Examining the association between socioeconomic status and reproductive output in modern societies has led to conflicting results. In this study, we used a representative sample of contemporary Swedish men and women to analyze possible reasons for the contradictory results. We found that the relationship between socioeconomic status—described here by income and highest educational level attaine...

For more than thirty years I have been applying cost-effectiveness and costbenefit analysis to education. When I began this work in about 1970, there were almost no cost-effectiveness studies reported in the literature, and the term was not found in education at all. The term cost-effectiveness is now commonly used in justifying specific educational interventions. It has also become standard pa...

background as a developing country, iran has not had a substantial share in global science production activities; however, this country has recently been the forth country in the world regarding research output publications, and biomedical research has played a crucial role in achieving this honorable position. objectives in this paper, we aimed to introduce the strategies employed at baqiyatal...

PURPOSE A novel dual-output vocal cord vibration switch is described and evaluated for two individuals with severe motor disabilities and complex communication needs. An evaluative case series was performed to compare the new device to its previously proposed single-output counterpart in terms of accuracy, speed and user fatigue. METHOD In an ABAB design, participants were followed for up to ...

In educational contexts, automated assessment tools (AAT) are commonly used to provide formative feedback on programming exercises. However, designing exercises for AAT remains a laborious task or imposes limitations the Most use either output comparison, where generated is compared against an expected output, unit testing, tool has access code of submission under test. While comparison advanta...

1 Lecturer, USIC, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Dayalbagh, Agra-5, India, [email protected] 2 Reader, Dept. of Electrical Engg., Faculty of Engineering., Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Dayalbagh, Agra-5, India, [email protected] Abstract Remote laboratories are gaining considerable attention and acceptance in the academic world. Most of the work reported on implementation of...

This paper concerns the problem of output consensus in nonlinear non-minimum phase systems. The main contribution of the paper is to guarantee achieving consensus in the presence of unstable zero dynamics. To achieve this goal, an output redefinition method is proposed. The new outputs of agents are functions of original outputs and internal states and defined such that the dynamics of agents a...