the present study was performed to analyze some of the preventive vs. promoter factors of applying blended learning system in agricultural higher education as viewed from the perspective of khuzestan province's faculties of agriculture and natural resources' faculty members. statistical population of the study consisted of the members of agriculture and natural resources state college...

In this paper we describe how 2D appearance models can be applied to the problem of creating a near-videorealistic talking head. A speech corpus of a talker uttering a set of phonetically balanced training sentences is analysed using a generative model of the human face. Segments of original parameter trajectories corresponding to the synthesis unit are extracted from a codebook, normalised, bl...

Neural networks are known to be capable of providing good recognition rate at the present of noise where other methods normally fail. Neural networks with various architectures and training algorithms have successfully been applied for letter or character recognition. This paper uses MLP network trained using Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm to recognise noisy numerals. The recognition results of ...

Purpose: The objective was to determine the social-economic factors influencing blended learning among students in Kenya Medical Training College
 Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive study done. In KMTC campuses average student population is thirty thousand (30,000). research used simple random sampling selected campuses. sample size 384. Primary data collected using questionnaires ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate student academic performance and perception towards blended learning and flipped classrooms in comparison to traditional teaching. METHODS This study was conducted during the hematology block on year three students. Five lectures were delivered online only. Asynchronous discussion boards were created where students could interact with colleagues and instructors. A flipp...

Article history: Received on: 01/12/2016 Revised on: 18/12/2016 Accepted on: 30/12/2016 Available online: 31/01/2017 The blended essential oil was composed of eucalyptus, rosemary, patchouli, and pine oils. The blended oil was analyzed by GC-MS. The effects of blended oil on autonomic parameters and emotional changes in humans following inhalation were an investigation in this study. Thirty hea...

Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) is a new evolutionary optimization method that is based on the science of biogeography. We propose two extensions to BBO. First, we propose a blended migration operator. Benchmark results show that blended BRO outperforms standard BBO. Second, we employ blended BRO to solve constrained optimization problems. Constraints are handled by modifying the BRO immi...