This paper uses ALIS data to compare academic performance in two subjects often viewed as relatively close substitutes for one another at A-level. The important role of GCSE achievement is confirmed for both subjects. There is evidence of strong gender effects and variation in outcomes across Examination Boards. A counterfactual exercise suggests that if the sample of Business Studies candidate...

We review the first iteration of an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) designed to engage middle school students in the interpretive process behind history and the mathematical roots of cryptography and cartography. Building from the core characteristic of ARGs as collaborative sense-making systems, we sought to integrate elements of effective cooperative learning environments, such as positive inter...

In J. T. Wilson’s doctoral dissertation, the author takes up the subject of free meets, that is, subsets S of a frame L whose meet V S is preserved by a designated class of frame homomorphisms out of L. Wilson proves that all subsets of L have free meets if and only if the dual frame law holds in L and the assembly NL is a boolean frame. In this paper it is shown that a frame L has free meets w...

In this paper we propose a method for automatic local time adaptation of the spectrogram of an audio signal, based on its decomposition within a Gabor multi-frame. The sparsity of the analyses within each individual frame is evaluated through the Rényi entropies measures. According to the sparsity of the decompositions, an optimal resolution and a reduced multi-frame are determined, defining an...

Several concepts for the localization of a frame are studied. The intrinsic localization of a frame is defined by the decay properties of its Gramian matrix. Our main result asserts that the canonical dual frame possesses the same intrinsic localization as the original frame. The proof relies heavily on Banach algebra techniques, in particular on recent spectral invariance properties for certai...

Gabor function can be expressed as the alternate dual-function of the positioning of the characteristics and selectivity of the spatial frequency of the receptive field, which can effectively describe the WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on COMPUTERS Zuojin Li, Liukui Chen, Hongpeng Yin, Jia Yu ISSN: 1109-275

A sensitive method based on the principle of photothermal phenomena to study the energy transfer processes in organic dye mixtures is presented. A dual beam thermal lens method can be very effectively used as an alternate technique to determine the molecular distance between donor and acceptor in fluorescein-rhodamine B mixture using optical parametric oscillator.

For a wavelet frame with polynomial symbols generated by an MRA with a given approximation order, we present the method for parametric description and construction of all dual analysis operators (filter banks) with the maximum number of vanishing moments whose symbols are polynomials. The similar problems related to the maximum frame approximation order and some other wavelet frame properties a...

Standard video coders often use the immediate past frame as a reference frame with motion compensation for video encoding. In this paper, we use dual reference frame motion compensation in the context of high bandwidth to low bandwidth switching such as from an Ethernet connection to a GPRS system. The implementation is based on MPEG-4. Simulation results show that there is a significant gain i...

Standard video coders often use the immediate past frame as a reference frame with motion compensation for video encoding. In this paper, we use dual reference frame motion compensation in the context of high bandwidth to low bandwidth switching such as from an Ethernet connection to a GPRS system. The implementation is based on MPEG-4. Simulation results show that there is a significant gain i...