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2022-2023 Xavier University Undergraduate and Graduate University Catalog
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Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Models, Optimization, and Machine Learning
The present book contains all the articles accepted and published in the Special Issue âAdvances in Artificial Intelligence: Models, Optimization, and Machine Learningâ of the MDPI Mathematics journal, which covers a wide range of topics connected to the theory and applications of artificial intelligence and its subfields. These topics include, among others, deep learning and classic machine learning algorithms, neural modelling, architectures and learning algorithms, biologically inspired optimization algorithms, algorithms for autonomous driving, probabilistic models and Bayesian reasoning, intelligent agents and multiagent systems. We hope that the scientific results presented in this book will serve as valuable sources of documentation and inspiration for anyone willing to pursue research in artificial intelligence, machine learning and their widespread applications
Using Active Learning to Teach Critical and Contextual Studies: One Teaching Plan, Two Experiments, Three Videos.
Since the 1970s, art and design education at UK universities has existedas a divided practice; on the one hand applying active learning in thestudio and on the other hand enforcing passive learning in the lecturetheatre. As a result, art and design students are in their vast majorityreluctant about modules that may require them to think, read and writecritically during their academic studies. This article describes, evaluatesand analyses two individual active learning experiments designed todetermine if it is possible to teach CCS modules in a manner thatencourages student participation. The results reveal that opting foractive learning methods improved academic achievement, encouragedcooperation, and enforced an inclusive classroom. Furthermore, andcontrary to wider perception, the article demonstrates that activelearning methods can be equally beneficial for small-size as well aslarge-size groups
The Digital Continent:Placing Africa in Planetary Networks of Work
Only ten years ago, there were more internet users in countries like France or Germany than in all of Africa put together. But much has changed in a decade. The year 2018 marks the first year in human history in which a majority of the worldâs population are now connected to the internet. This mass connectivity means that we have an internet that no longer connects only the worldâs wealthy. Workers from Lagos to Johannesburg to Nairobi and everywhere in between can now apply for and carry out jobs coming from clients who themselves can be located anywhere in the world. Digital outsourcing firms can now also set up operations in the most unlikely of places in order to tap into hitherto disconnected labour forces. With CEOs in the Global North proclaiming that âlocation is a thing of the pastâ (Upwork, 2018), and governments and civil society in Africa promising to create millions of jobs on the continent, the book asks what this ânew world of digital workâ means to the lives of African workers. It draws from a year-long fieldwork in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and Uganda, with over 200 interviews with participants including gig workers, call and contact centre workers, self-employed freelancers, small-business owners, government officials, labour union officials, and industry experts. Focusing on both platform-based remote work and call and contact centre work, the book examines the job quality implications of digital work for the lives and livelihoods of African workers
Weatherford: Undergraduate Catalog 2022-2023
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Practical approaches to delivering pandemic impacted laboratory teaching
#DryLabsRealScience is a community of practice established to support life science educators with the provision of laboratory-based classes in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and restricted access to facilities. Four key
approaches have emerged from the innovative work shared with the network: videos, simulations, virtual/augmented reality, and datasets, with each having strengths and weaknesses. Each strategy was used pre-COVID and has a sound theoretical underpinning; here, we explore how the pandemic has forced
their adaptation and highlight novel utilisation to support student learning in the laboratory environment during the challenges faced by remote and blended teaching
Measuring evidence-based practice in physical therapy: a mix-methods study
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is considered the âholy grailâ to manage
patients by health practitioners (such as physical therapists). However, sometimes,
patients are not treated with the best interventions for their condition. Although
studies already explored the facilitators and barriers for this issue, they increase in
the level of importance if the information gathered are context appropriated.
As the profession is relatively new in Portugal, currently little is known about the
implementation of EBP in Portuguese physical therapists context. So, the aim of this
study is to know if the Portuguese physical therapists use an EBP, and collect and
deeper understand the factors, barriers and facilitators associated with EBP.
Methods: This study incorporated a mixed-methods design (quantitative and
qualitative). In an attempt to ensure the correct population sample, a national
professional association e-mail database and the e-mails of past students from
national schools were requested. For the quantitative data it was choose an e-survey,
adapted from the EBP: Beliefs, Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behaviors of Physical
Therapists Portuguese version questionnaire, consisted of 55 close-ended questions.
It was analyzed response frequencies and associations between variables with
logistic regression analyses. For the qualitative data, it was choose to perform
semi-structured interviews in purposefully selected physical therapists to include
different sociodemographic factors (especially those found to be statistically
significant in the logistic regression) and survey responses regarding the physical
therapistsâ beliefs, attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors. The interviews were
performed in an online software, where only audio contact was performed.
The audios were anonymized and verbatim transcribed, and the texts explored by the
thematic approach.
Results: From the 277 physical therapists that shown interest in participating in the
study, 193 fully completed the questionnaire and, from those, 10 participated in the
interviews. The Portuguese physical therapists reported positive beliefs, attitudes,
knowledge, and behaviors regarding EBP. Among the physical therapists
characteristics it seems that age (younger therapists), education (participating in
continuing education courses; belonging to practice-orientated organizations; having
a doctorate degree; pursuing a higher academic degree; and being a clinical
instructor), and workplace (working for someone else account; and academic sector)
are the main factors in the Portuguese EBP implementation. The Portuguese physical
therapists, beyond the physical therapists individual characteristics and workplace, also stated that evidence, patients, clinical experience, schools, country and physical
therapy characteristics, may behave as facilitators or barriers when performing an
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Europe in a changing world: opportunities and challenges
The volume we bring to the readers' attention today, through the diversity of topics addressed, reflects beyond the quality of the analyzes assumed, the undoubted appreciation of fellow professors and researchers, from home and abroad, to the work of over 40 years of our colleague and professor Ioan Horga , at the beautiful age of 65. The works in the fields of history, law, political science, international relations, sociology, etc., are grouped into three parts, which have in common the European Union, starting from the national dimension of some Member States and continuing with interconnections in states, in various aspects, from political to economic, cultural, etc
Weatherford: Undergraduate Catalog 2021-2022
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