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What Do Graduate Students Want From The Writing Center? Tutoring Practices To Support Dissertations and Thesis Writers
Graduate writers—who are experienced students and emerging experts in their fields—face a range of challenges in academic writing, including finding the confidence to write, integrating relevant literature, and interpreting data (Kamler and Thomson 1). Graduate programs require students to produce a large quantity of high-quality, varied writing, and without focused support, developing “these skills may be a function of chance rather than design” (Aitchison 907). Addressing this gap between preparation and expected performance, the Council of Graduate Schools Ph.D. Completion Project recommends writing support as a way to shorten doctoral degree completion time and improve retention. The project calls for writing assistance “through trained writing coaches or writing consultants,” ideally senior-level graduate students, and advises universities to create opportunities for students to “focus on the dissertation . . . receive feedback, and build peer support” (“Executive Summary” 4). Since a lack of help and peer interaction contributes to high attrition rates from doctoral programs, particularly among students in marginalized positions, the stakes of this discussion are high.University Writing Cente
Note on the Katzmayr effect on airfoil drag
The reduction of drag of an airfoil when the air stream is oscillating is called the Katzmayr effect. The purpose here is to offer a simple explanation of the cause of the Katzmayr effect
A Fractional Variational Approach for Modelling Dissipative Mechanical Systems: Continuous and Discrete Settings
Employing a phase space which includes the (Riemann-Liouville) fractional
derivative of curves evolving on real space, we develop a restricted
variational principle for Lagrangian systems yielding the so-called restricted
fractional Euler-Lagrange equations (both in the continuous and discrete
settings), which, as we show, are invariant under linear change of variables.
This principle relies on a particular restriction upon the admissible variation
of the curves. In the case of the half-derivative and mechanical Lagrangians,
i.e. kinetic minus potential energy, the restricted fractional Euler-Lagrange
equations model a dissipative system in both directions of time, summing up to
a set of equations that is invariant under time reversal. Finally, we show that
the discrete equations are a meaningful discretisation of the continuous ones.Comment: Key words: Variational analysis, Mechanical systems, Lagrangian
mechanics, Damping, Fractional derivatives, Discretisation, Variational
integrators. 13 pages, no figures. Contributed paper to 6th IFAC Workshop on
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Contro
On Patterns of Multi-domain Interaction for Scientific Software Development focused on Separation of Concerns
This year’s ICCS conference theme promotes the use of computational science as a means to foster multidisciplinarity and synergies with other fields. Our thesis is that this trend towards multidisciplinarity should be accompanied by the use of best practices issued from the software engineering community in order to avoid obtaining overly complex and tangled code, difficult to validate, to maintain and to port. In this paper we argue for the need of applying separation of concerns principles when the development involves scientists from various application fields. We overview several strategies that may be used to achieve this separation, focusing mainly on two approaches drawn from our previous experiences with multidisciplinary projects, addressing two distinct patterns of multi-domain interaction that may occur in scientific software development
Canonical lossless state-space systems: Staircase forms and the Schur algorithm
A new finite atlas of overlapping balanced canonical forms for multivariate
discrete-time lossless systems is presented. The canonical forms have the
property that the controllability matrix is positive upper triangular up to a
suitable permutation of its columns. This is a generalization of a similar
balanced canonical form for continuous-time lossless systems. It is shown that
this atlas is in fact a finite sub-atlas of the infinite atlas of overlapping
balanced canonical forms for lossless systems that is associated with the
tangential Schur algorithm; such canonical forms satisfy certain interpolation
conditions on a corresponding sequence of lossless transfer matrices. The
connection between these balanced canonical forms for lossless systems and the
tangential Schur algorithm for lossless systems is a generalization of the same
connection in the SISO case that was noted before. The results are directly
applicable to obtain a finite sub-atlas of multivariate input-normal canonical
forms for stable linear systems of given fixed order, which is minimal in the
sense that no chart can be left out of the atlas without losing the property
that the atlas covers the manifold
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