Students as Textbook Authors

1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-111
Author(s):  
Fanny Sosenke
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
First Year ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
Algebra Students ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Added Benefit ◽  
Problem Solving Strategies ◽  
First Time

Writing in mathematics has already been recognized as a very meaningful learning activity. Johnson (1983) suggests that if students can write clearly about mathematical concepts, then they probably understand them. In my classes, I frequently give students opportunities to write. Students write about their problem-solving strategies and about their understanding of new concepts; they also try their hand at writing word problems. Last year, my eighth-grade first-year-algebra students worked in groups writing a chapter on factoring polynomials for an algebra textbook. This was the first time I had used writing as an integral part of a long-term assignment. The two-week project described in this article was designed as a response to the students' need for new learning experiences and my need for new assessment tools. As an added benefit, the activity proved to be an excellent way for students to review material in a way that made them think in fresh terms.

First year donation patterns predict long-term commitment for first-time donors

Vox Sanguinis ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. B. Schreiber ◽  
U. K. Sharma ◽  
D. J. Wright ◽  
S. A. Glynn ◽  
H. E. Ownby ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
First Time

scholarly journals Estimating the First-year Corrosion Losses of Structural Metals for Continental Regions of the World

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 1503-1519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu. M. Panchenko ◽  
A. I. Marshakov ◽  
L. A. Nikolaeva ◽  
T. N. Igonin
Keyword(s):  
Dose Response ◽  
First Year ◽  
Response Functions ◽  
The World ◽  
Structural Metals ◽  
Predicted Values ◽  
Experimental Values ◽  
First Time ◽  
Statistical Indicators

The knowledge of the first-year corrosion losses of metals (K1) in various regions of the world is of great importance in engineering applications. The K1 values are used to determine the categories of atmospheric corrosivity, and K1 is also the main parameter in models for the prediction of long-term corrosion losses of metals. In the absence of experimental values of K1, their values can be predicted on the basis of meteorological and aerochemical parameters of the atmosphere using the dose-response functions (DRF). Currently, the DRFs presented in ISO 9223:2012(E) /1/ standard are used for predicting K1 in any region of the world, along with the unified DRFs /2/ and the new DRFs /3/. The predicted values of corrosion losses (K1pr) of carbon steel, zinc, copper and aluminum obtained by various DRFs for various continental regions of the world are presented. In this work we used the atmosphere corrosivity parameters and experimental data on the corrosion losses of metals for the first year of exposure (K1exp) for the locations of the tests performed under the international UN/ECE program, the MICAT project, and the Russian program. For the first time, a comparative assessment of the reliability of various DRFs is given by comparing the values of K1pr and K1ex using graphical and statistical methods. The statistical indicators of reliability of predicting the corrosion losses of metals are calculated for various categories of atmosphere corrosivity. It is shown that the new dose-response functions offer the highest reliability for all categories of atmosphere corrosivity.

The effectiveness of first-time-mother parent education for infant interaction and sense of parenting competence during the first year in Taiwan

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S361-S362
Author(s):  
F.F. Chung ◽  
G.H. Wan ◽  
H.E. Liu
Keyword(s):  
Parent Education ◽  
Parenting Education ◽  
First Year ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
First Time Mothers ◽  
And Control ◽  
First Time ◽  
Experimental Group

BackgroundWhen new mothers do not understand how to interact with their newborn babies, they would increase anxiety, even decrease the quality of parent-infant interactions. Previous studies indicate that the postpartum parenting education for first-time-mothers can improve the quality of mother-infant interactions in first two months. This study aimed to evaluate the long-term effectiveness of parenting education for postpartum women during the first year.MethodsThe study recruited 81 healthy first-time-mother infant dyads from the medical center in Taipei city. The experimental and control groups received extra education by way of a 40-minute videotape and normal postpartum care, respectively. Data from around first week (T1), followed by the third (T2), sixth (T3), ninth (T4), and twelfth (T5) month postpartum are collected. Assessment scales such as the Edinburgh perinatal depression scale (EPDS), the Chinese version of the parenting sense of competence scale (C-PSOC), and the Nursing child assessment teaching scale (NCATS) used for videotaped mother-infant interactions measurement were used in the study.ResultsThe analytical results show that the quality of mother-infant interaction increased at T2, T3, T4, and T5 in the experimental group (Fig. 1). No different change in maternal sense of competency was found in the experimental and control groups from T1 to T4. However, a positive change in sense of parenting competency at T5 was found in the experimental group (Fig. 2). No difference in postpartum depression was found between the two groups (Fig. 3).ConclusionsThe first-time-mothers parent education has long-term effectiveness in the mother-infant dyad interaction quality.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Out of Laughter

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-241
Author(s):  
George Oppitz-Trotman
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
German Language ◽  
Central European ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
First Time ◽  
European Populations

The Thirty Years’ War and its associated deprivations rapidly curtailed the activities of travelling players. In 1620, just as it began, plays explicitly associated with the English Comedians entered print for the first time. Meanwhile Martin Opitz and other poets began to emphasize the importance of rescuing a specifically German language and culture from the chaos that was said to be threatening it. This chapter shows how these new concepts of tragic purity, central to many of the achievements of German baroque drama, depended on implicit castigation and derogation of travelling theatre and the comic medley associated with it. Drawing on a wide range of mid-seventeenth-century social, literary, and visual sources, the long-term influence of the English Comedians is discovered like a photographic negative in the received picture of German baroque drama. The transformation of the English professional clown into a multimedia figure used for satire and travesty, and ultimately into a metonym for the entire tradition of itinerant theatre, is linked to eighteenth-century banishments of the the comic figure, banishments through which once again the alleged formal purity of the dramatic canon could be defended and refreshed. A close connection is established between high art in a German dramatic tradition and the imputed degradations thought to have been effected by the travelling theatre, linked as it was to the damage and misery inflicted by foreign mercenaries on central European populations during the Thirty Years’ War.

scholarly journals IMPACTS AND ETHICS OF BIOTECHNOLOGY AS A VEHICLE FOR ASSESSING CEAB OUTCOMES IN A FIRST YEAR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING COURSE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Hassel ◽  
Patrick Quinlan ◽  
Christine Moresoli
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Affective Learning ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Cognitive Domain ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
First Year ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

The CEAB outcomes “Impact of Engineering on Society and the Environment”, and “Ethics and Equity” differ from the majority of the technical content of engineering curricula. These outcomes largely involve the affective learning domain rather than the cognitive domain. Teaching and measuring affective domain outcomes can be challenging and has received limited attention in engineering curriculum.To help address this disconnect, we have selected to integrate ethical considerations within an engineering course, namely the first year Engineering Biology course of the Chemical Engineering program at University of Waterloo.This learning activity was successful in providing an opportunity for students to establish a sense of awareness as to the impact of engineering on society and the environment. It also created opportunities for students to practice and develop their communication skills. Next steps should consider the potential need to formally expose students to the ethical decision making process and to evaluate if this type of teaching has modified the student awareness of ethics, social values and responsibilities of the engineer.In this paper, we will comment on the successes and challenges faced in promoting student learning and fairness in a structured panel format learning activity. The careful design of assessment tools will also be discussed.

Somatic Embryogenesis and In vitro Plant Regeneration in Vigna trilobata (L.) Verd. - A Potential Pasture Legume

1970 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-99
Author(s):  
K. Choudhary ◽  
M. Singh ◽  
M. S. Rathore ◽  
N. S. Shekhawat
Keyword(s):  
Somatic Embryogenesis ◽  
Growth Regulators ◽  
Somatic Embryos ◽  
Basal Medium ◽  
Long Term Study ◽  
Continuous Application ◽  
First Time ◽  
Pasture Legume

This long term study demonstrates for the first time that it is possible to propagate embryogenic Vigna trilobata and to subsequently initiate the differentiation of embryos into complete plantlets. Initiation of callus was possible on 2,4-D. Somatic embryos differentiated on modified MS basal nutrient medium with 1.0 mg/l  of 2,4-D and 0.5 mg/l  of Kn. Sustained cell division resulted in globular and heart shape stages of somatic embryos. Transfer of embryos on to a fresh modified MS basal medium with 0.5 mg/l of Kn and 0.5 mg/l of GA3 helped them to attain maturation and germination. However, the propagation of cells, as well as the differentiation of embryos, were inhibited by a continuous application of these growth regulators. For this reason, a long period on medium lacking these growth regulators was necessary before the differentiation of embryos occurred again. The consequences for improving the propagation of embryogenic cultures in Vigna species are discussed. Key words: Pasture  legume, Vigna trilobata, Globular, Heart shape, somatic embryogenesis D.O.I. 10.3329/ptcb.v19i1.4990 Plant Tissue Cult. & Biotech. 19(1): 89-99, 2009 (June)

An Evaluation of Provincial Macroeconomic Performance in Vietnam

2017 ◽  
pp. 34-47
Author(s):  
Hoi Le Quoc ◽  
Nam Pham Xuan ◽  
Tuan Nguyen Anh
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Institutional Transformation ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
Macroeconomic Performance ◽  
Economic Development Strategy ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Development Objectives ◽  
First Time

The study was targeted at developing a methodology for constructing a macroeconomic performance index at a provincial level for the first time in Vietnam based on 4 groups of measurements: (i) Economic indicators; (ii) oriented economic indicators; (iii) socio-economic indicators; and (iv) economic - social – institutional indicators. Applying the methodology to the 2011 - 2015 empirical data of all provinces in Vietnam, the research shows that the socio-economic development strategy implemented by those provinces did not provide balanced outcomes between growth and social objectives, sustainability and inclusiveness. Many provinces focused on economic growth at the cost of structural change, equality and institutional transformation. In contrast, many provinces were successful in improving equality but not growth. Those facts threaten the long-term development objectives of the provinces.

CARDIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE LONG-TERM PERIOD IN CHILDREN AFTER AORTIC COARCTATION SURGERY TREATMENT IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE

2018 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-28
Author(s):  
M.R. Tumanyan ◽  
◽  
A.A. Svobodov ◽  
E.G. Levchenko ◽  
A.G. Anderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aortic Coarctation ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Of Life

Implementation of the Second-year course in an Engineering Professional Spine

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umar Iqbal ◽  
Deena Salem ◽  
David Strong
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Research University ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
First Year ◽  
Computer Engineering ◽  
Core Courses ◽  
Second Year ◽  
First Time ◽  
Academic Year

The objective of this paper is to document the experience of developing and implementing a second-year course in an engineering professional spine that was developed in a first-tier research university and relies on project-based core courses. The main objective of this spine is to develop the students’ cognitive and employability skills that will allow them to stand out from the crowd of other engineering graduates.The spine was developed and delivered for the first time in the academic year 2010-2011 for first-year general engineering students. In the year 2011-2012, those students joined different programs, and accordingly the second-year course was tailored to align with the different programs’ learning outcomes. This paper discusses the development and implementation of the course in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department.

Breast cancer associated with pregnancy: a clinical case

GYNECOLOGY ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-108
Author(s):  
Yu E Dobrokhotova ◽  
S E Arakelov ◽  
S Zh Danelyan ◽  
E I Borovkova ◽  
A E Zykov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Radiation Therapy ◽  
Clinical Case ◽  
First Trimester ◽  
First Year ◽  
Total Mastectomy ◽  
First Time

Associated with pregnancy is breast cancer, which was first detected during pregnancy, during the first year after childbirth or at any time against lactation. Diagnosis of the disease in the first trimester is an indication for abortion. The detection of the disease after 20 weeks and the desire of the woman to maintain pregnancy is the basis for conducting a total mastectomy followed by polychemotherapy with doxorubicin with cyclophosphamide or with fluorouracil. Radiation therapy during pregnancy is not applied. The timing and method of delivery are determined individually and depend on the stage of the process and the period of pregnancy, when it was identified. A clinical case of a patient with edematous-infiltrative form of breast cancer of the IV stage, diagnosed for the first time in 22 weeks of pregnancy, is presented.

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