1 Zbigniew Prusak, Engineering Technology Dept., Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT 06050-4010, [email protected] Abstract  Requirements, learning activities and learning assessment techniques used in teaching of planning of discrete part manufacturing are described in this paper. Results of various surveys demonstrate that industry accords big importance to engineering gradu...

CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED. INTRODUCTION The quality of the teaching-learning process at the universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad depends mainly of infrastructure that includes an optimal teaching space, personnel and equipment, in accordance with existing standards and norms. For the assessment of teaching at the faculties, the opinion of students is very important (4, 5...

Model updating concerns the modification of an existing but inaccurate model with measured data. For models characterized by quadratic pencils, the measured data usually involve incomplete knowledge of natural frequencies, mode shapes, or other spectral information. In conducting the updating, it is often desirable to match only the part of observed data without tampering with the other part of...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between the number of available information sources on HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS-related knowledge in a rural population in China. DESIGN We performed a cross-sectional survey on the number and types of sources of HIV/AIDS information available to rural residents of China and assessed HIV/AIDS-related knowledge in this population. We collected information ...

We begin by rephrasing a few de®nitions concerning model completeness and o-minimality in a setting suitable for this paper. This allows us to state our ®rst main result, Theorem A, in a way that is at the same time precise and widely accessible. Let F be a collection of functions f : R ! R for various m 2N :ˆ f0; 1; 2; . . .g. A set A Í R is said to be 0-de®nable in the structure RF :ˆ …R; < ;...

This study examines if interdisciplinary teaching can be said to facilitate the learning and use of fractions by Swedish 12-year-old pupils. Home and Consumer Studies is well suited to interdisciplinary teaching, and young people can therefore find it interesting to study maths since the setting is relevant to them. Building on variation theory and a learning study, we examined pupils’ (n 18) a...

BACKGROUND In sub-Saharan Africa, the prevalence of orphanhood among children has been greatly exacerbated by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. If orphanhood harms a child's development and these effects perpetuate into adult life, then the African orphan crisis could seriously jeopardize the continent's future generations. Whether or not there exists an adverse, causal and intergenerational effect of HIV...

The WWW provides a semantic rich structure of information that, however, is primarily addressed to human understanding rather than automated processing by a computer. The problem of acquiring data from the WWW and organizing this data in a meaningful way, suitable for automated machine processing, has received a lot of attention during the last years, in the context of the new concept of semant...