Certainly one of the primary goals in developing materials for second language learners should be to create materials that reflect vocabulary and grammar that these learners are likely to encounter in the “real world”. There is little to be gained from having students memorize long lists of vocabulary in a textbook, if the learners never again encounter these words once they venture out in the ...

Head on collision of localized waves in cold and dense hadronic matter with and without shear and bulk viscosities is investigated. Non-relativistic dynamics of propagating waves is studied using the hydrodynamics description of the system and suitable equation of state. It will be shown that the localized waves are described by solutions of the Burgers equation. Simulations show that the propa...

Introduction. Practicing medicine needs correct, up to date and easy to use information resources. This study is designed to investigate different aspects of the resources used by internal medicine attending physicians, residents and interns. Methods. All attendings (n: 43), residents (n: 23) and interns (n: 33) of internal medicine ward were, after receiving a brief introduction about the ai...

This paper reports on an investigation of mathematics curriculum documents, commonly used textbooks and teacher ‘curricular practice’ with respect to educational traditions in France and Norway. The study has helped to develop a deeper understanding of (1) educational traditions in France and Norway; (2) the ways the educational traditions permeate the system, from policy documents through text...

Offensive security—or, in plain English, the practice of exploitation—has greatly enhanced our understanding of what it means for computers to be trustworthy. Having grown from hacker conventions that fit into a single room into a distinct engineering discipline in all but the name, offensive computing has so far been content with a jargon and an informal “hacker curriculum”. Now that it is unm...

In order to automate the process of transforming figures in textbooks into tactile format, the types of the figures play an important role in deciding what process to go through. In this paper, we explore the problem of how to train an accurate Support Vector Machine classifier that can determine whether an image belongs to a certain figure type, using various feature extraction methods. We con...

The dream of an electronic textbook has been actively pursued for at least two decades. Goals include (i) improving exposition through a richer collection of technologies than are available through print textbooks, and (ii) increase student engagement with the material, in order to get them to learn at a higher level in Bloom’s taxonomy (Naps et al., 2002). Instead of merely viewing material, w...

This research examines the frameworks used by Computer Science and Information Systems students at the conclusion of their first semester of study of Software Engineering topics. A questionnaire listing 64 Software Engineering concepts was given to students upon completion of their first Software Engineering course. This survey was given to samples of students at three universities. To identify...

We introduce a new architecture for e-textbooks which contains two navigational aids: an index and a concept map. We report results from an evaluation in a university setting with 99 students. The interaction sequences of the users were captured during the user study. We found several clusters of user interaction types in our data. Three separate user types were identified based on the interact...

Music textbooks of PMP is a set mature teaching materials widely used in music course elementary education China. The study the theory knowledge this can not only help teachers primary and secondary schools to more deeply understand compiling spirit textbooks, but also have great significance cultivation talents normal universities. Through combing involved, paper makes brief summary characteri...