Conservation science is a multidisciplinary and collaborative discipline. This journal's policy to encourage transparent open practices in science, including sharing of data, code, survey instruments. Such are especially important light emerging, broader scientific issues, such as reproducibility research protocols results, wasting outputs resources, questionable data reporting practices. Biolo...

Badges werden erst seit wenigen Jahren als digitale Abzeichen in Bildungskontexten eingesetzt, um Motivation, Interaktion, User Experience und Lernleistung zu unterstützen.

Online education has provided good opportunities for educationally disadvantaged people. However, some traditional learning management systems (LMSs), the base systems of online education, had the limitations in offering standardized education for diversified learners with different skills, objectives, abilities, preferences, and backgrounds. In addition, the traditional LMSs, which required a ...

Digital badges hold considerable potential for employers and recruiters, as they evidence accomplishments of skills competencies at a more granular level than traditional degree certificate. Badges are validated, online graphical representation an achievement, which is accomplished by undertaking criteria-based learning activities. Despite the established educational benefits in higher educatio...

In this study, the tuned liquid damper (TLD) device was optimized by harmony search (HS) and adaptive algorithms (AHS). Using algorithm, seismic excitations were directed at single ten-story structures, TLD parameters to minimize building movement. To improve design parameters, optimization process repeated adapting factors of algorithm. For purpose, both memory consideration ratio (HMCR) fret ...

Second-order calibration and multivariate spectroscopic-kinetic measurements in the visible region are proposed to improve the Jaffé method for creatinine assay. Analyses performed on synthetic mixtures containing bilirubin, glucose, and albumin confirm that second-order calibration is useful for creatinine determination in human serum. Quantitative determinations of creatinine with the paralle...

This paper studies the DNS cache effects that occur on query distribution at the CN top-level domain (TLD) server. We first filter out the malformed DNS queries to purify the log data pollution according to six categories. A model for DNS resolution, more specifically DNS caching, is presented. We demonstrate the presence and magnitude of DNS cache effects and the cache sharing effects on the r...

In the early years, the routine personal dosimetry at the Nuclear Research CenterNegev was performed by using photographic films. In 1975, the TLD method was introduced. The routine personal dosimetry was performed by using the LiF:Mg, Ti phosphors (G-1 cards), and employing an automatic Harshaw 2271 reader. The heating of the phosphor was performed by a hot finger, and the integral light outpu...

Öz Amaç: Bu çalışmada meme kanseri nedeniyle radyoterapi alan gerçek hastayı taklit eden bir fantom üzerinde farklı organlarda absorbe edilen doz araştırılmıştır. Farklı organlardaki ortalama için tedavi planlama sistemi (TPS) ve termolüminesans dozimetre (TLD) ölçümleri karşılaştırılmıştır. Gereç Yöntemler: Alderson kadın rando sol dokusu hedef hacmi olarak seçildi. Varian DHX cihazında teknik...

The implementation of maximum likelihood parallel factor analysis (MLPARAFAC) in conjunction with the direct exponential curve resolution algorithm (DECRA) is described. DECRA takes advantage of the intrinsic exponential structure of some bilinear data sets to produce trilinear data by a simple shifting scheme, but this manipulation generates an error structure that is not optimally handled by ...