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Undergraduates perform independent research or use research, regardless of their discipline. For most students, this work is part of a formalized experience. However, formalized training in research methods, biases, and disposition is rare; students acquire these skills through mentoring, modeling, and making mistakes, and in the context and content of the discipline. These methods are not ideal....
The aim of this paper is to describe an exploratory study using an action research approach to improve student work based distance learners' independent research skills through an industrial project to increase their value to their employer. Students undertake a 20 credit industrial project with the key aim to develop on taught material and undertake independent research within the context of the...
At Northwest College the Physical Science Division has joined with the Humanities Division to help students become more proficient technical communications writers. The journey began when Professor Dr. Renee Dechert, who is responsible for the Technical Writing class in the Humanities Division, decided that she needed more real world projects to challenge the students in the technical writing class...
The study presents the results of the implementation and evaluating of the methodological and technological proposal for the learning of English as a foreign language at the Equinoctial Technological University, making use of information technologies and based on a previous analysis from the pedagogical and technological. For the result is was based on the analysis of the marks for English skills...
This paper deals with content searching with multiple mobile agents in the network. Although we previously proposed a scheme, it makes plural agents search the same node redundantly, and degrades the total search efficiency. In this paper, we propose a novel scheme that a single node supervises the search progress of the agents to avoid duplicative search, and show the effectiveness of the scheme...
Memorizing and recollecting the contents of long text that has been read is a real challenge. Carrying out research, organizing and associating research ideas are equally challenging. The well-known saying that “A picture is worth a thousand words” is utilized in this teaching and learning process to empower research-minded practice among students. To accomplish this task, the concept of mind mapping...
To advance Java programming educations, we have developed the Java programming learning assistant system (JPLAS) that can verify the correctness of the code from a student automatically using the test-driven development (TDD) method. Then, to register a new assignment in JPLAS, teachers are required to write the test code in addition to the reference source code. Unfortunately, most teachers at schools...
This work present new parameters based on biometrie handwritten information for the writer identification. The feature extraction is developed by new algorithms based on image processing techniques. The handwritten parameters will be classified by artificial neural network and fusion strategy in order to increase the accuracy. After experiments, and using a dataset composed by 100 writers, this proposal...
As an emerging issue, multi-script signature verification is a recent challenge for current Automatic Signature Verification (ASV) systems. Relevant differences are presented in the morphology and lexicon of the signature images written in different scripts, such as used symbols, shape of the signatures, legibility, etc. These peculiarities could reduce the success of ASV systems, especially those...
An active learning method with six creative stages for citizen to enhance creativity in multiple disciplinary could be very important to activate innovation in a city innovation and solve complex problems in cross disciplinary. We propose a collaborative active learning method with an easy start-up for improving QOL and activating innovation in the city by combination of creative methods, such as...
Many undergraduate engineering programs require senior students to take capstone design courses to work on industry-sponsored projects. Such a project often involves multiple parties of people playing various roles: students as project workers, faculty members as coordinator or advisors, as well as mentors from the sponsoring industry. In order to promote student success, highly demanded are platforms...
Data show that doctoral students in the United States, particularly those from underrepresented groups, are leaving at high rates before obtaining a degree because of the long, arduous and uncertain road to graduation. The primary goal of this NSF-funded research project is to offer the Dissertation Institute: a practical and timely experience for doctoral students in engineering disciplines to address...
Whether or not readers successfully process a text so that they can make appropriate decisions in a high risk environment depends on whether writers have considered the context in which the documents will be read and the pattern in which readers will read the messages. A problem exists when the context, especially one involving a potential or real crisis situation, may not be conducive to clarity...
We overview information design principles that determine how emotional interest is generated across major genres of text, specifically applied here to entrepreneurship communication. In brief, all effective, interesting texts are organized around some kind of question with a genuinely doubtful answer that provokes inquiry: Readers feel compelled to read an entire text or listen intently to a presentation...
Teaching engineering students to innovate—to develop novel solutions, new applications, or original designs for solving problems—is becoming a more central concern in engineering education. Many programs are increasing the number of project-based courses, to provide students with the conditions in which innovation might occur, yet innovation remains difficult to teach directly. In one such course...
In this paper, we propose a scheme for identifying the authorship of off-line handwritten documents based on a histogram-based descriptor. The idea of our work is inspired from that of the Local Derivative Patterns (LDP), that has found much success in the application of face recognition. However, to the best of our knowledge, this work is the first of its kind that utilizes them for characterizing...
There is high need for data encryption. Accordingly, there are several techniques to encrypt and encode data. Unicode has become a unified global coding system. The special feature of Unicode system is that it can be expanded and it is adopted by many computer fonts' ready-package programs. This research work uses FontCreator program, which adopts unified global coding system, to generate computer...
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