past present and emerging directions in education

... working in this area, be it in developing systems or analyzing and evaluating them We first surveyed seminal work on tangible user interfaces to expose lines of intellectual in uence Then, in order ... refrain from simplistic literal metaphors Playfully recombining meanings and actions, Bishop’s designs have remained a challenge and inspiration 2.3.3 Intelligent 3D Modeling In the early 1980s, independently ... into areas such as facilitating discussions about health information among women in rural India [179], tracking and managing office work [51], or invoice verification and posting [112] The domains...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 17:20

... wood, but when you combine all of the pieces together, the table begins to have some use and worth to it Education is something that has the biggest value of anything in the world It is an ideal ... be able to live the way we today It has come from a small, simple school, to a key to the future in only the span of years ...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 17:51

... result of indiscriminate cutting, grazing, fire, disease, and insects (Schnur, 1937) Understandably, early silvicultural pracwere geared toward modifying stand density and protecting oak stands from ... of tree size Stocking charts are routinely used to evaluate stand denstity in oak stands to determine the need for thin- ning In addition to developing the stocking chart, Gingrich also discovered ... bottomland hardwood and southern yellow pine woodlands that adjoin the Gulf of Mexico Although oaks are widespread, they predominate in central and eastern United States forest and form the upland and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:22

... for interleukin in Foxp3-expressing regulatory T cells Nat Immunol 2005, 6:1142-1151 β Marie JC, Letterio JJ, Gavin M, Rudensky AY: TGF-β1 maintains suppressor function and Foxp3 expression in ... studies that revealed an increase in CD4+CD25high cells in patients when the disease became inactive [49] CD4+CD25high cells also increased following various treatments that included corticosteroid ... downregulated and these cells have become CD127dim Two groups have studied CD4+CD127dim cells in SLE One study confirmed that suppressive activity in CD4+CD25+ cells in SLE was predominantly contained in...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... person - Where and when you last met - What you think that person has been doing since that time And say whether you think you will meet him or her again in the near future or not, and why Describe ... that subject you find particularly interesting - Where and how it is possible to study that subject And say if you think you will start studying that in the near future or not, and why Talk about ... 2008 IELTS speaking Part Two tasks about the future (Present Simple and Present Continuous, likes and dislikes/ “What is it like?”, tend to etc.) Talk about something you use in your work or...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 11:45

... Implications of these findings for trends in declining fertility and diminishing gender gap in educational attainment are discussed ii Introduction It is well documented in stratification and social mobility ... ethnic background (including four categories, Fukien, Hakka, Mainlander, and Aborigine) and his/her birth cohort (including the following dummy variables for those born in 1935 and before, 1936-1945, ... families included in Yu and Su’s (2006) analysis comprise all siblings in a family in the survey, whereas all families included in Chu et al.’s (2007) analysis comprise all siblings older siblings and...

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... island was estimated at eighty-four thousand; in 1817, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand; in 1827, two hundred and eighty-six thousand; in 1843, four hundred and thirty-six thousand; in 1867, ... "The War of Jenkins' CHAPTER II 10 Ear." The English had persisted in maintaining a trade with Cuba in spite of Spain's prohibition A certain Captain Jenkins, who was in command of an English ... hundred and seventy-nine thousand, five hundred and twenty-three, and in 1873, five hundred thousand, or about one-third of the entire population In 1870, two years after the beginning of the war, in...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 20:20

... health-promoting behaviors as abstaining from smoking, maintaining healthy drinking habits, wearing safety belts, controlling one’s weight, Key Determinants of the Health and Well-Being of Men and Boys ... understanding men’s health and propose a new model, as well as new directions for research, based on emerging approaches to both understanding and addressing men’s health in the 21st century In the ... femininity and masculinity In examining constructions of masculinity and health within a relational context, this theory proposes that health behaviors are used in daily interactions in the social...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... posing new and demanding challenges to individuals and societies alike Increasingly diverse and interconnected populations, rapid technological change in the workplace and in everyday life, and ... Shanghai-China Hong Kong-China Korea Macao-China Singapore Finland Japan Turkey Canada Portugal Chinese Taipei Poland New Zealand Spain Liechtenstein Estonia Netherlands Italy Switzerland Latvia ... work strategically using broad, well-developed thinking and reasoning skills, appropriate linked representations, symbolic and formal characterisations, and insight pertaining to these situations...

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Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20

... consultant and trainer for JavaScript, web technologies, and information management He has been programming since 1985, developing web applications since 1995, and held his first talk on Ajax in 2006 In ... Eich Presentation on InfoQ • [10] “JavaScript Today and Tomorrow: Evolving the Ambient Language of the Ambient Computing Era”, Allen Wirfs-Brock Presentation on InfoQ 34 | The Past, Present, and ... by manipulating the Document Object Model (DOM) of the page: changing content, changing style, showing and hiding elements, etc Dynamic HTML appeared first in Internet Explorer and in Netscape...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:21

... poems and nineteen paintings in Britain alone.33 In 1828 Martin exhibited The Fall of Nineveh,34 the last painting in Martin’s Mesopotamian trilogy, indicating that Martin, like Turner and West ... reflection of present times in the past. 31 In his painting, Martin emphasized the architectural grandeur of Babylon, with its I 28 RECLAIMING A PLUNDERED PAST colossal promenades, canals, and viaducts ... origins, to search for their own roots beyond Greece, by seeking civilization in its infant, pristine form This endeavor necessitated finding and analyzing the “cradle” of civilization The innocuous...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:58

... sampling, storing and possibly processing of sensor data • Routing data in the network, which includes sending data sampled by the node or receiving and resending data from other nodes in the ... Researchers from all around the world are devoting their precious time and efforts into finding a realistic and novel energy harvesting solutions for sustaining the operational lifetime of low‐power ... funding support from Government agencies To move forward, now would be a good time to setup a review and brainstorm session to evaluate the past, investigate and think through the present and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... harvesting aware routing algorithms like DEHAR, since DD incorporates nodes with an energy 18 16 Sustainable Energy Harvesting Technologies – Past, Present and Future Will-be-set-by -IN- TECH harvesting ... perform routing updates and performing observations (i.e refraining from routing other nodes observations) Conclusion We have presented a new modelling framework aimed at describing and analysing wireless ... Tasking for Environmentally Powered Sensor Networks, ACM Joint Intl Conf on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems 24 22 Sustainable Energy Harvesting Technologies – Past, Present and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... within wideband frequency vibrations 36 Sustainable Energy Harvesting Technologies – Past, Present and Future 2.5.2 Nonlinear structures The theory of vibration energy harvesting using nonlinear ... actuator and placed axially in line with the cantilever The 34 Sustainable Energy Harvesting Technologies – Past, Present and Future distance between the two tuning magnets was adjusted by the linear ... Vibration Energy Harvesting: Machinery Vibration, Human Movement and Flow Induced Vibration 35 include using a generator array, using nonlinear and bi-stable structures In this section, details...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... Sustainable Energy Harvesting Technologies – Past, Present and Future Barrero-Gil, A.; Alonso, G & Sanz-Andres, A (2010) Energy harvesting from transverse galloping, In: Journal of Sound and Vibration, ... harvesting, In: Journal of Micromachining and Microengineering, Vol.18, 104013, ISSN 0960-1317 Granstrom, J.; Feenstra, J.; Sodano, H A & Farinholt, K (2007) Energy harvesting from a backpack instrumented ... harvesting system based on the wake galloping phenomenon, In: Smart Materials and Structures, Vol.20, 055022 (10pp), ISSN 0964-1726 52 Sustainable Energy Harvesting Technologies – Past, Present and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... used in the following equation to calculate the electromagnetic damping; dφ ) dx = Rc + Rl N2( Dem 82 Sustainable Energy Harvesting Technologies – Past, Present and Future The parasitic and electromagnetic ... generator-E This non-linear mass, damper and spring vibration can be defined by the standard Duffing oscillator model [31] using the following equation; m d 2x dx + D + kx + k x = F sin ωt dt dt (31) ... resistance(ohm) Fig 24 Measured and calculated load power and estimated parasitic and electromagnetic damping for generator A In order to understand the parasitic damping effect and the optimum condition...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... – Past, Present and Future Fixed end magnets Moving magnet Pole Moving magnet Moving magnet Fixed end magnets (a) (b) Fig 39 Finite element simulation, showing flux lines for a) single moving ... In order to increase the displacement, instead of using two fixed magnets, the generator could be built using only one fixed end magnet and a single moving object, as shown in Figure 38 (c) In ... during walking and slow running for generator with only one fixed magnet 102 Sustainable Energy Harvesting Technologies – Past, Present and Future 12 Without top magnet Peak voltage (V) Top and...

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... Sustainable Energy Harvesting Technologies – Past, Present and Future about tens of mV resulting from very small temperature gradients, equaling to single Celsius degrees In fact, some presented ... coefficients, describing operation of the TEGs, into consideration, thus leading to its increased accuracy Obtained experimental simulations give a number of interesting insights into interactions between ... Fig Internal resistance of a thermoelectric module against temperature 114 Sustainable Energy Harvesting Technologies – Past, Present and Future In Fig 4, a temperature function of the internal...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... nodes scattered in a square region with a sink in the middle All the nodes (but the sink) have sensing and routing capabilities and are involved on a uniform-sampling task targeting the whole area ... used for analyzing workload sustainability under energy, bandwidth and resource constraints, and introduces the concept of maximum sustainable workload; Section outlines the SAMF routing algorithm, ... represents the capacity (or bandwidth) of the link, and 134 Sustainable Energy Harvesting Technologies – Past, Present and Future Will-be-set-by -IN- TECH variable E (v, e), which represents the energy...

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