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ICT as learning media and research instrument: What eResearch can offer for those who research eLearning?
Studentsâ interactions in digital learning environments are distributed over time and space, and many aspects of eLearning phenomenon cannot be investigated using traditional research approaches. At the same time, the possibility to collect digital data about studentsâ online interactions and learning opens a range of new opportunities to use ICT as research tool and apply new research approaches. This symposium brings together some of the recent advancements in the area of ICT-enhanced research and aims to discuss future directions for methodological innovation in this area. The session will include four presentations that will explore different directions of ICT use for eLearning research
Computer aids for worst case electronic circuit design
Computer aids for worst case electronic circuit desig
Scattering of Woods-Saxon Potential in Schrodinger Equation
The scattering solutions of the one-dimensional Schrodinger equation for the
Woods-Saxon potential are obtained within the position-dependent mass
formalism. The wave functions, transmission and reflection coefficients are
calculated in terms of Heun's function. These results are also studied for the
constant mass case in detail.Comment: 14 page
Hubbard Models as Fusion Products of Free Fermions
A class of recently introduced su(n) `free-fermion' models has recently been
used to construct generalized Hubbard models. I derive an algebra defining the
`free-fermion' models and give new classes of solutions. I then introduce a
conjugation matrix and give a new and simple proof of the corresponding
decorated Yang-Baxter equation. This provides the algebraic tools required to
couple in an integrable way two copies of free-fermion models. Complete
integrability of the resulting Hubbard-like models is shown by exhibiting their
L and R matrices. Local symmetries of the models are discussed. The
diagonalization of the free-fermion models is carried out using the algebraic
Bethe Ansatz.Comment: 14 pages, LaTeX. Minor modification
Fast field-cycling NMR of cartilage : a way toward molecular imaging
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Stability, reliability and cross-mode correlations of tests in a recommended 8-minute performance assessment battery
A need exists for an automated performance test system to study drugs, agents, treatments, and stresses of interest to the aviation, space, and environmental medical community. The purpose of this present study is to evaluate tests for inclusion in the NASA-sponsored Automated Performance Test System (APTS). Twenty-one subjects were tested over 10 replications with tests previously identified as good candidates for repeated-measure research. The tests were concurrently administered in paper-and-pencil and microcomputer modes. Performance scores for the two modes were compared. Data from trials 1 to 10 were examined for indications of test stability and reliability. Nine of the ten APT system tests achieved stability. Reliabilities were generally high. Cross-correlation of microbased tests with traditional paper-and-pencil versions revealed similarity of content within tests in the different modes, and implied at least three cognition and two motor factors. This protable, inexpensive, rugged, computerized battery of tests is recommended for use in repeated-measures studies of environmental and drug effects on performance. Identification of other tests compatible with microcomputer testing and potentially capable of tapping previously unidentified factors is recommended. Documentation of APTS sensitivity to environmental agents is available for more than a dozen facilities and is reported briefly. Continuation of such validation remains critical in establishing the efficacy of APTS tests
The Woods-Saxon Potential in the Dirac Equation
The two-component approach to the one-dimensional Dirac equation is applied
to the Woods-Saxon potential. The scattering and bound state solutions are
derived and the conditions for a transmission resonance (when the transmission
coefficient is unity) and supercriticality (when the particle bound state is at
E=-m) are then derived. The square potential limit is discussed. The recent
result that a finite-range symmetric potential barrier will have a transmission
resonance of zero-momentum when the corresponding well supports a half-bound
state at E=-m is demonstrated.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. Submitted to JPhys
Tracking ground state Ba+ ions in an expanding laserâplasma plume using time-resolved vacuum ultraviolet photoionization imaging
We report results from a study of the integrated column density and expansion dynamics of ground-state-selected Ba+ ions in a laserâplasma plume using a new experimental systemâVPIF (vacuum-ultraviolet photoabsorption imaging facility). The ions are tracked by recording the attenuation of a pulsed and collimated vacuum ultraviolet beam, tuned to the 5pâ6d inner-shell resonance of singly ionized barium, as the expanding plasma plume moves across it. The attenuated beam is allowed to fall on a CCD array where the spatial distribution of the absorption is recorded. Time-resolved ion velocity and integrated column density maps are readily extracted from the photoionization images
Verdier specialization via weak factorization
Let X in V be a closed embedding, with V - X nonsingular. We define a
constructible function on X, agreeing with Verdier's specialization of the
constant function 1 when X is the zero-locus of a function on V. Our definition
is given in terms of an embedded resolution of X; the independence on the
choice of resolution is obtained as a consequence of the weak factorization
theorem of Abramovich et al. The main property of the specialization function
is a compatibility with the specialization of the Chern class of the complement
V-X. With the definition adopted here, this is an easy consequence of standard
intersection theory. It recovers Verdier's result when X is the zero-locus of a
function on V. Our definition has a straightforward counterpart in a motivic
group. The specialization function and the corresponding Chern class and
motivic aspect all have natural `monodromy' decompositions, for for any X in V
as above. The definition also yields an expression for Kai Behrend's
constructible function when applied to (the singularity subscheme of) the
zero-locus of a function on V.Comment: Minor revision. To appear in Arkiv f\"or Matemati
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