This paper outlines some of the latest World Wide Web developments, in particular standards which are emerging from W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium. The paper gives an overview of the architectural components of the Web, summarise their deficiencies and describe how these deficiencies are being addressed. The paper should be of interest to people involved in developing applications and servi...

The use of fancy graphics can have a mesmerizing effect on simulation novices and, as such, may blind the user to the actual capabilities and valid usages. The visualization of simulations are distinct from other computer graphic media because they are a representation of an abstract of reality (the model) as opposed to a representation of reality. This extended abstract provides examples of vi...

This is a “cheat sheet”, which means that it consists of information packaged in a concise and efficient way so that it can easily be used as a quick reference. The topic is ranks of elliptic curves, mostly over Q. This is a slightly revised version of the handout I wrote as a supplement to my survey talk “Distributions of Ranks of Elliptic Curves” at MSRI’s Connections for Women: Arithmetic St...

Developing the knowledge and skill to master academic writing in higher education constitutes a challenge for most undergraduate students. However, learning about this style of opens students’ doors wide world academia. Thus, some students were invited become members Writing Feedback Center which they worked with tutor self-assessment sheet on different assignments following an eclectic approac...

Abstract While the debate around prevalence and potential effects of fake news has received considerable scholarly attention, less research focused on how political elites pundits weaponized to delegitimize media. In this study, we examine rhetoric in 2020 U.S. presidential primary candidates Facebook advertisements. Our analysis suggests that Republican Democratic alike attack demean media sev...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Although their university enrollment has increased dramatically over the past two decades, deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) students face great challenges and a tremendous environmental adjustment when entering a mainstream university. This study aims to facilitate DHH students' university success through exploring differences in thinking styles between DHH and hearing students...

More powerful personal computers and higher network bandwidth has meant that graphics has become increasingly important on the web. Graph-based diagrams are one of the most important types of structured graphical information. Here we demonstrate how XML can be used as basis for contents-based delivery of graph-based diagrams. The main distinguishing feature of our approach is that it separates ...