Jackson TA, Evans DJ. Can medical students teach? A near-peerled teaching program for year 1 students. Adv Physiol Educ 36: 192–196, 2012; doi:10.1152/advan.00035.2012.—The General Medical Council states that United Kingdom graduates must function effectively as educators. There is a growing body of evidence showing that medical students can be included as teachers within a medical curriculum. ...

Betty’s Brain is a computer-based learning environment that capitalizes on the social aspects of learning. In Betty’s Brain, students instruct a character called a Teachable Agent (TA) which can reason based on how it is taught. Two studies demonstrate the protégé effect: students make greater effort to learn for their TAs than they do for themselves. The first study involved 8-grade students l...

This paper discusses the process by which graduate teaching assistants (TAs), participating in a longitudinal study, used their graduate TA experience to successfully survive the transition from being a teaching assistant to becoming a faculty member. A theoretical framework is presented that describes how individual characteristics of the TAs worked together with disciplinary, institutional, a...

This paper proposes an improved thermal asperity (TA) detection and correction technique for perpendicular recording channels, which performs better than the conventional one. The TA detection method is a threshold-based approach, while the TA correction method is performed by averaging the readback signal and applying a curve-fitting technique to estimate the TA signal. Then, the corrected rea...

In this paper, we investigate the problem of topology aggregation (TA) for scalable, QoS-based routing in ATM networks. TA is the process of summarizing the topological information (QoS parameters, interconnectivity, etc.) of a given subset of network elements. This summary is then ooded throughout the network, and is used by various nodes to determine appropriate routes for ATM connection requ...

This paper explores how users ascribe gender to a visually androgynous teachable agent, and if and how the ascribed gender can influence the perceived personality characteristics of the agent. Previous studies have shown positive effects of using agents with more neutral or androgynous appearances, for instance, a more gender neutral agent evoked more positive attitudes on females than did a mo...

Moving averages are one of the most popular and easy-to-use tools available to a technical analyst, and they also form the building blocks for many other technical indicators and overlays. Building a moving average (MA) model needs determining four factors of (1) approach of issuing signals, (2) technique of calculating MA, (3) length of MA, and (4) band. After a literature re...

Thermal asperity (TA) causes a major problem in data detection process. Without the TA detection and correction algorithm, the system performance (even with perfect synchronization) can be unacceptable, depending on how severe the TA effect is. This paper proposes a new method to suppress the TA effects in perpendicular magnetic recording channels. The TA detection is a threshold-based approach...