Role of Application Service Providers in Infrastructure Development for Web-enabled Course Administration Tool

For the effective teaching, the teacher must monitor the effectiveness and performance of the teaching methodology and techniques. For this purpose teacher can use various tools. The effective teaching can be achieved by using different elements of teaching. This paper proposes a system tools called OCAT-PA – Online Course Administration tool for Performance Analysis. This tool can be implemented as standalone system, client-server system or web enabled system. This paper focuses on the web-enabled implementation of the tool. It also focuses on the involvement of the Application Service Providers. This paper discusses the role of application service providers in the proposed system with benefits

Business Model for Developing the Courseware for e-Learning and Self Paced Learning of Programming Languages

Teaching and learning programming language is a challenging task at the undergraduate level. This paper focuses on the basic elements required in learning the programming languages at undergraduate level. In this paper authors share their experience of the development of course material using the multimedia tools. They found that it is difficult to maintain the system, as it requires constant development. They propose a component model in the continuing development of such multimedia courseware incorporating the industry with a business model to support this development

Electrochemically synthesized polymers in molecular imprinting for chemical sensing

This critical review describes a class of polymers prepared by electrochemical polymerization that employs the concept of molecular imprinting for chemical sensing. The principal focus is on both conducting and nonconducting polymers prepared by electropolymerization of electroactive functional monomers, such as pristine and derivatized pyrrole, aminophenylboronic acid, thiophene, porphyrin, aniline, phenylenediamine, phenol, and thiophenol. A critical evaluation of the literature on electrosynthesized molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) applied as recognition elements of chemical sensors is presented. The aim of this review is to highlight recent achievements in analytical applications of these MIPs, including present strategies of determination of different analytes as well as identification and solutions for problems encountered

Altered multisensory temporal integration in obesity

Eating is a multisensory behavior. The act of placing food in the mouth provides us with a variety of sensory information, including gustatory, olfactory, somatosensory, visual, and auditory. Evidence suggests altered eating behavior in obesity. Nonetheless, multisensory integration in obesity has been scantily investigated so far. Starting from this gap in the literature, we seek to provide the first comprehensive investigation of multisensory integration in obesity. Twenty male obese participants and twenty male healthy-weight participants took part in the study aimed at describing the multisensory temporal binding window (TBW). The TBW is defined as the range of stimulus onset asynchrony in which multiple sensory inputs have a high probability of being integrated. To investigate possible multisensory temporal processing deficits in obesity, we investigated performance in two multisensory audiovisual temporal tasks, namely simultaneity judgment and temporal order judgment. Results showed a wider TBW in obese participants as compared to healthy-weight controls. This holds true for both the simultaneity judgment and the temporal order judgment tasks. An explanatory hypothesis would regard the effect of metabolic alterations and low-grade inflammatory state, clinically observed in obesity, on the temporal organization of brain ongoing activity, which one of the neural mechanisms enabling multisensory integration