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Barriers To Using Ict In Mathematics Teaching: Issues In Methodology, Rebecca Hudson, Anne L. Porter, Mark I. Nelson Jan 2008

Barriers To Using Ict In Mathematics Teaching: Issues In Methodology, Rebecca Hudson, Anne L. Porter, Mark I. Nelson

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In this paper we examine the barriers to using ICT of secondary mathematics teachers in the classroom. The sample contained 114 mathematics teachers from public secondary schools in New South Wales (Australia). The instrument used in this study was a survey questionnaire mailed to secondary schools in the New South Wales Department of Education and Training. The questionnaire design is a closed-response with five open-ended questions. Results of the study showed that lack of access to computer labs is the number one barrier to using ICT in the classroom. But when a second analysis using a logistic regression analysis modeling …


Power Quality Survey Factor Analysis Using Multivariable Linear Regression (Mvlr), Chandana Herath, Victor J. Gosbell, Sarath Perera, David A. Stirling Jan 2008

Power Quality Survey Factor Analysis Using Multivariable Linear Regression (Mvlr), Chandana Herath, Victor J. Gosbell, Sarath Perera, David A. Stirling

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During the past two decades, there has been a considerable number of Power Quality (PQ) monitoring programs completed throughout the world. The information collected during these surveys can provide a detailed picture of the expected electrical environment help utilities to plan their future networks in relation to power quality performance. The mass of data gathered for a sample of sites of a large-scale power quality (PQ) survey of this nature has the potential to reveal good and bad influences on power quality if an appropriate procedure for analysis can be determined. If it is known which characteristics are more important …


Feature Based Stereo Correspondence Using Moment Invariant, Prashan Premaratne, Farzad Safaei Jan 2008

Feature Based Stereo Correspondence Using Moment Invariant, Prashan Premaratne, Farzad Safaei

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Autonomous navigation is seen as a vital tool in harnessing the enormous potential of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and small robotic vehicles for both military and civilian use. Even though, laser based scanning solutions for Simultaneous Location And Mapping (SLAM) is considered as the most reliable for depth estimation, they are not feasible for use in UAV and land-based small vehicles due to their physicalsize and weight. Stereovision is considered as the best approach for any autonomous navigation solution as stereo rigs are considered to be lightweight and inexpensive. However, stereoscopy which estimates the depth information through pairs of stereo …


Kinetic Analysis Of Oleic Acid Esterification Using Lipolytic Enzyme As Catalyst, Mohd S. Mahmud, James W. Ryan, Cyrus Cooper, Tomasz Safinski, Mark I. Nelson, Harvinder S. Sidhu, Soji A. Adesina Jan 2008

Kinetic Analysis Of Oleic Acid Esterification Using Lipolytic Enzyme As Catalyst, Mohd S. Mahmud, James W. Ryan, Cyrus Cooper, Tomasz Safinski, Mark I. Nelson, Harvinder S. Sidhu, Soji A. Adesina

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This paper deals with the esterification kinetics of oleic acid (OA) using ethanol (EtOH) over acrylic-supported lipase from Aspergillus niger (Novozym 435) as catalyst. The reaction was carried out in a stirred 500 mL Pyrex glass reactor at 45oC under conditions with negligible external and internal transport resistances. Reaction runs in a microaqueous medium employed OA: EtOH ratio, b, between 0.01 to 2.0 without initial addition of water. The rate dependency on reactant concentration has a maximum at b=0.9, just below the stoichiometric ratio, and was therefore described by a Michaelis- Menten kinetic expression implicating irreversible surface reaction between adsorbed …