Transition from school to university can cause concern for many students. One issue is the gap between students' prior expectations and the realities of university life, which can cause significant distress, poor academic performance and increased drop-out rates if not managed effectively. Research has shown several similarities in the expectations of staff and students in regards to which fact...

Civil engineering lecturers need to develop effective early emphasis and educational challenges in order to prepare the current students with in-depth fundamental principles, applicable technical knowledge, and realistic appreciation on challenges faced by practicing civil engineers. In view of its importance, the use of past civil engineering projects as case studies have been integrated into ...

Achene morphology of 49 taxa of the genus Centaurea L. was studied in terms of 19 different characteristics. On the basis of the variation in these features, some sections, such as sect. Cyanus with hairy hilum, were separated. Despite various differences, C. leuzeoides and C. gilanica were categorized in the section Psephelloideae, a section with lots of character variations within its species...

The purpose of this study is to examine the perceptions among students from three public Universities, particularly students from Universiti Teknologi MARA, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and Universiti Utara Malaysia towards lecturers teaching Quality determinants. A field survey among students from different field of studies (Social Sciences and Pure Sciences) was conducted through a questionnair...

Universities around the world have been readily embracing online technologies to make their courses more convenient for today’s tech savvy gen Y students. However, such a change is often at the expense of the teaching staff as they are suddenly met with increased workload and the need to learn new technologies. Although student acceptance is often looked at, lecturers’ acceptance is often ignor...

We derive the transition structure of a Markovian lumping of Kingman’s n-coalescent [1, 2]. Lumping a Markov chain is meant in the sense of [3, def. 6.3.1]. The lumped Markov process, referred as the unlabeled n-coalescent, is a continuous-time Markov chain on the set of all integer partitions of the sample size n. We derive the backwardtransition, forward-transition, state-specific, and sequen...

Thirty-four populations of Artemisia sieberi from 10 provinces of Iran were investigated with respect to quantitative characteristics of leaves and seeds. In each habitat, five plants were randomly selected and some branches were harvested for studying leaf characteristics in spring and seed characteristic in autumn. Principle features of climate and soil were studied in each habitat. In order ...

introduction: laser pointers are devices that produce a weak laser beam of 630-680 nmwavelength and 1-5 mw power (classii or iii a laser). these devices generally emit a redbeam that is used by lecturers and teachers for presentations. some children use pointers astoys and sometimes direct the beam to their own or others' eyes. material and methods: following irradiation by a laser pointer beam...