In the last decade, Australian higher education institutions have become a destination for many international students, mainly from South East Asia. If their educational culture is quite different to the Australian educational culture, then their approaches to learning might be different to that of local students. The aim of this pilot study was to investigate the approaches to learning of stud...

Understanding Prolog programming is a challenge for many beginners, and many instructors and researchers have proposed and adopted varied teaching approaches to help learners to understand Prolog easily. However, it is not known whether any of the teaching approaches currently in use is appropriate from a learner's perspective. This paper reports the results of an investigation into which appro...

Machine learning algorithms recently have made major advances, with decision tree classifiers gaining wide acceptance. Boosting and bagging of decision trees have added to the predictive capabilities of these approaches. Object-oriented (O-O) analyses have been developed during this same period, offering important improvements in classification over pixel-based approaches under certain conditio...

28 We examined developmental programming studies that reported sex-specific effects 29 published between 2012 and 2014, and examined whether the authors reported a 30 statistical approach to explicitly test whether the effect of treatment differed between the 31 sexes, e.g., a sex by treatment interaction term. Less than half of the studies that reported 32 sex-specific effects described explic...

The planning of large infrastructure projects such as inner-city subway tracks is a highly collaborative process in which numerous experts from different domains are involved. While performing the planning task, widely differing scales have to be taken into consideration, ranging from the kilometer scale for the general routing of the track down to the centimeter scale for the detailed design o...