This paper describes a course in computer programming that is being offered to freshmen and sophomores in civil engineering at NC State. Visual Basic (VBA in Excel) and MATLAB are being used as the programming languages. Much of the learning occurs through reverse engineering and imitation. Typical civil engineering problems are used to present the programming concepts. Especially in the instan...

One of the most vital areas of public policy is education. In today’s societies quality and equality in education are among the basic human rights and its provision within the basic responsibilities of modern governments. Setting educational policies is the framework within which governments try to fulfill this duty. The success of such policies is a function of basic administrative arrangement...

this article, by leaving pre-determined membership function of a fuzzy set which is a basic assumption for such subject, will try to propose a hybrid technique to select the most economic project among alternative projects in fuzziness interest rates condition. in this way, net present worth (npw) would be the economic indicator. this article tries to challenge the assumption of large sample si...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Children with Chronic Pain (CHACT) on the function of 7 to 12 year-old children. Thus, the basic problem of the current study is whether CHACT can improve the function level of 7 to 12 year-old children with chronic pain? Method: According to the criteria of chronic pain, a number of children w...

the hermeneutic circle articulated by different hermeneuticans in various versions is one of the basic problems in modern hermeneutics. romanic hermeneutics introduced the circle as a methodological principle, but in philosophical hermeneutics the circle has ontological dimensions and regards as a process of understanding. heidegger believes that hermeneutic circle reflects dasein’s existential...

In this paper, we propose and analyze a mathematical model describing the effect of awareness programs by public media on the prevalence of Typhoid fever. A threshold quantity $R_{0}$, similar to the basic reproduction number is derived. We investigate the biologically meaningful equilibrium points and their local stability analysis. The global stability analysis has been performed with respect...

Misunderstandings about the Concept of Limit among High School Seniors E. Reyhaani, Ph.D. Z. Sharifi M. Soltaani The concept of limit is one of the basic concepts in mathematics. As such, clear understanding of it is pre-requisite for learning many other concepts. However, many of high school students suffer from misunderstanding this basic concept. To identify and remedy these ...