Search results for "Project"

A new perspective on CMS – testing the effect of camera displacement in a realistic lane-change task

2020

The "MEG 2015" Conference main concept

2017

These pages contain an Introduction to the main concepts of the MEG 2015 International Conference "Medical Terminology and Epistemology for a Dictionary of Genetics and its Degenerations from Hippocrates to ICD-10" held in Palermo (4-6 May, 2015).

An Empirical Study on Female Participation in Software Project Courses

2019

Gender issues in software engineering education are gaining research attention due to the desire to promote female participation in the field. The objective of this work is to enhance the understanding of female students' participation in software engineering projects to support gender-aware course optimization. Since 2015, we have investigated the participation of female students in terms of software engineering activities and team dynamics in a software project course that involves a real customer. We found that female students are more active with project management and requirement engineering, while they remain under-represented in highly complex or specific tasks, i.e. architecture wor…

Seminars on Software Maintenance and Evolution: An Empirical Study of the Background Factors Affecting Student Success

2013

Software maintenance and evolution (SME) is an important but challenging topic area for university-level computer science education. Seminars can be used to provide students with versatile and up-to-date knowledge on scien- tifically relevant issues. We organized three systematic university-level seminars on SME. In these seminars 127 groups have each been assigned the task of analyzing one scientific SME article. The main results concern background factors re- lating to the students, groups and articles as these affect student success in the seminars. This paper presents a strict statis- tical analysis and a discussion of these factors. Fourteen hypotheses were set and tested regarding the…

Attitudes of referees in a multidisciplinary journal: An empirical analysis

2016

This paper looks at 10 years of reviews in a multidisciplinary journal, The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS), which is the flagship journal of social simulation. We measured referee behavior and referees' agreement. We found that the disciplinary background and the academic status of the referee have an influence on the report time, the type of recommendation and the acceptance of the reviewing task. Referees from the humanities tend to be more generous in their recommendations than other referees, especially economists and environmental scientists. Second, we found that senior researchers are harsher in their judgments than junior researchers, and the latter ac…

Developing Engineering Skills in Secondary Students Through STEM Project Based Learning

2020

The development of 21st century skills allows the training of competent students prepared for work and social life. The improvement of these skills, necessary for engineering students and future engineers, can be favored with training in Secondary Education Stage. Specifically, the Project-Based Learning (PBL) methodology includes the performance of different activities that allow the acquisition of both conceptual and procedural skills. This article describes the relationship between the skills that high school students develop when they work with PBL and the competences (ABET engineering skills) they acquire. In addition, an objective evaluation of the learning outcomes of 129 Secondary s…

Terveyskasvatus tutkimus- ja koulutusalana sekä arjen käytäntöinä

1992

Artikkelissa esitellään terveyskasvatuksen yliopistollista asiantuntijakoulutusta, terveyskasvatustutkimuksen osa-alueita ja tutkimuskohteita sekä käytännön terveyskasvatuksen tehtäviä ja päämääriä. Terveyskasvatuksen neljä suurta tehtävää ovat sivistävä tehtävä, virittävä tehtävä, mielenterveystehtävä ja muutosta avustava tehtävä. Terveyskasvatustutkimuksen osa-alueina nähtiin terveyskasvatuksen teoreettinen tutkimus, terveyskäyttäytymistutkimus, terveyskasvatuksen arviointitutkimus sekä terveyskasvatuksen yhteiskunnallinen tutkimus. Terveyskasvatuksen kokonaisvaltaiseksi määritelmänä esitettiin seuraava: ”Terveyskasvatuksen tavoitteena on kasvatuksellisin ja viestinnällisin keinoin tukea …

Statistical analysis of inter-arrival times of rainfall events for Italian Sub-Alpine and Mediterranean areas

2012

Abstract. In this work a set of time-series of inter-arrival times of rainfall events, at daily scale, was analysed, with the aim to verify the issue of increasing duration of dry periods. The set consists of 12 time-series recorded at rain gauges in 1926–2005, six of them belong to an Italian Sub-Alpine area (Piedmont) and six to a Mediterranean one (Sicily). In order to overcome the problem related to limited sample size for high values of inter-arrival times, the discrete probability polylog-series distribution was used to fit the empirical data from partial (20 yr) time-series. Moreover, a simple qualitative trend analysis was applied to some high quantiles of inter-arrival times as wel…

Teacher response pursuits in whole class post-task discussions

2020

This paper explores teacher elicitation practices following a perceived absence of a response to an initial inquiry. Specifically, we focus on whole class post-task discussions where a teacher pursues responses in post-first position following students’ non-uptake, and thus makes her orientation toward the expectation of a response publicly available. The data for this study come from 30 h of video-recorded classroom interactions in an English as a medium of instruction university in Turkey. Using Conversation Analysis, this study demonstrates that when confronted with a non-response to her initial elicitation in whole class interaction, in addition to drawing on interactional resources (e.…

Divided attention in music

2000

Two models have been advanced to account for the apparent ease with which attention can be divided in music: a “divided attention” model postulates that listeners effectively manage to follow two or more melodic lines played simultaneously. According to a “figure-ground model,” the harmonic coherence of Western polyphonies allows a listener to focus on one melody while staying aware of the other melody, which acts as a background. This figure-ground processing compensates for the inability to divide attention. The present study was designed to further investigate these two models. Participants were required to detect melodic errors in two familiar nursery tunes played simultaneously an octa…