Making assessment accessible: a student–staff partnership perspective

Assessment of distance-based multi-attribute group decision-making methods from a maintenance strategy perspective

Maintenance has been acknowledged by industrial management as a significant influencing factor of plant performance. Effective plant maintenance can be realized by developing a proper maintenance strategy. However, selecting an appropriate maintenance strategy is difficult because maintenance is a non-repetitive task such as production activity. Maintenance also does not leave a consistent trac...

Making time for partnership.

Almost every doctor will recognise the following (fictionalised) story as one that is wearily common. Tom is aged 35. In the past year he has attended accident and emergency departments in six different cities, each time with abdominal pain. Sometimes he has presented with other symptoms, including blood and mucus in his stools, but sometimes he just has the pain. Each time he attends, a doctor...

Limited Partnership Perspective

Making Mathematics Fun , Accessible , and

The theme of this year's conference is “Making Mathematics Fun, Accessible and Challenging through Technology”. Version 6 of Mathematica, released in May 2007, is instantly interactive, allowing teachers and students to easily construct live interfaces to illustrate and investigate mathematical concepts at all levels [1]. Over 2000 examples of these interactive capabilities, including a number ...

Making Legacy Data Accessible for Xml Applications

This paper presents design and implementation of DB2XML, a tool for transforming data from relational databases into XML documents. Document type declarations (DTDs) are generated describing the characteristics of the data making the documents self contained and usable as a data exchange format. DB2XML is written in Java and accesses databases through JDBC drivers. It can be used as a standalon...