Some London Polytechnic Institutes

Technology in Educational Settings in the Government Polytechnic Institutes of Bangladesh: A Critical Analysis

The role of education in facilitating social and economic progress has long been recognized and skills and knowledge are the engines of economic growth and social development of any country [1]. And skilled workforces contribute extensively to enhance the national economy of every country. Therefore, government polytechnic institutes of Bangladesh give emphasis to produce skilled technicians fo...

Identifying Predictors of Academic Success for Part-time Students at Polytechnic Institutes in Malaysia

A central challenge for higher education today is to understand the diversity and complexity of nontraditional students’ life experiences and how these factors influence their academic success. To better understand these issues, this study explored the role of demographic characteristics and employment variables in predicting the academic success of part-time students at four polytechnic instit...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

A data warehouse typically differs from an OLTP database in terms of both significantly larger sizes for data pages as well as in the volume of data inserted in bulk. The traditional B+ Tree and its variants, while still a popular candidate for supporting point and range queries, can become very memory intensive for insert and delete operations under these more stringent requirements. Since typ...

Can small institutes address some problems facing biomedical researchers?

At a time of historically low National Institutes of Health funding rates and many problems with the conduct of research (unfunded mandates, disgruntled reviewers, and rampant paranoia), there is a concern that biomedical research as a profession is waning in the United States (see "Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws" by Alberts and colleagues in the Proceedings of the Nati...

Polytechnic of Zagreb