Case studies to enhance online student evaluation: Bond University – Surveying students online to improve learning and teaching

One of the most sensible ways of improving learning and teaching is to ask the students for feedback. At the end of each teaching period (i.e. semester or term) all universities and many schools survey their students. Usually these surveys are managed online. Questions ask for student perceptions about teaching, assessment and workload. The survey administrators report four common problems

Finger Ridge Count Correlations Among Four Tribes of Andhra Pradesh, India

The present paper reports the distribution of finger ridge count correlations among four tribal populations from Andhra Pradesh, India viz., Dulia, Kotia, Manne Dora and Manzai Mali, and examines the intra and inter population variation. Higher correlations are recorded in left hands compared to right hands, but they are not significant. The homologous fingers exhibit a stronger correlation. In all the tribes, the correlations between right hand fingers are relatively higher among women when compared to men. Regarding inter population variation Dulia men differ significantly from the men of Manne Dora and the Manzai Mali tribes, and Kotia women also differ from the women of the Manne Dora significantly. The average correlation coefficient of the present populations is similar to other Indian populations reported earlier but lower than African and European populations

Lagrangian subcategories and braided tensor equivalences of twisted quantum doubles of finite groups

We classify Lagrangian subcategories of the representation category of a twisted quantum double of a finite group. In view of results of 0704.0195v2 this gives a complete description of all braided tensor equivalent pairs of twisted quantum doubles of finite groups. We also establish a canonical bijection between Lagrangian subcategories of the representation category of a twisted quantum double of a finite group G and module categories over the category of twisted G-graded vector spaces such that the dual tensor category is pointed. This can be viewed as a quantum version of V. Drinfeld's characterization of homogeneous spaces of a Poisson-Lie group in terms of Lagrangian subalgebras of the double of its Lie bialgebra. As a consequence, we obtain that two group-theoretical fusion categories are weakly Morita equivalent if and only if their centers are equivalent as braided tensor categories.Comment: 26 pages; several comments and references adde

Prospective, randomized double blind comparative study of safety and efficacy of carvedilol versus atenolol in patients of mild to moderate hypertension

Background: Carvedilol is a new cardiovascular compound with the combined pharmacologic properties of nonselective ß-blockade and vasodilation. The Aim of the study was to compare the safety and antihypertensive efficacy of 25mg Carvedilol once daily with 50mg atenolol once daily in patients with mild to moderate essential hypertension.Methods: This was a single center study conducted in Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada. 80 eligible patients with mild to moderate hypertension were randomized to receive 25mg Carvedilol once daily (40 patients) or 50mg atenolol (40 patients) in a double-blind 12-week treatment phase. At each visit 0, 4, 8 and 12 weeks of treatment, sitting Blood Pressure (BP) and heart rate were measured. The effect on BP reduction within the group is compared by paired “t”test and the effect on reduction of BP between two study groups compared by unpaired “t”test.Results: After 12 weeks of treatment, the mean reduction of SBP (Systolic Blood Pressure) with carvedilol is 22.33±8.31mmHg with no Significant difference (p >0.05) compared to atenolol group mean reduction in SBP of 21.37±10mm Hg. The mean reduction in DBP (Diastolic Blood Pressure) after completion of the study in carvedilol group is 6.75±4.82mm Hg with no Significant difference (p >0.05) compared to atenolol group mean reduction in DBP of 8.55±5.25mm Hg. No significant difference seen in the efficacy parameters of both the drugs. The incidence of adverse effects such as bradycardia, headache, nausea, vomiting, hypotension and rash is less with carvedilol.Conclusions: In patients with mild to moderate hypertension, there was no statistically significant difference between efficacy of carvedilol or atenolol with regard to the degree of reduction in BP or the percentage of patients achieving a response to therapy but carvedilol showed a better safety profile when compared to atenolol

A comparative biochemical study on the non diabetic obese and non obese subjects with cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease is now a major public health problem in India and is emerging as a major killer. The non diabetic obese and non obese subjects with cardio vascular disease” were carried out with the objective of studying or investing the (effect) cause of cardiovascular diseases in obese and Non-obese subjects. The level of lipoprotein a of non obese subject showed a significant (P < 0.001) increase than in the obese subject. The level of lipid ratio (total cholesterol / HDL cholesterol) found to be significantly (P < 0.001) high in obese subjects than in non-obese subjects. The present study has been designed to evaluate or investigate the risk of cardiovascular disease due to obesity in both male and female middle age group

Providing High Quality Answers For Users Posted Questions Using Question-User Mapping In Q&A Websites

We propose SocialQ&amp;A, an online interpersonal organization based Q&amp;A framework, that effectively advances inquiries to those clients with the most astounding likelihood(capability and ability) of noting them with mastery and enthusiasm for the inquiries' subjects. The outline of SocialQ&amp;A depends on two informal community properties. Initially, social companions tend to have comparable interests (e.g., lab individuals studying PC frameworks). Second, social companions have a tendency to be dependable and selfless because of the property of "fellowship encourages participation". As needs be, SocialQ&amp;A favors routing inquiries among companions and identifies an question’s potential answerers by thinking about two metrics: the enthusiasm of the companion towards the question and the social closeness of the companion to the asker/forwarder

SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF MULTI STORY RC BUILDING WITH SHEAR WALL USING STAAD PRO

Shear wall systems are among the most generally used lateral load fighting off systems in high-rise structures. Shear walls have high in plane stiffness and strength that you can use to concurrently resist large horizontal loads and support gravity loads which makes them quite beneficial in lots of structural engineering programs. The shear wall is going to be introduced within the presented structure at appropriate locations and also the analysis is done for static loads caused because of earthquakes. An RCC building of 11 floors placed exposed to earthquake loading in Zone -V is considered in this case. An earthquake load is calculated by seismic coefficient method using IS 1893(PART-I):2002. The 3 different instalments of shear wall position for 11 floor building happen to be examined later. The outcomes of the aforementioned four analysis is going to be in comparison and optimize the shear wall frame structure is going to be recommended for that building considered for that analysis. This analysis can help in achieving safety against earthquakes in addition to maintaining your versatility from the frame structure intact. It's came to the conclusion that incorporation of shear wall is becoming inevitable in multi-storey structures to face up to lateral forces. The kind II shear wall suggested within this analysis turns out to be more effective and can achieve maximum safety towards earthquakes in Zone -

Cryptographic Primitive to Enable a User to Check And Update Integrity Of Outsourced Files In a Cloud Server

We present the idea of deduplicatable powerful evidence of storage and propose a proficient development called DeyPoS, to accomplish dynamic PoS and secure cross-client deduplication, all the while. Thinking about the difficulties of structure decent variety and private label age, we abuse a novel instrument called Homomorphic Authenticated Tree (HAT). We demonstrate the security of our development, and the hypothetical examination and test comes about demonstrate that our development is efficient in practice