Language, proof and logic

What do the fields of astronomy, economics, finance, law, mathematics, medicine, physics, and sociology have in common? Not much in the way of subject matter, that's for sure. And not all that much in the way of methodology. What they do have in common, with each other and with many other ¯elds, is their dependence on a certain standard of rationality. In each of these ¯elds, it is assum…

Engineering mechanics of solids (College custom series)

This is a book about the Mechanics of Solids, Statics, the Strength of Materials, and Elasticity Theory. But that doesn’t mean a thing unless you have had a course in the Mechanics of Solids, Statics, the Strength of Materials, or Elasticity Theory. I assume you have not; let us try again: This is a book that builds upon what you were supposed to learn in your basic physics and mathematics…

Recent Advances in Thermo and Fluid Dynamics

Thermodynamics is a branch of physics concerned with heat and temperature and their relation to energy and work. It defines macroscopic variables, such as internal energy, entropy, and pressure, that partly describe a body of matter or radiation. It states that the behavior of these variables is subject to general constraints that are common to all materials, not to the peculiar properties of p…

The Discovery of Global Warming

In 2001, an international panel of distinguished climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last two millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion—by way of unexpected twists and turns—was the story Spencer R. Weart told in The Dis…

Algorithms for Modular Elliptic Curves

This book presents a thorough treatment of many algorithms concerning the arithmetic of elliptic curves with remarks on computer implementation. It is in three parts. First, the author describes in detail the construction of modular elliptic curves, giving an explicit algorithm for their computation using modular symbols. Second, a collection of algorithms for the arithmetic of elliptic curves …

Discrete Optimization

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Academic Year 2011/2012

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Deskripsi Fisik

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Lecture Notes of the Master Course

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Mujerista Mentoring For Chicanas/Latinas In Higher Education

In this article, we suggest that just as there are barriers and challenges that are particular to Chicanas/Latinas in terms of student retention and persistence,so must the mentoring offered to these students take into account their particular social, cultural, and gendered contexts. In response, we argue for a model of mujerista mentoring, building on the work of Chicana/Latina feminist schol…

Introduction To Physical Oceanography

This book is written for upper-division undergraduates and new graduate students in meteorology, ocean engineering, and oceanography. Because these students have a diverse background, I have emphasized ideas and concepts more than mathematical derivations.

Isaac Newton And Student College Completion

Newton’s First Law of Motion states that an object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion and once in motion, that is when it develops momentum, it will tend to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an external force. First elucidated in 1687 in Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Newton’s first law…

The Contribution Of Student Satisfaction To Persistence

This study of nearly 30,000 undergraduates at 61 four-year public and private institutions examines the influence of satisfaction on students’ persistence in college. Data were collected using the Student Satisfaction Inventory (Schreiner & Juillerat, 1994) and were analyzed by class level. The hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that satisfaction scores accounted for an addi…

The Male Initiative On Leadership And Excellence (Mile) And Its Impact On Ret…

A strong body of research has documented the supportive environments of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and their impact on facilitating student success. Notwithstanding the consistency of these findings, recent reports and empirical research have highlighted the problems that HBCUs are experiencing with Black male enrollment, campus engagement,retention, success, and gradu…

Transfer Student Characteristics Matter

The purpose of this study was to identify and define profiles of transfer students and assess if there are different levels of student success (as measured by first semester GPA, retention, and graduation) associated with of those profiles. Using cluster analysis, four transfer student types were identified and labeled as follows: Old Hand at Transfer, Taking Care of Basics, Quick Return to 4-…

Retention And Resources: An Exploration Of How Social Network Resources Relat…

Universities are increasingly interested in improving student retention.Furthermore, a student’s university-affiliated social network may have an impact on how committed a student is to graduating from the university. A questionnaire study was conducted to evaluate the effect of freshmen’s perspective of social variables on institutional commitment. Social variables measured included social…

Latina Students, an Early College High School, and Educational Opportunity: A…

This case traces the involvement of a principal of an Early College High School (ECHS) and her understanding of performance of Latina students attending the school. Latina students are the lowest academic performers in the ECHS, despite the school obtaining high accolades in terms of accountability. To best understand the phenomena of underperformance of Latina students, the principal hires a c…

Transgender Policy: What Is Fair for All Students?

Ritha Smith, assistant superintendent, and Seth Hanson, principal, are faced with a difficult decision. Taylor Harper is a transgender student who identifies as male and is openly attracted to females. Taylor’s parents, Lane and Morgan Harper, are lesbians;they are fully supportive of their child’s identification and are well versed in their legal rights. Madison Booth is in Physical Educat…

The Wall Between Church and State Begins to Crumble: One Small Community’s …

A small community in southwest Michigan has been witness to a significant cultural divide within its school system. An influential church has permeated school leadership and in many cases has overstepped the proverbial “wall separating church and state.”A fairly high-profile case saw the Sixth Circuit Court enjoin the district to remove a portrait of Jesus. Community members were divided on…

Deconstructing Systems of Segregation: Leadership Challenges in an Urban School

Special education policies can create structures of segregation and inequality. School leaders are often tasked with dismantling these structures while meeting expectations related to accountability policies. This case study involves a new principal at an urban school in a district with a long history of segregation reassigned to work at one of the more challenging schools in the district. The…

Facilitating Democracy in a Testing Culture: Challenges and Opportunities fo…

In 2010, Principal Kirk introduced Small Group Meeting (SGM) at Hillcrest Elementary. SGMs are multiage student groupings who meet with school faculty once a month to work on community building, service-learning projects, and advising. Many teachers liked the SGMs, some felt they needed more time to prepare, and others felt it was a waste of time. The case raises the questions: How can school …

Assessing Science Reasoning and Conceptual Understanding in the Primary Grade…

Project Clarion, a Jacob K. Javits-funded project, focused on the scale-up of primary-grade science curricula. Curriculum units, based on an Integrated Curriculum Model (ICM),were developed for high-ability learners, but tried out with all students in Title I settings to study the efficacy of the units with all learners. The units focus on the development of students’ conceptual understanding…

ESD Detection Circuit and Associated Metal Fuse Investigations in CMOS Processes

A circuit to detect and record the occurrence of an electrostatic discharge (ESD) event on a powered or unpowered integrated-circuit (IC) chip is presented. The ESD detection circuit uses metal fuses for memory and has been experimentally verified in a commercial CMOS process to operate with 500 V or higher human body model (HBM) discharges. Experimental studies of metal fuses are also present…

LPV Wind Turbine Control With Anti-Windup Features Covering the Complete Wind…

This paper addresses the control of a variable-speed variable-pitch wind turbine in the whole wind speed range. To this end, a linear parameter varying anti-windup (AW) controller is proposed as part of a control structure focused on improving the transition between low- and high-wind speed operations. The control structure is similar to classical PI controls used in commercial wind turbines. …

High Ability Students’ Voice on Learning Motivation

This study used a self-determination theory lens to investigate high ability learners’motivational experiences. Participants were 15 high ability youth involved in a summer learning camp for gifted students. Two major themes emerged from qualitative data analysis: (a) The Fun Factor of Learning and (b) The Rewards and Pressures of Good Grades. Fun learning experiences (i.e., intrinsic motiva…

Whatever became of the learning city?

During the 1990s, the UK Learning City Network was a large and influential movement with government support, the most significant national body of its kind anywhere. Yet, less than a decade later, it was in decline and now no longer exists. But while few UK towns or cities any longer use the term ‘learning city’, the notion lives on as part of an integrated approach to urban development le…

Adult and lifelong learning as tools for organisational adaptation and change…

Significant structural reforms of public administration are commencing in Finland from 2017. Firstly, municipalities and cities are being combined into larger entities. Secondly, five social-welfare and healthcare regions are to be created,with that level being responsible for arranging services in this field. Thirdly, the City of Helsinki is outsourcing service provision. This study shows that…

A workforce development systems model for unemployed job seekers

Workforce development is a set of processes that govern the identification, recruitment,assessment and training of job seekers into employment as well as the maintenance and advancement of these persons in their careers. Given the complexity of what workforce development entails, a systems approach is illustrated to ensure that the broader goal of human capital investment is met. The paper iden…

The status of continuing higher education at German universities: a metaphor …

Many European countries are currently witnessing an increased development and expansion of continuing higher education at universities. In Germany, this development has until now been rather modest in comparison to countries such as England, France, Finland and the United States. The status of continuing education still seems just as unclear as the actual management of the implementation proces…

School-Based Conception of Giftedness

The development of human potential occurs in a vast array of settings across the world. In the United States, in addition to the options of both public and private schools, parents homeschool their children and send them to academic summer programs, often resulting in able students developing to a point of extraordinary accomplishment. Some talents are typically developed early in life (e.g., p…

The Social Cognition of Gifted Adolescents in Schools: Managing the Stigma of…

A study of the effects of schooling on the social cognition of gifted adolescents is reported. A student attitude questionnaire (SAQ) exploring the cognitive behavioral strategies utilized to manage the stigma of giftedness was developed after conducting phenomenological interviews of fifteen gifted adolescents attending the Tennessee Governor’s Schools (Coleman & Cross, 1988). The questionna…

Studying Ordinary Events in a Field Devoted to the Extraordinary

Although a general understanding of the phenomenon of giftedness is evident in the literature, missing is a body of information on the thoughts and actions of gifted persons in those situations that we suspect influence the emergence of extraordinary accomplishment. In this article I propose a change in direction for the study of the advanced development. Grounded in the theoretically based res…

The Power of Specialized Educational Environments in the Development of Gifte…

The paper argues that educators of the gifted have overlooked important evidence on the power of special environments because of our habit of considering cognitive outcomes and an outsider view of evidence as the standard for judging the benefits of special environments. The author proposes that social context be used as a construct to help rethink how to study the benefits of special environme…

“Being a Teacher”: Emotions and Optimal Experience While Teaching Gifted …

The emotions experienced by teachers while teaching is a relatively unexplored avenue of research. One teacher, Alex, was studied using phenomenological interviews and participant observation to understand the emotions he experienced while teaching in a special program for gifted and talented children. Data were analyzed using inductive procedures. Alex experienced a variety of emotions genera…

Hybrid Finite-Element–Boundary Element Analysis of a Single-Sided Sheet Rot…

A hybrid finite-element–boundary element method is adopted for the analysis of linear induction machines (LIM) in Cartesian coordinates. A mathematical boundary is defined arbitrarily in free space to enclose the system. Finite-element formulation is applied for the interior region and boundary integral formulation is applied on the boundary using the response function excited by a transverse…

High-Power CMOS Current Driver With Accurate Transconductance for Electrical …

Current drivers are fundamental circuits in bioimpedance measurements including electrical impedance tomography (EIT). In the case of EIT, the current driver is required to have a large output impedance to guarantee high current accuracy over a wide range of load impedance values. This paper presents an integrated current driver which meets these requirements and is capable of delivering large…

The expansion of urbanisation in the Balearic Islands (1956–2006)

Since the mid-20th century the Balearic Islands have experienced significant changes as a result of their incorporation into the global economy as a mass tourism destination. The expansion of urbanisation has become a main change, given that the archipelago’s urbanised surface has increased fivefold since 1956. The territory of the islands has been organised internally to meet the demands…

The Cognitive Map of a Master Teacher Conducting Discussions With Gifted Stud…

Teachers have many methods available to them for instructing students. This article presents a teacher’s perspective on conducting a discussion with a group of children who were gifted and talented. I studied one teacher using participant observation and ethnographic interviewing as he taught in a special program. I used the concept of professional practical knowledge to describe the informat…

The Invisible World of Professional Practical Knowledge of a Teacher of the G…

Most of our information on how teachers of the gifted and talented think while they plan and implement instruction is from the perspective of the researcher, not from the teacher’s perspective. One expert teacher was studied in great detail using ethnographic and phenomenological techniques. More specifically, a teacher was studied as he planned and taught two philosophy courses. After extens…

Is Being Gifted a Social Handicap?

The paper explores the question of how gifted and talented adolescents experience being gifted in high school. Fifteen subjects were interviewed twice while attending a special summer program in order to answer this general question. The data were analyzed and interpreted using a set of research questions which postulated that the subjects would voice feelings of difference and would make state…

Applying Research in Reading Comprehension to Social Studies Instruction for …

Secondary-level content area teachers face unique challenges in helping their students successfully read, understand, and learn content from complex texts in their discipline. In this article, a set of research-based practices designed to provide effective and feasible instruction to improve students’ reading and comprehension of text and content is provided. Specific examples of each practic…

An Interview With Dan Hallahan: From Clinical Researcher to Consummate Teache…

Dan Hallahan is a native of Michigan. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and later followed in his father’s footsteps and studied at the University of Detroit before transferring to the University of Michigan. He received his BA in psychology in 1967 and his PhD in education and psychology in 1971 from the University of Michigan. His interest in clinical research on attention, behavior, and…

Cooperating Teachers’ Role in Preparing Preservice Special Education Teache…

Practicum experiences, a crucial component of preservice teacher preparation, help establish the foundational knowledge and skills necessary for beginning special education teachers (SETs). Preservice SETs need cooperating teachers (CTs) who support preservice SETs in proper emotional development (i.e., feeling like a teacher), who can model and support preservice teachers in the development…

Involuntary Teacher Transfer: An Underexamined Practice

Involuntary teacher transfer occurs whenever the reassignment of a teacher is initiated by a school or district rather than the teacher. These transitions are more likely to occur among special education teachers than among general education teachers. Although this type of transfer is not a new phenomenon, there has been surprisingly little scientific inquiry into this practice to determine its…

Unwrapping Academic Standards to Increase the Achievement of Students With Di…

Over the past 15 years, students with disabilities have been included in the general education environment at markedly higher rates; however, their achievement is not increasing at the same pace. One reason for this lack of increased achievement may be that academic standards lay the foundation for instruction in this environment, but standards fail to address the component academic skills ne…

Co-Teaching With Strategy Instruction

Despite the popularity of co-teaching and widespread professional literature describing exemplary co-teaching practices,this instructional approach has yet to realize its potential. One way to increase the effectiveness of co-teaching is for special educators to contribute meaningfully by assuming the role of strategy leader in the co-taught classroom. This article provides examples of how spec…

The Main Idea Strategy: A Strategy to Improve Reading Comprehension Through I…

This article introduces the Main Idea Strategy, a strategy to improve the performance of students with disabilities and students who perform poorly on reading comprehension tasks. The rationale, research background, and detailed implementation information are presented. Keywords intervention, academic, learning strategies, adolescence, age, general and special education, collaboration, co…

Application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in teaching internal combus…

This paper reports the development of a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of a spark ignition (SI) engine and the application of the engine model into an undergraduate internal combustion (IC) course. This two-dimensional (2D) four-stroke SI engine model simulates the combustion of the fuel, heptane, in the engine cylinder based on realistic boundary conditions. The development of the mo…

Graphical summaries for Maxwell relations of closed and open thermodynamic sy…

An attempt has been made to ‘condense’ the thermodynamic relations of equilibrium thermodynamics by using graphics. Two simple mnemonic models named as ‘Thermodynamic Circle-1’and ‘Thermodynamic Circle-2’ are reported to represent the Maxwell relations geometrically so that these relations for both closed and open thermodynamic systems can be easily recalled. Keywords thermodynam…

Application of the dynamics of variable mass systems to the Pelton turbine

This paper deals with an alternative approach to calculate the performance of a Pelton turbine. The discussion begins with an overview on the statement of Newton's second law for variable mass systems. Then the integral form of the Navier-Stokes equation is presented as a special case,which is useful to evaluate the force exerted by the water jet on the turbine buckets. Although the traditional…

Effects of assumed pressure distributions on the fundamental relation used in…

This short note shows that contact stiffness under a non-Hertzian pressure distribution is 33% higher than that under a Hertzian pressure distribution. This is due to the fact that there is no physical indenter that gives a non-Hertzian pressure distribution during elastic contact, and the fundamental relation used in nanoindentation data analysis does not apply. Keywords nanoindentation; fu…

Course development: integrated design,manufacturing and testing

This paper discusses a course developed to give first-year mechanical students insight into a typical process found in professional modern design offices, where requirements (specifications) are evolved into a prototype model whose capabilities are then tested. The intent is to provide the participating students with a hands-on, integrative, multifaceted experience in the important field of mec…

Design and development of a computer-controlled interactive cooling system

An educational interactive cooling system (ICS) was designed, developed and constructed for instructional and demonstrative purposes. This ICS's experimental apparatus is capable of demonstrating thermodynamics and heat transfer concepts and principles. This experimental apparatus has an intuitive user interface, and it is reliable, safe for student use and portable. The interface is capable of…