International evidence suggests that educational reform’s progress depends on teachers’ individual and collective capacity and its link with schoolwide capacity for promoting pupils’ learning. Building capacity is therefore critical. Capacity is a complex blend of motivation, skill, positive learning, organisational conditions and culture, and infrastructure of support. Put together, it gives i...

Estimation of Dynamic Assignment Matrices and OD Demands Using Adaptive Kalman Filtering SHOU-REN HU a , SAMER M. MADANAT b , JAMES V. KROGMEIER c & SRINIVAS PEETA d a Assistant Professor, Department of Transportation Management , Tamkang University , Taipei, Taiwan b Associate Professor, Department ol Civil and Environmental Engineering , University ol California , 114 McLaughlin Hall, Berkele...

a Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, UK b Department of Geography, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK c College of Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Peter Lanyon Building, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ, UK d School of GeoSciences, Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences Crew ...

1 School of Physiology & Pharmacology, Medical Sciences Building, University Walk, University 7 of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1TD, UK. 2 Department of Anaesthesia, University Hospitals Bristol, 8 Bristol, BS2 8HW, UK. 3 Department of Engineering Mathematics, Merchant Venturers Building, 9 Woodland Road, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1UB, UK. 4 Centre for Integrative Physiology, 10 University o...

This paper describes our work integrating automatic speech generation into a virtual environment where autonomous agents are enabled to interact by natural spoken language. The application intents to address bullying problems for children aged 9-12 in the UK and Germany by presenting improvised dramas and by asking the user to act as an “invisible friend” of the victimised character. As we are ...

5 Warm climates pose challenges to building energy consumption and pedestrian comfort. 6 Knowledge of the wind flow around buildings can help address these issues through 7 improving natural ventilation, energy use and outdoor thermal comfort. Computational Fluid 8 Dynamics (CFD) simulations are widely used to predict wind flow around buildings, despite 9 Researcher, Singapore-ETH Centre, Futur...

we investigated the distribution of asbestos containing materials(acms) in korea for 15 school buildings built before and after 1990, including elementary schools, middle schools and high schools. in order to perform risk assessments of samples gathered from the buildings, the study used four different rules as the criteria: results from the ahera rule, the hse rule and the astm rule on acms we...

The program of the School of Architecture provides studies preparatory to the practice of Architecture within a broad educational context . While emphasizing knowledge and skills required by architects for guiding the processes of building, the School is especially concerned that its students learn the good judgment that particularly distinguishes the architect from all other professionals who ...