Contrasting approaches, principles, and previous learning experiences widely confront chemistry instruction. Therefore a comprehensive precise understanding of the nature mechanism instruction is essential in attaining mastery science subjects like chemistry. This study explored determinants that affect students’ tertiary education. utilized an explanatory sequential mixed-method research desig...

Thus, MacNealy’s findings mean that the wisdom of technical communicators captured in the STC annual conference Proceedings was not clearly developed in any systematic way. In brief, her analysis suggests that technical communicators rely primarily on anecdotes and intuition to answer workplace questions. Reliance on such unsystematic approaches is costly: technical communicators are continuall...

1. Historical backgrounds: the Airy function in Physics 2 2. The area-Airy distributions: Brownian motion, linear probing hashing, additive parameters in grammars 4 2.1. Area under a Brownian excursion 4 2.2. On the analysis of linear probing hashing 4 2.3. Analytic variations on the Airy distribution 5 2.4. Hachage, arbres, chemins & graphes 6 3. Random matrices, Airy kernel and the Tracy–Wido...

Much has been written about learning and epistemology. The goal of this document is not to provide a comprehensive survey of the varying viewpoints. Instead, I have compiled a selection of theories, quotations and anecdotes on learning which I find particularly interested, enlightening and (admittedly) preferentially in agreement with my own experiences and thoughts on engineering education. To...

The list of barriers and enablers identified as influencing the use of open educational resources (OER) is extensive. However, factors and influences relating to reuse have often been noted within projects operating within a short time span, or subject to other specific conditions which limit generalizability. Evidence of reuse in practice has often emerged as isolated examples or anecdotes ind...

ollowing an announcement in October 2003 by President Festus Mogae, routine testing for HIV (RHT) was introduced in Botswana in January 2004. It was assumed that RHT would reduce the stigma associated with the "exclusivity" of HIV testing, enable earlier testing, allow more timely access to treatment, and ultimately reduce the rate of infection.1-3 Botswana's first year of RHT has shown an incr...

There are many anecdotes, but few facts about the issue of dental students' debt in Canada. This second of a 4-part series about dental students' debt attempts to remedy this situation. In January 2004, students at Canada's 10 dental schools were invited to participate in a survey on costs, debt and other factors related to attending dental school in Canada. The survey provided previously inacc...

Remedies. By Mrs. St. Loe Strachey, O.B.E., J.P. Introduction by Amabel Williams-Ellis. John Murray. Cloth, 2s. 6d.; Paper, Is. 6d. From a " popular account " one expects, amongst other things, human touches and anecdotes plus a dash of practical advice. This little book gives more. In parts it is intimate; it is rich in vivid illustrations of the ups and downs in the lives of evacuated childre...

Some of the main contributions highly cited mathematician Enrique Zuazua are outlined at occasion his sixtieth birthday. Through various anecdotes, it is shown that taking advantage favourable chances part a fruitful career and can produce important results for benefit whole community.