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Data literacy education provides an opportunity for libraries and departments to collaborate to meet the rapidly changing needs of students, faculty, and researcher. Expertise is required and expected in so many areas that navigating the changing climate can be overwhelming. However, a large midwestern university has developed a library-facilitated initiative that delivers instructional content to...
This paper proposes a method of searching for promising young researchers using network centrality of co-author relationship. This method estimates researchers' potential based on transition of betweenness centralities in co-author networks. We thought that excellent researchers always show high betweenness centralities, in contrast, betweenness centralities of promising researchers will grow with...
This work aims to study the contribution of 3D printing technologies as collaborative resource in higher education teaching. The study reports two years of observations of the behavior and experience, in the classroom, of student groups in classes of the 2nd year of an industrial design degree, when placed in contact with artefacts obtained by 3D printing which are used for an experimental test in...
During 2015, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has reached the record-breaking center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV for proton-proton collisions. The LHC restarted operations successfully after a two-year technical stop, known as Long Shutdown 1 (LS1), needed for servicing and consolidating the CERN accelerator complex. The Compact Muon Solenoid detector, a general-purpose detector at LHC, benefited...
CALICE collaboration is developing highly granular calorimeters for future high energy e+e- colliders. Using Particle Flow Algorithms for individual reconstruction of particles in the jets, they provide currently the best jet energy resolution. At high jet energies (typically above 70–100GeV in the proposed detectors), the jet particle showers start to overlap, and the resolution is determined by...
Community detection is one of the important issues in social networks analysis. Community detection algorithms identify distinct or overlapped communities and include different methods. In this article we use clique percolation method (CPM) as an overlapping community detection method for analysis of six datasets. The goal of our study is to survey the effect of centrality measures on detected overlapped...
Transformation optics (TO) give us an intuitive way to understand the behavior of electromagnetic wave in materials and has been a powerful tool to control light propagation since the two pioneering papers on invisibility in 2006. In the past decade, conformal transformation optics, as a special theory of TO in two dimensions, has extremely enriched the method to manipulate light propagation, which...
The study of interface/surface states in photonic crystals provides new approaches to control the flow of light. In this work, a new type of interface states in two-dimensional photonic crystals is experimentally realized and characterized [1]. The existence of this type of interface states is solely dependent on the reflection properties of the bulk photonic crystals without any surface/interface...
In this talk, we will introduce a metallic grating structure with gradient index materials to obtain nearly total omnidirectional reflection, regardless of the polarization of incident wave and the impedance properties of the filled materials inside the grating. In addition, as the reflection phase between TE and TM wave impinging on the metallic grating structure is different, the proposed structure...
The rapidly increasing use of digital media technologies offers students opportunities to represent science content in different ways. In this paper, we introduce an interdisciplinary and collaborative research project that engages students in learning both science and technology by developing educational videos for science explanation. In this project, students from the Digital Media course are paired...
The understanding of the Mexican Energetic Reform as an immediate application of the acquired knowledge in the Electricity and Magnetism Course at Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Ciudad de México (Tec de Monterrey - CCM) is presented. Hybrid learning activities were designed to fully exploit and transform the classroom experience. Ethical reflections and citizenship discussions added an out-of-the-box...
The adoption of research-based instruction strategies (RBIS) by faculty is generally perceived as being slow. Faculty resist change, reject data that demonstrates the effectiveness of RBIS, and prioritize research over teaching. Even when faculty attempt to use RBIS, they often do so with poor fidelity to the original design of the RBIS. By organizing faculty into communities of practice, we are observing...
The study reported in this paper examined the connectedness of STEM faculty to others both within and across academic departments who might be potential resources for diffusion of Learner-centered practices, and the impact of participants' social networks on their Learner-centered beliefs and practices. The research question under investigation was: To what extent is the degree of social connectedness...
Supporting three of the four main user communities of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, RO-07-NIPNE is the most complex grid site of the Romanian Tier-2 Federation (RO-LCG, http://lcg.nipne.ro). Here we present an overview of the recent hardware, software and network implementations at the grid site, in view of the computational support for the second run of the LHC. Special emphasis is placed...
In this paper we report on extensive experiments for determining partial dominating sets of small size for various types of real and synthetic social networks. Our experiments ran on several real network datasets made available by the Stanford Network Analysis Project and on some synthetic power-law and random networks created with social network generators. To compute partial dominating sets on these...
A novel type of gaseous detector, the Pixel-TPC, has been operated for the first time at a test beam in Spring 2015. In this concept, a Time Projection Chamber is read out by pixel ASICs.
The electromagnetic calorimeter (ECAL) of the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS) started operating at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Spring 2015 with proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV center-of-mass energy and at a reduced bunch spacing of 25 ns. The instantaneous luminosity during LHC Run 2 is expected to exceed the levels achieved in LHC Run 1 significantly. In this talk we present new...
We present theoretically and experimentally that one-dimensional and two-dimensional metallic gratings can become transparent and completely antireflective for extremely broadband electromagnetic waves by relying on surface plasmons or spoof surface plasmons. The investigations may provide guidelines to develop many novel materials and devices, such as transparent conducting panels, antireflective...
Most of the best performing link prediction ranking measures evaluate the common neighbourhood of a pair of nodes in a network, in order to assess the likelihood of a new link. On the other hand, the same zero rank value is given to node pairs with no common neighbourhood, which usually are a large number of potentially new links, thus resulting in very low quality overall link ranking in terms of...
A method of characterizing mid-bandgap defect states in high purity semi-insulating 4H-SiC through leakage current analysis for optimization of SiC photoconductive switches is presented. The method utilizes two custom IV curve tracer systems to measure leakage currents through the material under various voltage/current conditions. The first system is used under low current conditions and is capable...
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