Empowering the Future Transformative Education Practices in Myanmar

This research explores the landscape of transformative education in Myanmar through a quantitative study involving 300 participants across diverse educational levels. The demographic analysis reveals a balanced gender distribution and representation across primary, secondary, and tertiary education, providing a comprehensive understanding of transformative education's potential impact. Perceptions of the current education system highlight strengths in curriculum and infrastructure satisfaction but signal opportunities for improvement in technology access. Participants' active engagement in transformative practices, such as workshops, technology integration, and critical thinking activities, suggests a substantial foundation for transformative education. The implications call for targeted investments in technology, professional development for educators, and a reevaluation of curricular frameworks. Myanmar stands at the threshold of educational transformation, and this study serves as a call to action for collaborative efforts to propel the nation into a new era of empowerment and innovation. The limitations of the study are acknowledged, and future research is encouraged to delve deeper into transformative education dynamics in Myanmar

The Political Economy of China-Myanmar Bilateral Relations Under the framework of Belt and Road Initiative

After the political transition of Myanmar in 2011, China’s engagement strategy toward Myanmar has led the changes from the state-to-state relations into the multi-layered relations. At the same time, Myanmar’s foreign policy has also challenged Beijing’s economic and political interests in Myanmar in terms of the Myit-Sone Dam suspension by Myanmar’s first reform government. Later, the Aung San Suu Kyi’s government looks more closely with the PRC under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative. In this sense, it could be interesting to find Myanmar’s policy on China’s engagement and China’s responses to Myanmar’s development. Moreover, Myanmar has agreed to the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) which is a strategically important economic corridor under the umbrella of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Among various China’s BRI projects in Myanmar, every case has a different characteristic, pattern, and situation, in terms of the different fundamental interaction relations among the state, market, and society. It means that China’s interest in Myanmar is a complicated and complex situation during Myanmar’s new political order. In this sense, the China-Myanmar bilateral relations have the multidimensional factors and it was shaped by the diverse state-holders’ interaction. Therefore, this paper will seek the China-Myanmar bilateral relations from the political economy perspective. At last, this paper will argue that the changing relations among state-market-society in Myanmar will play a crucial role in China-Myanmar bilateral relations by using the two-level game theory.

Performance Analysis of Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are the networks which comprised of multiple sensing units that have the ability of networking wirelessly, monitor the environmental conditions and can perform signal processing. WSNs are limited by energy, storage capability and power consumption. Therefore, it is important to consider these limitations while choosing routing protocols for WSN. The routing protocols can be categorized based on their attributes and network typology. Performance of these routing protocols can be evaluated by the several performance metrics. This evaluation can be analyzed the performance of routing protocols and the optimization can be done using that analysis. In this project, some of the cluster head based routing protocols will be selected and simulate using MATLAB and the simulated results will be analyzed. Firstly, Low Energy Efficient Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) routing protocol is simulated in MATLAB and analyzed the performance. It is one the most popular routing protocols based on cluster-head routing algorithm. Stable Election Protocol (SEP) routing protocol is also simulated using MATLAB in this project and the evaluation of the performance of the protocol will be discussed

\u3cem\u3e“It makes me feel like I\u27m the typical Asian they think of me...”\u3c/em\u3e: Beyond Homogeneous Characterizations of Chinese International Students

The dominant frameworks of analysis in the international student migration literature characterized students’ decision-making processes as dichotomous or binary through consideration of either push/pull factors or professional, sociocultural, and personal factors (Alberts & Hazen, 2005; Guo, 2010; Wang & Miao, 2013). More specifically, generalizations have been made regarding specific demographic factors such as nationalities, socioeconomic status, and/or gender. The goal of this study was to examine the differential experiences of Chinese international students. Through an initial survey of broad student experiences and basic demographics followed by interviews, I was able to highlight the heterogeneity of students’ experiences and provide a more nuanced view of individual narratives. Student experiences were then characterized in three interrelated stages of their narratives: experiences before departing China and motivations for coming to the US, experiences during their arrival in the US and at Swarthmore College, and their future aspirations and pathways. The findings suggest 1) the incompatibility between homogeneous frameworks of nationality and actual student experiences, 2) the interdependence of past, present, and future experiences, and 3) the agency students hold in the course of their personal development. As a result, implications include 1) shifting away from deficit frameworks and towards culturally responsive frameworks, 2) moving beyond temporally static frameworks by the implementation of longitudinal designs, and 3) rejecting passive frameworks by recognizing student agency

Formatting and searching a massive, multi-parameter clinical information database

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-120).Formatting data and executing time-oriented queries on a massive, multi-parameter clinical information database poses significant computational challenges. The challenges encountered in converting high-resolution waveform and trend signals in the MIMIC II (Multi-parameter Intelligent Monitoring for Intensive Care II) database from an error-prone proprietary format to a stable open-source WFDB (Waveform Database) format is presented in the first half of this thesis. The design and implementation of a search engine that is capable of executing time-series queries on clinical information in the MIMIC II database such as lab results, medications, and nurse-verified values from bedside monitors is presented in the second half of this thesis. The search engine employs simple algorithms with little storage overhead to identify time periods in patient records that satisfy time series criteria based on thresholds and gradients of unevenly-sampled measurements. Results from queries executed on the search engine to detect physiological events of clinical interest were presented. Case studies on patient records returned as hits for queries were performed to review the strengths and limitations of the search engine.by Tin Htet Kyaw.M.Eng

Protein S-Nitrosylation and its Relevance to Redox Control of Cell Signaling

Ph.DDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPH

Performance Analysis of Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are the networks which comprised of multiple sensing units that have the ability of networking wirelessly, monitor the environmental conditions and can perform signal processing. WSNs are limited by energy, storage capability and power consumption. Therefore, it is important to consider these limitations while choosing routing protocols for WSN. The routing protocols can be categorized based on their attributes and network typology. Performance of these routing protocols can be evaluated by the several performance metrics. This evaluation can be analyzed the performance of routing protocols and the optimization can be done using that analysis. In this project, some of the cluster head based routing protocols will be selected and simulate using MATLAB and the simulated results will be analyzed. Firstly, Low Energy Efficient Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) routing protocol is simulated in MATLAB and analyzed the performance. It is one the most popular routing protocols based on cluster-head routing algorithm. Stable Election Protocol (SEP) routing protocol is also simulated using MATLAB in this project and the evaluation of the performance of the protocol will be discussed

DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL OF PERSONAL MOBILITY PLATFORM FOR MULTI-HIERARCHY LAST MILE TRANSPORTATION

Ph.DDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPH

Effect of dietary garlic and thyme seed supplementation on the production performance, carcass yield and gut microbial population of broiler chickens

A total of 200 Cobb 500 male broilers were randomly allocated to 4 treatments consisting of 5 replications with 10 chicks each in order to evaluate the effect of dietary garlic and thyme seed supplementation on the production performance, carcass yield and gut microbial population. Treatments were control diet (T1), control diet with 1% thyme seed powder (T2), control diet with 1% garlic powder (T3) and control diet with 0.5% thyme seed and 0.5% garlic powder (T4). Feed intake, body weight, weight gain, feed conversion ratio (FCR), carcass yield was not significantly (p>0.05) improved by dietary treatments compared to control. Escherichia coli (E. coli) count in the gut of broilers did not show significant difference among dietary treatments. However, Lactobacilli count in the gut of broilers significantly (p<0.05) increased in T2 compared to that of T1. Lactobacilli count in the gut of broilers received T1, T3 and T4 did not differ significantly (p>0.05) with each other. It was concluded that thyme seed was reliable as feed additive in the broiler diet and could provide positive advantages to the colonization and proliferation of Lactobacilli

Experimental Study on Previous Concrete with Various Mix Ratios

The pervious concrete is designed with cementitious material content just enough to coat the coarse aggregate particles so that a configuration that allows the passage of water at a much higher rate than conventional concrete. The pervious concrete has many advantages that improves city environment, recharges the ground by rain water and could be used as pavement for light vehicles, pedestrian pathways, parking lots, also it reduces the tire pavement interaction noise etc. In this paper, structural property and permeability of pervious concrete made without and with different ratios of fine aggregate and pozzolan. 9.5 mm maximum size of crushed gravel and constant aggregate/cement ratio of 3.6 were used. Mix design void content is tested 20%. The specific gravity of fine aggregate 2.53 and the specific gravity of crushed stone 2.56. Type I Portland cement and water- reducing and retarding concrete admixture were used. Mix design is based on the no slump method from the American Concrete Institute’s Committee 211.3R-02, “Standard Practice for Selecting Proportions for No Slump Concrete.” This research work was divided into third/three sections. The first section is without pozzolan and fine aggregate and second section is with two different ratios of pozzolan third section is without pozzolan and with fine aggregate. Pozzolan is used as a supplementary cementitious material to partially replace Portland cement in pervious concrete mixes up to 20% by weight. Fine aggregate partially replace as a coarse aggregate in pervious concrete mixes up to 10% by weight. Mix design void content is tested 20%. This concrete is tested for its properties, such as density, void content, compressive strength and water permeability. The most important property of pervious concrete is its water permeability