Enhancing Comprehensive Ability through Subject Competitions: Model Development and Testing

the differential effects of debate and media analysis as relate to enhancing efl learners critical thinking ability and writing performances

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...

Development of Formal Hypothesis-Testing Ability

Enhancing the search ability of differential evolution through orthogonal crossover

0020-0255/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Inc doi:10.1016/j.ins.2011.09.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (Y. Wang). Differential evolution (DE) is a class of simple yet powerful evolutionary algorithms for global numerical optimization. Binomial crossover and exponential crossover are two commonly used crossover operators in current popular DE. It is noteworthy that...

Comprehensive safety management and assessment at rugby football competitions.

The present study aims to improve medical systems by designing objective safety assessment criteria for rugby competitions. We evaluated 195 competitions between 2002 and 2011 using an original safety scale comprising the following sections: 1) competence of staff such as referees, medical attendants and match day doctor; 2) environment such as weather, wet bulb globe temperature and field cond...

Unit Testing Tool Competitions - Lessons Learned

This paper reports about the two rounds of the Java Unit Testing Tool Competition that ran in the context of the Search Based Software Testing (SBST) workshop at ICST 2013 and the first Future Internet Testing (FITTEST) workshop at ICTSS 2013. It describes the main objectives of the benchmark, the Java classes that were selected in both competitions, the data that was collected, the tools that ...