The Participatory Learning Approach (PLA, pronounced “play”) engages students as active participants in the full life cycle of homework, projects, and examination. PLA’s core idea is that students design the questions or projects, execute them, and then assess and grade their peers’ solutions. Each stage can be performed by individuals or by teams. Students should be able to observe (read) ever...

In this paper I introduce the RWC (Real World Computing) Music Database, a copyright-cleared music database (DB) that is available to researchers as a common foundation for research. Shared DBs are common in other research fields and have made significant contributions to progress in those fields. The field of music information processing, however, has lacked a common DB of musical pieces or a ...

This paper makes the case for a spotting computation scheme which gives rise to a new classification methodology for processing real world data by surveying algorithms developed under the Real World Computing (RWC) program and related work in Japan. A spotting function has the segmentation-free characteristic which ignores gracefully most real world input data which do not belong to a task doma...

A hybrid learning method of a software-based backpropagation learning and a hardware-based RWC learning is proposed for the development of circuit-based neural networks. The backpropagation is known as one of the most efficient learning algorithms. A weak point is that its hardware implementation is extremely difficult. The RWC algorithm, which is very easy to implement with respect to its hard...

This study analyzed the vertical distribution of gravimetric water content (GWC), relative water content (RWC), and equivalent water thickness (EWT) in winter wheat during heading and early ripening stages, and evaluated the position of leaf number at which Vegetation Indexes (VIs) can best retrieve canopy water-related properties of winter wheat. Results demonstrated that the vertical distribu...

Rossby Wave Chromatography (RWC) is implemented in a linearized barotropic model as a tool to understand the response of the mid-latitude jet to external forcing. Given the background zonal-mean flow and the space-time structure of the baroclinic wave activity source, RWC calculates the space-time structure of the upper tropospheric eddy momentum fluxes. RWC is used to diagnose and understand t...

This study describes the physiological response of two co-occurring tree species (Eucalyptus marginata and Corymbia calophylla) to seasonal drought at low- and high-quality restored bauxite mine sites in south-western Australia. Seasonal changes in photosynthesis (A), stomatal conductance (g(s)), leaf water potential (ψ), leaf osmotic potential (ψ), leaf relative water content (RWC) and pressur...

Soybean is an important industrial crop in Croatia and in the last ten years (2000-2009) mean soybean harvested area was 45888 ha (from 35789 to 62810 ha) with average seed yield 2.0 t ha-1 (Central Croatian Bureau of Statistic, 2010). Seed yields of soybean varied in close connection with amount and distribution of precipitation during the vegetation period (Vučić and Bošnjak, 1980; Bošnjak, 2...