Enhancing laboratory activity with computer-based tutorials

Investigating effects of computer-based grammar tutorials

This dissertation study examined a broad question of whether computer-based grammar tutorials are effective and welcome tools to review grammar for language learners by investigating effects of three different modes of such tutorials on learners’ knowledge and satisfaction. For this study, I developed experimental tutorials in three different modes (a static text with a voice-over narration, an...

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Enhancing the Performance of Solar Water Disinfection with Potassium Persulfat: Laboratory Study with Enterococcus faecalis

Background & Aims of the Study: The safe drinking water providing is one of the most crucial objections in these centenaries. Bacterial water contamination and high rate of morbidity and mortality is crucial health threat. Efficiency of potassium persulfat (KPS) associated solar disinfection as a novel water disinfection technology was evaluated in batch scale experiments, us...

Enhancing Camera Operator Performance with Computer Vision Based Control

Cameras are often mounted on platforms that can move like rovers, booms, gantries and aircraft. People operate such platforms to capture desired views of scene or target. To avoid collisions with the environment and occlusions, such platforms often possess redundant degrees-of-freedom. As a result, manipulating such platforms demands much skill. Visual-servoing some degreesof-freedom may reduce...

Computer-based laboratory for data communications and computer networking

Data communications and computer networking (DCCN) has established itself as an essential part of most computer science and engineering curricula, usually in the form of courses and/or laboratories. For reliable training in this area, this study presents a series of 10 experiments that serve as a complete laboratory course in DCCN. The prominent benefit of this laboratory set is that it uses av...