This book offers a broader approach to Hybrid Learning Spaces, term that has recently moved from the periphery center of educational practice.

There is evidence that food outlet access differs according to level of neighbourhood deprivation but little is known about how individual circumstances affect associations between food outlet access and diet. This study explored the relationship between dietary quality and a measure of overall food environment, representing the balance between healthy and unhealthy food outlet access in indivi...

Robotics competitions are an educational tool at the middle school, high school, and university levels. The layout, rules, and reward systems of these competitions galvanize students to a specific solution space. From our experiences competing-in and designing such competitions, open-loop, low feedback strategies tend to dominate the winner's circle. If we want competitions to emphasize solutio...

VEC3D is a language learning and teaching project that promises 3-D immersion, live voice interaction and social context. Building on goal-based instructional design, VEC3D learners embody avatars and meet each other in virtual spaces. VEC3D can be integrated into various educational settings, student needs, paces, styles and research goals. This article summarizes the VEC3D curriculum, system,...

This paper presents novel dissimilarity space specially designed for interactive multimedia retrieval. By providing queries made of positive and negative examples, the goal consists in learning the positive class distribution. This classification problem is known to be asymmetric, i.e. the negative class does not cluster in the original feature spaces. We introduce here the idea of Query-based ...

1. Ordered Sets, Ordered Fields, and Completeness 1 1.1. Lecture 1: January 5, 2016 1 1.2. Lecture 2: January 7, 2016 4 1.3. Lecture 3: January 11, 2016 7 1.4. Lecture 4: January 14, 2014 9 2. Sequences and Limits 13 2.1. Lecture 5: January 19, 2016 13 2.2. Lecture 6: January 21, 2016 15 2.3. Lecture 7: January 26, 2016 18 2.4. Lecture 8: January 28, 2016 21 3. Extensions of R: the Extended Rea...

As an old lighthouse (PHAROS in ancient Greek) provided a proper navigation tool for people to find their route when lost at sea, in the same way PHAROS will ensure the right way to navigate in the modern enormous information ocean.

Contents 1. Introduction 2 1.1. The general strategy: the cross-ratio method 2 1.2. Two sample calculations 7 1.3. Notation and Terminology 14 1.4. Summary of results 15 2. Degenerations of rational curves 17 2.1. The basic setup 17 2.2. The main results from deformation theory 20 2.3. The geometry of the Severi varieties 21 2.4. Singularities of the total space 37 3. Formulas 56 3.