Research Quest: Dino Lab is designed to encourage the acquisition of higher-order critical thinking skills of middle school students. In order to arrive at the design for the game, the team conducted several participatory design sessions utilizing the Design Box methodology. In doing so, the team was able to gather data and elevator pitches from the end user (students), stakeholders (teachers),...

A variety of cognitive diagnostic models (CDMs) have been developed in recent years to help with the diagnostic assessment and evaluation of students. Each model makes different assumptions about the relationship between students' achievement and skills, which makes it important to empirically investigate which CDMs better fit the actual data. In this study, we examined this question by compara...

Scalar dissipation rate is an essential parameter in combustion theory; understanding its behavior is necessary for developing and improving combustion models. In most cases, the scalar dissipation rate shows different trends under different combustion conditions, and it is thus case-dependent. Spray combustion is categorized as a partially-premixed combustion system, leading to very complex pr...

We provide a unifying framework linking two classes of statistics used in two-sample and independence testing: on the one hand, the energy distances and distance covariances from the statistics literature; on the other, maximum mean discrepancies (MMD), that is, distances between embeddings of distributions to reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS), as established in machine learning. In the ...

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SOMMARIONell’estate del 1965 Dino Buzzati realizza per il Corriere della Sera reportage In cerca dell’Italia misteriosa, poi raccolto nel volume postumo I misteri d’Italia (1978). Opera pionieristica, quella di Buzzati, proporre – dalla terza pagina quotidiano più prestigioso un viaggio nella penisola segreta, popolata da medium, visionari e guaritori campagna; e, al tempo stesso, profondamente...