Besides lectures of theoretical foundations, contemporary teaching and learning concepts for first semester students consider more and more practically motivated courses. In this context, a new first-year student introduction course in practical engineering is established in the first semester curriculum of Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Based on a threefold learning...

The violin is proven to be able build the positive character of a nation. Venezuela's experience with its program, El Sistema, where instrument learned by wider community, has had impact in terms social and economic aspects, including sense empathy, cooperation, self-confidence can help increase awareness national identity. In Indonesia, known as western classical musical instrument. This assum...

Preface The course Time series analysis is based on the book [7] and replaces our previous course Stationary stochastic processes which was based on [6]. The books, and by that the courses, differ in many respects, the most obvious is that [7] is more applied that [6]. The word " applied " is partly a fine word for " elementary ". A very important part of the course consists in looking at and t...

The digitisation of publishing has redefined the publishing industry and the reading experience for consumers. E-readers and smart devices are now part of the value proposition of e-books offering affordances ranging from overcoming the physical limitations of print books to providing the functionality of information systems to the reading experience. A gap exists in understanding the preferenc...

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