scholarly journals The "third"-order barrier for technology-integration instruction: Implications for teacher education

Author(s):  
Chin-Chung Tsai ◽  
Ching Sing Chai

<span>Technology integration is a major trend in contemporary education practice. When undertaking technology integration in classrooms, a first-order barrier and a second-order barrier, as proposed by Ertmer (1999), can hinder its implementation. The first-order barrier is external, such as lack of adequate access, time, training and institutional support. The second-order barrier includes teachers' personal and fundamental beliefs such as teachers' pedagogical beliefs, technology beliefs, willingness to change. This paper argues that the lack of design thinking by teachers may be the "third"-order barrier for technology integration.</span>

1969 ◽  
Vol 47 (7) ◽  
pp. 699-705 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. S. Sharma ◽  
R. G. Wilson

The first-order Hartree–Fock and unrestricted Hartree–Fock equations for the ground state of a five electron atomic system are solved exactly. The solutions are used to evaluate the corresponding second-order energies exactly and the third-order energies with great accuracy. The first-order terms in the expectation values of 1/r, r, r2, and δ(r) are also calculated.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengji Shi ◽  
Kaiyu Qin ◽  
Ping Li ◽  
Jun Liu

Consensus of first-order and second-order multiagent systems has been wildly studied. However, the convergence of high-order (especially the third-order to the sixth-order) state variables is also ubiquitous in various fields. The paper handles consensus problems of high-order multiagent systems in the presence of multiple time delays. Obtained by a novel frequency domain approach which properly resolves the challenges associated with nonuniform time delays, the consensus conditions for the first-order and second-order systems are proven to be nonconservative, and those for the third-order to the sixth-order systems are provided in the form of simple inequalities. The method revealed in this article is applicable to arbitrary-order systems, and the results are less conservative than those based on Lyapunov approaches, because it roots in sufficient and necessary criteria of stabilities. Simulations are carried out to validate the theoretical results.


Geophysics ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony F. Gangi ◽  
Sung Jin Yang

The traveltimes for reflected waves from plane, dipping layer interfaces for split‐spread arrays and CGP gathers are determined by a computationally efficient method. The computational efficiency is obtained by (1) interpolating the traveltimes for particular source‐receiver distances from least‐squares curves fitted to traveltime data rather than by using iterative ray‐tracing techniques, and (2) using the traveltime curves for a fixed source to determine those for other source locations and for CGP gathers over the same dipping layer interfaces. The additional computations necessary in this latter case are minimal when this approach is used. The traveltime curves for other source locations and CGP gathers are obtained by taking advantage of the fact that the traveltimes and travel distances for parallel rays are simply related for plane, dipping layer interfaces. For the fixed source array, standard deviations between 0.95 msec for the fourth interface (in a four layer model) and 9.5 msec for the first interface were obtained when the traveltimes t(x) were fitted to a second order curve: [Formula: see text]. These standard deviations decreased to 0.81 and 3.5 msec, respectively, when a third order curve [Formula: see text] was used. The standard deviations became 2.97 and 0 msec, respectively, for a second order curve in [Formula: see text]; and 0.95 and 0 msec, respectively, for the third order curve: [Formula: see text]. For a CGP gather over the same layers, the standard deviations were 0.84 and 0 msec for the fourth and first interfaces, respectively, when the traveltime data were fitted to a first order curve in [Formula: see text]. These standard deviations became 0.10 and 0 msec, respectively, when the curve fitted was: [Formula: see text]. Errors in the traveltimes for a fitted curve, [Formula: see text], in a CGP gather for the third interface at a depth of about 5000 ft were less than 0.5 msec for source‐receiver separations up to 5000 ft. For the same interface, errors were much less than 0.1 msec over the same separations for the fitted curve: [Formula: see text].


1910 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 41-64
Author(s):  
F. E. Edwardes

A proof of Dupin's theorem with some simple illustrations of the method employed.Before plunging into Dupin's theorem, I think it well to speak of certain infinitesimal rotations which play a part in the proof. By an infinitesimal angle of the first order is meant an angle subtended at the centre of a circle of finite radius by an arc whose length is an infinitesimal of the first order. If we neglect infinitesimals of the second order, equal infinitesimal rotations of the first order about axes which meet and are separated by a small angle of the first order are identical. For instance, if AB and BC be elements of a curve of continuous curvature, an infinitesimal rotation about AB may, if we prefer it, be regarded as taking place about BC; and again, if OA, OB, OC be a set of rectangular axes, small rotations about OA, OB, OC may be regarded as taking place in any order. For if P be a point on a sphere of finite radius, and PQ, PR be the displacements of P due to equal infinitesimal rotations of the first order about two diameters separated by a small angle of the first order, the angle QPR is the angle of separation of the axes, and it follows that QR is an infinitesimal of the second order. Further, if the radius of the sphere is an infinitesimal of the first order, QR is of the third order of small quantities.


Author(s):  
Arto Laitinen

This paper critically examines Christopher Zurn’s suggestion mentioned above that various social pathologies (pathologies of ideological recognition, maldistribution, invisibilization, rationality distortions, reification and institutionally forced self-realization) share the structure of being ‘second-order disorders’: that is, that they each entail ‘constitutive disconnects between first-order contents and secondorder reflexive comprehension of those contents, where those disconnects are pervasive and socially caused’ (Zurn, 2011, 345-346). The paper argues that the cases even as discussed by Zurn do not actually match that characterization, but that it would be premature to conclude that they are not thereby social pathologies, or that they do not have a structure in common. It is just that the structure is more complex than originally described, covering pervasive socially caused evils (i) in the social reality, (ii) in the first order experiences and understandings, (iii) in the second order reflection as discussed by Zurn, and also (iv) in the ‘third order’ phenomenon concerning the pre-emptive silencing or nullification of social criticism even before it takes place 


2019 ◽  
pp. 71-75
Author(s):  
M.I. Ayzatsky

The generalization of the transformation of the linear differential equation into a system of the first order equations is presented. The proposed transformation gives possibility to get new forms of the N-dimensional system of first order equations that can be useful for analysis of the solutions of the N-th-order differential equations. In particular, for the third-order linear equation the nonlinear second-order equation that plays the same role as the Riccati equation for second-order linear equation is obtained.


2005 ◽  
Vol 83 (9) ◽  
pp. 1525-1535 ◽  
Author(s):  
James F King ◽  
Manjinder S Gill ◽  
Petru Ciubotaru

We have determined pH–yield profiles under pseudo-first-order conditions of the reactions of benzenesulfonyl chloride with a set of primary and secondary water-soluble alkylamines, and have found with certain amines, such as dibutylamine, a profile taking the form of a sigmoid pH&#150yield curve with relatively high yields of the sulfonamide persisting with increasing basicity up to and including 1.0 mol/L sodium hydroxide. This behaviour is quantitatively accounted for by invoking, in addition to the usual second-order reaction of the sulfonyl chloride with the amine, two third-order terms (i) one first-order in sulfonyl chloride, amine and hydroxide anion, and (ii) another first-order in sulfonyl chloride and second-order in the amine. The importance of the third-order terms correlates approximately with the total number of alkyl carbon atoms in the amine, and this in turn is regarded as related to the hydrophobic character of the amine. Experiments to test this picture included: (i) observation of a bell-shaped curve with bis(2-methoxyethyl)amine, (ii) in the reaction of dibutylamine in THF&#150H2O (1:1), and also (iii) in the reaction of dibutylamine in 1.0 mol/L tetrabutylammonium bromide, and (iv) increase in the contributions of the third-order terms in 1.0 mol/L aqueous sodium chloride. Preparative reactions with dibutylamine, 1-octylamine, and hexamethylenimine in 1.0 mol/L aqueous sodium hydroxide with a 5% excess of benzenesulfonyl chloride gave, respectively, 94%, 98%, and 97% yields of the corresponding sulfonamides. Key words: sulfonyl chlorides, primary and secondary amines, pH–yield profiles, organic synthesis in water, hydrophobic effects.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (21) ◽  
pp. 2649
Author(s):  
Hyeong-Woo Ham ◽  
Joon-Ho Lee

In this paper, it is shown how the performance of the monopulse algorithm in the presence of an additive noise can be obtained analytically. In a previous study, analytic performance analysis based on the first-order Taylor series and the second-order Taylor series was conducted. By adopting the third-order Taylor series, it is shown that the analytic performance based on the third-order Taylor series can be brought closer to the performance of the original monopulse algorithm than the analytic performance based on the first-order Taylor series and the second-order Taylor series.


2011 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 267-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Shafer

AbstractWe prove that the first-order theory of the Medvedev degrees, the first-order theory of the Muchnik degrees, and the third-order theory of true arithmetic are pairwise recursively isomorphic (obtained independently by Lewis, Nies, and Sorbi [7]). We then restrict our attention to the degrees of closed sets and prove that the following theories are pairwise recursively isomorphic: the first-order theory of the closed Medvedev degrees, the first-order theory of the compact Medvedev degrees, the first-order theory of the closed Muchnik degrees, the first-order theory of the compact Muchnik degrees, and the second-order theory of true arithmetic. Our coding methods also prove that neither the closed Medvedev degrees nor the compact Medvedev degrees are elementarily equivalent to either the closed Muchnik degrees or the compact Muchnik degrees.


2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 611-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanrui Zhu ◽  
Ya Lin Sang ◽  
Qiliang Zhu ◽  
Baoli Duan ◽  
Yanping Wang

Fine roots play important roles in the allocation of forest net primary productivity. Here, to provide insights into the intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting the root growth, we examined the morphology and longevity of different-order fine roots in two poplar (Populus × euramericana (Dode) Guinier) plantations with contrasting forest productivities. The results indicated that the biomass of fine roots decreased significantly as the root orders increased (P < 0.05). In the plantation with relatively high productivity, the specific root length of the first- and second-order roots was significantly greater than that of the third- to fifth-order roots (P < 0.05). Observations of minirhizotrons showed that roots of the third-order and higher lived longer than the first- and second-order roots. Compared with those in the plantation with relatively low productivity, the cumulative survival rate of the first-order roots was significantly higher in the plantation with relatively high productivity, while that of the third-order or higher roots was lower. The life-span of the first-order roots correlated negatively with soil available inorganic nitrogen, while that of the second-order roots correlated positively with the soil phenolic acid content. A Cox proportional hazards analysis revealed that soil conditions, root orders, season of root birth, and soil depth significantly affected fine-root longevity. These findings suggest that roots of different orders contribute unequally to the poplar plantation productivity.


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