The ISCIP Analyst, Volume IX, Issue 3

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The ISCIP Analyst, Volume IX, Issue 4

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The ISCIP Analyst, Volume VIII, Issue 20

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The ISCIP Analyst, Volume VIII, Issue 16

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The ISCIP Analyst, Volume IX, Issue 5

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Lifelong learning tendency scale: the study of validity and reliability

AbstractThe aim of this research is to develop a scale to determine university students’ lifelong learning tendencies. The pre-trial form of Lifelong Tendency Scale (LLTS) containing 74 items was administered to 642 university students and explanatory factor analysis was conducted so as to determine the construct validity. On the data, items that were not significant according to the t value results were deleted from the scale and item-total correlations were also calculated. For concurrent validity, “Curiosity Index” was used and Pearson correlation coefficient having relation with the lack of curiosity sub-dimension of LLTS was found as .76. Consequently, the Cronbach alpha internal consistency coefficient of the ultimate scale containing 27 items and four sub-dimensions (motivation, perseverance, lack of regulating learning, and lack of curiosity) was calculated as .89. All the analyses conducted made it clear that LLTS was valid and reliable as a scale to determine lifelong learning tendencies

On the ultimate complexity of factorials

AbstractIt has long been observed that certain factorization algorithms provide a way to write the product of many different integers succinctly. In this paper, we study the problem of representing the product of all integers from 1 to n (i.e. n!) by straight-line programs. Formally, we say that a sequence of integers an is ultimately f(n)-computable, if there exists a nonzero integer sequence mn such that for any n, anmn can be computed by a straight-line program (using only additions, subtractions and multiplications) of length at most f(n). Shub and Smale [12] showed that if n! is ultimately hard to compute, then the algebraic version of NP≠P is true. Assuming a widely believed number theory conjecture concerning smooth numbers in a short interval, a subexponential upper bound (exp(clognloglogn)) for the ultimate complexity of n! is proved in this paper, and a randomized subexponential algorithm constructing such a short straight-line program is presented as well

PDB28 Economic Evaluation of Vildagliptin As Add-on Therapy to Metformin in Diabetes Mellitus Treatment in China

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A simulation model of the Devils Hole pupfish population using monthly length-frequency distributions

The Devils Hole pupfish, Cyprinodon diabolis, is a federally-endangered fish that is endemic to Devils Hole, a discontiguous part of Death Valley National Park in Nye County, Nevada. Due to its status, Devils Hole pupfish monitoring must be non-obtrusive and thereby exclude techniques that require handling fish. Due to a recent decline in pupfish abundance, Devils Hole pupfish managers have expressed a need for a model that describes population dynamics. This population model would be used to identify vulnerable life history stage(s) and inform management actions. We constructed a set of individualbased simulation models designed to explore effects of population processes and evaluate assumptions. We developed a baseline model, whose output best resembled both observed length-frequency data and predicted intraannual abundance patterns. We then ran simulations with 5 % increases in egg-larval, juvenile, and adult survival rates to better understand Devils Hole pupfish life history, thereby helping identify vulnerable life history stages that should become the target of management actions. Simulation models with temporally constant adult, juvenile, and egg-larval survival rates were able to reproduce observed length-frequency distributions and predicted intra-annual population patterns. In particular, models with monthly adult and juvenile survival rates of 80 % and an egg-larval survival rate of 4.7 % replicated patterns in observed data. Population growth was most affected by 5 % increases in egg-larval survival, whereas adult and juvenile survival rates had similar but lesser effects on population growth. Outputs from the model were used to assess factors suspected of influencing Devils Hole pupfish population decline