This proposal seeks to utilize analytics on student demographics and grade records in combination with data on their performance in the GenEd NMS class G131 “Oceans and Our Global Environment” to assess how performance in the class and its range of assignments may be related to specific student characteristics. The project is structured to examine such connections by testing six specific hypoth...

One of the major challenges faced by the Campus Writing Center at Queensborough Community College ( QCC), a member institution of the City University of New York (CUNY), has always been finding effective strategies for supporting remedial writing students. Since many of its tutees are part-time students and/or students whose first language is not English, the Campus Writing Center needed a way ...

Algorithm In path and motion planning, RRT are used to find feasible trajectories connectinga given set of points in a subset of the state space, which does not contain anyobstacles and is thus called the free configuration space (see [LK01a] and the ref-erences therein). Our abstract RRT-based simulation algorithm contains the samemain steps as the classic RRT algorithms (see f...

BACKGROUND: Minimizing the chest compression pause associated with application of a mechanical CPR device is a key component of optimal integration into the overall resuscitation process. As part of a multi-agency implementation project, Anchorage Fire Department deployed LUCAS CPR devices on BLS and ALS fire apparatus for initiation early in resuscitation efforts. A 2012 report identified the ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of transition of summative assessment from frequent modular to combined block assessment and its role on learning of medical students. METHODS A descriptive study was carried out at Islamic International Medical College. A questionnaire comprizing of 8 questions with Likert scale (1-5) was designed for 3(rd) year students. The questions were grouped in three ...