[Cp(*)RhCl(PTA)(2)]X (PTA = 7-phospha-1,3,5-triazaadamantane) undergoes an H/D exchange process between the methyl groups of Cp(*) and D(2)O whose rate depends on the coordinating ability of the counterion X(-). Kinetic studies and DFT calculations indicate that deuteration involves the abstraction of a Me-Cp(*) proton by a coordinated OH(-); the formation of the latter seems to be facilitated ...

Teacher still has a prominent role in shaping the generations and teacher education institutions handle the responsibility of transformation of teachers. Teachers must have a thorough basis of the content and pedagogic practices for processing the knowledge to the level of students. This paper explores more effective ways of imparting content knowledge among elementary student teachers by compa...

Can changes in teacher pay encourage more able individuals to enter the teaching profession? So far, studies of the impact of pay on the aptitude distribution of teachers have provided mixed evidence on the extent to which altering teacher salaries represents a feasible solution to the teacher quality problem. One possible reason is that these studies have been unable to separate labor supply e...

Can changes in teacher pay encourage more able individuals to enter the teaching profession? So far, studies of the impact of pay on the aptitude distribution of teachers have provided mixed evidence on the extent to which altering teacher salaries represents a feasible solution to the teacher quality problem. Using a unique dataset of test scores for everyone admitted into an Australian univer...

In our research, we seek to understand how we can effectively help learners to interpret and apply expert cases through software-realized scaffolding designed to augment the teachers’ modeling and coaching in a cognitive apprenticeship. We also seek to understand if exposure to the software’s detailed scaffolding will result in better performance and learning of targeted skills, and if so, what...

ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study was to analyze whether and how students working in the collaborative learning environment (Future Learning Environment, FLE2) were able to share their design process with the intended user of the product. We organized a collaborative design course in which six teams of first-year university-level textile students (N=24) solved an authentic and complex d...

An often-quoted bonmot identifies the PC as an ideal solution once we found the problem it is the solution for. The same could be said with some justification about AI and Law. Legal expert systems should be the ideal tool to solve all sorts of problems of the criminal and civil justice system if we would only know which ones. The hopes of `strong AI', the replacement of legal experts in their ...

We propose a new model for view-independent face recognition by multiview approach. We use the so-called ‘‘mixture of experts’’, ME, in which, the problem space is divided into several subspaces for the experts, and the outputs of experts are combined by a gating network. In our model, instead of leaving the ME to partition the face space automatically, the ME is directed to adapt to a particul...

In teacher education, general pedagogical and psychological knowledge (PPK) is often taught separately from the teaching subject itself, potentially leading to inert knowledge. In an experimental study with 69 mathematics student teachers, we tested the benefits of fostering the integration of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and general PPK with respect to knowledge application. Integration...

This study examines the pedagogical training process of medical professors at a Brazilian university, the meanings attributed to it, and the positive and negative aspects identified in it. This is a descriptive-exploratory study, using a qualitative approach with a questionnaire utilizing open-ended and closed questions and a semi-structured interview. The majority of queried individuals had no...