This paper reviews the literature on programmes of multicultural education in initial teacher training (ITT) in England. England, which has a long history as a multiethnic and multicultural society, offers significant opportunities for consideration for multicultural educational design. The issue of educating teachers for diverse schools and classrooms needs to be addressed urgently (OECD, 2010...

Human capital production in the U.S. economy is no longer what it used to be. Graduation rates for high school and college have fallen (Card and Lemieux 2001; Heckman and Lafontaine 2007). As a result, the rate of growth of the stock of human capital has slowed considerably (Goldin and Katz 2008). At the same time, other countries are improving their educational attainment. Although the United ...

In this paper a nonparametric neural network (NN) technique for prediction of future values of a signal based on its past history is presented. This approach bypasses modeling, identification, and parameter estimation phases that are required by conventional parametric techniques. A multi-layer feed forward NN is employed. It develops an internal model of the signal through a training operation...

For the purpose of equipment training, realistic training environments need to be built and makes operators having an immersed sense. Aiming at present military requirement for equipment operation training, a universal 3D modeling method for equipment training environment was put forward, which integrated with terrain, feature and special effect. The related key technologies such as terrain mod...

Introduction: A team has been working on a high-fidelity surgical training model for a lumbar disc herniation made of synthetic materials. Since other types of surgical training (as VR Simulators and cadavers) lack optical and haptic realism, the goal was to develop a training model that transfers knowledge about the feeling when operated on and enables training with a realistic workflow. Furth...

Modeling for operation rules is essential function requirement in equipment simulation training system based on VR. Aiming at the modeling actuality of present equipment operation rules, which has no systematic, no generality and no formatting expression, layered modeling system framework based on federation is brought forward referencing to the “Federation and Member” concept of HLA. Open mode...