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What Effect Does a Career Intervention Have on At-Risk Middle School Students’ Career Maturity Levels, Self-Esteem, and Academic Achievement?
A brief overview and analysis of the article, Impact of a career intervention on at-risk middle school students’ career maturity levels, academic achievement, and self-esteem, originally published in Professional School Counseling. The authors present a summary of the key components of the article including the introduction, method and results of the study. They offer an additional analysis of implications for future practice, including an indication of conflicting empirical and perceptional data on the effectiveness of the Career Targets intervention
CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL ECONOMIC STATUS. PRESENT AND PERSPECTIVES
Climate change, currently affecting the entire planet, is considered by the specialists the result of the increase in anthropogenic GHG concentrations. Sectors such as agriculture, transport, energy, tourism and also food security, population health, water resources, and ecosystems become vulnerable to the changes in climate. The climate change could generate costs and benefits for the Romanian seaside and mountain tourism, the multiple linear regression models proving that the tourism demand (arrivals and overnights) is depending on tourism offer (bed-places’ number, tourism capacity in function), but also on climate parameters (air temperature, layer of snow).climate change, costs, economy, tourism
Signalizers in groups of Lie type
We classify all CG(t)-signalizers, where G is a finite group of Lie type and t is an automorphism
of G of prime order s > 3. Our results extend existing work by Korchagina ([Ko], [Ko2])
Opportunities and challenges in using AI Chatbots in Higher Education
Artificial intelligence (AI) conversational chatbots have gained popularity over time, and have been widely used in the fields of e-commerce, online banking, and digital healthcare and well-being, among others. The technology has the potential to provide personalised service to a range of consumers. However, the use of chatbots within educational settings is still limited. In this paper, we present three chatbot prototypes, the Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, are currently developing, and discuss the potential opportunities and technical challenges we face when considering AI chatbots to support our daily activities within the department. Three AI virtual agents are under development: 1) to support the delivery of a taught Master's course simulation game; 2) to support the training and use of a newly introduced educational application; 3) to improve the processing of helpdesk requests within a university department. We hope this paper is informative to those interested in using chatbots in the educational domain. We also aim to improve awareness among those within the chatbot development industry, in particular the chatbot engine providers, about the educational and operational needs within educational institutes, which may differ from those in other domains
SOA services in higher education
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a recent architectural framework for distributed software system development in which software components are packaged as Services. It has become increasingly popular in academia and in industry, but has been principally used in the business domain. However, in higher education, SOA has rarely been applied or investigated. In this paper, we propose the idea of applying SOA technologies in the education domain, to increase both interoperability and flexibility within the e-learning environment. We expect that both students and teachers in higher educational institutions can benefit from this approach. We also describe a number of possible SOA services, along with a high level service roadmap to support a university's learning and teaching activities
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OER Hub Researcher Pack
The OER Hub researcher pack will be of interest to anyone conducting research into the impact of open educational resources (OER) or open education. Building on the earlier release of tools developed, used and released by the OER Hub, the researcher pack provides explanation and guidance on how to use these tools. All material and tools are CC BY licensed and are available for reuse
Becoming a networked researcher: using social media for research and researcher development
Unable to conduct PhD fieldwork overseas, Dr Sarah-Louise Quinnell found herself searching for new ways to communicate with actors dispersed across the globe. Now, her website, a virtual research environment, has become the hub of her research and she utilises forums, blogs and twitter to interact with more actors and increase her impact through different audiences
Researcher studies nervous system development
Ashley Purdy, who recently finished a master’s degree in biology at VCU and is now pursuing her Ph.D., is studying nerve cells in zebrafish in hopes of unlocking secrets about the human nervous system. The research could shed light on how neurodevelopmental disorders like multiple sclerosis or epilepsy occur
Classroom research as teacher-researcher
In the field of education, research projects that involve both the researcher and teacher being the same person are common today, as attested by the significant number of teacher-researcher studies. One issue confronting the dual role of teacher-researcher is the nature of interaction between the underlying goals that come with each of these roles. There are some researchers who express concern that the combination of these goals within the teacher-researcher may compromise either or both of the work of teaching and research in an unproductive way. This paper is an account of my adventure in attempting to fulfil both teaching and research goals in my work as teacher-researcher in a year 7 (Secondary One) geometry class in Singapore. My experience is then re-interpreted in the context of the ongoing conflicting-versus-complementary talk on the interaction between teacher/researcher ‘selves’. A model is proposed to account for the seemingly opposite sides of the camp as reported in the literature on this issue.<br /
Approximate resilience, monotonicity, and the complexity of agnostic learning
A function is -resilient if all its Fourier coefficients of degree at
most are zero, i.e., is uncorrelated with all low-degree parities. We
study the notion of of Boolean
functions, where we say that is -approximately -resilient if
is -close to a -valued -resilient function in
distance. We show that approximate resilience essentially characterizes the
complexity of agnostic learning of a concept class over the uniform
distribution. Roughly speaking, if all functions in a class are far from
being -resilient then can be learned agnostically in time and
conversely, if contains a function close to being -resilient then
agnostic learning of in the statistical query (SQ) framework of Kearns has
complexity of at least . This characterization is based on the
duality between approximation by degree- polynomials and
approximate -resilience that we establish. In particular, it implies that
approximation by low-degree polynomials, known to be sufficient for
agnostic learning over product distributions, is in fact necessary.
Focusing on monotone Boolean functions, we exhibit the existence of
near-optimal -approximately
-resilient monotone functions for all
. Prior to our work, it was conceivable even that every monotone
function is -far from any -resilient function. Furthermore, we
construct simple, explicit monotone functions based on and that are close to highly resilient functions. Our constructions are
based on a fairly general resilience analysis and amplification. These
structural results, together with the characterization, imply nearly optimal
lower bounds for agnostic learning of monotone juntas
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