DESCRIPTION. The Learning Styles Inventory, Version III (LSI-III) “is designed to measure student preferences for nine instructional strategies commonly found in elementary and middle school classrooms” (technical and administration manual, p. 1). The LSI-III takes 15 minutes to complete, is self-scoring, and has forms for elementary (Grades 2-5) and middle-levels (Grades 6-8). Equipped with a ...

Received: December 18, 2015 Revised: September 29, 2016 Accepted: October 18, 2016 Abstract: Background: Aiming at the challenges in control and perdition of roof strata which caused by the complexity of coal mine roof, the force and vibration characteristics of drill bit have been analyzed considering the coupling vibration between drill bit and coal rock, and the characteristics of coupled vi...

INTRODUCTION Groundwater plays an important part in many regolith processes (chemical weathering, solute dispersion, etc.), but collecting groundwater data usually requires drilling that can be: a) expensive analyses for porosity, permeability, etc in addition to drilling costs; b) problematic rig availability and access to remote sites; c) under-sampled entire groundwater regimes characterised...

Apache Drill is a distributed system for interactive ad-hoc analysis of large-scale datasets. Designed to handle up to petabytes of data spread across thousands of servers, the goal of Drill is to respond to ad-hoc queries in a low-latency manner. In this article, we introduce Drill's architecture, discuss its extensibility points, and put it into the context of the emerging offerings in the in...

When inserting screws into a vertebral pedicle, the surgeon usually exposes the back part of the vertebra and uses his or her anatomic knowledge to align the drill in the proper direction. A slight error in direction may result in an important error in the position of the tip of the screw. This is done with no direct visibility of crucial structures (spinal cord, pleura, vessels). Statistical a...

INTRODUCTION The management of distal triceps tears must address each patient's medical and functional status: in general, the literature has described satisfactory nonsurgical treatment in tears less than 50%. Tears greater than 50% are treated nonsurgically in a sedentary person and surgically in active patients. Complete tears are generally managed surgically: most reported repair techniques...

In the last years, laser beam drilling became increasingly important for many technical applications as it allows the contactless production of high quality drill holes. So far, mainly short laser pulses are of industrial relevance, as they offer a good compromise between precision and efficiency and combine high ablation efficiency with low thermal damage of the workpiece. Laser beam drilling ...

Signs of microbial life on Mars, if they exist, will probably exist underground. This paper describes a robotics system for handling and sub-sampling cores taken from a robotic drill. The system prepares samples for analysis and life detection experiments. This system has been integrated with a drill and other instruments and tested in the field. This paper presents a description of the system ...

This paper proposes a Graph semantic based Object Oriented Multidimensional Data Model (GOOMD). The model defines a set of graph based formal constructs that are used to specify the conceptual level design of data warehouses (DW). Besides offering a novel graph based semantic for multidimensional data representation, the proposed GOOMD model renders a unified realization of different logical st...

Drilling tools currently used in surgery depends only on the surgeon’s manual skills to stop the penetration when completing a hole. This paper presents a modular mechatronic system for automatic bone drilling in surgery. The development of a “modular system” that is compatible with motor-driven drills that are commercially available, rather than developing a new surgical drill, is emphasized. ...