Using online crowdsourcing to understand young adult attitudes toward expert-authored messages aimed at reducing hazardous alcohol consumption and to collect peer-authored messages

Change Your Ways: Fostering Health Attitudes Toward Change Through Selective Exposure to Online Health Messages.

Health information is often sought online, despite varying credibility of online sources, and may shape health behaviors. This investigation builds on the Selective Exposure Self- and Affect-Management model to examine selective exposure to online health information from low- and high-credibility sources and subsequent effects on attitudes toward health behaviors. In a lab study, 419 participan...

Expert System to Detect Suspicious Words in Online Messages for Intelligence Agency Using FP-growth Algorithm

As increase in technology where users are surrounded by social networks sites, it is very effortful job to track the suspicious words which are communicating between user that might lead to cybercrime and other terrorist activity. These Instant Message(IM) are difficult to intercept even by Intelligence Agency, as there are Millions of Messages sent over network. The proposed system predict the...

Proposing a Novel Configuration for CGSs Aimed at Reducing Energy Consumption and Exergy Destruction

A CGS is of the most important parts in natural gas transmission pipelines in which the high inlet natural gas (NG) pressure is reduced to much lower value by employing a throttling valve. This pressure drop causes hydrate forming, preventing stable NG flow through the pipeline. To prevent hydrate forming, NG is usually preheated by heaters which burns remarkable amount of NG. In this work, a n...

Items Authored by Rukimbira, Philippe

A participatory learning approach to biochemistry using student authored and evaluated multiple-choice questions.

A participatory learning approach, combined with both a traditional and a competitive assessment, was used to motivate students and promote a deep approach to learning biochemistry. Students were challenged to research, author, and explain their own multiple-choice questions (MCQs). They were also required to answer, evaluate, and discuss MCQs written by their peers. The technology used to supp...