It is difficult for large and geographically dispersed organisations to manage personal knowledge for easy discovery and sharing, especially in the areas of identification, indexing and codification of the knowledge held in people’s heads and the cultural issues of discovery, mutual trust and sharing. We have prototyped a methodology based on mind mapping and a relational database to codify, in...

Concept maps, or mind maps as learning tools mirror the knowledge constructed through observation of events or objects in relation to the concepts already known. Different types of computer based concept mapping tools allow various forms of expressions and the versatility of some special tools promote their use from providing course maps for users to adaptations of learners knowledge maps. Modu...

A mind map and a concept learning strategy are two strategies that often used to improve students’ achievement. This study aimed describe the differences in achievement between students who studied with those strategy, as well responses toward applied. type of was quasi-experiment pretest-posttest control group design. The methods this were test questionnaire. Data analyzed using inferential st...

In this work, we design a new metric that helps analyze the difference between a student’s mind map and an expert’s mind map. The goal is to determine if student’s are learning and to provide them with automatic feedback on what they are not understanding. In previous work, we used various graph analysis metrics applied to the mind map to see if there is evidence of learning, and in this work, ...

T H E IDEA that democracies never fight wars against each other has become an axiom for many scholars. It is, as one scholar puts it, "as close as anything we have to an empirical law in international relations." This "law" is invoked by American statesmen to justify a foreign policy that encourages democratization abroad. In his 1994 State ofthe Union address. President Clinton asserted that n...

We give an alternative proof of Madsen-Weiss’ generalized Mumford conjecture. Our proof is based on ideas similar to Madsen-Weiss’ original proof, but it is more geometrical and less homotopy theoretical in nature. At the heart of the argument is a geometric version of Harer stability, which we formulate as a theorem about folded maps.

"Best tools and practices for concept mapping" by Chris Clark (University of Notre Dame, Kaneb Center). Introduction to terms and uses for concept maps/mind maps, a teaching-learning strategy that entails building a visual representation or visual organizer to assist learning or show what has been learned. Site includes links to further resources and articles. https://ltlatnd.wordpress.com/2011...

"Best tools and practices for concept mapping" by Chris Clark (University of Notre Dame, Kaneb Center). Introduction to terms and uses for concept maps/mind maps, a teaching-learning strategy that entails building a visual representation or visual organizer to assist learning or show what has been learned. Site includes links to further resources and articles. https://ltlatnd.wordpress.com/2011...