A Systematic Hands-On Approach to Generate Real-Life Intrusion Datasets

A one year course with main emphasis on the development of students' research skills has been offered at the Arkansas School for Mathematics and Science. The content core of the course is optics and the use of optical instrumentation for research in science, mathematics, and art. The course presents a combination of rigorous content, interdisciplinary curriculum, and hands-on experiences. The course offers unique opportunities for students to engage in meaningful, non-traditional learning in real-life research settings.

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Incubator Platform for Multidisciplinary Innovation in Research and Education

International Journal of Knowledge Society Research ◽

10.4018/jksr.2012070103 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 29-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ethiopia Nigussie ◽

Liang Guang ◽

Alexey Boyko ◽

Antti Hakkala ◽

Petri Sainio ◽

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Keyword(s):

Academic Research ◽

Real Life ◽

System Level ◽

Multicultural Teams ◽

Engineering Research ◽

Digital Era ◽

Hands On ◽

Research And Education ◽

Distributed Networking ◽

Career Skills

In this article, an incubator platform concept is presented to demonstrate the authors’ approach in meeting the enormous challenges faced by future multidisciplinary research and education. The abstraction level of laboratory projects needs to be raised to a level where the researchers and students have the opportunity to deal with hands-on real-life system-level problems and decisions, while simultaneously various fundamental key technologies of the information society are integrated into the systems. Their approach is concretized by an Incubator experimental platform. Facilitated by this environment, researchers, engineers and students can join their efforts in developing next-generation products in a well-organized manner. The targeted products must meet the increasingly important special characteristics required for the digital era – self- and context-awareness, built-in information security, distributed networking, enormous scalability and device interoperability. Many projects are today developed by distributed multicultural teams, so it is a necessity that the development can also be implemented in co-operation of several universities in different countries, in order to promote the career skills of the students. The incubator platform proposed in this article is able to provide viable answers and solutions to all the mentioned challenges in engineering research and education, coupling the curriculum tightly to top-class academic research.

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Usability Methodologies for Spoken Dialogue Web Interfaces

Integrating Usability Engineering for Designing the Web Experience - Advances in Web Technologies and Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-896-3.ch008 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 149-65 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dimitris Spiliotopoulos ◽

Georgios Kouroupetroglou

Keyword(s):

Web Application ◽

Theoretical Perspective ◽

Real Life ◽

Usability Evaluation ◽

Design Issues ◽

Problem Identification ◽

Spoken Dialogue ◽

Web Interfaces ◽

Conversational Interfaces ◽

Hands On

This chapter presents the state-of-the-art in usability issues and methodologies for spoken dialogue web interfaces along with the appropriate designer-needs analysis. It is planned to unfold a theoretical perspective to the usability methodology and provide a framework description for creating and testing usable content and applications for conversational interfaces. Main concerns include the problem identification of design issues for usability design and evaluation, the use of customer experience for the design of voice-web interfaces and dialogue, and the problems that arise from real-life deployment. Moreover, it discusses the hands-on approaches for applying usability methodologies in a spoken dialogue web application environment, including methodological and design issues, resource management, implementation using existing technologies for usability evaluation in several stages of the design and deployment.

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Hands-On Student Experience With Complementary CFD Educational Interface and EFD and Uncertainty Analysis for Introductory Fluid Mechanics

Volume 1 ◽

10.1115/ht-fed2004-56832 ◽

2004 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Fred Stern ◽

Marian Muste ◽

Tao Xing ◽

Donald Yarbrough

Keyword(s):

Fluid Mechanics ◽

Uncertainty Analysis ◽

Real Life ◽

Student Experience ◽

Development Project ◽

Third Party ◽

University Of Iowa ◽

Computer Data ◽

Hands On ◽

The University

Development, implementation, and evaluation are described of hands-on student experience with complementary CFD educational interface and EFD and uncertainty analysis (UA) for introductory fluid mechanics course and laboratory at The University of Iowa, as part of a three-year National Science Foundation sponsored Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement - Educational Materials Development project. The CFD educational interface is developed in collaboration with faculty partners from Iowa State, Cornell and Howard universities along with industrial partner FLUENT Inc. and designed to teach CFD methodology and procedures through interactive implementation that automates the “CFD process” following a step-by-step approach. Predefined active options for students’ exercises use a hierarchical system both for introductory and advanced levels and encourages individual investigation and learning. Ideally, transition for students would be easy from advanced level to using FLUENT or other industrial CFD code directly. Generalizations of CFD templates for pipe, nozzle, and airfoil flows facilitate their use at different universities with different applications, conditions, and exercise notes. Complementary EFD laboratories are also developed. Classroom and pre-lab lectures and laboratories teach students EFD methodology and UA procedures following a step-by-step approach, which mirrors the “real-life” EFD process. Students use tabletop and modern facilities such as pipe stands and wind tunnels and modern measurement systems, including pressure transducers, pitot probes, load cells, and computer data acquisition systems (Labview) and data reduction. Students implement EFD UA and use EFD data for validation of CFD and AFD results. Students analyze and relate EFD results to fluid physics and classroom lectures. The laboratories constitute 1 credit hour of a four credit hour 1 semester course and include tabletop kinematic viscosity experiment focusing on UA procedures and pipe and airfoil experiments focusing on complementary EFD and CFD for the same geometries and conditions. The evaluation and research plan (created in collaboration with a third party program evaluation center at the University of Iowa), focuses on exact descriptions of the implementations, especially as experienced by the students. Also discussed are conclusions and future work.

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Exploring the Exceptional Properties of Streptomyces: A Hands-On Discovery of Natural Products

The American Biology Teacher ◽

10.1525/abt.2019.81.9.658 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 81 (9) ◽

pp. 658-664

Author(s):

María Inés Lapaz ◽

Estefania Juarez Cisneros ◽

María Julia Pianzzola ◽

Isolde M. Francis

Keyword(s):

Natural Products ◽

Natural Product ◽

Real Life ◽

Bacterial Challenge ◽

Microbial Biodiversity ◽

Streptomyces Species ◽

Hands On ◽

Experimental Process ◽

Metabolic Properties ◽

Selection Of

Microbial biodiversity and its rich arsenal of natural products is an important and complex biological concept. We propose the use of Streptomyces, one of the most diverse bacterial genera and a major inhabitant of soil, as a model to explain the relevance and importance of this concept. Students will perform experiments ranging from isolation and selection of Streptomyces species, to performing fungal and bacterial challenge assays to evaluate their biocontrol capacity, to screening for specialized metabolic properties such as the production of lipases, amylases, and cellulases. Accompanied by active discussions on the experimental process and results, and integrated into the general microbiology curriculum, this real-life discovery-based lab exercise engages students in current topics concerning natural product discovery and reinforces their understanding of several important concepts in microbiology and biotechnology.

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Every Drop of Water Footprint Counts For Humanity

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202020201007 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 202 ◽

pp. 01007

Author(s):

Liew Kian Heng ◽

Liew Yuqiang

Keyword(s):

Carbon Footprint ◽

Water Footprint ◽

Real Life ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Polluted Water ◽

Goods And Services ◽

New Concepts ◽

Living Lab ◽

Hands On ◽

Development Goals

Since 2002, Water Footprint concept was developed by Hoekstra as an indicator of water use behind all the goods and services consumed by one individual or the individuals of a country, more new concepts and definition evolved to ‘The water footprint is a measure of humanity’s appropriation of fresh water in volumes of water consumed and/or polluted’. Water Footprint answers how earth’s limited freshwater resources are being consumed or wasted through pollution or by misuse, abuse and disuse. At the highest level of United Nations, there are Sustainable Development Goals 2030 to achieve development programmes such as ‘Leaving No One Behind’. From nations to corporations, reduce Water Footprint contributes to sustainability and in shrinking the Carbon Footprint to conserve energy with less wastages, less wastefulness at all levels. Less Water Footprint, Less Carbon Footprint and Less Global Warming. Every individual as a stakeholder can realise and practise stringently the concept of Every Drop Counts. Developed countries like Singapore consumed more water and yet with widespread education, study found that ‘Saving water less of a concern for younger residents’. The author and co-author provide mentorship/internship to Universities and Polytechnic to learn ‘Every drop Counts’ from concept of Water Footprint. The mentees/interns were driven on learning by listening and undertaking hands-on-real-life measuring individual Water Footprint at their 3-month internship venue called The Living Lab. They collected and used every drop of water drips from the taps in the Living Lab to imbue the true meaning of Every Drop Counts for life-long. Every individual, home, corporation as well as every country when practises water-saving for proper use contribute to humanity. The youngsters and the educated must listen, learn, contribute and secure mother earth’s environment.

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Worldrangers – a pedagogical approach to a sustainable development

Gyermeknevelés ◽

10.31074/gyntf.2014.1.3.8 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 3-8

Author(s):

Hans-Martin Haase ◽

Stella Ekler ◽

Martin Hartmannsgruber

Keyword(s):

Synergistic Effects ◽

Real Life ◽

Central Element ◽

Educational Programme ◽

Sustainable Lifestyles ◽

Long Term Effect ◽

Hands On ◽

Cognitive Knowledge ◽

The One

Our consumer-oriented lifestyle necessarily leads to a steadily increasing utilisation of nature and its resources. A central element of environmentaleducation focuses, therefore, on a promotion of sustainable lifestyles within our existing economic growth structures. The educational programme Worldrangers includes three intentions: (i) attaching an ethic to sustainability thinking, (ii) trying to counter the increasing trend towards the destruction of nature and consumption of natural resources as well as (iii) challenging our consumeroriented lifestyles. Specific consideration is given to potential synergistic effects between an original encounter and cognitive knowledge transfer. The one week programme was introduced and completed in an ecologically oriented residential field centre. A substantial ceiling (respectively bottom) effect concerning the attitudes of the participating pupils was observed for the pre-test scores. Therefore, the shifts in attitude scores were low but occurred into the desired direction. The lesson elements which focused on hands-on activities and real life situations lead to significantly increased knowledge. An additional study, that was conducted five years after the intervention, indicated a very positive long-term effect of the programme Worldrangers.

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Teaching bone marrow procedures at pelvic and sternal sites: a high fidelity anatomy simulation

Canadian Medical Education Journal ◽

10.36834/cmej.69475 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Heather VanderMeulen ◽

Marissa Laureano ◽

George Hu ◽

Wendy Lim ◽

Catherine Ross ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Bone Marrow ◽

Residency Training ◽

Direct Observation ◽

Bone Marrow Aspirate ◽

Training Programs ◽

Real Life ◽

High Fidelity ◽

Procedural Skill ◽

Biopsy Procedure ◽

Hands On

Implication Statement: The bone marrow aspirate and biopsy procedure are fundamental to the diagnosis of many hematologic pathologies. We describe a hands-on, anatomy-based workshop that allows learners to practice bone marrow procedures on cadavers. Notably, participants learned how to perform sternal aspirates: a procedure rarely performed in real-life practice. Learners valued the experience and described increased comfort with the procedure after the workshop. This workshop provides a valuable opportunity for trainees to learn a procedural skill in a safe, high fidelity environment. Given its hands-on nature, residency training programs could also adapt it for direct observation and trainee assessment.

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Intuitive Manipulation of Virtual Clay in Augmented Reality

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.c6435.0910321 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 79-84

Author(s):

Taketo Kamasaka ◽

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Kodai Miyamoto ◽

Takahiro Ishizu ◽

Kenji Aoki ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Augmented Reality ◽

University Students ◽

Real Life ◽

Real Space ◽

Virtual Space ◽

Virtual Objects ◽

Hands On ◽

Physical Phenomena

In recent years, there has been a lot of research on how to achieve interaction between users and virtual objects using augmented reality. Interaction technologies in augmented reality need to enable users to handle virtual objects intuitively. In addition, since hands are the main means of interaction with objects in real life, it is also necessary to enable interaction operations with hands on virtual objects [1]. In order to make it possible to intuitively handle objects in virtual space using hands in real space, it is necessary to consider whether physical phenomena in real space and virtual space are correctly superimposed (physical consistency). In this study, we proposed a system that allows users to intuitively handle the deformation, movement, and merging of virtual objects in augmented reality. The system was then used by four university students to compare it with existing studies [2].

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Indoor Rainbow Model: An Apparatus for Observing Spectrum in Classroom

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.879.260 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 879 ◽

pp. 260-266

Author(s):

Sonam Choegyal ◽

Monamorn Precharattana

Keyword(s):

High School Students ◽

Real Life ◽

Glass Sphere ◽

School Students ◽

Hands On ◽

Hands On Learning ◽

Rain Drop ◽

Reflection Of Light ◽

Different Color ◽

Life Phenomenon

The beautiful colors of the rainbow have always fascinated humans and especially children are inspired to various artworks such as drawing, canvas painting, poster, wall decals and so on. Since refraction and reflection of light cannot be seen taking place in raindrop during rainbow formation, children are unaware of all these details. Although throughout the year past, there are many literatures on theoretical and mathematical aspects of rainbow formation, however there are very few studies in education context to teach about this phenomenon to the children in particular by observing and measuring. Therefore, in this paper we are proposing a model that can be used for hands-on learning with high school students about the formation of spectrum in glass sphere. With the help of the model students can see the angle at which different color lights are deviated by the glass sphere and finally, students can also relate the concept learnt from this lesson to real life phenomenon about spectrum formation by rain drop.

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