This study investigated the views of teachers, students and their parents on the FATIH (Movement of Enhancing Opportunities and Improving Technology) Project, which was put into service by the Ministry of National Education in cooperation with the Ministry of Transportation in Turkey in November 2010 for the purpose of increasing students’ success and planned to be completed within 5 years. The...

In this paper, simplified ozone models for potential use in integrated assessment are developed from the EMEP ozone model, which is a single-layer Lagrangian trajectory model. The simplification method uses fuzzy rule generation methodology to represent numerous results of the EMEP model as a response surface describing the source-receptor relationships between ozone precursor emissions and dai...

More and more students are required to perform a critical literature review as part of their undergraduate or postgraduate studies. Whilst most of the latest research methods textbooks advise how to do a literature search, very few cover the literature review. This paper covers two types of review: a critical literature review and a systematic review.

This paper presents an event study of business signaling through electronic commerce announcements during fluctuating financial markets. This topic is of unique and substantial importance. If there are abnormal returns on an eCommerce initiative, and these returns are different during bull and bear markets, then we know that the markets value these investments, but the value is subjective rathe...

This article outlines the development and implementation of participatory research methodology centred on observational techniques. It discusses the theoretical understandings of the methodology and how it worked in practice. The research explored the use of public spaces by different social, ethnic and activity groups across the course of a 12 month period drawing on the experiences of, and da...

Almost all of the 26 sporadic finite simple groups possess systems of subgroups which, in several ways, resemble the parabolic systems of the finite simple groups of Lie type. Many of these systems are catalogued in [RSt, RSm]. Those in [RSt] mirror more closely the minimal parabolic systems of a finite simple group of Lie type. In this paper the term minimal parabolic system will be used in a ...

A market where short-lived customers interact with a long-lived expert is considered. An expert privately observes whether or not a particular treatment is necessary for his customers and has an incentive to recommend the treatment even if it is unnecessary. Customers imperfectly observe the expert’s past actions. Truthful reporting at all times yields the expert his best equilibrium payoff whe...

Event based analysis plays an important role in reducing the latency of information delivery in an event driven world. Also, the perception of an ‘event’ by a user is at a higher level (a meta event), and would involve the analysis of several less complex or lower order events (basic events) in order to convey meaningful information. This is especially true of real world events and it is often ...