This paper reports on the knowledge for teaching mathematics of 294 pre-service primary teachers from seven Australian universities participating in a project aimed at establishing a culture of evidence-based improvement of teacher education. The project was funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. Rasch measurement techniques were used to validate and obtain performance measures...

The paper highlights the design of automatic generation controllers through optimal control strategy, for an interconnected hydrothermal system using a new performance index that circumvents the need for a load demand estimator. The dynamic performances of these controllers are analysed and compared with those obtained through the usual performance index as that used by Fosha and Elgerd, consid...

“It’s not what you play, but how you play it”. The term “robotic performance” has traditionally been used to describe a musical performance that lacks expression and evokes no emotion from listeners. Indeed, current instrumentplaying robots have achieved high technical proficiency, but “perfect” performances of a piece are not necessarily considered musical. In this paper, we propose a Programm...

In this paper, an overview and a benchmark of some semi-active suspension control strategy performances is proposed. Based on a recent result of the authors, where the optimal semi-active performance trade-off was addressed, here, a complete benchmark to evaluate any controlled semi-active suspensions is proposed, and applied on different control approaches. The present paper aims at providing ...

In decathlon the athletes’ performances are recorded in meters, centimeters, minutes and seconds. These performances from different events are converted into points to make them comparable. However, how to convert results into points is a difficult and controversial issue. In this thesis, it is believed that points of a performance should be rewarded basing on its difficulty, the quality of a p...

AUDIENCE-PERFORMER INTERACTION There is a very traditional set of expectations to an audience of a performance [5] and augmenting the audience with technologies can introduce complex interaction. This can provide rewarding experiences, but it can also make shows overly complex to run and (for example in the case of audience interaction via mobile technology) create audience split because of fra...

Classifier fusion approaches are receiving increasing attention for their capability of improving classification performances. At present, the usual operation mechanism for classifier fusion is the “combination” of classifier outputs. Improvements in performances are related to the degree of “error diversity” among combined classifiers. Unfortunately, in remote-sensing image recognition applica...

This position paper describes an approach to predict the performances of a Web application already in the early stages of application development. It leverages the wealth of information of MDWE solutions to automatically obtain accurate representations of the running application in terms of layered queue networks (LQNs), i.e., analytical models simulating the behavior of the system and computin...

Aiming at improving the assessment of senior medical students a standardized and structured modi® cation to the traditional long-case examination is proposed. Students are presented with a sequence of two long cases, with each case being observed by a different examiner. After approaching the patient, the student is interviewed by the examiner who uses a set of four standardized questions. A 10...

The CAT imaging telescope, recently built on the site of the former solar plant “Thémis” (French Pyrénées), observed γ-rays from the Crab nebula from October 1996 to March 1997. This steady source, often considered as the standard candle of very-high-energy γ-ray astronomy, is used as a test-beam to probe the performances of the new telescope, particularly its energy threshold (220GeV at 20 zen...