Education and Didactics

Limited Edition Digital Books and Exchange Traded Funds: Semi Fungible Tokens and the Erc-1155 Token Standard

Authors: Rochelle Forrester
Comments: 7 Pages. (Correction made by viXra Admin to conform with schoarly norm - Please conform!))

Limited edition digital books would be good investments for both exchange traded funds and individual investors. Limited edition digital books are a new means of publishing done by creating semi fungible tokens on the blockchain. The tokens consist of both an image and text and when the text is read in order, it tells a story like any other book. The book, being in a limited edition, enables the purchaser to not only obtain a book but also to obtain an asset which may increase in value. This is particularly because the book, being in digital form, can be copied and pasted to purchaser’s social media which will act as advertisements for the book, increasing its value for all owners of the digital books.
Category: Education and Didactics

Method of Problem Design and Problem Evaluation in Engineering PBL Education

Authors: Ri Tong Hyok, Kim Yu Hyon, Kim Tong Hyok
Comments: 18 Pages.

At present, it is quite vital to make appreciate problems to apply to practical use for raising furthermore the effectiveness of engineering PBL teaching.Especially, a practical methodology is being required by problem-makers to apply problem design theory to their teaching practice.This paper refers to reviewing the preceding 3C3R problem design theory and its application method, and then presenting definition about PBL problem, the essence of problem design and general requirements arising in designing problems, and some steps of problem design in engineering teaching practice. In addition, we have offered an estimation model of a task amount of problem by means of relative level estimation value, and comprehensive quality estimation model of a problem and then illustrated its detailed applications to design and estimation of the problem.
Category: Education and Didactics

Mobile Commerce Trends

Authors: Sebastian Enger
Comments: 120 Pages. In German

[This Thesis is on] Identification and determination of technological consumer trends in the B2C business segment for the period of 2014-2018 to integrate into your own business stra-tegy.
Category: Education and Didactics

The Lived Experiences of Working Professionals Living in Slum Areas

Authors: Lalaine E. Crisologo, Carmille Claire B. Cuate, Grace C. Echauz, Sara Joy C. Gallano, John Lexous M. Nadua
Comments: 20 Pages.

This study explores the lived experiences of working professionals residing in slum areas within Taguig City and Pasig City, Philippines. The study employs a qualitative phenomenological research design, utilizing semi-structured interviews,observations, and audio materials to gather in-depth insights from 7 participants. Thematic analysis is employed to identify common themes and patterns within participants' descriptions of their experiences, the ways they make sense of theseexperiences, reasons behind their choice to stay in slum areas, and the impact of their environment on their quality of life. Findings reveal that participants describe their life experiences through financial expectations, community cohesion, and safety concerns. Despite challenges, they exhibit adaptive resilience, emotional attachment, aspirational determination, and a positive outlook. The decision to stay in slum areas is influencedby strong community bonds, emotional connections, and practical considerations. Participants face various challenges affecting their quality of life, including safety issues, health concerns, and poor sleep quality due to noise pollution. Their copingmechanisms and responses highlight the complex nature of life in slum areas. Recommendations include advocating for improved living conditions, addressing inadequate professional salaries, and encouraging participants to broaden their outlook beyond emotional attachments. The study provides afoundation for future programs aimed at securing improved housing for individuals residing in slum areas, fostering economic growth, and positively impacting the well-being of working professionals in these environments.
Category: Education and Didactics

A Mnemonic System for the First 33 Digits of Pi

Authors: Janko Kokošar
Comments: 5 Pages.

$Pi$ value with 33 digits is: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950... A mnemonic system for memorizing of those digits is made here by help of the numeric keypad, which can help at memorizing because of surface distribution of digits, and because of motoric memory of those who often use it. There are used also some symmetries of digits, for instance, with four symmetric triplets of digits, and with other specialties.
Category: Education and Didactics

Community Health and Nutrition Programs (Σταυρουλα Μαρινη Διατροφη Στην Κοινοτητα)

Authors: Stavroula Marini
Comments: 77 Pages.

The dissemination and adoption of healthy eating habits is a key determinant of individual health advocacy, and a key factor for promoting public health. Changes of modern lifestyle, decreases of leisure time, evolution of the family structure and subsequent adoption of new dietary habits, leading to consumption of ready meals and standard, is one of the most serious challenges for the public health in today's world. At the same time, the routine cultivation of aesthetic patterns which deviate from a healthy way of life, combined with the appearance of mental health problems, increase the incidence of diseases associated with eating disorders. Chapters that follow analyze the basic concepts of nutrition, the importance of nutrition in the body as well known diets that have prevailed in all the main Mediterranean diet.At the same time, it will analyze the actions performed in community nutrition and nutrition policy in Greece.
Category: Education and Didactics

Bridging the Concrete and Abstract: A Pedagogical Strategy for Teaching Irrational Numbers

Authors: Haoxi Zhang, Bryce Petofi Towne
Comments: 15 Pages.

This paper explores the multifaceted pedagogical challenges involved in teaching irrational numbers. It proposes teaching strategies to bridge the divide between mathematical abstraction and empirical measurement when comprehending irrational quantities. The literature review synthesizes key findings on persistent conceptual gaps in irrational number understanding across educational levels. The theoretical framework draws on cognitive psychology, philosophy of mathematics, and constructivist learning theory in addressing the cognitive dissonance students experience. Core challenges include the abstract nature of irrational numbers, issues of representation and notation, and the psychological leap required from rational numbers. Proposed teaching strategies emphasize contrasting mathematical models with physical representations, challenging assumptions of measurement exactness, using symbolic notation, integrating active learning, and encouraging philosophical reflection. The paper advocates balancing theoretical precision with approximation in real-world measurement. Scaffolding experiential learning and multiple representations can facilitate deep comprehension. The paper concludes that grasping irrational numbers involves reconciling formal deductive reasoning with intuition about empirical constraints. Comprehensive pedagogical approaches must bridge this divide between abstraction and experience to foster robust mathematical understanding.
Category: Education and Didactics

Embracing Artificial Intelligence in Academia

Authors: R. L. Marker
Comments: 2 Pages.

Artificial intelligence is redefining academia. The free and effective use of online AI such as ‘ChatGPT’ should be viewed as academia’s friend, not their foe. How could cheating possibly be a friend of academia? Those institutions that effectively embrace the technology will advance themselves and their students.
Category: Education and Didactics

Leveraging ChatGPT Capabilities in Vietnamese High School Mathematics Education

Authors: Ha Truong
Comments: 7 Pages.

This paper explores the integration of ChatGPT, a state-of-the-art natural language processing model, into the realm of high school mathematics education in Vietnam. With a focus on enhancing students' learning experiences and outcomes, we discuss the potential benefits and challenges of incorporating ChatGPT in the Vietnamese mathematics curriculum. By leveraging ChatGPT's capabilities, educators can create interactive, personalized, and adaptive learning environments, fostering a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts and problem-solving skills among high school students. In this paper, we present a comprehensive framework for integrating ChatGPT into the Vietnamese mathematics education system, highlighting its potential to revolutionize teaching and learning in the digital age
Category: Education and Didactics

Exploring the Chemical Capabilities of Google Bard in Vietnamese High Schools

Authors: Phong Nguyen, Hana Truong, Phuong Nguyen, Philippe Bruneau, Linh Cao, Jin Wang
Comments: 9 Pages.

This paper presents an evaluation of the chemical aptitude exhibited by Google Bard when subjected to the chemical evaluation section of the Vietnamese National High School Graduation Examination (VNHSGE). In order to facilitate this evaluative endeavor, the VNHSGE dataset, originally in Vietnamese, was rendered into English due to the prevailing lack of Vietnamese language support in the Bard system. The outcomes of this investigation reveal that Google Bard attained a performance level of 47%, aligning closely with the respective achievements of ChatGPT and BingChat, which secured scores of 48% and 52.5%. It is imperative to underscore that this performance metric might be subject to the influence of the translation process from the Vietnamese language to English. Consequently, prudence dictates that Vietnamese students refrain from relying upon Google Bard, ChatGPT, and BingChat for the resolution of chemical predicaments.
Category: Education and Didactics

A Software Infrastructure for CS Research Dissemination

Authors: Aditya Puri, Aahan Bagga, Manish Arora
Comments: 2 Pages. Licensed under CC By 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Reading research papers is integral to computer science education, especially at the graduate and senior undergraduate levels. Students, as well as researchers, spend much time understanding research work. While this is an essential part of computer science education, little work has been done to understand, aid, and formally assess research dissemination processes and methodologies. This short paper summarizes work in progress to build a comprehensive software infrastructure for understanding and disseminating research. The tool distributes various media and files with the research paper that aid in understanding the research paper. It enables researchers to provide documents, videos, media, data, code, etc., related to their research work through a single, well-organized, easy-to-use interface. It allows easy organizing of online discussion groups and research talks to help improve understanding. This short paper summarizes the tool's structure. It highlights the use of the software infrastructure to enhance and formally assess the comprehension, evaluation, and synthesis of research for CS graduate and senior undergraduate students.
Category: Education and Didactics

Both Pedagogy and Psychology Need the Concept of Thirst for Ability and Thirst for Blazing New Trails

Authors: Runsheng Tu
Comments: 10 Pages.

The desire for ability (the interest in increasing wisdom) and the desire for innovation (the interest in creation) exist objectively, and the desire for knowledge (interest in recognition) cannot replace them. People pay more attention to ability, especially creativity, than to knowledge. It is much easier to make up for the lack of knowledge than to make up for the lack of ability. However, in pedagogy and psychology, there is only the concept of the desire for knowledge, but not the concept of the desire for ability and the concept of the desire for innovation. The strange phenomenon of "using cognitive interest to carry out intellectual and creative education" has existed for a long time. This makes insufficient the subjective initiative of "the cultivation of ability and innovation consciousness that must be started and run through". Strong comprehensive ability and innovation are the needs of the times for talents. Ability and innovation awareness can be cultivated. Just as the levels of knowledge and ability are different, the levels of thirst for knowledge and thirst for ability are also different. The thirst for knowledge cannot replace the thirst for ability and innovation. The process and methods of ability development and knowledge transfer are different and cannot be replaced by each other. It is necessary and possible to establish the concept of desire for ability and desire for innovation. Apply the concept of desire for ability and innovation to change the strange situation of cultivating creativity and comprehensive ability based on cognitive interest.
Category: Education and Didactics

Einführung in Den Raketenbau Leitprogramm Naturwissenschaften Und Technik (Introduction to Rocket Construction Executive Program Natural Sciences and Technology)

Authors: Ursin Solèr
Comments: 61 Pages.

Das hier vorliegende Dokument ist das Resultat langjähriger Bemühungen im MINT-Bereich. Viele der Unterrichtseinheit hier werden in den USA von der NASA und anderen in der Jugendförderung im STEM-Bereich seit Jahrzehnten umgesetzt. In der Schweiz und hier insbesondere im Zyklus 1 & 2 des neuen Lehrplans sind zwar solche Interventionen angedacht, aber es fehlt nach wie vor an zielgruppengerecht aufgearbeiteten Unterlagen zur Unterrichtsdurchführung. Darum richtet sich dieses Dokument vor allem an Lehrpersonen die Themen aus dem MINT-Bereich vermehrt in Ihren Unterricht einfliessen lassen möchten und damit für Ihre SuS die Türe zu Konzepten und Themen der höheren Schulbildung aufstossen möchten.

This document is the result of many years of effort in the STEM field. Many of the lessons here have been implemented in the US by NASA and others in STEM youth empowerment for decades. In Switzerland, and especially in cycle 1 & 2 of the new curriculum, such interventions are being considered, but there is still a lack of target group-specific documentation on how to carry out the lessons. This document is therefore primarily aimed at teachers who would like to increasingly include topics from the MINT area in their lessons and thus open the door to concepts and topics of secondary school education for their students.
Category: Education and Didactics

The Integration of Modern Technologies in Education

Authors: Arkadiusz Kobus
Comments: 6 Pages. In Polish

In this article, we discuss the need for and methods of incorporating modern technologies into the educational system. We highlight possible changes in the Polish high school curriculum that utilize the internet and artificial intelligence. We also stress the importance of interdisciplinary learning and creating opportunities for students to learn by participating in educational projects that have real-life applications.
Category: Education and Didactics

Education in German Schools

Authors: Peter Enders
Comments: 44 Pages. Invited talk at the Intl. Conf. on School Education in Taraz, Kazakhstan, March 18, 2023, in Russian

In Germany, there is a rather large variety of school types reaching from primary schools to gymnasiums but also include schools for disabled children, professional schools, and many more. This talk concentrates on the former two and the alternative forms 'Waldorf' and 'Montessori'. Moreover, the results of PISA 2006 and 2018, and of a recent interrogation among headmasters are sketched.
Category: Education and Didactics

Educational Turnaround

Authors: Joerg Schwander
Comments: The report in German contains only 6 pages of text, the rest are mainly animations (flip-book).

The necessity of an energy turnaround is hardly disputed any more. But why did science and politics not recognize this problem earlier, when the influence of CO2 on the temperature of the earth has been known since 1900? This shows that there are deficiencies in science. It has also contributed to many other environmental problems. These deficiencies can be proven by analyzing a scientific concept (as a means to an end). It is de-scribed in a generally understandable way in the 1st part and visualized with animations in the 2nd part. This concept describes the movement of an object not in a real space, but in an unreal construct respectively as a relative movement with respect to the observer. Here, for example, a ball in a straight glass tube does not fall vertically but arc-shaped relative to a horizontally moving observer. This is mathematically correct, but contradicts the movement of the ball and has no relevance. The goal of this report is to start an educational turnaround that will lead to a holistic and networked way of thinking, so that science and politics are able to solve the existential environmental problems that threaten our livelihoods.
Category: Education and Didactics

Residency Match Outcomes of DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine's DO/MBA Dual-Degree Students Relative to DO-Only Students

Authors: David Horvath, Alex Sher
Comments: 7 Pages.

Introduction: Osteopathic students question whether a dual degree will help them distinguish themselves among their peers in the National Residency Match. This paper analyzes the impact that a DO/MBA dual degree has on matching into a competitive residency.

Methods: In a cross-sectional study design via email, fourth year osteopathic students and alumni of Lincoln Memorial University were queried on dual degree obtainment, elements of their residency application, residency match outcome, and opinion on why an osteopathic student would pursue an MBA degree.

Results: DO/MBA applicants did not differ from DO-only applicants. DO/MBA and DO-only students had similar board exam scores, leadership experiences, volunteer hours, memberships in honor societies, and research opportunities. A Fisher exact test showed that neither degree track was statistically associated with placement into a more competitive residency (p= 0.7301).

Conclusion: Despite the increase in dual-degree osteopathic programs, such programs alone do not afford a match into a more competitive residency.
Category: Education and Didactics

Improved, Extended, and Total Impact Factor of a Journal

Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 5 Pages.

In this short paper we recall the (Garfield) Impact Factor of a journal, we improve and extend it, and eventually present the Total Impact Factor that reflects the most accurate impact factor.
Category: Education and Didactics

A Review of the Evidences Showing that Certain Plant Medicines can be Useful for Novel Corona Virus Treatment

Authors: Victor Christianto; Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 6 Pages.

Considering growing concerns of the world’s authorities on the spreading of novel corona virus (Covid-19), in this paper we review the evidences showing that certain plant medicines can be useful for novel corona virus treatment. Our argument is based on research finding that corona virus has viral envelope glycoproteins. In this regard, Mannose-binding lectins have been shown to be able to break down the shells that surround this class of viruses - which includes COVID-19 virus. Therefore, it seems useful to consider medicinal plants which have Mannose-binding lectins in order to break the glycoproteins envelope of the virus. This is an initial review on this subject, further research in direction as outlined here is recommended.
Category: Education and Didactics

Maximizing Archimedes Spiral Packing Density Area

Authors: Dhafiallah Almutairi, Naif Alshamrani, Andrew Ingram, Andrew Grieco, Yeshaiahu Fainman.
Comments: 12 Pages.

In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate a broadband Archimedes spiral delay line with high packing density on a silicon photonic platform. This high density is achieved by optimizing the gap between the adjacent waveguides (down to sub-micron scale) in the spiral configuration. However, care must be taken to avoid evanescent coupling, the presence of which will cause the spiral to behave as a novel type of distributed spiral resonator. To this end, an analytical model of the resonance phenomenon was developed for a simple spiral. Moreover, it is demonstrated that this distributed spiral resonator effect can be minimized by ensuring that adjacent waveguides in the spiral configuration have different propagation constants (β). Experimental validations were accomplished by fabricating and testing multiple spiral waveguides with varying lengths (i.e., 0.4, 0.8, and 1.4 mm) and separation gaps (i.e., 300 and 150 nm). Finally, a Linear Density Figure of Merit (LDFM) is introduced to evaluate the packing efficiency of various spiral designs in the literature. In this work, the optimum experimental design with mitigated resonance had a length of 1.4mm and occupied an area of 60x60µm, corresponding to an LDFM of 388mm-1.
Category: Education and Didactics

On the Decomposition of a Vector Using Matrix Algebra

Authors: Aloys J. Sipers, Joh. J. Sauren
Comments: 4 Pages.

In this letter a theorem is stated on the decomposition of a vector with respect to two axes using matrix algebra. This theorem may serve to develop exercises for education in mathematics and physics. In most physics exercises the vectors are given by their polar coordinates. Motivated by practical applications, we denote the vectors by their Cartesian coordinates. Using Cartesian coordinates provide a didactic aid to develop exercises which can be solved without the use of a calculator. Several examples clarify the educational potential of the theorem.
Category: Education and Didactics

Engagement Capstone Projects: a Collaborative Approach to a Case Study in Psychoacoustics

Authors: Roberto San Millán-Castillo, Eduardo Latorre-Iglesias, Martin Glesser
Comments: 33 Pages.

Undergraduates in Spanish universities conclude their Bachelor of Science in Telecommunication Engineering with a capstone project. In recent years, students in technical degrees often postpone this last step due to an accelerated entry into the labour market or disappointment about the capstone project development. This article presents an approach which attempts to overcome these challenges: \textit{Engagement} capstone projects. The authors, lecturers in two Spanish Universities (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, supported by the French Company, EOMYS, manage this educational project. Students become responsible for their contribution to a free, libre and open software project, which provides sound quality metrics based on psychoacoustics. They have the opportunity to work in a collaborative and international environment with industrial partners. The presentation of the technological platform shows the educational benefits of the employed tools: Python, GitHub and Jupyter Notebook. A student survey and the supervisors feedback supports an analysis, which helps improve the methodology as well as verify the benefits: better supervision, the development of social and professional skills, and useful community work. Finally, a couple of examples of Engagement capstone projects give insight into the results of this educational strategy.
Category: Education and Didactics

Hybrid Learning Aided Technology-Rich Instructional Tools - A Case Study: Community College of Qatar

Authors: Muhammad Jamal Shehab
Comments: 8 Pages.

Educational Institutions have an essential role in promoting the teaching and learning process, within universities, colleges, and communities. Due to the recent coronavirus COVID 19 pandemic, many educational institutions adopted hybrid learning (HL), which is a combination of classic and online learning. It integrates the advantages of both, and it is a fundamental factor to ensure continued learning. Technological innovations such as HL are changing the teaching process, and how students, lecturers, and administrators interact. Based on this, the Community College of Qatar (CCQ) focused on researching the structures and elements related to the adoption of HL. Thus, the goal of this research paper is to reveal the impact of HL on the learning process in CCQ, and the effective didactic tools required for a successful HL program. Our research questions for assessing and evaluating the learning process at CCQ are as follows: a) Is HL a suitable learning strategy that would best suit the students ?; b) What are the didactic tools needed in the HL program at CCQ ?; c) Will the students meet the learning objectives if HL program is adopted?. A quantitative method was used in this study. Furthermore, a questionnaire was designed for the survey which was designed to measure the opinions of the students, instructors, and administrators about the HL program. It is observed from the results that the majority of students, instructors, and administrators showed a positive attitude toward HL, but some had negative views and experienced challenges. The results were analyzed and discussed to better utilize HL to meet the growing demands of the community.
Category: Education and Didactics

Researching Blockchain Technology and Its Usefulness in Higher Education

Authors: Shankar Subramanian Iyer
Comments: 22 Pages. https://airccse.org/csit/V11N12.html

The current paper focuses on the potential of using Blockchain Technology (BCT) in the Higher Education Domain and explores its usefulness in solving Higher Education issues. This research discusses the Blockchain features, challenges and its benefits in education, followed by review of some current Blockchain Higher Education applications. This paper reviews the Blockchain Technology (BCT) and its implementation in Higher Education. This research used a quantitative methodology and stratified clustered simple random sampling approach. Data has been gathered through an online survey instrument and the partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) technique applied to 383 responses. Blockchain technology has its unique features, benefits that can solve Education system requirements, and its successful implementation issues discussed. An effort made to gather enough consensus to build future implementation. The integrated model of Blockchain features matched to the needs of the Education System by agreement of the experts (discussions), and a survey conducted involving the students, teachers, educationists, Blockchain experts, and professionals, is tested and validated by SEM using PLS.
Category: Education and Didactics

A Pronunciation System for Binary Numbers

Authors: Matthew C. Bartsh
Comments: 10 Pages. [Corrections made by viXra Admin to conform with the requirements on the Submission Form]

The author propose a pronunciation system for binary numbers. The system is optimized for ease of learning, since an easily learned algorithm generates the names. The system is secondarily optimized for speed of pronunciation, using very short names for the binary numbers.
Category: Education and Didactics

Interactive STEM Curriculum: Technological Tools and Programming Interface

Authors: Manjukumar Patil, Christopher Stewart
Comments: 6 Pages.

The most important drawback of teaching mathematical equations to the middle school children is the lack of practical examples and interactive tools which can be provided to make concepts easier to grasp. Additionally, on a parallel note, computer programming has become increasingly important in the current era. The amalgamation of programming languages into the STEM curriculum in the early stages of the students’ education would expose them to learn and be acquainted with these concepts at a much earlier age. Teaching STEM concepts using interactive learning tools would benefit students to visualizing the concepts in a more intuitive way. Traditional ways of teaching for linear algebra concepts such as linear equations, quadratic equations, and their associated graphs are not sufficient to reach students deeply with these concepts. However, with the use of technology and right tools (Stepper motor and Drone), we can make the curriculum fun, interactive and link the real-world applications of these concepts, and make students engage deeply into the curriculum.
Category: Education and Didactics

Teaching, Learning and AI

Authors: Lucian M Ionescu
Comments: 4 Pages.

Teaching and Learning occur concomitantly, with various weights, in any interaction between two systems. In this article we will explore some general aspects, in order to better understand how to plug-in Mathematica, as a mathematical software, to a Math college course, like Calculus III. The role of formal languages, especially adaptive grammars, is emphasized, as the “other side” of the approach focusing on automata.
Category: Education and Didactics

A Mnemonic for One-Letter Elements in the Periodic Table of Elements

Authors: Janko Kokošar
Comments: 2 Pages.

A mnemonic for one-letter elements in the periodic table of elements is shown. A mapping of these letters to keyboard letters is shown. This is also a basis for mnemonics for remembering the other chemical elements. At the same time, this is also a mnemonic for remembering some letters of the keyboard.
Category: Education and Didactics

Theorems on the Transfer Function of First-Order $RC$-Circuits with Either an Ideal or a Non-Ideal Capacitor

Authors: Aloys J. Sipers, Joh. J. Sauren
Comments: 6 Pages.

In this letter two theorems are stated, the first one on the ratio of an electrical output voltage signal $y\left(t\right)$ to an electrical input voltage signal $x\left(t\right)$ of a circuit with an ideal impedance and the second one on the ratio of an electrical output voltage signal $y\left(t\right)$ to an electrical input voltage signal $x\left(t\right)$ of a circuit with a non--ideal impedance. In the latter case, the change of the ratio $y\left(t\right)/x\left(t\right)$ is a measurable quantity of the change of the resistive part of the output impedance and therefore a measure of its quality.
Category: Education and Didactics

Python 3 Lambda

Authors: K. S. Ooi
Comments: 9 Pages.

Python coders are traditionally imperative. They may program in the paradigms of structured or object-oriented programming, but seldom in functional program. The resurgence of functional programming in the past decade or so has sent Python coders into tailspin. Lambda functions appear in countless of code, not as pure functional but as hybrid to the traditional imperative. Various resources about lambda function add even more confusion. This article address lambda in the context of Python, with minimum jargon but with a number of illustrative examples.
Category: Education and Didactics

Python Formatted Output: Old and New

Authors: K. S. Ooi
Comments: 5 Pages.

The new string formatter of Python 3 has more to offer than the old formatted output absorbed from C. The adjustment can be specified by either :> (move to right), :< (move to left), or :^ (move to center), which is quite intuitive. One can select character to pad spaces and no longer to have only whitespaces as padding characters. With or without precision specification, the new formatter is predictable and intuitive.
Category: Education and Didactics

Formatted Output: The Forgotten C Facility

Authors: K. S. Ooi
Comments: 7 Pages.

Even though input and output facilities are critical in programming, we usually do not spend too much time on them in programming courses. When we teach a programming course to beginners, there are other more pressing topics we must cover, and therefore we do not allocate too much time on input/output facilities, other than using them to perform simple tasks of taking input from keyboard and output the result on the screen. In this article, we focus on formatted output facilities of C. The signatures of format in formatted output of C using printf can still be found in Python.
Category: Education and Didactics

Python’s Hello World

Authors: K. S. Ooi
Comments: 4 Pages. Nil

Compared to C and Java, the Python’s Hello World is a one liner. If we look beyond the line, there is more than meets the eye. Among the possible cursory detour one can take are: object/type, string multiplication, built-in string functions, for statement, list comprehension, mumbo jumbo, and even Hy. We dare you to explore.
Category: Education and Didactics

Map vs Filter in Python 3

Authors: K. S. Ooi
Comments: 6 Pages.

Higher-order functions are essential tools for functional programmers, but majority of Python programmers are imperative. When the higher-order functions are used in imperative development, it usually has negative impact on readability of the code. With a small investment on understanding these higher-order functions, we may be able to alleviate some miscommunication between developers with different backgrounds in Python. In this article, two higher-order functions are examined: map and filter. Few examples are given in this article to illustrate their differences. Keywords: Python 3, higher-order functions, map, filter
Category: Education and Didactics

Indexing for Sequence and Collection in Python 3

Authors: K. S. Ooi
Comments: 4 Pages.

String slicing technique can be applied to only one kind of Python 3 iterables. In Python 3, there are two kinds of iterables, the sequence and the collection. The string slicing technique can only be applied to sequence, and can not be applied to collection. For example, keys of dictionary are keys that uniquely identifies their respective values. Any values other than the keys cannot be used as identifiers. The implementation of Python in this respect is therefore clean. Keywords: Python 3, iterables, slicing, sequence, collection
Category: Education and Didactics

Reduce () in Python 3

Authors: K. S. Ooi
Comments: 8 Pages.

Python, the most popular language at this moment, is the language of choice to write readable code. As coding instructors, it is our virtue to teach students to write code that is easy to read and understand. However, Python was older than Java. There are functional programming components that survive, and many students find them too cool to ignore. I address one such higher-order function, reduce(), in this article. Over-reduce() is the first issue I discuss. If we understand the problem well and do not shoehorn our problem into reduce(), there are alternatives readily available. In this article, I gives few examples that we should not reduce().
Category: Education and Didactics

Velocity and Acceleration Vectors on Second Order Curves

Authors: Viktor Strohm
Comments: 22 Pages.

The movement of a material point along curves of the second order is represented by the differential equation. The projections on the coordinate axes of the first and second derivatives are calculated. The direction of the velocity and acceleration vectors is determined.
Category: Education and Didactics

Como Acercar la Geometria 4d al Publico General (How to Bring 4D Geometry Closer to the General Public)

Authors: Lalo Te
Comments: 3 Pages. [Corrections made by viXra Admin to conform with the requirements on the Submission Form]

A brief report regarding how to bring 4d mathematics to the general public through video games.
Category: Education and Didactics

A Review of the Forgiveness Levels of School Students in Terms of Various Variables

Authors: Kemal ÖZTEMEL, Zeliha TRAŞ, Merve Kadriye ÜNAL
Comments: 35 Pages.

The aim of this study is to examine the forgiveness levels of secondary school students in terms of various variables. The study group consists of 256 female (48.8%) and 269 (51.2%) male students. The research is conducted with a descriptive survey model. Forgiveness Scale for Adolescents is used as data collection tool. t-test and one-way analysis of variance are used to analyze the data. As a result of the research, it is found that there are significant differences in components of forgiveness, revenge, maintaining anger and empathy sub-dimensions of forgiveness scale. Female students received higher scores than male students in the components of forgiveness and empathy sub-dimensions. Male students received higher scores than female students in revenge and maintaining anger. Significant differences were found in the sub-dimension of maintaining anger. The ones, whose maternal education status is secondary school and above, received higher scores than the ones whose mothers? are illiterate. According to parental attitudes, there is a significant difference in the components of forgiveness sub-dimension. According to grade levels, there is a significant difference between the skills of empathy as the grade increases. The results were discussed according to the literature.
Category: Education and Didactics

Valorification of the Kindergarten-School Educational Partnership in Preparing Children for Schooling

Authors: Valentina MÎSLIȚCHI
Comments: 26 Pages.

The article addresses the issue regarding the valorification of the partnership between the pre-school and primary education institution in order to ensure the quality of the children´s preparation for school. The paper analyzes concepts such as: educational partnership, preparation for school, school maturity; there are highlighted the defining notes of the kindergarten-school educational partnership, the specificity of the kindergarten-school continuity; it is presented a kindergarten-school educational partnership project focused on the optimization of the process of preparing children for schooling.
Category: Education and Didactics

The Modern Concept of Value Orientation

Authors: Diana ANTOCI
Comments: 17 Pages.

The present article includes theoretical study of various scientific papers concerning value and value orientation with the reference to definitions, characteristics of structural components of value orientation, correlations with different elements of personality system, factors impact upon the process of value orientation development. The analysis of the scientific approaches and their attempts to define the value orientations highlighted some unclear positions and controversies that led to elaboration of own definition for the notion of value orientation.
Category: Education and Didactics

Social and Professional Factors Involved in the Evaluation of Teachers

Authors: Florica ORȚAN
Comments: 10 Pages.

In the first part of the communication, we synthetically present the situation of the general culture education in the north-western part of the country. In the second part of the paper, the main objective of the research is presented: identifying the factors on which the candidates? success at the finalization in education exam depends. The success at the exam, as a dependent variable, is operationalised and quantified through the obtained grade. The following factors are taken in consideration: the candidates? specialization, graduation year, graduates? education form, the type of institutions (public or private), the county where they work, the rural or urban environment of the institution where they work, the rural or urban environment of their birthplace, civil state, sex and age. A number of 100 subjects have been investigated from Bihor County, Satu-Mare County and S?laj County. Once all indicators have been operationalized and quantified, data was statistically processed. In this way, it was possible to check the hypotheses, according to which, there are certain specializations and counties where most of the candidates come from, who achieve remarkable results at the final exam. In the same manner, the impact of the analyzed factors was studied. Finally, several social and professional factors were outlined according to the role they play in the examining process, deciphering the causes of success. The first part of the paper presents the general theoretical issue of social and cultural inequality. The analysis aims at highlighting the important role that education plays in ensuring equal opportunities for young people and diminishing social inequalities. The study highlights the important role of the teacher in ensuring students' good training and in diminishing, through this way, social and professional inequalities. Relevant information regarding education situation in schools is presented, revealing more inequalities, both between counties, urban and rural environments in each county, but also between different areas of the same county. The premises of the investigation have originated from inequalities such as those presented above. The article tries to capture the intervention of factors, such as the environment from which the teachers come, their specialization, the civil status, the year of graduation, sex, age, etc.
Category: Education and Didactics

The Social Dimension of Educational Assessment

Authors: Ramona-Elena TUTUNARU
Comments: 12 Pages.

Educational assessment has always been present within the educational process, but the way we have related to it has continuously changed as educational assessment is constantly constructing itself ? both from within and in relation to the other elements of the educational process. Socially, schools represent the institution which fulfils a key-role ? its main purpose is to educate, and education has the force to generate knowledge, value, and evolution. Educational assessment meets these characteristics both intrinsically and extrinsically, in relation to everything it interacts with. The impressive capacity of the educational assessment to adapt itself to the present time but also to look towards the future is also evidenced by it claiming its presence in the processes of both teaching and learning as well as in the assessment process itself ? all assessment subjecting itself to its own rigours.
Category: Education and Didactics

The Views of Pupil on Teacher Undesirable Behaviors in Their Apprenticeship Program

Authors: Ömer BEYHAN
Comments: 12 Pages.

At the beginning, it is found in most of the countries that offer teacher education are not concerned with the current need and development needed for the school and the industry (real life), rather they just design the curriculum as per the decision of members of the board or senate. Generally, the board does not want to discuss exactly with the nominees or experienced teachers and the school manager. Results are in a big gap for the education operators especially, nominee teachers, too. Preparing a suitable training program and job ready teachers we need nominee teacher perceptions on their trainers and teacher. In this content, in an undesirable environment for pupils’ perceptions are very essential. Undesirable environment for practice is defined as the environment that has behavior which is not suitable for the situation or the environment, but it is acted consciously in it. In this study, it is aimed to determine the views of the pupil on teacher undesirable behaviors in their apprenticeship program. The population of this research is 370 students who study in NEÜ Education faculty 7th-semester students in the academic year 2017-2018 in Konya. This paper that tries to find the ways on the grounds for synergetic partnerships between the faculty of education and industry for a win-win situation for both the sides revealed that pupil perceptions are ranged in two groups between “strongly disagree” with the interval 1.00-1.80 and “disagree” with the interval 1.81-2.60.
Category: Education and Didactics

Investigation of the Relationship Between Trait Anger and Anger Expression and Submissive Behaviors in Adolescents

Authors: Zeliha TRAŞ, Yusuf ATIŞ
Comments: 22 Pages.

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between anger, anger expression styles and submissive behaviors in adolescents. The study group of the research consisted of 445 high school students selected by random sampling method. The participants consisted of 250 (45.9%) men and 295 (54.1%) women. In the research, State-Trait Anger and Anger Expression Style Scale, Submissive Behaviors Scale and Personal Information Form were used to determine the anger and anger expression styles of adolescents. In the analysis of the data; t-test, one-way variance analysis, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and regression analysis were used. According to the research findings, a significant difference was found in favor of female students in trait anger and anger-out sub-dimensions of trait anger and anger expression styles of adolescents according to gender variable. In the anger control sub-dimension, a significant difference was found in favor of male students. According to the grade variable, the anger-in subscale dimension, which is one of the state-trait anger and anger expression subscales, was found to be significantly higher in the 10th grade students than the 9th grade students. As a result of the correlation analysis conducted in the research, a positive and moderate relationship was found between the adolescents’ scores from submissive behaviors and the anger-in sub-dimensions. As a result of the regression analysis conducted in the research, it was concluded that submissive behaviors were a significant predictor of adolescents’ anger-in. According to the findings of this study, it can be suggested that school psychological counselors conduct anger control group guidance for 9th and 10th grade students.
Category: Education and Didactics

Convictions in the Context of Personality Values Formation in Adolescents and Young People

Authors: Valentina MÎSLIȚCHI
Comments: 21 Pages.

The article covers the issue of continuous professional training of teachers, which is a complex, coherent process, aimed at ensuring the permanent adaptation of teachers to the dynamics of education processes and systems, promoting a proactive attitude, specific to a lifelong learning horizon. The research paper specifies the defining characteristics of the continuous professional training process, describes the principles and objectives of continuous teacher training, determines the content, methodology, forms of continuous teacher training, and elucidates the trends in continuous professional training of teachers.
Category: Education and Didactics

Curricular Perspectives and Strategies for Developing Cognitive Skills in Early Education

Authors: Claudia Irina ALDEA
Comments: 14 Pages.

Starting from the assumption that in early education the curricular strategies are selected and developed according to the curricular context and the specificity of general and particular cognitive development, we decided to engage in an experimental research focused on identifying, validating and developing some curricular strategies that are as relevant in the development of cognitive skills, as well as of other areas of development and experience. Our research fulfils several functions: 1) The systematization of the conceptual analyses regarding the problem of the cognitive skills and of the curricular strategies of their development, accompanied by personal appreciations and interpretations; 2) Of retesting and developing a previous micro-research; 3) Of methodological research, based on the development and validation of relevant investigation tools; 4) The development of a methodological framework and operational landmarks for the development of cognitive skills in early education. The article is conceived in the spirit of scientific consistency and comprehensive analysis of conceptual models, strategies and methodological models that outline the terminological code of the problem, but which also constitute premises for theoretical development and design of some experimental approaches. The article is structured on two dimensions: a) theoretical foundation regarding the conceptual analysis of cognitive competence in early education, from the perspective of the skills-centred educational approach, of the curriculum for early education, with implications for lifelong learning; b) addressing curricular strategies, which facilitate the process of developing cognitive skills in preschoolers, with an emphasis on child-centred training.
Category: Education and Didactics

The Keyboard Locations of Non-pulmonic Consonants as a Mnemonic for Use of the Preposition 'with' in Slovenian Grammar

Authors: Janko Kokosar
Comments: 4 Pages. Slovenian translation is added in the paper

Non-pulmonic consonants are located on the keyboard by some rules, which are quite simple and memorable. These rules can be used for a mnemonic which helps to remember how to put Slovenian options of preposition 'with' in Slovenian grammar. This is also a mnemonic for learning of touch typing and to memorize non-pulmonic consonants.
Category: Education and Didactics

Mhealth Strategy to Fight Tuberculosis in Bangladesh

Authors: Md Monzur Morshed
Comments: 5 Pages. This is a strategy paper

Bangladesh is one of the high TB burden countries in the world and TB is still a major public health problem in the country. To eradicate TB in Bangladesh and to ensure proper monitoring and better health care service, digital interventions may play a pivotal role. Over the years Bangladesh Government has been actively working to hold a control over TB with the help of donors, local and international NGOs. For sustainability there has been a need to develop mHealth strategy for Bangladesh to align with the Digital Bangladesh Vision 2021.
Category: Education and Didactics

Employee Monitoring Software

Authors: Harsimran Dhaliwal
Comments: 3 Pages.

Work from home software monitoring application comprising icons displayed in a pallette view wherein each icon is sized based on the time spent on the icon’s respective task. Eye tracking software may also be used to determine a user looking at and or performing certain tasks via assessing eye movements and or eye gaze direction.
Category: Education and Didactics

Using Advanced Keyword Strings to Predict a Pandemic

Authors: H. Dhaliwal
Comments: 4 Pages.

When a new virus emerges, news articles will be written about it on the internet on first word of it. Furthermore, users on social media sites (e.g. reddit) will give advice on how to prepare for a pandemic with items to buy. Therefore searching the internet using certain keywords to see if such articles or posts exist may help determine if a new virus exists and this process may be automated and make use of artificial intelligence or a human may scan through the results. This may prevent a possible future pandemic. For example the following keyword string can be used for each week (keywords were extracted from web page links below).
Category: Education and Didactics

Exploration of Ultimate Dark Web Anonymization, Privacy, and Security

Authors: Revanth S, Praveen Kumar Pandey
Comments: 8 Pages

The ultimate Dark web will review the emerging research conducted to study and identify the ins and outs of the dark web. The world is facing a lot of issues day-by-day especially on the internet. Now I have a question here, do you think is working with the internet attains knowledge or it pretends to be a part of the business. Keep the business part aside, we all know that internet is a great tool for communication. Is internet is definitely giving privacy, safety and security. Does anyone have a brief idea about the dark web for all these queries we don’t have any accurate solution. Through this survey, I outlined some of the major concepts and their dependencies the primary usage of the dark web and some of the survey experiences are further documented in this paper.
Category: Education and Didactics

Secret Messages in Enigmatic Playful Texts

Authors: Ricardo Gobato, Marcia Regina Risso Gobato, Alireza Heidari, Abhijit Mitra, Ibtihal Kadhim Kareem Dosh
Comments: 10 Pages. : Ricardo G, Marcia Regina RG, Alireza H, Abhijit M, Ibtihal Kadhim KD. Secret Messages in Enigmatic Playful Texts. 4(2): 2020. ABEB. MS.ID.000582. DOI: 10.33552/ABEB.2020.04.000582..

Stenography and cryptography have been used for centuries to transmit, send, hide messages, communication between certain people, groups, governments, as the main objective to protect certain information. Hidden text and common text or in an image, etc. that only the sender and the receiver know them and how to decipher them. This work has a purpose of didactic, scientific and playful application in the use of shorthand and cryptography. The method applied here is random, manual, of fitting each word. Thus, the use of a simple ludic, informative, scientific, didactic “game” can contain secret, coded, directed information, to a specific individual, organization, etc. Thus carrying information in a secret character, which would hardly be discovered by any other individual, organization, etc
Category: Education and Didactics

Analyzing Students’ Attitude Towards e-Learning: a Case Study in Higher Education in Pakistan

Authors: Faiza Rafiq, Shafqat Hussain, Qaisar Abbas
Comments: 13 Pages. very informative artice

The study analyzes students’ attitude towards use of e-learning in higher education in Pakistan. The study was based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM).The study was mixed method and sequential explanatory. Questionnaire and semi-structured interview was used to gather the data. Stratified simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used. The sample was consisted of 2180 participants (2160 students and 20 IT specialized teachers).The findings exposed that male students showed more positive attitude towards e-learning in Pakistan in comparison with female students. Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has effectively determined students’ attitude towards e-learning. One can fairly suggest if the Government provides financial support, development of IT infrastructure and facilitation by electronic media and resources, than students’ attitude towards e-learning will be more positive.
Category: Education and Didactics

An Efficient Content, Collaborative-Based and Hybrid Approach for Movie Recommendation Engine

Authors: Rajeev Kumar, Guru Basava, Felicita Furtado
Comments: 21 Pages.

The purpose of the project is to research about Content and Collaborative-based movie recommendation engines. Nowadays recommender systems are used in our day to day life. We try to understand the distinct types of reference engines/systems and compare their work on the movies datasets. We start to produce a versatile model to complete this study and start by developing and relating the different kinds of prototypes on a minor dataset of 100,000 evaluations. The growth of e-commerce has given rise to recommendation engines. Several recommendation engines exist within the market to recommend a wide variety of goods to users. These recommendations support various aspects such as users' interests, users' history, users' locations, and more. Away from all the above aspects; one thing is common which is individuality. Content and collaborative-based movie recommendation engines recommend users based on the user's viewpoint, whereas many things are there within the marketplace that are related to which a user is uninformed of. This stuff should also be suggested by the engine to clients; But due to the range of " individuality ", these machines do not suggest things that are out of the crate. The Hybrid System of Movie Recommendation Engine has crossed this variety of individuality. The Movie Recommendation Engine will suggest movies to clients according to their interest and be evaluated by other clients who are almost user-like. Additionally, for this, there are web services that are capable of acting as a tool adornment.
Category: Education and Didactics

What to not do in Pediatrics a Periodically Updated Red List

Authors: Andrei Lucian Dragoi
Comments: (Pediatrics Red List - version 1.0 - 13.04.2020 - 1.5 A4 pages without references)

This paper proposes an important RED list of what to NOT do in pediatrics, with the conviction that this red list should be taught from the first year of medicine and repeated in every single year of medical teaching, in all medical universities from all countries worldwide: the work-hypothesis (and the main motivation of this paper) is that insisting on this red list in all medical teaching systems may significantly decrease the rate of medical/pediatric malpractice thus may significantly improve the health status of any child population from any country. This paper will be periodically updated so that to increase the efficiency of this proposed medical teaching method based on the principle that any medical specialty should be taught starting (and repetitively insisting!) on what to NOT do in that medical specialty practice! This paper continues the line of other medical articles/preprints of the same author. This list is mainly addressed to young medical students, but also to young medical doctors, nurses etc. from the beginning of their careers.
Category: Education and Didactics

Approximating Percentage of Academic Traffic in the World Wide Web and Rankings of Countries Based on Academic Traffic

Authors: Bahram Kalhor, Mohammad Reza Ghane, Alireza Nikravanshalmani
Comments: 15 Pages.

The paper introduces a novel mechanism for approximating traffic of the academic sites (universities and research institutes) in the World Wide Web based on Alexa’s rankings. Firstly we introduce and discuss new method for calculating score (weight) of each site based on its Alexa’s rank. Secondly we calculate percentage of academic traffic in the World Wide Web. Thirdly we introduce and discuss two new rankings of countries based on academic traffic. Finally we discuss about three indicators and effects of them in traffic of the academic sites. Results indicate that the methodology can be useful for approximating traffic of the academic sites and producing rankings of countries in practice. Keywords
Category: Education and Didactics

The G-Clef (GC) Piano (GCP), GC Harp (GCH) and GC Accordion (Gca) Project (GCP Music Catalog, Including Midi-Mp3 Audio Files)

Authors: Andrei Lucian Dragoi
Comments: (GCP music catalog - version 1.0 - 1.5 A4 pages)

The G-clef (GC) piano/harp/accordion (GCP/GCH/GCA) is a variant of piano/harp/accordion notation in which the left hand (LH) staff uses instead of a standard F-clef (FC), an alternative G-clef (GC), GC 8vb (GC8vb) (aka GC in ”ottava bassa”) or 15mb (GC15mb) (aka GC in ”quindicesima bassa”) which means that LH notes should be played in GC but one or two octaves lower (8vb or 15mb) than written. GCP/GCH/GCA offers a much easier way to learn piano, because GC8vb and GC15mb are both much easier to learn and read than FC in any pedagogical system which initially uses GC to teach all the basic concepts of Western musical notation system. The main article dedicated to GCP/GCH/GCA and GC-based grand staff (GCGS) (together with other GC-based instruments [GCI]) can be accessed here: URL1, URL2, URL3-latest version. • Author's main site: www.dragoii.com; • See also the web page dedicated to all proposed G-clef instruments: www.dragoii.com/gci and www.dragoii.com/gcp • For a full catalog of my music (including non-self music arrangements) see URLs: URL1, URL2 and URL3 (latest version)
Category: Education and Didactics

Correlation Between Content and Traffic of the Universities’ Website

Authors: Bahram Kalhor, Alireza Nikravanshalmani
Comments: 16 Pages.

The purpose of this study is to analyse the correlation between content and traffic of 21,485 academic websites (universities and research institutes). The achieved result is used as an indicator which shows the performance of the websites for attracting more visitors. This inspires a best practice for developing new websites or promoting the traffic of the existing websites. At the first step, content of the site is divided into three major items which are: Size, Papers and Rich Files. Then, the Spearman correlation between traffic of the websites and these items are calculated for each country and for the world, respectively. At the next step, countries are ranked based on their correlations, also a new indicator is proposed from combining these three correlations of the countries. Results show that in most countries, correlation between traffic of the websites and Papers is less than correlations between traffic of the websites and Rich Files and Size.
Category: Education and Didactics

Synergetic Role of Chemistry in Women’s Success

Authors: M. Sireesha, Ratnakaram Venkata Nadh, H. Manjunatha
Comments: 16 Pages.

Development and growth of a nation is determined by the effective utilization of human resources, both male and female. Though, female category is about half of world’s population, they are underrepresented in most of the sectors. Chemistry is playing a synergetic role in shifting the equilibrium towards the women’s success. It is the social responsibility to eradicate the gender bias in chemical related fields (academic, professional, industrial, and research). The mean and methods for the same are discussed in the present article.
Category: Education and Didactics

Science Education and Research for Women Empowerment

Authors: Ratnakaram Venkata Nadh, M. Sireesha, H. Manjunatha
Comments: 15 Pages.

Maximum exploitation of existing human resources is possible by immediate engagement of women in science. But, historically, scientific field is found to be male-dominated. Women empowerment embraces the good quality education. Sensitizing and encouraging the women towards education embracement enables them to set free from ignorance, poverty and starvation. Hence, education is continuing as the most practicable avenue for women empowerment. Imparting science education to the entire population expedites the accomplishment of scientific and technological progression. The present article enlightens the efforts of Indian government and United Nations towards empowerment of women through science education and research.
Category: Education and Didactics

How do I ... Develop an Online Research Seminar?

Authors: Henry Adams
Comments: 4 Pages.

Developing an online research seminar requires work, trial and error, and the willingness to experiment with something new. There are multiple benefits to running a seminar online: an online seminar is accessible to a more diverse audience, does not negatively impact climate change, and brings together members of a community who otherwise might not interact. This article gives my tips for running an online research seminar, describes an online seminar that I co-direct, and links to other online seminars and resources.
Category: Education and Didactics

Coronavirus Propagación en Argentina

Authors: Carlos Alejabdro Chiappini
Comments: 3 Pages.

Un cálculo breve, que permite tomar conciencia precisa respecto al avance feroz del Coronavirus.
Category: Education and Didactics

Addendum to Dead Skunk In The Middle Of The Road

Authors: John Roach
Comments: 80 Pages. Please combine the two submissions sent 02-22-2020, with the Addendum second, as an afterward

Addendum to Dead Skunk In The Middle Of The Road Science Articles
Category: Education and Didactics

Is Science a Pyramid Scheme? the Correlation Between an Author's Position in the Academic Hierarchy and Her Scientific Output Per Year

Authors: Charleeze P. Ponzi
Comments: 7 Pages.

A grievance expressed by some PhD students and Postdocs is that science works like a pyramid scheme: Young scientists are encouraged to invest into building scientific careers although the chances at remaining in science are extremely slim. This issue is investigated quantitatively by connecting it with the way authorship on papers is distributed. I analyzed a large bibliographic dataset made available by Microsoft under the name Academic Graph to create a histogram with the number of articles an author produces per year. The histogram has the shape of a pyramid, and different layers in it correlate with positions in the academic hierarchy. The super-prolific authors at the top of the pyramid with more than 40 publications per year are usually heads of large institutes with many subgroups and large numbers of PhD students, while the bottom of the pyramid is populated by PhD students and Postdocs with less than 5 publications per year. The mechanism that allows 'manager scientists' to appropriate publications generated in their sphere of influence is related to other issues, such as the evaluation of scientific performance based on scientometric indicators and the lenient enforcement of authorship rules. A new index, the Ponzi factor, is proposed to quantify this phenomenon.
Category: Education and Didactics

Interpretation of Shannon Entropies with Various Bases by Means of Multinary Searching Games

Authors: Hsuan-Hao Chao, Chang Hsu, Long Hsu, Sien Chi
Comments: 8 Pages.

Ben-Naim used twenty question games to illustrate Shannon entropy with base 2 as a measure of the amount of information in terms of the minimum average number of binary questions. We found that Shannon entropy with base 2 equal to the minimum average number of binary questions is only valid under a special condition. The special condition is referred to as the equiprobability condition, which requires that the outcomes of every question have equal probability, thus restricting the probability distribution. This requirement is proven for a ternary game and a proposed multinary game as well. The proposed multinary game finds a coin hidden in one of several boxes by using a multiple pan balance. We have shown that the minimum average number of weighing measurements by using the multiple pan balance can be directly obtained by using Shannon entropy with base b under the equiprobability condition. Therefore, Shannon entropy with base b can be interpreted as the minimum average number of weighing measurements by using the multiple pan balance when the multiple outcomes have equal probability every time.
Category: Education and Didactics

Libreflix: the Collaborative Culture Audiovisual on a Streaming Platform

Authors: Jamerson dos Santos Farias Soares
Comments: 18 Pages.

This article is the result of an analytical study on the video streaming platform: Libreflix. A digital platform based on freedom of expression, free screening of films and series, sharing of independent audiovisual productions and productions that help in critical thinking. We researched and analyzed the interface of the platform, it show the interaction between her and the public occurs, and its importance for the diffusion of film products for those who do not have many financial conditions. In conceptualization and association Ideas were consulted articles, books, reports and opinions of scholars in the area. There was also Free Culture research, the Free Software movement, the role of Web 3.0 in consumer Data Science, the Culture of Convergence, Collective, Collaborative and participatory. The purpose of this paper is to understand and investigate the assumptions of Libreflix thatway this format makes art and culture available to the community, its etymology, as everything began, which concepts were used for the idealization and creation of the platform. Also, as procedures for selection and dissemination of copyright productions are given, and what are the differences between Libreflix and the current major movie and series production company, Netflix. The analysis is developed from site visits, platform Android app, conversations with the creator of the free service, comparing other sites that agree with the idea of ​​the platform, such as also tabulating data on how many accounts have already been created and what type of audience houses theirown footage on the site.
Category: Education and Didactics

Schematische Weergaven Van Gebruikte Opstellingen

Authors: Niels Hoogendoorn
Comments: 8 Pages.

veel plezier dr mee, hoop dat k het goed heb gedaan...
Category: Education and Didactics

Facial Expression Detection using Deep Neural Networks

Authors: B Sai Teja, Ch Chinmai Durga Srinivas, M Sandeep Reddy, P M Ashok Kumar
Comments: 7 Pages.

Facial Expression conveys non-verbal communication, which plays an important role in acquaintance among people. The Facial Expression Detection system is an activity to identify the emotional state of a person. In this system, a captured frame is compared with trained dataset that is available in database and then state of the captured frame will be defined. This system is based on Image Processing and Machine Learning. For designing a robust facial feature descriptor, we apply the Xception Modelling Algorithm. Xception is a convolutional neural network that is trained on more than a million images from the ImageNet database. The network is 71 layers deep and can classify images into 1000 object categories, such as keyboard, mouse, pencil, and many animals. As a result, the network has learned rich feature representations for a wide range of images. The detection performance of the proposed method will be evaluated by loading the data-set and pre-processing the images for feeding it to CNN model. Experimental results with prototypic expressions show the superiority of the Xception-Model descriptor against some well- known appearance-based feature representation methods. Experimental results demonstrate the competitive classification accuracy of our proposed method.
Category: Education and Didactics

Clojure Programming – the First Two Chapters

Authors: K. S. Ooi
Comments: 26 Pages.

I use Clojure to write scripts to explore and gray-hack the systems when I was asked to do so. Sadly, Clojure is not used widely by my fellow security experts; many of them, if they are required to write scripts, use Python instead. Clojure is simply, beautiful. However, Clojure has been recently relegated; it is no longer in top 25 popular programming languages at pypl (see http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html) and has been listed as #51 to #100 programming language by TIOBE (https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/). This article is the first two chapters of my note on Clojure programming. If you are new to this language, this can be your first introduction to Clojure, and hopefully you embrace it as your scripting language for your security work.
Category: Education and Didactics

Technical Work Report

Authors: Fayowole David Ayadi
Comments: 29 Pages. Some data and information were deliberately left out because of organization policy.

I observed my Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme at Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. During my SIWES, I was able to learn how to make use of some complex statistical (computational) packages in coding and analyses of data, either primary data or secondary data. And I also learned how to interpret analyzed data for end users. Furthermore, I saw the practical applications of Mathematics to solve problems in organizations, companies and some other subsidiary institutes. The research institute enabled me to bridge the gap between theory and practical.
Category: Education and Didactics

Electronic Device

Authors: Harsimran Dhaliwal
Comments: 71 Pages.

An electronic device comprising a first display, a second display, a processor, a memory and atleast one camera whereby instructions stored in the memory that when executed enables the processor to display visual data received from the camera on the first display and also on the second display whereby via an input a picture is recorded and displayed on atleast the second display wherein the picture has a visual effect applied to the picture displayed.
Category: Education and Didactics

(Gci V.1.0 7.08.2019 4 Pages) the G-Clef Piano/harpsichord, Harp, Viola, Cello, Double Bass Etc, All Based on a Unitary G-Clef Grand Staff (GCGS)

Authors: Andrei Lucian Dragoi
Comments: 4 Pages. The latest version of this paper is periodically uploaded on dragoii.com domain and available at this URL: http://dragoii.com/ALDragoi_GCI_GCGS_latest.pdf

This paper proposes multiple G-clef instruments (GCIs) (based on all types of G-clefs) like GC-piano (GCP), GC-harp (GCH), GC-viola (GCV), GC-cello (GCC) and GC-double bass (GCDB), all based on a simple G-clef grand staff (GCGS) with two main subtypes (GCGS1 and GCGS2: GCGS significantly simplifies the standard grand staff and creates a unitary clef-"language" for all orchestral instruments, thus for the whole Western full-size orchestra (aka symphony orchestra or philharmonic orchestra). We have also dedicated an online database containing links to all scores transcribed by the author for various GCIs until present: www.gci.dragoii.com This paper is also available on ResearchGate and Academia.edu platforms at URLs: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335025363 https://www.academia.edu/40031254 The latest version of this paper is periodically uploaded on dragoii.com domain and available at this URL: http://dragoii.com/ALDragoi_GCI_GCGS_latest.pdf
Category: Education and Didactics

Do People in Physics Have a Responsibility to Inform the Public? (Slides)

Authors: Jonathan J. Dickau
Comments: 24 Pages. Slides for a talk given at FFP15, fulfilling a promise made to Pete Seeger.

In the present day; industrial accidents or natural disasters occur, and Physics-related questions arise, with increasing frequency. Do scientists have a responsibility to inform the public, when we are well-informed and others are lacking knowledge? Should we also safeguard certain information, in order to protect the public from harm? Unfortunately; people in positions of authority - both in business and in government - are too often lacking what many would consider a basic knowledge of Physics principles, so they need insight and information we have, to make informed decisions. But for many researchers; it is unwise or unsafe to speak out. And yet; when our leaders say they are powerless to fix things, as they have no better answers, we who know there are better answers need to acknowledge that we have failed to empower those leaders or our fellow citizens. Some are looking for ways to change this situation. The Azimuth Project, founded by physicist John Baez, attempts to provide a way for scientists and engineers to aid or save the Environment with their knowledge. Much of the information available on environmental issues is confusing or opinionated, and a Wiki, a Forum, and a Library of analysis software and information devoted to the subject assist in correcting this problem. This provides a clear example of how scientists can keep the public properly informed, and an opportunity to do so.
Category: Education and Didactics

Integrando Escolas e Universidade em Sergipe: Uma Oficina Temática Sobre Aves no Busão da Ciência do Agreste e do Sertão

Authors: Cleverton da Silva, Ricardo Santos do Carmo
Comments: 6 Pages.

This paper presents results related to the production of one workshop with the theme “Birds: ecosystem functions and services” designed to teach about the functional role of different species of birds in ecosystems. The workshops consider the non-formal education goals and scientific dissemination of the “Science on Wheels: bus of Science of the Agreste and Sertão Project”. The project gathers undergraduates and researchers to promote discussions on scientific topics of biology, chemistry, geography and physics in cities in the state of Sergipe. The Biology workshops focus on the theme of the functions and ecosystem services, which now occupies a central place in the ecology research. In this paper, we present the Science on Wheels Project and discuss the gains in student learning as a result of Biology workshops and advocate more coordination of formal and non-formal forms of scientific education as one of the commitments of universities.
Category: Education and Didactics

Jogos Cooperativos: Uma Proposta Inovadora Para O Ensino da Educação Ambiental

Authors: Hugo da Silva Florentino, Laryssa Abílio Oliveira, Francisco José Pegado Abílio
Comments: 12 Pages.

This article describes the experience of construction, implementation and evaluation of a cooperative board game named "RCT Game" based on the Earth Charter. This is a qualitative study, based on an exploratory and descriptive approach. It was developed and validated with students of different levels of education in a public school in the municipality of João Pessoa, Paraiba. The results indicated that the game had a positive evaluation in the acceptance and satisfaction of the students, being an innovative, dynamic and creative proposal to work on environmental education at different levels of education, as it allows to work not only environmental issues but also social, ethical, political, economic, and cultural issues in a cognitive, affective, creative and reflexive way, while promoting the development of knowledge, attitudes and skills needed to build a sustainable society.
Category: Education and Didactics

Verificação da Temática Biodiesel no Enem (1998-2017) em Consonância Com Sua Evolução no Contexto Nacional

Authors: Thalyta Pessoa Freire, Geórgia Batista Vieira de Lima, Luciano Leal de Morais Sales
Comments: 15 Pages.

The Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (Enem) was created in 1998 and has undergone two changes since then. It demands from the candidates the articulation of the knowledge learned in high school, relating them with illustrations, to find a resolution to the problems. Among them, the production and use of biodiesel is one of the subjects charged in the matrix of the exam. Therefore, the research sought to understand the profile of the questions about this biofuel, considering its approach, the national context and the presentation of the information about it in the evaluation. From a universe of 1.503 questions (1998 and 2017), nine were selected. Between the editions of 1998 and 2002 there was no direct mention of the biofuel chosen. From 2003 onwards, the exam addresses from the transformation of vegetable oil into biodiesel, through the transesterification reaction, to its use and production policies.
Category: Education and Didactics

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Derivations of Einstein's $e=mc^2$ from Newtonian Laws of Motion \footnote{einstein for the Enthusiasts: Derivations of $e=mc^2$ from Newtonian Laws of Motion

Authors: Zion Elani
Comments: 17 Pages.

This report details the pedestrian derivation of Einstein's famous equation, $E = mc^2$. Through the use of elementary physical quantities of Newtonian mechanics such as distance, force, momentum, velocity and energy, our approach resembles a `handling units' method. Further, two other proofs premising on the notion of mass and its dependence on velocity are discussed. These methods prove to be simple and physically intuitive, thus stimulating the amateur enthusiasts to a better understanding of various complex and difficult-to-derive formulas which are otherwise understood at a sophisticated academic level. Pedagogic significance of these methods is further discussed.
Category: Education and Didactics

An Insight Into the "Flat Earth Society"

Authors: Likai Fareed
Comments: 4 Pages.

Modern flat Earth belief originated with the English writer Samuel Rowbotham (1816–1884). Based on conclusions derived from the Bedford Level experiment, Rowbotham published a pamphlet Zetetic Astronomy. He later expanded into a book Earth Not a Globe, proposing the Earth is a flat disc centred at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, Antarctica. Rowbotham further held that the Sun and Moon were 3,000 miles (4,800 km) above Earth and that the "cosmos" was 3,100 miles (5,000 km) above the Earth. He also published a leaflet titled The inconsistency of Modern Astronomy and its Opposition to the Scriptures, which argued that the "Bible, alongside our senses, supported the idea that the earth was flat and immovable and this essential truth should not be set aside for a system based solely on human conjecture". Rowbotham and followers like William Carpenter gained attention by successful use of pseudoscience in public debates with leading scientists such as Alfred Russel Wallace. Rowbotham created a Zetetic Society in England and New York, shipping over a thousand copies of Zetetic Astronomy. After Rowbotham's death, Lady Elizabeth Blount established a Universal Zetetic Society, whose objective was "the propagation of knowledge related to Natural Cosmogony in confirmation of the Holy Scriptures, based on practical scientific investigation". The society published a magazine, The Earth Not a Globe Review, and remained active well into the early 20th century. A flat Earth journal, Earth: a Monthly Magazine of Sense and Science, was published between 1901–1904, edited by Lady Blount.
Category: Education and Didactics

Intelligence is Unmeritable by Grades and Testified by Mere Verity of Humanity Patriotism.

Authors: AR. Scholar
Comments: 3 Pages.

Intelligence and verification for this - where are scholars going, and how so our profession have driven us to be. Here we present a transparent recount of a personal scholar loose (yet sensible) thoughts and lessons about intelligence, and the state or processes and treatment to qualify for intelligence and to live with wise bandits based on the ultimate present of scholar 'lifecycle' that many have benefited from, and also for much individuals have been victimized from; as this paper formatted and communicated in a 'letter form' to those unskilful practitioners.
Category: Education and Didactics

5 Hábitos Que Ayudan a Que Tus Dientes se Vean Amarillos

Authors: Laura Smith
Comments: 2 Pages.

Un aspecto que preocupa mucho a las personas es el color de sus dientes pues en ocasiones éstos tienden a “amarillear”. Un blanqueamiento dental podría ser la solución a este problema, pero hay algunos hábitos que afectan negativamente y que quizá no sean demasiado conocidos. Descúbrelos aquí.
Category: Education and Didactics

Geniuses and Idiots

Authors: A.I.Somsikov
Comments: 2 Pages. -

One example of the idiotic statement.
Category: Education and Didactics

(CV in English Using RG Format Last Updated on 20.12.2018 16 Pages) Andrei-Lucian Drăgoi, MD (Pediatrician Specialist), Certified Whistleblower, Independent Researcher, Reviewer and Publisher – CV

Authors: Andrei Lucian Dragoi
Comments: 16 Pages.

My CV in English written in Research Gate format.
Category: Education and Didactics

(Music Catalog Version 1.1 18.11.2018 3 Pages) a Music Catalog of Dr. Andrei-Lucian Dragoi’s Original Compositions and Published Transcriptions

Authors: Andrei Lucian Dragoi
Comments: 3 Pages.

DR. ANDREI LUCIAN DRĂGOI – A MUSIC CATALOG OF DR. DRĂGOI’S ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS AND PUBLISHED TRANSCRIPTIONS
Category: Education and Didactics

Experts are Not Always the Prepared Minds

Authors: Jeffrey Joseph Wolynski
Comments: 2 Pages.

A small list outlines what future discoverers will be like. It is suggested to look out for them, as they think differently. This is a small list that is from the author's experience with the sharing of the discovery that planets are simply older, evolving and dead stars.
Category: Education and Didactics

On Making Books More Dynamic

Authors: Reza Hasanzadeh
Comments: 5 Pages.

The emergence of dynamic learning systems is inevitable. In a future not so distant from today reading tools have incorporated interactive elements that would have rendered the process of learning very rewarding.These systems are radically different from current reading tools in that they provide users with functionalities that try to act as the extensions of human brain. This note is an attempt to describe some elements of a (fictional) proto-humanity-first reading tool.
Category: Education and Didactics

Dante ALIGHERI’S “AMOR, CH’A Nullo AMATO…”: an “EX NIHILO” Account of “A NULLO”

Authors: Arturo Tozzi
Comments: 2 Pages.

In this brief technical note, we propose a different interpretation of the renewed verse of Dante Alighieri’s “Hell”: “Amor, ch’a nullo amato amar perdona”. We go through the hypothesis that “a nullo” might stand from the Latin “ex nihilo”, which means “from nothingness”, and discuss the philosophical and textual implications of this novel account.
Category: Education and Didactics

Próba Określenia Miary Jakości Informacji na Gruncie Teorii Grafów dla Potrzeb Dydaktyki ### An Attempt to Determine the Measure of the Quality of Information on the Basis of Graph Theory for the Needs of Didactics

Authors: Zbigniew Osiak
Comments: Pages.

Zaproponowałem na gruncie teorii grafów miarę jakości informacji zawartej w danym komunikacie (haśle z programu nauczania) liczoną względem jego kontekstu oraz względem jego zakresu. ### I proposed, on the basis of graph theory, the measure of the quality of information contained in a given message (password from the curriculum) calculated in relation to its context and in relation to its scope.
Category: Education and Didactics

The Effect of Anxiety on Performance of Students in Mathematics

Authors: Fayowole David Ayadi
Comments: 14 Pages.

This research work ''THE EFFECT OF ANXIETY ON PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN MATHEMATICS'' focuses on the relationship between Mathematics anxiety and students performance. A descriptive experimental research design was used to investigate the research questions. The population consisted of 120 pre-service teachers at Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Ojo Local Government, Lagos State. A personal data questionnaire was used to gather demographic and anxiety information about the participants. The implication of this study of elementary teacher education programs point to increased attention on the Mathematics anxiety of pre-service teachers. This process is two folds. One, it is recommended that pre-service teachers be made aware of their Mathematics anxiety level and two, it is recommended that teacher education programs acknowledge and address the importance of these affective variable and their role in pedagogy.
Category: Education and Didactics

Medical Marijuana

Authors: Alex Altmire
Comments: 1 Page.

The article is about the necessity of the legalization of medical marijuana and how the drug helps citizens with common diseases/ mental illnesses.
Category: Education and Didactics

Malawi Cypress Awards Analysis

Authors: Prince Gusto Gadama
Comments: 8 Pages.

starting 10 years ago in Liberia and then in Burkina Faso, Cypress awawrds in Malawi spiritual, science, arts, political personalities. this year, President of Moçambique, Filipe Nyusi, as well as 2 Africa Emperors, Bishops and Pastors have been contemplated. present analysis deals with previous editions
Category: Education and Didactics

Graduations 2018 Cypress

Authors: Prince Gusto Gadama
Comments: 8 Pages.

Honoris Causa Doctorates and Professorships at Cypress, Malawi
Category: Education and Didactics

Cypress University Curriculums

Authors: Prince Gusto Gadama
Comments: 200 Pages.

all the matters of teaching as of today
Category: Education and Didactics

Average IQ of the Brightest Kid in School

Authors: John R. Berryhill
Comments: 6 pages, 3 Figs., License Creative Commons 4.0

The individual IQ score is regarded as an indicator of general intelligence and a predictor of educational attainment. What, on average, would be the highest IQ found in a typical American high school? This question is addressed by means of a Monte Carlo simulation under reasonable assumptions. The answer is a number in the neighborhood of 150.
Category: Education and Didactics

Proofs for Sivasamy Soundararajan's Social Services

Authors: Sivasamy Soundararajan
Comments: 18 Pages. na

In this work, the proofs for social services have been explained
Category: Education and Didactics

Social Services of Soundararajan Sivasamy

Authors: S. Soundararajan
Comments: 33 Pages. nba

In this communications, the proofs for the social services of S. Sivasamy has been given
Category: Education and Didactics

Social Services of Soundararajan Sivasamy Part 2

Authors: S. Soundararajan
Comments: 36 Pages. nba

In this communications, the proofs for the social services of S. Sivasamy has been given
Category: Education and Didactics

Improving Learning Outcomes Using an Intelligent Tutoring System

Authors: Krishna Vijayaraghavan, Sasan Ebrahimi, Mst Sunzida Ferdoues
Comments: 27 Pages.

Frequent feedback synchronized with the lesson plan has been shown to improve student learning outcomes in several studies. With increasing enrolments coupled with reductions in education funding, instructors are left with fewer resources to provide frequent feedback or to develop enhanced teaching techniques. Multiple choice questions based assessments, while easier to administer, are considered less reliable than traditional free-form assessments. Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) based assessments can improve the speed of assessment while providing immediate feedback to reinforce lectures and free-up resources for instructors. This paper first proposes an ITS design for multi-part problems where all questions are posed at once. Next, the paper evaluates student perception of this new ITS through a survey and a focus group. Following this, the paper evaluates the effectiveness of this ITS on a test score (an indicator of learning outcomes). Finally, the paper lists lessons learned that would be useful to the education community at large. The study indicates that the ITS was received well by the students and that the time taken to complete each attempt of an ITS assignment was comparable to a paper-based assessment. Additionally, the analysis of test scores indicates that the proposed ITS can lead to improvements in student learning. It may be noted that the proposed ITS differs from commercial ITSs by posing all questions at once. However, the pedagogical advantage of offering all questions at once was not evaluated in this study. Further, the proposed ITS was not compared to other ITSs and the observed benefits may not be unique to this implementation. As such, the current findings are locally encouraging and important.
Category: Education and Didactics

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Derivations of Einstein's E=mc² from Newtonian Laws of Motion

Authors: Zion Elani
Comments: 9 Pages.

This report presents a simple derivation of Einstein's famous equation, E=mc². Through the use of elementary physical quantities of Newtonian mechanics such as distance, force, momentum, velocity, and energy, our approach resembles a `handling units' method. Further, two other proofs premising on the notion of mass and its dependence on velocity are discussed. These methods prove to be simple and physically intuitive, thus stimulating the amateur enthusiasts to a better understanding of various complex and difficult-to-derive formulas which are otherwise understood at a sophisticated academic level. Pedagogic significance of these methods is further discussed.
Category: Education and Didactics

On Making Books More Dynamic

Authors: Reza Hasanzadeh
Comments: 5 Pages.

The emergence of dynamic learning systems is inevitable. In a future not so distant from today reading tools have incorporated interactive elements that would have rendered the process of learning very rewarding.These systems are radically different from current reading tools in that they provide users with functionalities that try to act as the extensions of human brain. This note is an attempt to describe some elements of a (fictional) proto-humanity-first reading tool.
Category: Education and Didactics