Timetable Generation

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-40
Author(s):  
Fawzi Abdulaziz Albalooshi ◽  
Safwan Mahmood Shatnawi
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Members ◽  
Frequent Pattern ◽  
Future Performance ◽  
Time Patterns ◽  
Teaching Preferences ◽  
Hard And Soft Constraints ◽  
Timetable Problem ◽  
Solution Focused ◽  
Teaching Time ◽  
Published Research

Evidence based on ongoing published research shows that timetabling has been a challenge for over two decades. There is a growing need in higher education for a learner-centered solution focused on individual preferences. In the authors' earlier published work, students' group assessment information was mined to determine individualized achievements and predict future performance. In this paper, they extend the work to present a solution that uses students' individualized achievements, expected future performance, and historical registration records to discover students' registration timing patterns, as well as the most appropriate courses for registration. Such information is then processed to build the most suitable timetable for each student in the following semester. Faculty members' time preferences are also predicted based on historical teaching time patterns and course teaching preferences. The authors propose a modified frequent pattern (FP)-tree algorithm to process the predicted information. This results in clustering students to solve the timetable problem based on the predicted courses for registration. Then, it divides the timetable problem into subproblems for resolution. This ensures that time will not conflict within the generated timetables while satisfying both the hard and soft constraints. Both students' and faculty members timetabling preferences are met (88.8% and 85%).

scholarly journals Alcohol abuse in eastern Nepal: a review of studies

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhana Ratna Shakya
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Abuse ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Medical Journals ◽  
Published Research

Alcohol abuse is common in eastern Nepal, rather reported remarkably high. Hence, various aspects of this problem have been the topic of search, study, survey and research in this part of the country, both in community and clinical settings. This article aims to review the journal articles published, research projects presented in scientific forum or conferences, thesis articles submitted and other research works related to alcohol from eastern Nepal coming into the knowledge of the author. The basis of this review were medical journals including Health Renaissance (HR), abstract books of various medical meets, internet search and personal communication with various departments of BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS), a prominent centre for the research projects carried out both by students and faculty members in this area. Overarching the objective would be to point out some important needs and areas for future research studies in next article. Health Renaissance, January-April 2013; Vol. 11 No.1; 74-82 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/hren.v11i1.7607

Research Productivity of Business Administration and Accountancy Faculty, University of Northern Philippines, Vigan City

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
JEAN S. DUMBRIQUE ◽  
TERESITA D. ALON
Keyword(s):  
Research Productivity ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Academic Rank ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
The University ◽  
Published Research ◽  
Descriptive Method

Faculty members of State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) perform research function in addition to instruction, extension and production. This study was conducted to look into the profile of the published research from year of entry up to year 2008 of the regular faculty members of the First Semester of SY 2008-2009 at the College of Business Administration and Accountancy (CBAA) of the University of Northern Philippines (UNP) as affected by some personal and professional factors. It utilized the correlational design of descriptive method of research. Findings showed that the CBAA faculty is characterized by dominance of members of the female sex, of married status, of middle to senior age, with master’s degree, with academic rank of associate professor, and with official designations. Almost half of them have received monthly salary ranging from P10, 001 – P20, 000. Very few are members of scientific/research organizations. The CBAA faculty have published research since 2000. From 2000 to 2008, a total of 43 researches have been published. These were done by nearly half (19) of the 39 regular CBAA faculty members. More researches were done with co-authors than researches by single authors. Most of these researches are of college and curricular program levels, and over four-fifths were financed personally by the faculty researchers. All the researches were published in research journals and some of them were also disseminated in lecture fora and research dissemination and utilization seminars. One research was disseminated through poster exhibit. Majority of the regular CBAA faculty members have never participated in any research activity since their year of entry to the University up to year 2008. Educational attainment and membership in scientific/research organizations came out as good indicators of faculty research productivity.Keywords: Research, higher education, research productivity, correlational descriptive method,Philippines

A CROSS-SECTIONAL EXAMINATION OF LEVELS OF MORAL REASONING IN A SAMPLE OF KUWAIT UNIVERSITY FACULTY MEMBERS

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 813-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali J. Al-Shehab
Keyword(s):  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Defining Issues Test ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Kuwait University ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Published Research ◽  
Time Faculty ◽  
Made In

This cross-cultural study was conducted to examine the moral reasoning of a sample of full time faculty members at Kuwait University. Eighty-six participants completed Rest's Defining Issues Test (DIT) which measures percentage of principled moral reasoning indexed as P%-score. The analysis of the results showed that the obtained P-% score was lower than the norms reported in the published research on Western subjects. Overall, the stages were not significantly related to age or discipline of the participants. Discussions of the present findings were made in line with the recent research on moral development calling for a reorientation of the psychology of morality, which has been predominantly based on the cognitive developmental paradigm for a number of decades.

scholarly journals An Intelligent Technique for Solving Timetable Problem

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (04) ◽  
pp. 317-327
Author(s):  
Abdalla El-Dhshan ◽  
◽  
Hegazy Zaher ◽  
Naglaa Ragaa ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Search Algorithm ◽  
Optimization Techniques ◽  
Separate Experiment ◽  
Soft Constraints ◽  
Intelligent Technique ◽  
Hard Constraints ◽  
Intelligent Behavior ◽  
Best Parameter ◽  
Hard And Soft Constraints ◽  
Timetable Problem

Timetabling problem is complex combinatorial resources allocation problems. There are two hard and soft constraints to be satisfied. The timetable is feasible if all hard constraints are satisfied. Besides, satisfying more of the soft constraints produces a high-quality timetable. Crow Search Algorithm (CSA) as an intelligence technique presents for solving timetable problem. CSA like all meta-heuristic optimization techniques is a nature-inspire of intelligent behavior of crows. The proposed CSA tested using the well-known benchmark of hard timetabling datasets (hdtt). Taguchi’s method used to tune the best parameter combinations for the factors and levels. The tuned parameters of CSA are applied on datasets in separate experiment. The results show that the proposed CSA is superior to generate solutions in reasonable CPU time when compared with other literature techniques.

Critical Analysis of Psychological Research: Rationale and Design for a Proposed Course for the Undergraduate Psychology Curriculum

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Barber
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Common Assumption ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Psychology Curriculum ◽  
Teaching Time ◽  
Published Research

Critical thinking about psychological research appears seldom to be taught to an advanced level on UK psychology degrees, or to be allocated a substantial amount of learning/teaching time at any level. It is likely that students may graduate with an inaccurate and passive uncritical view of discipline knowledge unless the relevant skills needed to appraise that knowledge are acquired. A common assumption seems to be that this is implicitly recognised in traditional research methods teaching, and the skills are therefore emergent from conventional lectures, practicals and research projects. Since the manifold pressures on students and teachers combine to increase the reliance on secondary sources, the explicit provision of a course in critical thinking about research should be considered. It is argued that this is best offered at a relatively late stage in a psychology degree programme. Since psychology graduates are more likely to become research users than research producers, it is argued that skills training for critical analysis of research reports will be professionally advantageous. A framework for a critical analysis course is described to enable students to undertake a comprehensive critical appraisal of a research article. This is based on a long-established final-year course that treats critical analysis, of published research papers, as the vehicle for training students to treat the literature with more circumspection, and the respect it deserves.

Development Studies in the World System of Global Knowledge Production: A Critical Empirical Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 146499342110601
Author(s):  
Marton Demeter
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Development Studies ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Career Trajectories ◽  
The World ◽  
Published Research

In this article, I present the results of an analysis of the geopolitical diversity of 61,781 papers that have been published in 17 leading international journals in development studies, and the results of another analysis in which I analysed the career trajectories of 260 faculty members working at 10 highly valued development studies departments. Regarding geopolitical diversity, I found a systemic inequality in terms of both research output and education trajectories. I argue that these imbalances contradict the expressed goals and values of development studies as a discipline that aims to reduce geopolitical inequalities. Policy implications are also discussed, in which I propose to reconsider academic recruitment standards and to raise the visibility of different epistemologies of published research in development studies.

Coaching Care Partners Who Support Loved Ones With MCI

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Mills ◽  
Jennifer Brush
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
Educational Program ◽  
Social Withdrawal ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Care Partners ◽  
Provide Quality Care ◽  
Solution Focused

Speech-language pathologists can play a critical role in providing education and intervention to prevent social withdrawal, prevent premature disability, and maximize cognitive functioning in persons with MCI. The purpose of this article is to describe positive, solution-focused educational program that speech-language pathologists can implement with family care partners to improve relationships and provide quality care for someone living with MCI.

AAC Collaboration Using the Self-Anchored Rating Scales (SARS): An Aphasia Case Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 136-143
Author(s):  
Lynn E. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Family Counseling ◽  
The Self ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Solution Focused

Abstract The self-anchored rating scale (SARS) is a technique that augments collaboration between Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) interventionists, their clients, and their clients' support networks. SARS is a technique used in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, a branch of systemic family counseling. It has been applied to treating speech and language disorders across the life span, and recent case studies show it has promise for promoting adoption and long-term use of high and low tech AAC. I will describe 2 key principles of solution-focused therapy and present 7 steps in the SARS process that illustrate how clinicians can use the SARS to involve a person with aphasia and his or her family in all aspects of the therapeutic process. I will use a case study to illustrate the SARS process and present outcomes for one individual living with aphasia.

Evaluation of Special Hearing Aids for Deaf Children

1971 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman P. Erber
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Aids ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Hearing Aid ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Acoustic Stimulation ◽  
Deaf Children ◽  
Frequency Range ◽  
Frequency Limit ◽  
Unpublished Studies ◽  
Published Research

Two types of special hearing aid have been developed recently to improve the reception of speech by profoundly deaf children. In a different way, each special system provides greater low-frequency acoustic stimulation to deaf ears than does a conventional hearing aid. One of the devices extends the low-frequency limit of amplification; the other shifts high-frequency energy to a lower frequency range. In general, previous evaluations of these special hearing aids have obtained inconsistent or inconclusive results. This paper reviews most of the published research on the use of special hearing aids by deaf children, summarizes several unpublished studies, and suggests a set of guidelines for future evaluations of special and conventional amplification systems.

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