While short training courses in reverse engineering are frequently offered at meetings like Blackhat and through training organizations such as SANS, there are virtually no reverse engineering courses offered in academia. This paper discusses possible reasons for this situation, emphasizes the importance of teaching reverse engineering (and applied computer security education in general), and p...

The paper presents an evolution of personalized courses based on genetic algorithms (PCEGA). The genetic algorithm are successfully applied in the dynamic update process of the course during the whole learning process. Under this framework of this algorithm, the target user model updates dynamically, and the courses evolve during the process. It provides a good general purpose and scalable fram...

Author Dan Berrett Journal The Chronicle of Higher Education June 2, 2014 Abstract Students seldom relish required courses. They are often seen as a burden that everyone would rather get out of the way—a bit like flossing. Some colleges think they’ve found a solution: They have adopted a curricular approach fit for a generation of oversharers and made the courses all about the students. Courses...

With the increasing complexity and expansion of the biological sciences, there has been a corresponding increase in content in the first-year introductory biology course sequence for majors. In general this has resulted in courses that introduce students to large amounts of material and leave little time for practicing investigative science or skill development. Based on our analysis of data co...

The purpose of this paper was to see whether any significant relationship exists among EFL learners’ autonomy, left/right brain dominance, and reading comprehension of the Academic Reading and General Reading Modules of IELTS examination. To this end, 100 female EFL learners were randomly selected from those who were attending IELTS preparatory courses at a language school in Tehran. All partic...

in most general and special english courses of the iranian universities, reading comprehension is the main component of the syllabus. nonetheless, in an attempt to improve listening and speaking skills, some general english courses were accompanied by oral presentations, according to which each student had to give a lecture lasting for nearly 10 minutes. the main objective was to investigate th...

This paper reports on a design process of e-learning courses for competence development of experienced employees in the manufacturing industry. Through a crossorganizational collaborative action design research project the aim was to design e-learning courses at university level to support work-integrated learning. Two designand learning cycles were evaluated over two years. The first cycle ide...

background: infertility affects various aspects of personality and psychology, familial and career performances, and relationships. studies show that stress, anxiety, life dissatisfaction, and other psychological problems follow infertility . infertility issue, its tests and remedy are stressful and may lead to anxiety and depression and have destructive effects on couple relationships. objecti...