Comprehensive learning incorporating Ako: A tertiary education approach at Wintec

This article outlines the design and implementation of a scenario-based approach to teaching and learning in tertiary education, inspired from Ako, adopted at the Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec). This learning approach, titled ‘Comprehensive Learning (CL)’, aligns with the holistic objective of enabling students with an active, flexible, personalised, authentic and practical approach to learning that builds upon students’ interests and experiences. The article explains the motivation and the process used in creating and applying this approach to teach some of the IT and Business modules. The main reason to implement this approach is to encourage/enable critical thinking while learning in a continuous and personalised manner. CL allows students to specialize in a context of their choice, which in turn induces learning. In addition, students are less motivated to plagiarize due to the unique nature of their scenarios, and inherent safeguards present within the approach

Comprehensive learning incorporating Ako: A tertiary education approach at Wintec

This article outlines the design and implementation of a scenario-based approach to teaching and learning in tertiary education, inspired from Ako, adopted at the Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec). This learning approach, titled ‘Comprehensive Learning (CL)’, aligns with the holistic objective of enabling students with an active, flexible, personalised, authentic and practical approach to learning that builds upon students’ interests and experiences. The article explains the motivation and the process used in creating and applying this approach to teach some of the IT and Business modules. The main reason to implement this approach is to encourage/enable critical thinking while learning in a continuous and personalised manner. CL allows students to specialize in a context of their choice, which in turn induces learning. In addition, students are less motivated to plagiarize due to the unique nature of their scenarios, and inherent safeguards present within the approach

Comprehensive learning incorporating Ako – a tertiary education approach at Wintec

This article outlines the design and implementation of a scenario-based approach to teaching and learning in tertiary education, inspired from Ako, adopted at the Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec). This learning approach, titled ‘Comprehensive Learning (CL)’, aligns with the holistic objective of enabling students with an active, flexible, personalised, authentic and practical approach to learning that builds upon students’ interests and experiences. The article explains the motivation and the process used in creating and applying this approach to teach some of the IT and Business modules. The main reason to implement this approach is to encourage/enable critical thinking while learning in a continuous and personalised manner. CL allows students to specialize in a context of their choice, which in turn induces learning. In addition, students are less motivated to plagiarize due to the unique nature of their scenarios, and inherent safeguards present within the approach

Music Recommendation System with User-based and Item-based Collaborative Filtering Technique

Internet and E-commerce are the generators of abundant of data, causing information Overloading.  The problem of information overloading is addressed by Recommendation Systems (RS). RS can provide suggestions about a new product, movie or music etc. This paper is about Music Recommendation System, which will recommend songs to users based on their past history i.e. taste. In this paper we proposed a collaborative filtering technique based on users and items. First user-item rating matrix is used to form user clusters and item clusters. Next these clusters are used to find the most similar user cluster or most similar item cluster to a target user. Finally songs are recommended from the most similar user and item clusters. The proposed algorithm is implemented on the benchmark dataset Last.fm. Results show that the performance of proposed method is better than the most popular baseline method

Gaussian Tribonacci R-Graceful Labeling of Some Tree Related Graphs

Let r be any natural number. An injective function , where  is the Gaussian Tribonacci number in the Gaussian Tribonacci sequence is said to be Gaussian Tribonacci r-graceful labeling if the induced edge labeling such that  is bijective. If a graph G admits Gaussian Tribonacci r-graceful labeling, then G is called a Gaussian Tribonacci r-graceful graph. A graph G is said to be Gaussian Tribonacci arbitrarily graceful if it is Gaussian Tribonacci r-graceful for all r. In this paper we investigate the Path graph , the Comb graph , the Coconut tree graph the regular caterpillar graph , the Bistar graph  and the Subdivision of Bistar graph are Gaussian Tribonacci arbitrarily graceful

Risk assessment in poisoning with special reference to odollam and organophosphorous compounds

Background: Poisoning with organophosphorous compounds, odollam and other substances are common. Affected persons present with a wide variety of clinical features. Prognostic indicators of high mortality are important for management and to decide on intensive care unit admission.Methods: Admissions due to poisonings from April 2015 to March 2016 were assessed. The clinical features, electrocardiographic changes and laboratory investigations of 915 patients were obtained and statistically analysed.Results: The most commonly ingested poisons were odollam (26%) and organophosphorous compounds (22%). The overall mortality was 22%. Mortality was highest in organophosphorus compounds (38%) and odollam (33%) compared to other causes. Hyperkalemia, low systolic blood pressure, consumption of poison in powder or paste form, delayed presentation, bradycardia and extensive chest signs correlated with mortality in odollam and organophosphorous compound poisoning.Conclusions: Poisoning with odollam or organophosphorous compounds is an increasingly common life threatening condition. Markers of mortality identified in this study were incorporated into a simple scale for assessment of risk, namely the PoPPER scale: potassium level >5.5 mE/L, systolic blood pressure <90 mmHg, paste/powder form of poison ingestion, extremely late presentation, rate of QRS <40/min or impending respiratory paralysis.

Effect of Oxidizer Particle Size on Burning Rate and Thermal Decomposition of Composite Solid Propellants

Studies on Thermal decomposition of ammonium perchlorarte(AP)- polystyrene(PS) propellant and burning rate of PS/AP propellant have been carried out as a function of oxidizer particle size. Thermal decomposition of AP and AP/PS propellant as function of AP particle size shows a maximum rate around 100 micro particle size which has been explained on the basis of Mample's theory. No such maximum is observed in the case of PS/AP propellant burning rate

Strong Domination Index in Fuzzy Graphs

Topological indices play a vital role in the area of graph theory and fuzzy graph (FG) theory. It has wide applications in the areas such as chemical graph theory, mathematical chemistry, etc. Topological indices produce a numerical parameter associated with a graph. Numerous topological indices are studied due to its applications in various fields. In this article a novel idea of domination index in a FG is defined using weight of strong edges. The strong domination degree (SDD) of a vertex u is defined using the weight of minimal strong dominating set (MSDS) containing u. Idea of upper strong domination number, strong irredundance number, strong upper irredundance number, strong independent domination number, and strong independence number are explained and illustrated subsequently. Strong domination index (SDI) of a FG is defined using the SDD of each vertex. The concept is applied on various FGs like complete FG, complete bipartite and r-partite FG, fuzzy tree, fuzzy cycle and fuzzy stars. Inequalities involving the SDD and SDI are obtained. The union and join of FG is also considered in the study. Applications for SDD of a vertex is provided in later sections. An algorithm to obtain a MSDS containing a particular vertex is also discussed in the article

ANABOLIC EFFECT OF 17- METHYLTESTOSTERONE HORMONE ON CERTAIN BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS OF FISH, TILAPIA MOSSAMBICA

One of the major sources of animal protein for human consumption is a fisheries resource. The demand for fishhas increased in recent years due to population growth and the constant search for a healthy diet. The present study was conducted to assess an anabolic impact of an androgenic hormone, 17-Methyltestosterone (MT) on Protein contentand RNA levels in certain tissues i.e. skeletal muscle, liver and gonad of fish, Tilapia mossambica. The hormone was incorporated in the feed and fed to the fish up to four weeks, in the form of three pelleted diets containing 4, 8 and 16 mg MT/ kg diet along with a fourth control group without hormone. The highest increment in tissue Protein content, RNA and DNA levels was observed under 16 mg MT/ kg diet followed by 8 mg MT/ kg diet and 4 mg MT/ kg diet in skeletal muscle, liver and gonad of fish. The more increase in Protein content, RNA and DNA levels was observed after 28 days of the 17-MT oral route of administration. Hence, it is clear that the anabolic hormones such as 17-MT hormone play an important role in enhancing the tissue protein content for nutritional purposes.There was not much change in DNA levels

Domination Index in Graphs

The concepts of domination and topological index hold great significance within the realm of graph theory. Therefore, it is pertinent to merge these concepts to derive the domination index of a graph. A novel concept of the domination index is introduced, which utilizes the domination degree of a vertex. The domination degree of a vertex a is defined as the minimum cardinality of a minimal dominating set that includes a. The idea of domination degree and domination index is conducted of graphs like complete graphs, complete bipartite, r partite graphs, cycles, wheels, paths, book graphs, windmill graphs, Kragujevac trees. The study is extended to operation in graphs. Inequalities involving domination degree and already established graph parameters are discussed. An application of domination degree is discussed in facility allocation in a city. Algorithm to find a MDS containing a particular vertex is also discussed in the study