International handbook of teacher education

This chapter sets out to provide an overview of various aspects of Malta’s social, cultural and economic characteristics, focusing in particular on the role played by education in forging the island’s fortunes and identity, and specifically on the initial preparation of teachers in the light of reforms to educational provision aimed towards the country’s aspiration that ‘all children may succeed’ (Ministry of Education, Youth and Employment, 2005).peer-reviewe

When Product Life Cycle Meets Customer Activity Cycle

Manufacturing companies have traditionally focused their efforts on designing, developing and producing products to offer on the market. Today global competition and demands for greater company responsibility of products throughout their entire life cycle are driving manufacturing companies to shift market strategies from a transactional approach to an approach based on the establishment and management of customer relationships (Grönroos, 1999). A growing number of studies and research programmes have focused on the potentials of business strategies based on providing the value of utility of products throughout their life cycle by designing integrated solutions of products and services. This approach has been dubbed ‘product/service-systems (PSS)’ (Mont, 2004). Although relationship marketing and product/service-system design have their roots in each their own research fields - marketing and engineering design - it seems that the two approaches are complimentary. The principle behind PSS is a shift from a perception that value is mainly embedded in a physical artefact to a perception where the activities associated with the product are considered to be a better definition of value. In this new perspective value is created by supporting the customer’s activities related to the use of products. This is done through intangible services and knowledge intensification that ensures optimal operation and performance of products in relation to the individual customer’s activities. It is believed that PSS approaches can be a step on the path to sustainable development as this will enable and motivate companies to reuse, rationalise and enhance their products and services more efficiently throughout their life phases (Manzini & Vezzoli, 2002). Based on a year’s participation and observation in a development project in a global office furniture manufacturer, this paper attempts to uncover how a manufacturing company is making the move from selling office furniture to selling the benefit of workspace performance. A significant insight is that the definition of value is core to both relationship marketing and PSS approaches. Viewing products alone are not appropriate to determine value – instead the focus should be on the effects from customer activities. This paper presents its findings in relation to a theoretical framework of the expected managerial and organisational implications of PSS (Tan et al, 2007). The framework takes into consideration new activities, roles and responsibilities, knowledge and competencies, as well as value network relationships that the company will have to deal with when adopting a PSS approach. The observations in the case study support the notion that PSS and relationship marketing are similar approaches that might be well suited for manufacturing firms when employed in combination

Soil micromorphology of archaeological deposits: with particular reference to floor surfaces on settlement sites in the Western Isles, Scotland

The research is concerned with the analysis of four field identified floors from three multi-period archaeological sites (Bostadh Beach, Isle of Lewis, Cladh Hallan and Bornais, South Uist) in the Western Isles, Scotland.The method employed in the analysis of these four floors is soil micromorphology, a technique that is now established in archaeological analysis, but one that has been seldom applied to deposits in the Western Isles. In particular, the application of the technique to floor sequences in the Western Isles is unique, given that floors have rarely been analysed or even substantially documented in archaeological excavations of structures in the islands.There are three main aims in the analysis of these floors: 1) to highlight the significance and importance of microscale analysis of floors, 2) to determine their composition, formation and possible use, 3) to establish microstructural criteria and characterisation of different materials used for floors.The analysis has revealed that the floors between the three different sites are extremely different. At Bostadh, the floors are dominated by highly organic materials, whilst Cladh Hallan and Bornais floors are sand dominated with fine organic matter. The most interesting feature of the analysis is that a floor which has been described as a singular deposit in the field, can be composed of upto 21 individual floor layers. This has implications for the information that a potential floor deposit can yield, particularly with regard to the function and use of space within a structure over a depositional sequence.Micromorphological descriptions followed the international terminology of Bullock et al (1985) and Fitzpatrick (1984), with some adaptations. Organic description has detailed that different types of peat were used at Bostadh, whilst mineralogical analysis has indicated the possibility of cleaning or abandonment episodes. Analysis at Cladh Hallan has aided in the interpretation of the use of space within the structure, although these results only form part of on-going research elsewhere.The research has successfully described micromorphological characteristics of floors developed from two different materials, and has highlighted the implications and importance for the archaeological record of a settlement, through the analysis of floors. Recommendations concerning the collection and sampling for future floors have also been made

Penerapan Metode K-Means Untuk Clustering Mahasiswa Berdasarkan Nilai Akademik Dengan Weka Interface Studi Kasus Pada Jurusan Teknik Informatika UMM Magelang

The selection process among outstanding students in a department has a big problem. This process is not fair because only involve one criteria and ignore the other criteria. We need the best student to participate in a competition held by the Indonesia Security Incident Response Team on Internet Infrastructure (ID SIRTII) of the Ministry of Communication and Information. This process uses Weka software to calculate the best student. It provides the various method to explore the data. One of them is clustering method. There are many algorithms in clustering method. In this research, we will investigate widely about one of that algorithms. Its name is K-Means. This algorithm (K-Means) will give the recommendations about the best student based on the cluster. It will represent the many clusters of a student group. The best cluster can be calculated more to get the names of the best students group. They are eligible to enter the competition.  K-means involve the GPA (Grade Point Average) and related course to support the academic skill in order to get the best student. This research helps the teacher select the best student to enter the competition. Many similar cases can use this algorithm in order to get the best student

Implementasi Modul Otomatisasi Penetration Testing Menggunakan Bourne Again Shell Scripting pada Website Aplikasi Stream PT. Intikom Berlian Mustika Berbasis Kali Linux

Kejahatan dunia maya merupakan suatu jenis kejahatan yang dapat terjadi pada siapa saja dan kapan saja. Kejahatan dunia maya dapat dilakukan melalui jaringan internet dan pada umumnya dilakukan menggunakan perangkat keras komputer sebagai alat untuk melakukan kejahatan. PT. Intikom Berlian Mustika baru saja merilis Website Aplikasi Stream yang belum diketahui kerentanan yang dimiliki. Berdasarkan persoalan yang ada, diperlukan adanya pengujian kerentanan dengan melakukan Penetration Testing pada website tersebut. Saat ini, efisiensi waktu dalam melaksanakan suatu pengujian sistem sangat dibutuhkan. Otomatisasi dapat menjadi sebuah kegiatan untuk dapat mengimplementasikan hal tersebut. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk melakukan otomatisasi pada pengujian serangan yang akan dilakukan pada Website Aplikasi Stream guna mengetahui hasil kerentanan dari uji serangan yang dilakukan. Alat dan bahan utama yang digunakan pada penelitian ini adalah laptop dan Kali Linux yang sudah dilakukan instalasi pada VirtualBox. Pengujian yang dilakukan adalah dengan melakukan 3 (tiga) jenis serangan yaitu SQL Injection, XSS (Cross-Site Scripting), dan DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service). Jenis serangan yang dilakukan akan diimplementasikan pada otomatisasi dalam bentuk modul atau file menggunakan bash scripting pada Kali Linux. Implementasi otomatisasi tersebut dilakukan perhitungan waktu dalam 10 (sepuluh) kali tahap percobaan. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa teknik otomatisasi bash scripting dapat mempermudah proses kinerja yaitu hanya dengan melakukan satu kali proses saja dan mempersingkat waktu implememtasi Penetration Testing dengan adanya penurunan waktu riil sebesar 13.82% dibandingan dengan implementasi secara manual

Instantaneous Structure of Turbulent Separated Boundary Layers

This report describes the final results of the project, which are reported in the reference in Appendix A. This reference contains the technical details, and will constitute the main body of the report. The paper in Appendix A was first presented at the 8th International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics, July, 1996. This paper was one of 30 papers selected from more than 200 papers presented at the symposium for publication in a book by Springer-Verlag. It will become available during 1997

Design, simulation and experiment of a cusp electron beam for millimeter wave gyro-devices

The design, simulation and experiment of a thermionic cusp electron gun that is to be used for millimeter wave generation will be presented. A cusp gun uses a non-adiabatic magnetic field reversal to obtain azimuthal motion on an electron beam resulting in an annular shaped, axis-encircling beam. The cusp gun was designed to generate a beam of 1.5A at 40kV with an adjustable velocity ratio of up to 3.0. The beam had a simulated axial velocity spread of 7.4% and alpha spread of 10.1%. The beam had an averaged radius of 0.35mm and beam thickness of 0.05mm which is ideal to drive sub-mm wave gyro-devices under investigation