Near JA, Martin BJ. Expanding course goals beyond disciplinary boundaries: physiology education in an undergraduate course on psychoactive drugs. Adv Physiol Educ 31: 161–166, 2007; doi: 10.1152/advan.00058.2005.—The topic of psychoactive drugs is one of inherent interest to college students. We used this insight to design and implement a multidisciplinary undergraduate course with psychoactive...

21M.380 12/3/09 Turbo-Sonic Whopper The Turbo-Sonic Whopper (TSW) is an instrument which has been designed in the spirit of technology based musical creation. With a majority of its parts being constructed from found materials, the TSW is truly a piece of experimental music technology. The inspiration for the TSW comes from Nicholas Collins’ book Handmade Electronic Music as well as from variou...

This study examined the impact of structuredness of asynchronous online discussion protocols and evaluation rubrics on meaningful discourse. Transcripts of twelve online discussions involving 87 participants from four sections of a graduate course entitled Instructional Technology Foundations and Learning Theory were analysed across four semesters. Protocols and evaluation rubrics guiding onlin...

This paper examines the use of Tricky Topics (TTs) technique in focus groups as a data collection method qualitative research.
 methodological study originated from two-phase exploratory that explored perspectives 23 senior Psychological
 Counseling and Guidance students on their online psychological counseling experiences. The original comprised indepth
 conversations via group ...

In the Flipped classroom based on smart-learning, the participants studied at home in advance with materials made by their teachers. Then, in class, they searched data instantly by using smart pads, used applications for learning or as a tool, and conducted online evaluation, etc. The normal flipped learning-based education group studied at home in advance with videos made by their teachers and...

We consider the optimal control of an unreliable manufacturing system with restarting costs. In 1986 and 1988, Akella and Kumar (for the in nite horizon discounted cost) and Bielecki and Kumar (for the in nite horizon average expected cost) show that the optimal policy is given by an optimal inventory level (“hedging point policy”). Inspired by these simple systems, we explore a new class of mo...

You’ve probably seen impedance in some context before, perhaps in a physics class, or in some discussions in an introductory lab class. If so, you will remember a few formulas and perhaps how to apply them, but here I’d like to not only explain how to use impedance as a concept, but also why it works. That way, you’ll know when you can apply this method, and when it is not appropriate. The firs...

If X is a metric space then CX and LX denote the semigroups of continuous and Lipschitz mappings, respectively, from X to itself. The relative rank of CX modulo LX is the least cardinality of any set U \LX where U generates CX . For a large class of separable metric spaces X we prove that the relative rank of CX modulo LX is uncountable. When X is the Baire space NN, this rank is א1. A large pa...