Different priorities and obstacles do not allow a small college to offer a variety of networks to its students and faculty for using them in the classrooms. As an option, they can use an invaluable tool, the OPNETTM IT Guru Academic software package [1] that offers all the tools for network model design, simulation and analysis at a reasonable cost. OPNET software can simulate a wide variety of...

Concept maps are frequently used in K 12 educational settings. The purpose of this study is to determine whether students’ performance on interactive concept map tasks in Guru, an intelligent tutoring system, is related to immediate and delayed learning outcomes. Guru is a dialogue based system for high school biology that intersperses concept map tasks within the tutorial dialogue. Results ind...

To determine the magnitude of the thermogenic response to a massive long-term overfeeding, an energy-balance study was carried out in nine lean, young Cameroonian men participating in a traditional fattening session: the Guru Walla. Food intake, body weight, body composition, activity, and metabolic rates were recorded during a 10-d baseline period and over the 61-65 d of fattening. Total energ...

many textbooks include semantically related words and sometimes teachers add synonyms, antonyms, etc. to the words in order to present new vocabulary items without questioning the possible effects. this study sought to investigate the effect of teaching vocabulary through synonym, semantically unrelated, and hyponym sets based on higa’s (1963) proposed continuum. a total of 120 iranian intermed...

A retrospective study was conducted comparing the grade point averages (GPA' s) of 25 subjects who had begun the practice of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique during their undergraduate studies to the GPA's of25 subjects who had received their undergraduate degrees before learning TM. The mean GPAfor the TM group rose from 2.52 for the three terms immediately before learning TM to 3....

Forty unpaid normal volunteers (20 men and 20 women) were given the Autokinetic Test, the Embedded-Figures Test, and the Rod-and-Frame Test prior to instruction in the Transcendental Meditation technique. After three months of regular meditation subjects were retested and demonstrated increased ego-distance and field independence, as compared with controls, on all of the above tests. These rema...

This draft is a rapidly evolving work in progress, being made public in order to solicit feedback; comments are welcome and should be directed to the authors: [email protected] and [email protected]. Due to the active editing process, some portions of the document may be logically inconsistent with related documents being produced by other GENI working groups. We would like to thank the GEN...

Sonic Cradle is a human–computer interaction paradigm designed to foster meditative attentional patterns. A user's body is suspended comfortably in a completely dark sound chamber while the interaction paradigm subtly encourages them to focus on their breathing to summon and progressively shape an abstract immersive sound experience. Basic interpretive qualitative methods with a purposive sampl...