Improving retention and performance for CS majors with a weak background is crucial to increase the number of CS students. A CS0 course is designed to serve these students and desirably to recruit non CS majors before they take a rigorous first object programming class. A visual approach using 3-D animation and multimedia objects such as pictures and sounds in CS0 on different students groups i...

ROBOTS MICHAEL KAISER, MICHAEL DECK, R UDIGER DILLMANN Institute for Real-Time Computer Systems & Robotics, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany. E-Mail: [email protected] Abstract. Reactive control of a mobile robot requires to map the robot's perceptions into actions by means of a strategy that is goal-oriented. To explicitely encode this strategy is not an easy task. Speci ca...

Introductory neurobiology courses face the problem that practical exercises often require expensive equipment, dissections, and a favorable student-instructor ratio. Furthermore, the duration of an experiment might exceed available time or the level of required expertise is too high to successfully complete the experiment. As a result, neurobiological experiments are commonly replaced by models...

community participation, as one of the basic components of sustainable development in a community. this study aimed to determine patterns of community participation, identify factors associated with their social and civic engagement, and examine the relation between the factors and community engagement patterns. patterns of citizen participation were determined in social and civic engagements. ...

Abstract We establish two types of estimates for generalized derivatives set-valued mappings which carry the essence basic patterns observed throughout pile calculus rules. These also illustrate role essential assumptions that accompany these patters, namely calmness on one hand and (fuzzy) inner calmness* other. Afterwards, we study relationship between sufficient conditions various notions (i...

The purpose of this study was to investigate videotaping as a strategy for EFL teachers’ reflective teaching. To this end, eight participants were selected from a language institute in Iran and were under investigation for over a period of one month and a half. The data were triangulated from different sources: videotaping; self-reflection sheets; and semi-structured interviews. The analysis of...