COMMUNICATION AND AGING: MOVING TOWARD A UNIFIED, SYSTEMIC APPROACH

Biosecurity: Moving toward a Comprehensive Approach

Introduction: Toward a unified approach to crime and its explanation

‘‘Integration’’ has assumed a central role in criminological discourse. There are at least four types of integration – of theories (e.g., social learning and social control), methods (e.g., qualitative and quantitative), levels of analysis (e.g., neighborhood and individual), and disciplines (e.g., psychology and sociology). The majority of integrative efforts in criminology have aimed at the f...

Face offsetting: A unified approach for explicit moving interfaces

Dynamic moving interfaces are central to many scientific, engineering, and graphics applications. In this paper, we introduce a novel method for moving surface meshes, called the face offsetting method, based on a generalized Huygens’ principle. Our method operates directly on a Lagrangian surface mesh, without requiring an Eulerian volume mesh. Unlike traditional Lagrangian methods, which move...

Toward a Unified Approach for Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition

In keeping with a desire to abstract general principles in AI, this article begins to examine some relationships among heuristic learning in search, classification of utility, properties of certain structures, measurement of acquired knowledge, and efficiency of associated learning. In the process, a simple definition is given for conceptual knowledge, considered as information compression The ...

A Systemic Approach to Improving Teaching and Learning

This paper describes one university’s approach to improving the quality of teaching and learning at the institutional level, based on the premise of improving the design of curriculum rather than focusing on the skills of teachers as such. The paper describes the process by which university-wide principles of curriculum design were defined and agreed, as well as the parallel campaigns needed to...