Among the nation’s elite colleges and universities, black graduation rates vary dramatically from institution to institution. Many sociologists have suggested that this is due not to differences in the student bodies but to institutional factors; however, this ‘‘institutional hypothesis’’ has not been recently examined empirically. We test the institutional hypothesis for a set of elite institu...

despite a spate of interest in the study of the introductions of scholarly articles, thefocal genre of knowledge construction, research is yet to reach conclusive answers onthe nature of this genre. thus, the present study analyzed research articleintroductions, aiming to explore how the process of knowledge construction isachieved by iranian and international writers of english research articl...

This study examines the effect of an increase in minimum admissions standards on college enrollment and graduation rates of student-athletes. In 1996, the NCAA enacted Proposition 16, which increased the admission standards for freshmen student-athletes at Division I schools in an effort to improve graduation rates. Results indicate that Proposition 16 increased graduation rates significantly f...

The present study takes a motivational perspective that views youths' educational and career engagement as influential and potentially competing for the same motivational resources in the transition to adulthood. We investigated whether motivational engagement with educational and career goals in the year after high-school graduation was differentially associated with educational, career-relate...

OBJECTIVE This study examined how freshman year substance use prospectively predicted time to college graduation, and whether delayed graduation predicted postponed adoption of adult roles and future substance use. PARTICIPANTS Participants were part of a longitudinal study that began in 2004. The first analyses focused on freshman year (N = 2,050). The second analyses corresponded to a subse...

Pre-existing factors are quantitatively evaluated as to their impact on engineering student success. This study uses a database of all engineering students at nine institutions from 1987 through 2002 (a total of 87,167 engineering students) and focuses on graduation in any of the engineering disciplines. We report graduation rate as a function of years since matriculation, and determine the typ...

The system described in this report is a Computer Vision Tracking System that tracks a person in a room with a pan-tilt camera in real-time and warns in case of an unexpected situation such as detection of fire or it can be falling of a person. The warning message can be sent via e-mail or it can be an alarm message. For human motion tracking Kanade-LucasTomasi Optical Flow technique and Differ...

Personal information Name Ruben Hanssen Student number 4253930 Telephone number 0615574855 E-mail address [email protected], [email protected] Graduation studio Name / Theme Design of the Urban Fabric Teachers Stefan van der Spek Paul de Ruiter Argumentation of choice of the studio This studio has been chosen because my graduation project focuses on elements of the urban form ...