scholarly journals Applications and props: the impact on engagement and understanding

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Alexander S Corner ◽  
Claire Cornock
Keyword(s):  
Group Theory ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Euclidean Algorithm ◽  
Modular Arithmetic ◽  
First Year ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Physical Objects ◽  
The Impact

Problems based on applications or objects were added into a first year pure module in gaps where real-life problems were missing. Physical props were incorporated within the teaching sessions where it was possible. The additions to the module were the utilities problem whilst studying planar graphs, data storage when looking at number bases, RSA encryption after modular arithmetic and the Euclidean algorithm, as well as molecules and the mattress problem when looking at group theory. The physical objects used were tori, molecule models and mini mattresses. Evaluation was carried out through a questionnaire to gain the students' opinions of these additions and their general views of applications. Particular attention was paid to the effect on engagement and understanding.

scholarly journals Formulating Modes of Cooperative Leaning for Education for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3465
Author(s):  
Jordi Colomer ◽  
Dolors Cañabate ◽  
Brigita Stanikūnienė ◽  
Remigijus Bubnys
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
The Face ◽  
Contemporary Education ◽  
The Impact

In the face of today’s global challenges, the practice and theory of contemporary education inevitably focuses on developing the competences that help individuals to find meaningfulness in their societal and professional life, to understand the impact of local actions on global processes and to enable them to solve real-life problems [...]

scholarly journals The origin of compression influences geometric instabilities in bilayers

2018 ◽  
Vol 474 (2217) ◽  
pp. 20180267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Andres ◽  
Paul Steinmann ◽  
Silvia Budday
Keyword(s):  
Film Growth ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Critical Conditions ◽  
Pattern Selection ◽  
Smart Surfaces ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Post Buckling ◽  
The Impact

Geometric instabilities in bilayered structures control the surface morphology in a wide range of biological and technical systems. Depending on the application, different mechanisms induce compressive stresses in the bilayer. However, the impact of the chosen origin of compression on the critical conditions, post-buckling evolution and higher-order pattern selection remains insufficiently understood. Here, we conduct a numerical study on a finite-element set-up and systematically vary well-known factors contributing to pattern selection under the four main origins of compression: film growth, substrate shrinkage and whole-domain compression with and without pre-stretch. We find that the origin of compression determines the substrate stretch state at the primary instability point and thus significantly affects the critical buckling conditions. Similarly, it leads to different post-buckling evolutions and secondary instability patterns when the load further increases. Our results emphasize that future phase diagrams of geometric instabilities should incorporate not only the film thickness but also the origin of compression. Thoroughly understanding the influence of the origin of compression on geometric instabilities is crucial to solving real-life problems such as the engineering of smart surfaces or the diagnosis of neuronal disorders, which typically involve temporally or spatially combined origins of compression.

scholarly journals Moving toward Generalizability? A Scoping Review on Measuring the Impact of Living Labs

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 502
Author(s):  
Kelly Bronson ◽  
Rachana Devkota ◽  
Vivian Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Agricultural Sustainability ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Living Labs ◽  
The Impact

The living labs (LLs) approach has been applied around the globe to generate innovation within and suited to real-life problems and contexts. Despite the promise of the LL approach for addressing complex challenges like socio-ecological change, there is a gap in practitioner and academic community knowledge surrounding how to measure and evaluate both the performance of a given LL process and its wider impacts. Notably, this gap appears particularly acute in LLs designed to address environmental or agricultural sustainability. This article seeks to verify and address this knowledge gap by conducting an adopted scoping review method which uses a combination of tools for text mining alongside human text analysis. In total, 138 academics literature were screened, out of which 88 articles were read in full and 41 articles were found relevant for this study. The findings reveal limited studies putting forward generalizable approaches or frameworks for evaluating the impact of LLs and even fewer in the agricultural or sustainability sector. The dominant method for evaluation used in the literature is comparative qualitative using case studies. This study uncovers a potential tension regarding LL work: the specificity of LL studies works against the development of evaluation indicators and a universal framework to guide the impact assessment of LLs across jurisdictions and studies in order to move toward generalizability.

scholarly journals The authentic activities and mathematical modelling processes for preparatory school pupils

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3C) ◽  
pp. 707-719
Author(s):  
Metwali Saad Metwali Elsaidi ◽  
Marina V. Egupova
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Modeling ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Modeling Processes ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
Preparatory School ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Authentic Activities

The aim of this study of the effect of authentic activities in teaching mathematics on mathematical modeling processesThe authentic activities were used by conducting the experiment, where work was with 45 pupils 13th years old of preparatory school (It’s the second stage of the educational stages in Egypt, and it’s the next stage after Primary school) in Al Qalyubia (One of the cities in Egypt) in the 2020/2021 academic year and studying this effect. The results showed, that value of the impact size through the value of h2 was calculated 0.79, and this meant the strong effect of the authentic activities on the development of mathematical modeling processes, where authentic activities lead to the development of mathematical modeling processes among the pupils because Authentic Activities provides pupils with the opportunity to study real-life problems, analyze them from various aspects and provide a correct picture of the problem that contributes to the increase of students' awareness of what they are learning.

Information Feedback Appraoch for the Simulation of Service Quality in the Inter-Object Communications

2008 ◽  
pp. 175-198
Author(s):  
R. Manjunath
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Real Life ◽  
System Level ◽  
New Class ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Multiple Flows ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Reference Design ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Level Performance

Simulation of a system with limited data is challenging. It calls for a certain degree of intelligence built into the system. This chapter provides a new model-based simulation methodology that may be customized and used in the simulation of a wide variety of problems involving multiple source-destination flows with intermediate agents. It explains the model based on a new class of neural networks called differentially fed artificial neural networks and the system level performance of the same. Next, as an example, the impact of system level differential feedback on multiple flows and the application of the concept are presented, followed by the simulation results. The author hopes that a variety of real life problems that involve multiple flows may be mapped onto this simulation model and optimal performance may be obtained. The model serves as a reference design that may be fine-tuned based on the application.

The Need to Belong and the Relationship Between Loneliness and Health

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 194-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Freda-Marie Hartung ◽  
Britta Renner
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
First Year ◽  
Health State ◽  
Need To Belong ◽  
First Year University ◽  
Perceived Social Isolation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Humans are social animals; consequently, a lack of social ties affects individuals’ health negatively. However, the desire to belong differs between individuals, raising the question of whether individual differences in the need to belong moderate the impact of perceived social isolation on health. In the present study, 77 first-year university students rated their loneliness and health every 6 weeks for 18 weeks. Individual differences in the need to belong were found to moderate the relationship between loneliness and current health state. Specifically, lonely students with a high need to belong reported more days of illness than those with a low need to belong. In contrast, the strength of the need to belong had no effect on students who did not feel lonely. Thus, people who have a strong need to belong appear to suffer from loneliness and become ill more often, whereas people with a weak need to belong appear to stand loneliness better and are comparatively healthy. The study implies that social isolation does not impact all individuals identically; instead, the fit between the social situation and an individual’s need appears to be crucial for an individual’s functioning.

The Psychologist in the Medical School: An Example of Solving Real-Life Problems

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matisyohu Weisenberg ◽  
Carl Eisdorfer ◽  
C. Richard Fletcher ◽  
Murray Wexler
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Life Problems

The Impact of Angiotensin-II Receptor Blockers on Cardiovascular Events in Hypertensive Patients – Evidence from Real-life Databases

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Robert J Petrella ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Angiotensin Ii ◽  
Antihypertensive Drugs ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Angiotensin Ii Receptor Blockers ◽  
Angiotensin Ii Receptor ◽  
Real World Setting ◽  
Actual Experience ◽  
Receptor Blockers ◽  
Randomised Controlled ◽  
The Impact

It is widely recognised that hypertension is a major risk factor for the development of future cardiovascular (CV) events, which in turn are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Blood pressure (BP) control with antihypertensive drugs has been shown to reduce the risk of CV events. Angiotensin-II receptor blockers (ARBs) are one such class of antihypertensive drugs and randomised controlled trials (RCTs) have shown ARB-based therapies to have effective BP-lowering properties. However, data obtained under these tightly controlled settings do not necessarily reflect actual experience in clinical practice. Real-life databases may offer alternative information that reflects an uncontrolled real-world setting and complements and expands on the findings of clinical trials. Recent analyses of practice-based real-life databases have shown ARB-based therapies to be associated with better persistence and adherence rates and with superior BP control than non-ARB-based therapies. Analyses of real-life databases also suggest that ARB-based therapies may be associated with a lower risk of CV events than other antihypertensive-drug-based therapies.

INFLUENCE OF THE DIFFERENT SOIL PREPARATION METHODS ON THE PEA YIELD

2018 ◽  
pp. 16-20
Author(s):  
А. М. Grebennikov ◽  
А. S. Frid ◽  
V. P. Belobrov ◽  
V. А. Isaev ◽  
V. М. Garmashоv ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiments ◽  
Morphological Properties ◽  
Mineral Fertilizers ◽  
First Year ◽  
Zero Tillage ◽  
Preparation Methods ◽  
Soil Preparation ◽  
Multifactor Analysis ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Central Chernozem

The article assesses the relationships between the morphological properties of agrochernozems and yield of peas on the plots, experience with different methods of basic treatment (moldboard plowing at the depth of 20 - 22, 25 - 27 and 14 - 16 cm, moldboard plowing to a depth of 14 - 16 cm, combined midwater moldboard, mid-water subsurface, surface to a depth of 6 - 8 cm and zero tillage) is inherent in V.V. Dokuchaev Research Institute of Agriculture of the Central Black Earth strip, in the fall of 2014. The research was conducted in 2015 - 2016, with the application of mineral fertilizers (N60Р60К60) and unfertilized background. The highest pea yields in the fertilized as the background, and without the use of fertilizers was observed in dumping plowing and especially in the variant with deep moldboard plowing, which creates in comparison with other ways of handling the best conditions for the growth and development of peas. The lowest yield of pea was obtained with zero processing. Apparently legalistic migrational-mizelial agrochernozems the Central Chernozem zone of minimum tillage in the cultivation of peas are not effective, what is evident already in the first year after the laying of experience with different basic treatments. As shown by the results of applying multifactor analysis of variance studied the mapping properties of the soil can have the same significant impact on the yield of agricultural crops, as options for the field experiments aimed at assessing the impact of various treatments on yield.

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