis of the lexicon demonstrates that the basic vocabulary is mainly inherited from earlier stages of the language, but a large number of lexical loans in various semantic domains have also entered Matal.<br>Denna uppsats beskriver grundläggande grammatiska drag och ordförråd i Matal, ett tchadspråk som talas av omkring 18 000 personer i norra Kamerun. En översättning av Nya Testamentet används som parallelltext i denna studie. Identifierade språkliga strukturer jämförs med andra tchadspråk. Resultaten visar att Matal är på det stora hela typiskt för språkfamiljen, med undantag för det pronominella systemet, som inte uppvisar någon skillnad i klusivitet. Substantiv och adjektiv har en begränsad morfologi som endast uttrycker numerus som grammatisk kategori, medan verb har ett stort antal kategorier som uttrycks morfologiskt. Dessa har formen av affix som fogas både före och efterstammen. I finita verbformer är subjektprefix obligatoriska. Tempus kan uttryckas antingen genom ändrad ton i stamvokalen eller morfologiskt. Ett antal verbsuffix med varianter för numerus och person har identifierats, dock har deras funktion inte klarlagts helt. Ett system med komplexa adpositioner som i stor utsträckning använder sig av grammatikaliserade kroppsdelstermer har också undersökts, inom vilket fenomenet av prepositionskongruens i vissa komplexa adpositioner har påvisats. Grundläggande syntaktiska drag som ordföljd, negation och topikalisering tas också upp. Analysen av Matals lexikon visar att det grundläggande ordförrådet är företrädesvis nedärvt från tidigare språkstadier, men också att ett stort antal lånord i olika semantiska domäner har kommit in i språket.
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Verdizade, Allahverdi. "Selected topics in the phonology and morphosyntaxof Laboya : A field study." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-174177.
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The present study investigates selected topics in the phonology and morpho-syntax of Laboya, a largely undescribed Austronesian language of Sumba island in eastern Indonesia. The study was carried out during nine weeks of field work. The language data is comprised by collected questionnaires and free narratives. The results of the study show that Laboya is a head-marking language, in which grammatical relations are encoded by clitics hosted by the verb. There are two sets of pronominal clitics indexing the subject and object arguments of verbs, as well as the possessors of noun phrases. Definiteness is important for the choice of clitics indexing the verb arguments. In addition, there are several highly frequent clitical elements with various functions. The patterns of their co-occurrence and interaction are accounted for. Negation demonstrates different patterns for main, subordinate and imperative clauses.Relative clauses are post-nominal and introduced by two distinct proclitics for subjective and objective relative clauses respectively. Noun phrases of all argument types are accessible for relativization.The phonology of Laboya is rather typical for Sumbanese languages, having a five vowel system and a contrastive vowel length. There are around twenty consonants, three of which are implosives. The phonology of Laboya differs somewhat from neighbouring languages by the de-prenasalization of formerly pre-nasalized voiced plosives, and by the frequent deletion of word-final vowels /i/ and /u/.<br>Denna studie presenterar utvalda ämnen inom Labojas ljudlära och morfosyntax. Laboja är ett hittills obeskrivet austronesiskt språk som talas på ön Sumba i östra Indonesien. Studien utfördes under ett nio veckor långt fältarbete genom insamling av frågeformulär och fria narrativ. Resultaten av studien visar att Laboja är ett huvudmarkerande språk där grammatiska relationer uttrycks med klitikor som fogas till verbet. Det finns två uppsättningar av frekventa pronominella klitikor som markerar verbets subjekt, objekt och nominalfrasens ägarskap. Substantivets bestämdhet är en viktig faktor för valet av klitikor som refererar till verbets argument. Därutöver finns det flera högfrekventa klitiska element med varierande funktioner. En redogörelse för mönstren av dessa klitikors samspel och samförekomst ges. Negation i Laboja följer skiftande mönster i huvudsatser, bisatser och imperativa satser. Relativa satser inleds med hjälp av två olika proklitikor beroende på om relativsatsens semantiska subjekt finns att finna i själva relativsatsen eller dess huvudsats. Nominalfraser av samtliga argumenttyper är tillgängliga för relativisering. Labojas ljudlära är tämligen typisk för sumbanesiska språk med femvokalsystem samt kontrastiv längdskillnad. Det finns runt tjugo konsonanter, av vilka tre är implosiva. Ljudläran skiljer sig dock från grannspråken genom att de pre-nasaliserade konsonantljuden har övergått till att vara tonande klusiler, samt genom ett ofta förekommande bortfall av slutvokalerna /i/ och /u/.<br>Penelitian sekarang menyelidiki bahasan tertentu dalam fonologi dan morfosintaksis di dalam Bahasa Laboya, sebuah bahasa Austronesia yang dituturkan di Pulau Sumba, Indonesia timur, yang jarang diteliti. Penelitian ini dilakukan dalam jangka waktu sembilan minggu yang dilaksanakan langsung di tempatnya. Data yang diperoleh terdiri atas angket dan cerita. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa Laboya merupakan bahasa yang cenderung menggunakan penandaan di kepala (awal) kata, di mana hubungan dalam tata bahasa ditunjukkan dengan klitik yang dimiliki oleh kata kerja. Ada dua jenis dari klitik pronomia yang menunjukkan subyek dan argumen obyek sebuah kata kerja, dan juga pemilik dari frasa kata benda. Kepastian obyek sangat penting ketika memilih klitik yang menunjukkan argumen kata kerja. Ada juga beberapa klitik yang paling sering muncul dengan fungsi yang beragam. Pola dari interaksi mereka telah diperhitungkan. Klausa relatif diletakkan setelah kata benda dan dimulai dengan dua proklitik yang khas untuk klausa relatif subyektif dan obyektif. Frasa kata benda dari semua tipe argumen dapat direlativisasi. Fonologi Bahasa Laboya termasuk lazim ketika dibandingkan dengan bahasa-bahasa lain yang ada di Sumba. Bahasa Laboya memiliki lima huruf vokal, di mana panjang pendeknya suatu huruf vokal berpengaruh pada artinya. Terdapat pula dua puluh konsonan, tiga diantaranya merupakan konsonan implosif. Fonologi Bahasa Laboya dapat dibedakan dengan bahasa yang ada di sekitarnya dengan ada de-prenasalisasi dari konsonan letup yang bersuara, dan dengan penghilangan huruf vokal /i/ dan /u/ pada akhir kata.
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Lindström, Eva. "Topics in the grammar of Kuot, a non-Austronesian language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-19184.
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This thesis describes certain areas in the grammar of the little-known Kuot language, spoken by some 1,500 people in New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea. Kuot is an isolate, and is the only non-Austronesian (Papuan) language of that province. The analyses presented here are based on original data from 18 months of linguistic fieldwork. The first chapter provides an overview of Kuot grammar, and gives details of earlier mentions of the language, and of data collection and the fieldwork situation. The second chapter presents information about the prehistory and history of the area, the social system, kinship system and culture of Kuot speakers, as well as dialectal variation and prognosis of survival of the language. Chapter three treats Kuot phonology, with particular emphasis on the factors that govern allophonic variation, and on the expression of word stress and the functions of intonation. Word classes and the criteria used to define them are presented in Chapter four, which also contains a discussion of types of morphemes in Kuot. The last chapter describes in some detail the class of nouns in Kuot, their declensions, non-singular formation, and the properties of grammatical gender. Appendices give the full set of person-marking forms in Kuot, a transcription of a recorded text with interlinear glossing and translation, the Swadesh 100-word list for Kuot, and diagrams of kin relations and terminology<br><p>För att köpa boken skicka en beställning till exp@ling.su.se/ To order the book send an e-mail to exp@ling.su.se</p>
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"Proceedings of the tenth international conference Models in developing mathematics education." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-79236.
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This volume contains the papers presented at the International Conference on “Models in Developing Mathematics Education” held from September 11-17, 2009 at The University of Applied Sciences, Dresden, Germany. The Conference was organized jointly by The University of Applied Sciences and The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project - a non-commercial international educational project founded in 1986. The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project is dedicated to the improvement of mathematics education world-wide through the publication and dissemination of innovative ideas. Many prominent mathematics educators have supported and contributed to the project, including the late Hans Freudental, Andrejs Dunkels and Hilary Shuard, as well as Bruce Meserve and Marilyn Suydam, Alan Osborne and Margaret Kasten, Mogens Niss, Tibor Nemetz, Ubi D’Ambrosio, Brian Wilson, Tatsuro Miwa, Henry Pollack, Werner Blum, Roberto Baldino, Waclaw Zawadowski, and many others throughout the world. Information on our project and its future work can be found on Our Project Home Page http://math.unipa.it/~grim/21project.htm
It has been our pleasure to edit all of the papers for these Proceedings. Not all papers are about research in mathematics education, a number of them report on innovative experiences in the classroom and on new technology. We believe that “mathematics education” is fundamentally a “practicum” and in order to be “successful” all new materials, new ideas and new research must be tested and implemented in the classroom, the real “chalk face” of our discipline, and of our profession as mathematics educators. These Proceedings begin with a Plenary Paper and then the contributions of the Principal Authors in alphabetical name order. We sincerely thank all of the contributors for their time and creative effort. It is clear from the variety and quality of the papers that the conference has attracted many innovative mathematics educators from around the world. These Proceedings will therefore be useful in reviewing past work and looking ahead to the future.
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"Turning dreams into reality: transformations and paradigm shifts in mathematics education." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-79243.
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This volume contains the papers presented at the International Conference on “Turning Dreams into Reality: Transformations and Paradigm Shifts in Mathematics Education” held from September 11-17, 2011 at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. The Conference was organized jointly by Rhodes University and The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project - an international educational project founded in 1986. Our Project is dedicated to the improvement of mathematics education world-wide through the publication and dissemination of innovative ideas. Many prominent mathematics educators have supported and contributed to the project, including the late Hans Freudental, Andrejs Dunkels and Hilary Shuard, as well as Bruce Meserve and Marilyn Suydam, Alan Osborne and Margaret Kasten, Mogens Niss, Tibor Nemetz, Ubi D’Ambrosio, Brian Wilson, Tatsuro Miwa, Henry Pollack, Werner Blum, Roberto Baldino, Waclaw Zawadowski, and many others throughout the world. Information on our project and its future work can be found on our Project home page http://math.unipa.it/~grim/21project.htm .
In this year, 2011, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of our Project, when Manmohan Singh Arora suggested the idea to Fayez Mina and myself around a swimming pool in Bahrain (of all places!) That first meeting was, however, typical of the multi-cultured and global character of our Project and it’s subsequent conferences throughout the world.
These Proceedings begin with the Plenary Papers and then the other contributions in alphabetical name order of the principal authors. We sincerely thank all of the contributors for their time and creative effort. It is clear from the variety and quality of the papers that the conference has attracted many innovative mathematics educators from around the world.
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Paditz, Ludwig, and Alan Rogerson. "Proceedings of the tenth international conference Models in developing mathematics education: September 11 - 17, 2009, Dresden, Saxony, Germany." 2009. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A1658.
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This volume contains the papers presented at the International Conference on “Models in Developing Mathematics Education” held from September 11-17, 2009 at The University of Applied Sciences, Dresden, Germany. The Conference was organized jointly by The University of Applied Sciences and The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project - a non-commercial international educational project founded in 1986. The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project is dedicated to the improvement of mathematics education world-wide through the publication and dissemination of innovative ideas. Many prominent mathematics educators have supported and contributed to the project, including the late Hans Freudental, Andrejs Dunkels and Hilary Shuard, as well as Bruce Meserve and Marilyn Suydam, Alan Osborne and Margaret Kasten, Mogens Niss, Tibor Nemetz, Ubi D’Ambrosio, Brian Wilson, Tatsuro Miwa, Henry Pollack, Werner Blum, Roberto Baldino, Waclaw Zawadowski, and many others throughout the world. Information on our project and its future work can be found on Our Project Home Page http://math.unipa.it/~grim/21project.htm
It has been our pleasure to edit all of the papers for these Proceedings. Not all papers are about research in mathematics education, a number of them report on innovative experiences in the classroom and on new technology. We believe that “mathematics education” is fundamentally a “practicum” and in order to be “successful” all new materials, new ideas and new research must be tested and implemented in the classroom, the real “chalk face” of our discipline, and of our profession as mathematics educators. These Proceedings begin with a Plenary Paper and then the contributions of the Principal Authors in alphabetical name order. We sincerely thank all of the contributors for their time and creative effort. It is clear from the variety and quality of the papers that the conference has attracted many innovative mathematics educators from around the world. These Proceedings will therefore be useful in reviewing past work and looking ahead to the future.
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Paditz, Ludwig, and Alan Rogerson. "Turning dreams into reality: transformations and paradigm shifts in mathematics education: Proceedings of the eleventh international conference; September 11 - 17, 2011; Rhodes University, Grahamstown." 2011. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A1659.
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This volume contains the papers presented at the International Conference on “Turning Dreams into Reality: Transformations and Paradigm Shifts in Mathematics Education” held from September 11-17, 2011 at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. The Conference was organized jointly by Rhodes University and The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project - an international educational project founded in 1986. Our Project is dedicated to the improvement of mathematics education world-wide through the publication and dissemination of innovative ideas. Many prominent mathematics educators have supported and contributed to the project, including the late Hans Freudental, Andrejs Dunkels and Hilary Shuard, as well as Bruce Meserve and Marilyn Suydam, Alan Osborne and Margaret Kasten, Mogens Niss, Tibor Nemetz, Ubi D’Ambrosio, Brian Wilson, Tatsuro Miwa, Henry Pollack, Werner Blum, Roberto Baldino, Waclaw Zawadowski, and many others throughout the world. Information on our project and its future work can be found on our Project home page http://math.unipa.it/~grim/21project.htm .
In this year, 2011, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of our Project, when Manmohan Singh Arora suggested the idea to Fayez Mina and myself around a swimming pool in Bahrain (of all places!) That first meeting was, however, typical of the multi-cultured and global character of our Project and it’s subsequent conferences throughout the world.
These Proceedings begin with the Plenary Papers and then the other contributions in alphabetical name order of the principal authors. We sincerely thank all of the contributors for their time and creative effort. It is clear from the variety and quality of the papers that the conference has attracted many innovative mathematics educators from around the world.
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Ludwig, Dorothea. "Methodenentwicklung zur GIS-gestützten Standortanalyse von Solaranlagen auf Grundlage hochauflösender Laserscandaten." Doctoral thesis, 2016. https://repositorium.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-2016030814307.
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Ziel der Arbeit ist die Methodenentwicklung zur Berechnung des Solarenergiepotenzials auf Dachflächen für sämtliche Gebäude eines großen Gebiets (Stadt, Landkreis) auf Grundlage von Laserscandaten. Die Methode zur Solarpotenzialberechnung wurde mit dem Hintergrund des notwendigen Handlungsbedarfs an Maßnahmen für den Klimaschutz entwickelt. Die Ausgabe des Solarpotenzials auf Dachflächen für alle Gebäude einer Verwaltungseinheit liefert flächendeckende und neutrale Informationen für den Bürger und die Verwaltung. Insbesondere die solare Nutzung auf den keiner Flächenkonkurrenz unterliegenden Dachflächen birgt enormes Potenzial und liefert einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Energiewende. Das Ergebnis dieser Arbeit präsentiert eine Methode, über die eine automatisierte Berechnung des Solarpotenzials auf Dachflächen auf Basis von Laserscandaten mit hoher Genauigkeitsausgabe für große Region realisierbar ist. Die Methode besteht aus sechs Prozessschritten. Es handelt sich um die Datenaufbereitung, die Selektion der homogenen Dachteilflächenbereiche, die Einstrahlungsanalyse, die Verschattungsableitung und die Berechnung des Solarpotenzials. Zudem wird eine Rohdatenkontrolle zur Qualitätsbewertung der Laserscandaten umgesetzt. Zentraler Verfahrensschritt ist die Ableitung der homogenen Dachteilflächen, die unter Berücksichtigung möglichst vieler auch kleiner Dachstrukturen gebildet werden. Das entwickelte Mehrfach-Thresholding Verfahren ermöglicht über die Auswertung der Dachneigung und Dachausrichtung die Separierung von planaren Dachteilflächen.
Über den r.sun Algorithmus von GRASS GIS wird die Einstrahlungsanalyse umgesetzt, die den Sonnenstand über den Tag und das Jahr für den Betrachtungsort simuliert und die direkte, diffuse und Globalstrahlung auf die Dachfläche für unterschiedliche Zeitperioden ausgeben lässt. Die Jahressumme der Globalstrahlung wird für jede Dachteilfläche unter Ausschluss stark verschatteter Bereiche errechnet und dient als Grundlage für die Potenzialberechnung. Im Ergebnis enthält jedes Dachteilflächenpolygon Angaben zur geeigneten Modulfläche, zur Höhe der Globalstrahlung, zum potenziellen Stromertrag, zur potenziellen kW-Leistung und zur CO2-Einsparsumme. Datengrundlage sind Laserscandaten, die die Oberflächensituation mit sämtlichen Strukturen abbilden, sowie Gebäudeumringe aus den Liegenschaftsdaten zur Lokalisierung des Gebäudes beziehungsweise des Daches. Laserscandaten eignen sich, abhängig von der Qualität, sehr gut, um im Modell den Betrachtungs- und Einflussraum, der für die Ausgabe des Solarpotenzials auf Dachflächen wichtig ist, flächendeckend und realitätsnah abzubilden. Hier sind insbesondere das Dach insgesamt und die Dachstrukturen sowie die Vegetation, insbesondere Bäume und die Umgebungstopographie die wichtigen Elemente, die flächendeckend und in möglichst hoher Auflösung im Modell vorliegen und berücksichtigt werden sollen, da sie möglicherweise die ertragreiche und wirtschaftliche Nutzung einer Solaranalage verhindern. Über eine rasterbasierte Modellierung ermöglichen diese Daten die Berechnung der Standortparameter wie Dachneigung, Dachausrichtung, Verschattung, Einstrahlungsenergie und Dachflächengröße.
An die Laserscandaten werden bestimmte qualitative Anforderungen gestellt, um eine Genauigkeit der Potenzialwerte zu garantieren. Das relativ junge Verfahren wurde in den vergangenen Jahren stark weiter entwickelt, die Lage- und Höhengenauigkeit und Punktdichte wurden deutlich erhöht. Zahlreiche Laserscandatensätze unterschiedlicher Qualität wurden ausgewertet. Die Arbeit beschreibt Mindestanforderungen an die Qualität der Daten, die für eine hohe Qualitätsausgabe des Solarpotenzials benötigt werden. Die Genauigkeit der Solarpotenzialergebnisse wurden über Gebäudepläne realer Objekte, Vor-Ort Messungen und Erträge von bestehenden PV-Anlagen evaluiert. Erzielbare Abweichungen von 2% in der Neigung und 1% in der Ausrichtung sind über die entwickelte Methode auf Grundlage von Laserscandaten mit ausreichender Qualität erreichbar. Größere Abweichungen mit 6% Prozent wurden bei der Dachflächengröße errechnet. Die Bewertung über Referenzanlagen und dessen spezifischem Stromertrag lieferte eine Abweichung von 1,2%. Die Evaluierungsergebnisse bestätigen den Methodenansatz und liefern gute Resultate in der Genauigkeit der Solarpotenzialwerte.
Books on the topic "General and miscellaneous specific topics"
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An epsilon of room, II: Pages from year three of a mathematical blog. American Mathematical Society, 2010.
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A Moscow math circle: Week-by-week problem sets. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 2011.
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I, Arnolʹd V. Lectures and problems: A gift to young mathematicians. American Mathematical Society, 2016.
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Schwartz, Richard Evan. The gallery of the infinite. American Mathematical Society, 2016.
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Moscow Mathematical Olympiads, 2000-2005. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 2011.
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Math from three to seven: The story of a mathematical circle for preschoolers. American Mathematical Society, 2011.
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I︠A︡shchenko, I. V. Invitation to a mathematical festival. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 2013.
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Shavell, Steven. Two topics on criminal law: Specific v. general enforcement ;A theory of attempts. University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Law and Economics Programme, 1989.
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Ochiai, Ei-Ichiro. "Miscellaneous Topics." In General Principles of Biochemistry of the Elements. Springer US, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5371-3_7.
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Münster, Sander. "Researching Scientific Structures via Joint Authorships—The Case of Virtual 3D Modelling in the Humanities." In Progress in IS. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66262-2_10.
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AbstractOne of the topics addressed by e-science research is the measurement of academic knowledge production based on electronic data and its relevance in defining the academic landscape. The author employs e-science methods to research cooperative authorships and scientific structures in a specific area of applied e-sciences: virtual 3D modelling in the humanities. Based on the findings, possibilities for cross-disciplinary and international cooperation are discussed. The number of international publications and average number of authors involved in each publication are lower than those found in other scientific fields. Moreover, research indicates that in the humanities, 3D modelling is relatively new and still emergent. Besides such general indications, several key players as people and institutions which interconnect groups of researchers could be identified on a structural level.
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Sharma, Sumant, and Yogesh Chhabra. "Miscellaneous Topics in General Pathology." In MCQs in Objective Pathology with Explanations. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd., 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp/books/11666_3.
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Lagattolla, Nick. "Non-Specific Abdominal Pain." In Key Topics in General Surgery. CRC Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b14719-55.
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"22. General Theory of Some Multiple Decision Problems and Some Miscellaneous Topics." In Multiple Decision Procedures. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/1.9780898719161.ch22.
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Shin, Gee Yen. "Vaccination of Specific Groups." In Tutorial Topics in Infection for the Combined Infection Training Programme. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198801740.003.0063.
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While the UK immunisation schedule is a national immunisation policy for the general population, several groups of patients and persons require a different approach to be taken. For example, some groups of patients cannot safely receive certain vaccine because they may be allergic (anaphylaxis) to some vaccine components and some patients cannot receive, e.g. live attenuated vaccines because they are severely immunocompromised. Other patients require additional vaccines to protect them from vaccine preventable diseases because they are immunocompromised in some way, e.g. asplenia. The following groups require special consideration: ● Pregnant women; ● Severely immunocompromised patients; ● Asplenic patients or those with dysfunctional spleens; ● Severe allergy to vaccine components; ● healthcare workers (HCWs); ● Patients with certain chronic medical conditions; ● Morbid obesity; and ● Persons travelling abroad, especially to developing countries. In general, giving vaccines to pregnant women is not recommended due to the potential risk of medicines and vaccines harming the foetus. Specifically, live attenuated vaccines should not be given to pregnant women. It is relatively safer to give inactivated/killed vaccines to pregnant women, but most vaccines can and should be postponed until after delivery. However, in the UK it is recommended that pregnant women receive two particular vaccines during pregnancy in order to protect the mother and foetus from avoidable harm. These are the inactivated influenza vaccine and a vaccine against Bordetella pertussis infection. For these two vaccines, the benefits of vaccination for the pregnant women and the foetus or newborn baby outweigh any theoretical risks of harm. Severely immunocompromised patients should not receive live attenuated vaccines due to a risk of uncontrolled viral replication resulting in clinical disease. Patients who are considered to be severely immunocompromised include: ● Severe primary immunodeficiency, e.g. severe combined immunodeficiency; ● Patients receiving cancer chemotherapy and those within six months of completing chemotherapy; ● Patients who have received a solid organ transplant and are on immunosuppressive therapy; ● Patients who have received a bone marrow transplant until twelve months after all immunosuppressive therapy has stopped; and ● Patients receiving high-dose systemic corticosteroids until at least three months after treatment ends.
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Yoo, Ki-Young, Marcia Hogeling, Sophia K. Sandhu, and Delphine J. Lee. "Dermatology." In General Pediatrics Board Review. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190848712.003.0022.
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This chapter on dermatologic disorders presents patient scenarios in a series of vignettes. Each vignette is followed by a question-and-answer format to provide active learning that emphasizes key points regarding clinically relevant topics. These topics are also covered in the American Board of Pediatrics Content Outline for certification exams. The topics addressed in this chapter range from common dermatologic conditions encountered by pediatricians to important more rare conditions that may be part of pediatric practice. Specific topics include skin problems in neonates, atopic dermatitis, infections and infestations, hair loss, neurocutaneous syndromes, pigmented lesions, acne, inflammatory skin conditions, and inherited rare skin conditions.
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Deville, Jaime G., Amira N. Baker, and Antonio C. Arrieta. "Infectious Diseases." In General Pediatrics Board Review. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190848712.003.0008.
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This chapter on pediatric infectious diseases first presents patient scenarios, followed by a question-and-answer format to provide active learning to emphasize key points regarding clinically relevant topics, which are also covered in the American Board of Pediatrics Content Outline for certification exams. The topics addressed in this chapter range from common infectious processes encountered by pediatricians to more unusual, but important, conditions. Specific topics include infections in immunocompromised hosts, sepsis, central nervous system infections, respiratory infections, gastrointestinal infections, hepatitis, bone and joint infections, regional mycoses, parasites, sexually transmitted infections, infections in neonates, management of antimicrobial agents, pediatric HIV-1, and immunizations.
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Giefer, Matthew J., Erin R. Lane, Nicole Green, Talya L. Miller, and Michelle Pietzak. "Gastrointestinal Disorders." In General Pediatrics Board Review. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190848712.003.0019.
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This chapter on gastrointestinal disorders uses clinical scenarios and a question-and-answer format to make the material covered both engaging and relevant. The topics addressed in this chapter range from common gastrointestinal conditions seen in everyday practice to emergent and rarer diseases that may only be encountered a few times in a career. The clinical scenarios in this chapter take place in multiple different clinical settings in order to provide exposure to a diverse array of acuity represented in clinical practice. Specific topics include acute and chronic abdominal pain, vomiting, esophageal disorders, diarrhea, constipation, jaundice, gastrointestinal bleeding, ulcer disease, hepatomegaly, malabsorption, and inflammatory bowel disease.
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Colbert, Dom. "Specific Medical Risks for the Traveller." In MCQs in Travel Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199664528.003.0018.
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The next two chapters deal with specific and general medical risks for the traveller. The topics covered are not exhaustive nor are they always exclusive to the traveller. However, they do focus on the problems most likely to be encountered when travelling and, as such, the responsible travel health advisor must be familiar with them.
Conference papers on the topic "General and miscellaneous specific topics"
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Zhang, Ge, Di Jin, Jian Gao, Pengfei Jiao, Françoise Fogelman-Soulié, and Xin Huang. "Finding Communities with Hierarchical Semantics by Distinguishing General and Specialized topics." In Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-18}. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/507.
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Using network topology and semantic contents to find topic-related communities is a new trend in the field of community detection. By analyzing texts in social networks, we find that topics in networked contents are often hierarchical. In most cases, they have a two-level semantic structure with general and specialized topics, to respectively denote common and specific interests of communities. However, the existing community detection methods ignore such a hierarchy and take all words used to describe node semantics from an identical perspective. This indiscriminate use of words leads to natural defects in depicting networked content in which the deep semantics is not fully utilized. To address this problem, we propose a novel probabilistic generative model. By distinguishing the general and specialized topics of words, our model not only can find community structures more accurately, but also provide two-level semantic interpretation for each community. We train the model by deriving an efficient inference method under the framework of variational expectation-maximization. We provide a case study to show the ability of our algorithm in deep semantic interpretability of communities. The superiority of our algorithm for community detection is further demonstrated in comparison with eight state-of-the-art algorithms on eight real-world networks.
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Anderson, James R., and Michael J. Skinner. "Blade Repair With Adaptive Vision Tracking." In ASME 1991 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/91-gt-208.
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The paper discusses the repair welding of compressor and other blades contained in a gas turbine engines. The specific topics of discussion are the application requirements, the general metallurgical considerations, the synchronized pulsation arc welding process, the adaptive vision system employed and the computer controlled welding system. Reference to an actual installation of this technology will be included.
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Honda, Hiroshi, and Shuichi Fukuda. "Industry Focused Courses Utilizing Collaborative Learning Approach." In ASME 2003 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2003-55237.
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Industry focused, full semester Courses A “Industry and Information Systems” and B “Overview of the Market and Introduction to Marketing” are lectured by the lead author at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology (TMIT). In these courses, overview of the global and Japanese economies and trends of each industry sector are introduced by the lecturer. Students are assigned to write a report on a specific industry sector, a specific market and other related topics of his or her interest, and opportunities for presentation and discussion on their draft reports with their classmates and the lecturer are given toward the end of the semester. Apart from these courses, a full semester Course C “Evolution of Industry, Business and Engineering Practice in the Global Economy,” utilizing collaborative learning approach, was proposed by the lead author in 1998, and was partially taught at American and Japanese universities, utilizing the Proceedings of the ASME Engineering & Technology Management Group Symposia at IMECE 2000–2002.1)–3) The surveys were conducted concerning the student’s interest of industry sectors, lecture topics, and international topics both at the beginning and at the end of the semester. In addition, surveys to sense students’ new discovery from lectures for all course modules and those to sense useful knowledge in their career planning and in general were conducted at the end of all classes. The results of surveys show that students found the discussion opportunities valuable to gain broader perspectives and insights into their own subject of study when writing their reports, by learning what their classmates are studying and from classmates’ comments. This paper also discusses what motivates students in learning, what influences students’ general, specific, and career interests, and how students’ interests may change from the beginning to the end of the semester for which these courses are given.
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Detilleux, Michel, and Baudouin Centner. "In-House Developed Methodologies and Tools for Decommissioning Projects." In The 11th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2007-7350.
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The paper describes different methodologies and tools developed in-house by Tractebel Engineering to facilitate the engineering works to be carried out especially in the frame of decommissioning projects. Three examples of tools with their corresponding results are presented: - The LLWAA-DECOM code, a software developed for the radiological characterization of contaminated systems and equipment. The code constitutes a specific module of more general software that was originally developed to characterize radioactive waste streams in order to be able to declare the radiological inventory of critical nuclides, in particular difficult-to-measure radionuclides, to the Authorities. In the case of LLWAA-DECOM, deposited activities inside contaminated equipment (piping, tanks, heat exchangers ...) and scaling factors between nuclides, at any given time of the decommissioning time schedule, are calculated on the basis of physical characteristics of the systems and of operational parameters of the nuclear power plant. This methodology was applied to assess decommissioning costs of Belgian NPPs, to characterize the primary system of Trino NPP in Italy, to characterize the equipment of miscellaneous circuits of Ignalina NPP and of Kozloduy unit 1 and, to calculate remaining dose rates around equipment in the frame of the preparation of decommissioning activities; - The VISIMODELLER tool, a user friendly CAD interface developed to ease the introduction of lay-out areas in a software named VISIPLAN. VISIPLAN is a 3D dose rate assessment tool for ALARA work planning, developed by the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK·CEN. Both softwares were used for projects such as the steam generators replacements in Belgian NPPs or the preparation of the decommissioning of units 1&2 of Kozloduy NPP; - The DBS software, a software developed to manage the different kinds of activities that are part of the general time schedule of a decommissioning project. For each activity, when relevant, algorithms allow to estimate, on the basis of local inputs, radiological exposures of the operators (collective and individual doses), production of primary, secondary and tertiary waste and their characterization, production of conditioned waste, release of effluents, ... and enable the calculation and the presentation (histograms) of the global results for all activities together. An example of application in the frame of the Ignalina decommissioning project is given.
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Faidy, Claude. "New French Regulation for NPPs and Code Consequences." In 14th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone14-89616.
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On December 2005, the French regulator issued a new regulation for French nuclear power plants, in particular for pressure equipment (PE). This regulation need first to agree with non-nuclear PE regulation and add to that some specific requirements, in particular radiation protection requirements. Different advantages are in these proposal, it’s more qualitative risk oriented and it’s an important link with non-nuclear industry. Only few components are nuclear specific. But, the general philosophy of the existing Codes (RCC-M [15], KTA [16] or ASME [17]) have to be improved. For foreign Codes, it’s plan to define the differences in the user specifications. In parallel to that, a new safety classification has been developed by French utility. The consequences is the need to cross all these specifications to define a minimum quality level for each components or systems. In the same time a new concept has been developed to replace the well known “Leak Before Break methodology”: the “Break Exclusion” methodology. This paper will summarize the key aspects of these different topics.
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Faidy, Claude. "French Codes Used for EPR and Comparison With ASME Practices." In 16th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone16-48959.
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On December 2005, the French regulator issued a new regulation for French nuclear power plants, in particular for pressure equipment (PE). This regulation need first to agree with non-nuclear PE regulation and add to that some specific requirements, in particular radiation protection requirements. Different advantages are in these proposal, it’s more qualitative risk oriented and it’s an important link with non-nuclear industry. Only few components are nuclear specific. But, the general philosophy of the existing Codes (RCC-M, KTA or ASME) have to be improved. For foreign Codes, it’s plan to define the differences in the user specifications. In parallel to that, a new safety classification has been developed by French utility. The consequences is the need to cross all these specifications to define a minimum quality level for each components or systems. In the same time a new concept has been developed to replace the well known “Leak Before Break methodology” by the “Break Exclusion” methodology. This paper will summarize the key aspects of these different topics and regularly compare with ASME practices.
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Toldova, S., T. Davydova, M. Kobozeva, and D. Pisarevskaya. "DISCOURSE FEATURES OF BLOGS IN SUBCORPUS OF RUSSIAN RU-RSTREEBANK." In International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies "Dialogue". Russian State University for the Humanities, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.28995/2075-7182-2020-19-747-761.
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The paper presents a corpus study of the discourse features in the corpus of blogs. It is based on the data of Ru-RSTreebank annotated within the framework of the Rhetorical Structure theory [Mann, Thompson 1988]. The Ru-RSTreebank represents genres of news and popular science, scientific papers, and blogs texts. Blog subcorpus contains such topics as travelling, cosmetics, sports and health, psychology, IT and tech and some others. Blogs texts constitute a specific genre as they combine properties of written and spoken discourse. The purpose of the paper is to investigate discourse features of blogs in comparison with other genres. We analyze the variation in rhetoric relations distribution among genres, and single out the differences in discourse connectives usage. Furthermore, we check the distribution of other discourse features reported in different studies for spoken discourse and for social media in the Ru-RSTreebank blogs subcorpus. The general frequency analysis and the experiments on RandomForest classifier application to genre recognition have shown that the most important rhetoric relations specific to blogs are Evaluation and Contrast, that there is a tendency to use shorter discourse units and not to express the discourse relations overtly via subordinative conjunctions.
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Maccallum, N. R. L., and F. S. Reford. "Description of an Industry–University Liaison: Rolls-Royce Scottish Factories–Glasgow University 1968–84." In ASME 1985 International Gas Turbine Conference and Exhibit. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/85-gt-158.
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The paper describes the liaison that has developed between Rolls-Royce Limited (Scottish Factories) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Glasgow and indicates the benefits that have been obtained by both sides. Of benefit to the University have been stimulating contacts with industry, from which have come topics for meaningful investigations, both in projects by undergraduates and in research by postgraduates and staff. Students at the University have also benefited by being able to visit Rolls-Royce’s Scottish Factories, and have Rolls-Royce staff give lectures to the Engineering Society. One advantage to Rolls-Royce is that students at Glasgow University have had frequent contacts with the Company and are aware of its aims and achievements. Also, there has been technical benefit to the Company from the general research and from several specific studies carried out on a consultancy basis.
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Elber, Gershon. "On Self Intersections of Freeform Curves and Surfaces." In ASME 2008 9th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/esda2008-59330.
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The computations of curve-curve and surface-surface intersections are considered difficult problems in geometric design. Numerous results were annually published on these topics for the last several decades. Moreover, the detection and more so the computation and even elimination of self-intersections in freeform curves and surfaces is viewed by many as a far more challenging problem, with much fewer satisfactory results. In recent years, several methods were developed to robustly detect, compute and even eliminate self intersections in general freeform (typically NURBs) curves and surfaces, exploiting intrinsic and/or geometric properties, on one side, and the algebraic structure of the shape, on the other. Other methods are specific and employ special properties of the problem in hand, as is the case of offset computation. In this work, we will survey some of our results and others, and provide a birds view of the current state-of-the-art research, on the self-intersections problem, in the freeform domain.
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Mohr, William, Robin Gordon, and Robert Smith. "Local Strain Accumulation in Pipeline Girth Welds." In 2004 International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2004-0474.
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The majority of existing pipeline design codes are stress based and provide limited guidance on the design and assessment of pipelines that may experience high local strains in service. High strains can occur in service due to ground movement, bending over an unsupported span and seismic loading. In such cases pipelines should be designed based on strain capacity. The rigors of strain-based analyses pose a number of challenges, particularly related to pipeline girth welds and general material behavior. This paper presents a summary of an ongoing multi-year project co-funded by the US Minerals Management Service (MMS) and US Dept of Transportation (DOT) to develop design and assessment guidelines for pipelines that may experience high strains in service. Specific topics to be addressed by the project include: • Parent Pipe specifications (Y/T limits, stress-strain behavior, material toughness, etc.); • Welding specifications (joint design, joint geometry, weld strength mismatch, etc.); • Engineering Critical Assessment (ECA) Methods for strain based loading; • Validation test methods to verify pipeline performance (criteria for full-scale testing).