INTERDEPNDENCY ANALYSIS: TRENDS AND ISSUES

Issues and Trends

This paper describes some features in the changing landscape of activities intended to improve both quality and access in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) undergraduate education. Observations are offered from the viewpoint afforded by my work—broadly over the last 10 years—both as a researcher, and as an evaluator for projects related to the improvement of undergraduate...

Issues and Trends

This study examined how 16 Black, Latina, and American Indian women science students reacted to their undergraduate science classes. I focused on the meanings they made of the common features of university science documented by Seymour and Hewitt (1997), including large, competitive, fast-paced classes, poor teaching, and an unsupportive culture. I also explored their responses to the values ma...

Trends and Issues

In recent years, a number of academic researchers have conducted analyses of retirement plan designs to better understand features that promote greater participation and contribution rates. Renowned experts in behavioral finance have linked low participation and savings rates in defined contribution (DC) plans to such human behaviors as procrastination and inertia, which has been described as "...

Trends and Issues 1 Running Head: TRENDS AND ISSUES Trends and Issues: Education of the Public Regarding Obesity Prevention

Formal methods for cryptographic protocol analysis: emerging issues and trends

The history of the application of formal methods to cryptographic protocol analysis spans over twenty years, and recently has been showing signs of new maturity and consolidation. Not only have a number of specialized tools been developed, and general-purpose ones been adapted, but people have begun applying these tools to realistic protocols, in many cases supplying feedback to designers that ...