Ken Cheng was born in Hong Kong. His family emigrated to Toronto, Canada while he was still young, and he attended high school in Toronto, and then the University of Toronto. He has a M.Ed. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA in 1984. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Sussex and at the University of Western Ontario before beco...

This study is dedicated to the peculiarities of functioning and adaptation borrowings from foreign languages as a result interaction with Chechen language in processes globalization. The authors noted importance this problem connection growing society, which, turn, promotes activation its use one state Republic all organizations institutions. It that at nowadays Anglicisms sphere finance, law i...

The article describes the development and implementation of an automated system for analysing process plant micropropagation in a biotechnology laboratory. was developed within framework federal targeted program tested at largest planting material producer Chechen Republic. digital technologies allowed enterprise to control micropropagation, accounting products, measure parameters objects, dete...

How do differences in prior conceptual knowledge affect the nature and rate of learning? To answer this question, we built a computational model of learning, called SimStudent, and conducted a controlled simulation study to investigate how learning a complex skill changes when the system is given “weak” domain-general vs. “strong” domain-specific prior knowledge. We measured SimStudent’s learni...

Landslides occur when the slope is composed of water-bearing and water-resistant rocks. Large blocks hard rocks (block landslides) individual can move. The speed landslides different. Some cover a distance about 100 m per year, others move much faster are dangerous natural phenomena that residential buildings outbuildings lead to human casualties. By origin, distinguished: seismogenic, caused b...