This study examined the extent to which instructional conditions influence the prediction of academic success in nine undergraduate courses offered in a blended learning model (n = 4134). The study illustrates the differences in predictive power and significant predictors between course‐specific models and generalized predictive models. The results suggest it is imperative...

The present work concerns the problem of progressive accommodation to actuator failure. An optimal nonlinear controller synthesis approach is formulated on the basis of the closed loop stability objective. The authors show the interest of the proposed method even for a local analysis when a linear approximation is used. This work focuses on a solution to ensure stability while accommodating to ...

With the implementation of the federal "No Child Left Behind" Education Act, schools in America are under increased pressure to demonstrate academic success through higher test scores. Academic leaders are increasingly recognizing that the issues that students confront are not unique to the school setting but are issues of the larger community. Stronger links need to be forged between those wor...

Measured by per-capita publication measures, Sweden is an academic powerhouse. Hence, its inability to commercialize on these accomplishments is a puzzle. This paper attributes this failure to the top-down nature of Swedish policies aimed at commercializing these innovations as well as an academic environment that discourages academics from actively participating in the commercialization of the...

Berend E. Westerhof, Jos J. Settels, Willem-Jan W. Bos, Nico Westerhof, John M. Karemaker, Wouter Wieling, Gert A. van Montfrans, and Johannes J. van Lieshout Edwards Lifesciences BMEYE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Laboratory for Clinical Cardiovascular Physiology, Heart Failure Research Center, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Internal Medicine, Sint Antonius ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects over 30,000 students in the United States. Central nervous system complications are widespread among students with SCD and include stroke, silent cerebral infarction, and cognitive impairment. The effects of these complications may lead to academic failure, limited career options, and for some, total disability. Despite studies describing the significant academ...

The Academic Computer Systems Department of the Autonomous University of Baja California Sur has been implemented as one of the strategies to reduce dropout and failure rates, measure and analyze the academic performance of each of the students during the courses, to identify factors that may influence academic performance. This requires having a tool that facilitates the teaching record each s...

Purpose: To investigate the toxicity, survival and patterns of failure in patients with advanced lung cancer treated with intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and chemotherapy. Methods and Materials: Retrospective chart review of 68 total patients: 46 academic and 22 community center. Endpoints: Grade ≥ 3 pneumonitis, Grade ≥ 2 esophagitis, local, regional and distant failure, progressi...

This study examines the factors affecting students’ academic performance that contribute to the prediction of their failure and dropout using educational data mining techniques. This paper suggests the use of various classification techniques to identify the weak students who are likely to perform poorly in their academics. WEKA, an open source data mining tool was used to evaluate the attribut...