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Parallelization Of Generic Pso Java Code Using Mpjexpress, Manoj Babu Madamanchi Jan 2013

Parallelization Of Generic Pso Java Code Using Mpjexpress, Manoj Babu Madamanchi

Computer Science

Many scientific, engineering and economic problems involve the optimization of a set of parameters. The Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is one of the new techniques that have been empirically shown to perform well. The PSO algorithm is a population-based search algorithm based on simulating the social behavior of birds within a flock. Large-scale engineering optimization problems impose large computational demands, resulting in long solution times even on modern high-end processors. To obtain enhanced computational throughput and global search capability parallel algorithms and parallel architectures have drawn lots of attention. Parallelization of PSO has proved to enhance computational throughput and global …

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Moving To The Other Side Of The Desk: Learning Experiences Of Preservice Teachers As They Transition To Becoming Professional Teachers, Sheri Lynn Okland Jan 2013

Moving To The Other Side Of The Desk: Learning Experiences Of Preservice Teachers As They Transition To Becoming Professional Teachers, Sheri Lynn Okland

Education

This study sought to understand learning through the lifeworlds of preservice teachers who are in the last semester of their elementary education program at a Midwest University. The research was an explorative study into preservice teachers' understanding of how they learn, how they define learning, and how their own experiences as students will transfer, as they become professional educators. This study addressed the overarching question: What does it mean to learn and think about learning through the lens of 21st century senior standing elementary education preservice teachers as they transition to the other side of the desk? This study employed …

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Counting Coup With Western Education In A Post-Assimilated Paradigm: A Qualitative Research Study On American Indian Success, Lane Alan Azure Jan 2013

Counting Coup With Western Education In A Post-Assimilated Paradigm: A Qualitative Research Study On American Indian Success, Lane Alan Azure

Education

“The beaver doesn’t try to be like the bear or the buffalo, he knows who he is . . . and he is proud of who he is” (Big Dog, 2012). The aforementioned quote depicts how this author interpreted the identities of his sample of ten purposefully selected Native Americans and exemplified their wish to remain who they are. These contemporary warriors illustrated the ability to transculturate in a non-Indigenous world and to accomplish what had been forced upon their ancestor’s centuries earlier. Despite the invasion on North American soil and the near extinction of the Indigenous American through attempted …

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Understanding The Use Of Social Constructivst Moodle Activities Within The North Dakota University System, Randall John Wald Jan 2013

Understanding The Use Of Social Constructivst Moodle Activities Within The North Dakota University System, Randall John Wald

Education

Online learning is becoming an increasingly important aspect of higher education. Concerns about the effectiveness of online courses have prompted education administrators to look at how different learning theories can best be used to increase student learning. Learning Management Systems (LMS) have become one of the dominant technologies for delivering online education, and the North Dakota University System (NDUS) uses one of the most popular of these LMSs, Moodle. NDUS Moodle is designed and utilizes activities that are based on a learning theory called social constructivism. This research studies the usage of these activities, perceived instructor effectiveness, and the use …

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The Distribution Of Quick Phase Interval Durations In Human Optokinetic Nystagmus., J Waddington, Cm Harris Jan 2013

The Distribution Of Quick Phase Interval Durations In Human Optokinetic Nystagmus., J Waddington, Cm Harris

School of Psychology

There is an interesting dichotomy between models that predict the quick phase interval durations (QPIDs) of human optokinetic nystagmus (OKN). Accumulator models describe a stochastic signal in a neural network that triggers a response once the signal reaches a fixed threshold value. However, it is also possible that quick phases are triggered after eye position reaches a variable amplitude threshold. In this study, we fitted a range of probability density functions previously predicted by stochastic models of OKN (including those of the reciprocal truncated Normal, inverse Gaussian, gamma, lognormal and the mixture of two reciprocal truncated Normal distributions) to individual …

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Age Effects On Explicit And Implicit Memory, Emma V. Ward, Christopher J. Berry, David R. Shanks Jan 2013

Age Effects On Explicit And Implicit Memory, Emma V. Ward, Christopher J. Berry, David R. Shanks

School of Psychology

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Visuospatial Memory In Dyslexia: Evidence For Strategic Deficits, Alison M. Bacon, Fabrice B.R. Parmentier, Polly Barr Jan 2013

Visuospatial Memory In Dyslexia: Evidence For Strategic Deficits, Alison M. Bacon, Fabrice B.R. Parmentier, Polly Barr

School of Psychology

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Retention And Attrition Of Students In Higher Education: Challenges In Modern Times To What Works, Marguerite Maher, Helen Macallister Jan 2013

Retention And Attrition Of Students In Higher Education: Challenges In Modern Times To What Works, Marguerite Maher, Helen Macallister

Education Papers and Journal Articles

Retention and attrition rates in higher education have long been a focus of research. This paper presents findingsof a single case study, undertaken in a School of Education, which identify important strategies that have led to attrition of five to eight per cent, compared with 18 per cent cross the education sector in Australia (Department of Education, Science and Training, 2004). Findings include: individual admissions interviews, funding of an Associate Dean Pastoral Care, course coordinators providing continuity of support, easy access for students to academic staff, well-supported, extended professional experience, senior staff lecturing undergraduates, congruence between co-curricular supports and the …

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