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Franco Capaldi

. As such, this system provides an infinitely explorable B. Mastery Learninglearning environment or an environment where studentinteraction is not predetermined by the instructor but can A previous study conducted at Merrimack College [11]consist of any relevant subject material which the system can showed that students using the SGS system performed betterrecognize. on coursework than those who did not. Two sections taught by Teaching students to be creative problem solvers is difficult. the same instructor were split into a control and treatmentIn many engineering courses, students learn

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Carli D. Flynn; Cliff I. Davidson; Sharon Dotger

closely mirrored this survey question. This student misconceptions about rate and accumulation processes.suggests that students continued to struggle with the graphing Three sections of conceptual understanding were developed inof a water flow rate even after course instruction. the inventory: (1) first order calculus, (2) mass flow, in particular water flow, and (3) heat transfer.Groundwater Flow and Green Roof Water Flow Activities Results from the analysis of the transcriptions of student B. Designwork indicated that the groundwater flow activity failed to All questions developed for this inventory were posed inelicit in-depth

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May Alzawawi

world management, vol. 38, pp. 360-387, 2008.we are living in. integrating sustainability in the business world is [12] B. Foran, M. Lenzen, C. Dey, and M. Bilek, "Integratingespecially crucial because it is key for saving our lives and the lives sustainable chain management with triple bottom lineof the people who follow us. Going green is a very hot topic accounting," Ecological Economics, vol. 52, pp. 143-157,nowadays and many people are getting concerned about the 2005.deteriorating environment. Environmental change is a big problem [13] Z. Wang and J. Sarkis, "Investigating the relationship ofthat has its own solutions within each one of us

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Muneer Alshowkan; Khaled Elleithy

) After the measurement of this multi qubit state, the resultwill be similar to a system with only one qubit, as theprobability of having one of the four states is can be donatedby | | . B. Quantum gates Fig. 1. Quantum Teleportation Circuit Classical systems depends on the wires and the logic gatesin the digital circuits to carry and manipulate the information. After applying the required operations Alice qubits will beFor instance, the NOT gate in classical system perform a result to one of the four states |00 , |01 , |10 |11 whichspecific operation which is manipulating the stats 0 and 1 by will indicate the state of Bob’s qubit as

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James Accuosti

.instructional media to better assess what amenities were at her [6] D. Hamilton, E. Dahlgren, A. Hult, B. Roos and T. Söderström, "Whendisposal [41] and some types of instructors find they revamp Performance Is the Product: Problems in the Analysis of Online Distance Education," British Educational Research Journal, vol. 30, pp.their curriculum based on what technology tools are available. 841-854, 2004.One teacher of Literature explains how she postponed reading [7] E. T. Straub, "Understanding Technology Adoption: Theory and Futurefurther works to spend more time discussing draft papers and Directions for

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Gary P. Halada; Nancy McCoy Wozniak

particular, employers found that interns ranked best in ability to function on multidisciplinary teams and in(a) an ability to apply knowledge of their recognition for and an ability to engage in life-long 1.5 (0.16)mathematics, science, and engineering learning. Indeed, students’ self identification as life-long learners as a result of their experiential learning internships indicates that a key goal of engineering education has been(b) an ability to design and

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Faisal Z. Miqdadi; Abdulla F. ALMomani; Mohammad T. Shadid Masharqa; Nabil M. Elmousel

procrastinate.when it comes to university students because it will boost their Eventually, the student’s Grade Point Average (GPA) willgrades and enhance their productivity. However, most of the start to decrease the more he puts off the work. However,time students face problems like task aversion and uncertainty, when he keeps delaying his work, stress will rise up and moreso they start to procrastinate because they lack organizational pressure will be on the student, which will lead him to lateskills. As a result, students will not be able to organize duties submission and his grades will decrease [1].according to their priorities, so they get distracted easily,ending up procrastinating. As we can see, time management is B

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Rahmi Allamadani; Feng Chen

numerous The amount of charge stored in the caps will vary dependingengineers for decades now, only recently has it become more on the amount of weight that is trying to be launched. Attachedrealizable with advances in technology. The goal of this project is in between the capacitors and coil is a 4 layered PNPN SCRto use electromagnetic forces to propel a payload down a track at (Silicon Controlled Rectifier) which is triggered by a lowera desired velocity for launch. An electromagnetic launch system voltage of 1.7V. When the lower voltage is applied at the gateis one that the harnesses the power of using a large electric of the SCR the current from the capacitors passes through thecurrent to generate a

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Moussa Souare; Frank Merat; Christos Papachristou

dial. lower. The algorithm was simulated in Matlab but could be implemented on a dedicated microprocessor as a future work.H. Data collection In order to evaluate the energy usage, the angles REFERENCESrepresented by the dial indicators must be calculated. Thecentroids of the dials indicated in red in Fig. 12, were [1] S. Zhao, B. Li, J. Yuan, G. Cui “Research on Remote Meter Automaticautomatically calculated using an algorithm written in Matlab. Reading Based on Computer Vision,” 2005 IEEE/PES Transmission and

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Salamahn Mill; Dafe Ukaivbe; Weiwei Zhu

from Satellite Imagery”, computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, 25(2), 252-256, 1984. We need to search for a tsunami event in the history whose [6] B. Chanda and D. Majumder, “An Iterative Algorithm for Removing theLandsat TM image on the spot is covered by clouds or cloud Effects of Thin Cloud Cover from Landsat Imagery”, Mathematical Geology, 23(6), pp. 853-860, 1991.shadows. Due to the fact that infrared satellite system has a [7] J. Cihlar and J. Howarth, “Detection and Removal of Cloudshort

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Ryan Kondracki; Courtney Collins; Khalid Habbab; Bijan Karimi

powered charging station.. The team’s research indicated abenefit to the campus for such a structure and also room forimprovement on other existing charging stations. The otherstations the team found to exist were quite costly to build. Aswell, rapidly advancing solar innovations and designs couldlend themselves to creating a more efficient charging station. ACKNOWLEDGMENT Thanks to University of New Haven Professor Bijan Karimifor showing great support, encouragement, and guidance inthis project. REFERENCES [1] PORTIS JR., M. (2013). UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PATENT NO. 8,497,656. [2] PULIAS, B. (2013, JULY 2). NEWS. RETRIEVED FROM GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: HTTP

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Abdulla Fawzi Almomani; Faisal Miqdadi; Mustafa Hassanin; Mustafa Samy; Mohammed Awadallah

, and a bent lower part thatsurrounds and support the wrist of the user. 5) 12.2.5 Pressure source Knowing that the force is the negative gradient of the potential energy and applying that to the first equation we get: The pressure source proposed is a scuba tank. A gascylinder that can be placed at the back of the user in whichdelivers the required pressure to the fluidic muscles. Where A and B correspond to values of x along the path 6) 12.2.6 Sensor rings

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Adedamola Akinsanya; Christian Bach

. [27] Trabasso, T. and L.L. Sperry, Causal relatedness and[12] Bullot, N.J. and R. Reber, Author's Response: 'A importance of story events. Journal of Memory and psycho-historical research program for the language, 1985. 24(5): p. 595-611. integrative science of art'. Behavioral and Brain [28] Koven, M., An analysis of speaker role inhabitance Sciences, 2013. 36(2): p. 163-180. in narratives of personal experience. Journal of[13] Garfield, E., Citation indexes in sociological and Pragmatics, 2002. 34(2): p. 167-217. historical research. American documentation, 1963. [29] Matthew, B., Closed- and open-ended

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Tiago Martins Ribeiro; Raimundo Pereira da Cunha Neto

acts on the route and how the pheromone is updated along the In this architecture quoted from the analysis of way. This calculation has been applied to distributed to find theincorporation and storage of knowledge, it is possible to best routes in the ways data systems.interpret data and instructions in a smart way. From this, wecan see a resemblance to the behavior of the human brain. B. Artificial Bee Colony - ABC The use of knowledge of neural networks to pattern Another algorithm is known to compute the Artificial Beerecognition tool is generally, for example speech, images, Colony Algorithm (ABC). It was initially proposed bycharacters, and others. To gain insight and

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Adedamola Akinsanya; Christian Bach

. Statistical Science, 2006. 21(2): p. 256- IMPORTANCE OF MODEL/NEW INSGHT 276.The models clearly show important variables and factors in [9] Laczniak, G.R., R.F. Lusch, and P.E. Murphy, Socialthe social marketing process. A graphical and therefore more Marketing: Its Ethical Dimensions. Journal ofunderstandable relationship between these various factors and Marketing, 1979. 43(2): p. 29-36.social marketing was thus illustrated. Model B in particular [10] Simon, K. and C. Gruar, The Application ofcan help people or organizations who engage in social Stakeholder Theory to Relationship Marketingmarketing better understand how these different

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Ruzanna Davtyan

the meters in the in this part ofenforcement, and revenue. As a case study the City of Stamford the city.was used. It uses two sources of data: (1) historical data aboutparking meter performance for a period of over twenty years, B. Hypothesis:1965-1986; (2) a survey of selected on-street parking meter sitesin downtown Stamford. It shows that an increased enforcement Before collecting any data, our hypothesis were theand penalties reduce illegal parking, while an increase in the following:value of walking and searching time will increase this activity

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Shanique Jiles

The goal of this project was to build a robotic greeter measurement,” World Acad. Sci. Eng. …, pp. 293–298, 2009.that detects objects and produces a sound or recording. Thisgoal was reached successfully. The sound generation is [4] B. Robotics, “The role of self-organization for the synthesis and theconsistent whether the audio breakout board is playing one or understanding of behavioral systems,” pp. 1–18.multiple sounds. The robot always detects the object at thegiven numeric range and has a battery that can last for three [5] A. Gibb, “New media art, design, and the Arduino microcontroller: Ahours. malleable tool,” no. February, 2010

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Ashwin Satyanarayana; Hong Li; Josephine Braneky

through this journey would help freshmen students chooseto identify whether academic remediation can improve their major so that they can be prepared to make betterstudents’ college outcomes. In college mentoring, the mentorsoften counsel students on (a) how to acquire better study decisions for his/her educational and vocational career. Inskills, (b) how to identify additional academic resources at mentors’ interactions with students, they work to help studentstheir respective institutions and (c) how to assess their life prioritize their studies, plan how they can be successful, andoutside of school. identify

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Longyin Sun; Christian Bach

to update our mind ceaselessly in order to catch up with thedevelopment of the outside world. Once we lag behind, we will [6] Donohue, Joan M, & Fox, Jeremy B. (2000). A multi-method evaluationsuffer from what is called “failure”. In this world where human of journals in the decision and management sciences by US academics. Omega, 28(1), 17-36.resource is the most important resource, we have to take full [7] Duhaime, Irene M, & Schwenk, Charles R. (1985). Conjectures onadvantage of our talents and make decisions that fit us

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Vazgen Shekoyan

Firstly, most of real life and professional problems are ill-encourage students to choose more expert-like strategies during structured (multiple-possibility problems). Such problems a)the solution process? Does it help students gain better conceptualunderstanding of the content material? Research shows that the often have missing information, vaguely defined goals oranswer to the above questions is negative. Studies on expert- unstated constrains, b) possess multiple solutions withnovice differences and on cognitive processing suggest that the multiple criteria for evaluating the solutions, and c) presentpotential reason is the goal

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Nicholas S. Rosasco; Dane Brown

TOR mapping tool.the attendees were also used as supplements to thepresentation. B. Opening and Initial Assessment With the arrival of each set of STEM participants, anB. Software initial assessment comprised of three background questions A set of DVDs from the TAILS i386 version 0.18 ISO was was conducted to survey their overall awareness of the topicsproduced for student-use laptops, as well as a version of to be presented in the module (see Figure 1). With theUbuntu built as a live boot DVD, specifically Ubuntu Live Summer Seminar attendees

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Aziz Obaid Alotaibi; Christian Bach

. Upon analyzing the informationthat collected it for the purpose of this research, it is possible 1. Anckar, B. and P. Walden, Introducing Web technology in a smallto assess that the successful implementation of e-commerce peripheral hospitality organization. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 2001. 13(5): p. 241-250.industry in Saudi Arabia. Currently faces severe challenges 2. Tracy, K.W., What's the deal with “e-business”? Potentials, IEEE,that must be dealt with in order to achieve marked progress. 2000. 19(1): p. 34-35.The results of survey conducted by Al-Otaibi, M. B., & Al- 3. Tan, B.C.C

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Jose Javier Montaner Mora; Luis Miguel Mora Gonzalez

the possibility of finding a job in the big companies where nearly every student has dreamt of Nevertheless, the circumstances define each situation and working.for all cases in academic recognitions, each student is studiedindependently by the advisors at each institution. IV. CHALLENGES FOR THE INSTITUTIONS Additionally, the grades are also different among thedifferent universities. In the US grades are specified using The project UMANE, as many other internationalletters (A, B+, B …). In Italy grades are a total of 30 points, and programs, faces numerous challenges, logistical and academic.the minimum grade

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Ali M. Elrashidi

down links using 10 GHz transceiver bandwidth over 20results and discussion are presented. Section V offers km single feeder. 2.2 GHz reflective semiconductor opticalconclusions. amplifier on ONU is included with offset optical filter. A. Lebreton and B. Charbonnier introduced an experimental II. TECHNICAL ISSUES IN WDM-PON NETWORK SYSTEM system of 20 Gbps using FDM PON architecture [14]. The WDM-PON is considered as an ultimate solution for access authors demonstrate a simulation system of 40 Gbps with RF

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Borui Li; Xiaowei Yu; Bo Zhang; Xingguo Xiong; Lawrence Hmurcik

multiplierfunction correctly, we must find a way to resolve the SignalDegradation Problem. B B-­‐ A Cin Cin-­‐ B-­‐ Q   B VSS Cin-­‐ SUM Cin Cin-­‐ VSS

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Daniel Katz

, ~ x), φ(t, ~ x−~ y )] = δ(~ y) (4)changes in response to matter and energy: 8πG µν Gµν = T (2) c4 where [A, B] ≡ AB − BA is the commutator of two opera- tors, and δ(·) is Dirac’s delta distribution. Eqn. 4 implies that if ψ and φ are not in the same place at the same timeThe tensor Gµν is the so-called Einstein tensor and is they cannot

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Yao Agoudavi; Nathan Cyrille; Luis Hernandez; Amber LaGuerre; Zhineng Li; Katherine Vides; Sunil Dehipawala; Andrew Nguyen; Alexei Kisselev; Tak Cheung

, Manceau A, Hinsinger P, Geoffroy N, and Jaillard B, “Zinc distribution and speciation in roots of variousgenotypes offor the Fe-edge signal detection. One of our earlier Photonics tobacco exposed to Zn.” Environmental and Experimental Botany 63West Conference Proceedings report on Synchrotron based X- (2008) 80–90.ray absorption of earwax shows that Zn local environment [4] Mijovilovich A, Leitenmaier B, Meyer-Klaucke W, Kroneck P, Gotz B,would be quantifiable with correlation to optical diffusion and Kupper H ,” Complexation and Toxicity of Copper in Higher Plants.parameters [12]. The earwax Zn metalloprotein signal is

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Abubaker E.M. Elbalsohi; Junling Hu; Ruoxu Jia

especially close to B. Meshing Processeswalls in boundary-layer flows. Similarly, of solving ε-equation A non-uniform structured mesh was generated in a two-in k-ε equation model, ω-equation is solving in the same way dimensional-10o half-angle diffuser domain. A non-uniformto calculate its local distribution within the fluid flow as well. structured mesh of 59 × 59 cells are generated for each of theCombining k-ω two- equation model solution to a modeled

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Abrar Mohammed Alajlan

related to each other. Indeed, of these sensors may result in short-lived systems.each single requirement can support or work in favor of other Thus, sensing nodes should have a dynamicrequirements. For example, data sharing through multiple reconfiguration services to keep these sensors functional for anodes improves the scalability, collaboration and also energy- long time [35].efficiency. B. Heterogeneity Table II: Evaluation of group level abstractions In WSNs, in WSNs

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Ali Radhi Al Essa; Christian Bach

Database (ERD) 1) Brief B. Data Warehouse and Data Mining 1) Brief As the data of a university housing has to be maintainedin a finite order, it is better to take a help provided by a The subject of this Data Warehouse is “repair Requestdatabase, due to which the dealing with the information Information”. It is based on the repair requests made bybecomes very simple. Also having a database for the Housing students live in one