In the ranking of the teaching effectiveness of staff members through their student feedback scores, there can be a problem if it is perceived to be more difficult to obtain high scores in some courses than others. The result would be, therefore, that staff taking ‘difficult’ courses are disadvantaged. For example, it is often claimed that GEM and courses at the 1000 level are more difficult to...

A new anodization method for the preparation of nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) with pattern-addressed pore structure was developed. The approach is based on pulse anodization of aluminum employing a series of potential waves that consist of two or more different pulses with designated periods and amplitudes, and provides unique tailoring capability of the internal pore structure of anod...

Visual stimulation of a region outside the receptive field of single cells in visual cortex often results in the modulation of their responses. The modulatory effects are thought to be mediated through lateral connections within visual cortex. Research on lateral interactions commonly shows suppression. There has been no systematic study of the optimal conditions for facilitation. Here we have ...

Background: In the context of Texas of the USA, House Bill 5 signifies a major policy shift requiring entering high school students starting in fall 2014 to choose an endorsement, like science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) being one of them, to provide students with earlier exposure to a coherent course sequence. As we barely understand students’ choices before the endorsemen...

Introduction: Multiple-channel transmission has been shown to offer acceleration of multidimensional spatially-selective pulses. Main applications of such pulses would be performing a homogenous excitation in a varying B1 field or localized spectroscopic imaging. A major problem is the small bandwidth of such localized pulses. Small off-resonances (either induced by B0 inhomogeneities or spectr...

Past research on level 2 visual perspective-taking (VPT) has mostly focused on understanding the mental rotation involved when one adopts others' perspective; the mechanisms underlying how the visual world of others is mentally represented remain unclear. In three studies, we addressed this question by adopting a novel VPT task with motion stimuli and exploring the aftereffect on motion discrim...