The Office of Graduate Studies has verified and approved the above named committee members. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my thesis advisor Dr. Simon Foo for his constant guidance and advice. I would also like to thank him for being my advisor during the course of my degree. I would like to thank Dr. Uwe Meyer-Baese for his encouragement and support during the research. I am gratef...

The undergraduates' graduation design (thesis) of independent colleges is an important practice link in teaching program and a main course on the training of talents. In order to further enhance the quality of the undergraduates' graduation design (thesis) of independent colleges, common problems of teaching link such as lack of administration systems, irregular guidance of teachers and inheren...

Web-based educational systems are now becoming part of main stream education. As an essential component of the web based educational systems, the student model enables the system to provide individualised course contents and study guidance, and therefore to help the students with different backgrounds and knowledge levels to achieve their learning goals effectively on the web. A prototype stude...

In response to the World Health Organization (WHO) statements and international concerns regarding the Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak, ISUOG is publishing the following guidance for ultrasound during pregnancy. With the current uncertainty regarding many aspects of the diagnosis and clinical course of ZIKV infection in pregnancy, potentially valuable information may be obtained by ultrasound practi...

Supporting students with feedback and guidance while they work on networking exercises can be provided in on-campus universities by human course advisors. A shortcoming however is that these advisors are not continuously available for the students, especially when students are working on exercises independently from the university, e.g. at home using a virtual environment. In order to improve t...

National Institute Of Technology, Rourkela (Deemed University) and is an authentic work carried out by him under my supervision and guidance. To the best of my knowledge, the matter embodied in the thesis has not been submitted to any other university / institute for the award of any Degree or Diploma. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is a pleasure to thank many people who made this thesis possible. I would...

Acknowledgement First and foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Prof. K. R. Ramakrishnan for giving me the encouragement, sagacious guidance and useful suggestions throughout the course of my internship. It has been a real learning experience to work under his guidance. His keen interest and prompt initiative has tremendously helped me to explore unknown areas. I am also tha...

An advanced guidance law is developed for reentry phase of a reentry vehicle. It can achieve small miss distance and desired impact attitude angle, simultanceously. To meet this requirment a guidance law based on the fuzzy logic approach is developed. It is partitioned into three stages. This guidance law does not require linearization of missile engagement model. Line-of-sight and flight path ...

background: parenting style in communication with teenagers is a complex and double way process that affects progress and success of all generations both at present time and future. due to the importance of having accurate knowledge about mothers' parenting style and its underlying factors, it has been assessed in this study. methods: this study was a descriptive cross-sectional study on 737 fe...