Testwiseness is defined as the set of cognitive strategies used by a student that is intended to improve his or her score on a test regardless of the test’s subject matter. Questions with elements that may be affected by testwiseness are common in physics assessments, even in those which have been extensively validated and widely used as evaluation tools in physics education research. The poten...

In this paper we establish a set of conditions on the production of free choice items (FCI) in multi-party dialogue. Thus, we first observe that indefinite constructions are produced when speakers try to lead their addressees to access general, scalar rules, called topoı̈. These rules are used in reaching certain conclusions. However, the hearers need to be lead to access topoı̈ when they do not ...

The Turkish Mastiff or Aksaray Malakli Dog is a dog breed not yet officially recognized by the world canine organization - Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI). To achieve recognition, more research and analysis of morphometric parameters this are required. Previous on presented average values certain morphological parameters. Measurement results 20 showed that there statistically signif...

As part of the payload 2016 ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mission, Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery (NOMAD) suite instrument has been observing Martian atmosphere since March 2018. NOMAD is mainly dedicated to study trace atmospheric species taking advantage a high-spectral resolution. We demonstrate that when in nadir mode, i.e., line-of-sight points centre Mars, it can be also explo...

In a network consisting of several thousands computers, the occurrence of faults is unavoidable. Being able to test the behavior of a distributed program in an environment where we can control the faults (such as the crash of a process) is an important feature that matters in the deployment of reliable programs. In this thesis, we present FAIL (for FAult Injection Language), a language that per...

The Full-Configuration-Interaction Nuclear-Orbital (FCI-NO) approach [J. Chem. Phys., 2009, 131, 19401], as the implementation of the quantum-chemistry ansatz, is overviewed and applied to (He)N-Cl2(X) clusters (N≤ 4). The ground and excited states of both fermionic (3)He and bosonic (4)He [see also, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2012, 2, 2145] clusters are studied. It is shown that the FCI-NO approach...

Uncovering effective relations from non-invasive functional neuroimaging data remains challenging because the physical truth does not match the modelling assumptions often made by causal models. Here, we explore the use of causal Probabilistic Graphical Models for decoding the effective connectivity from functional optical neuroimaging. Our hypothesis is that directions of arcs of the connectiv...

The application of factor analysis to the Force Concept Inventory (FCI) has proven to be problematic. Some studies have suggested that factor analysis of test results serves as a helpful tool in assessing the recognition of Newtonian concepts by students. Other work has produced at best ambiguous results. For the FCI administered as a preand post-test, we see factor analysis as a tool by which ...