Telecommunications: Battle hots up

Climate-change battle heats up

Concerns over climate change ratcheted up a notch last month with new fears that the pace of change had been greater than anyone predicted a decade ago, and that major tourist and nature sites could be out of bounds or threatened within coming years. And America’s most populous state, California, opened a new front in its struggle with climate change when it announced it was suing the six large...

HOTS: An OWAMP-Compliant Hardware Packet Timestamper

Accurate timestamps on both the sender and the receiver side are crucial for one-way delay (OWD) measurements. Traditionally, the methods of (i) peering with NTP servers, and (ii) connecting to a time source directly, have been used to maintain the accuracy of a measurement system clock. However, it has became clear that such methods suffer from errors to different extents. In this paper, we in...

From HOTs to Self-Representing States

According to David Rosenthal, a mental state is conscious just in case its subject suitably represents herself as being in that state, where this entails that the mental state " is accompanied by a noninferential, nondispositional, assertoric thought to the effect that one is in that very state " (2002a, p. 410; see also Rosenthal, 1997, p. 742). This assertoric thought, since it is about anoth...

Integrating HOTS Activities with GeoGebra in Pre-Service Teachers’ Preparation

High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) are suggested today as essential for the cognitive development of students and as preparing them for real life skills. Teachers are encouraged to use HOTS activities in the classroom to help their students develop higher order skills and deep thinking. So it is essential to prepare preservice teachers to write and use HOTS activities for their students. This pa...

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