Innovative teaching methods such as collaborative learning, teamwork and mind maps were introduced to a Statistics course at tertiary level and compared to traditional teaching methods. These innovative teaching strategies, which are considered generic and therefor applicable in any educational environment, proved to be successful. Collaboration and teamwork is an important factor in the develo...

While multimodal systems are an active research field, there is no agreed-upon set of multimodal interaction parameters, which would allow to quantify the performance of such systems and their underlying modules, and would therefor be necessary for a systematic evaluation. In this paper we propose an extension to established parameters describing the interaction with spoken dialog systems [1] i...

I discuss recent observations of asymmetries in Doppler shifts across T Tauri jets, and argue that the observed asymmetric velocity shifts and gradients do not indicate jet rotation. These observations, therefor, cannot be used as a support of a magnetized disk wind. The interaction of the jets with a twisted-tilted (wrapped) accretion disk (or the variable velocity precessing model) accounts b...

The goal of this student project was to create a realistic visualisation of the city of Aachen, based on 2D data available from the land registry office and photographs of the buildings. Therefor several applications were developed to automate the process, including tools for repairing defective 2D data and creating and texturing a 3D mesh, modeling landmark buildings for higher detail and a re...

There is a variety of algorithms out there that speed up rendering of terrain-data, varying from simple quadtree based frustum-culling of unseen terrain chunks to using occluder sets to using (continuous) Level of Detail. All of these techniques serve the purpose of reducing the amount of triangles to be pushed through the rendering pipeline. Many terrain rendering algorithms use a combination ...

There are 9 Let7 family members present in keratinocytes, all acting as translational suppressors of the same target mRNAs. This redundancy implies that Let7 is crucial to cellular functioning, and it has indeed been found to act as a tumor suppressor, down regulating functions such as proliferation, cell motility, and de-differentiation. I hypothesized that increasing loss of Let7 loci would l...

This reply is based on the ‘online first’-version of article ‘Gas, Oil and Heritage: Well-oiled Histories Corporate Sponsorship in Dutch Museums (1990-2021)’, BMGN – Low Countries Review (Online first 2021) 1-28 by Plets Kuijt, published September 2021. The page numbers footnotes mentioned this therefor refer to online article. You can find version here, https://bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view/7028/o...

The paper presents our first work in progress results of an approach to verify the correct use of software libraries in target projects. Therefor the project’s source code is analyzed and checked against the library’s behavior specification, called interface grammar. This grammar is formalized using annotated state diagrams, and the verification analysis is based on static control flow, data fl...

The new 3 generation synchrotron light sources coming up are designed for a small transverse emittance. But the small beam size gives a low Touschek lifetime and calls for good beam stability. In some storage rings higher harmonic cavities are installed for bunch lengthening to overcome the lifetime limitations. The higher harmonic cavities also induce Landau damping that improves the beam stab...