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The Implementation of Andragogy Approach in Learning Interaction
Get PDFIn learning activity there must be an interaction between learning resources and target learner. The term interaction in this paper is a reciprocal relationship and it is influence each others. Andragogy is the science which deals with the approach in the learning interaction between the source of learning and adults target learner. Initially, andragogy used in systematic non-formal education units, but now this approach is often applied in formal education units, especially in secondary and higher education. Andragogy is the science and art of helping adults learner. While pedagogy is the science and art of teaching children. In the early eighties, learning continuum approach or known as cycle and sustainable approach of learning were developed. This approach can be started from pedagogy continued to andragogy or vice versa. The discussion focus on the interaction of learning activities, the role of a source of learning and objectives in learning. While the focus of andragogy discussion is on the principles, strategies, methods, techniques and learning media in accordance with the learning needs and its potential for self-learners and the environment in systemic education units
A Structured Training Course for Non-structured Design Course
Get PDFIn an engineering design course, teaching assistant plays a critical role to in supporting the teaching and the learning process for the participants – students and instructors.  The instructors would invite or hire a postgraduate student to be the teaching assistant.  In most cases, the postgraduate student does not has any teaching experience. This work proposed and implemented a quick start training course for the teaching assistant specifically for an engineering design course, by adopting concept-design-implementation-operation
Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Injected Water Salinity on Oil Recovery and IFT Using Carbonate Rocks
No full textLow salinity water flooding is an emergingtechnology that can improve oil recovery. Theattraction is due to its simplicity and relatively low cost.As a matter of fact, the incremental recoveries are inquite promising range of stock tank oil initially in place.Being a natural extension of the conventional waterflooding, low salinity water flooding is easier toimplement than any other enhanced oil recovery (EOR)methods. However, the processes of screening,designing, and implementing of this project require anincrease operator capability and management focuscompared to the conventional water flooding. Thepurpose of this work is to study the effect of injectedwater salinity during water-flooding on oil recovery andInterfacial Tension (IFT). The scope of work isachieved by conducting a series of core floodingexperimental. Carbonate cores, differentconcentrations of water salinity, and oil samples of 30.4API° are used to conduct the experiments. The studywas further expanded to examine the heat effect byverifying temperature between 25 oC to 52 oC. Theresults showed that oil recovery was significantlyincreased to 26.47 % by low-salinity compared tohigher salinity brine floods as a result of 11.47 %decrease in IFT
The Productive Infrastructures
No full textProductive Infrastructure is an important support forestablishment of productive city. The layout of productiveinfrastructure should not only combine distributed type withurban space but also integrate with production and processingsystem of other resources. In brief, production infrastructure isrequired to realize integration of "distributed system" and"integration and reconfiguratio
The Efficiency of 1st year Mechanical Engineering Students in being exposed to both 2D and 3D CAD software versus only being exposed to 2D CAD Software: A Comparative Study (CAD-Engineering Software)
No full textMechanical Engineering students are exposed to drawing both 2D and 3D using CAD software in their curriculum. Recently, 2nd Year Mechanical Engineering students from Roever Engineering College, Tamil Nadu, India scored poorly in 5 skills namely Theoretical and Conceptual Knowledge, Visualization skill, Working Knowledge, Speed and Accuracy of Drawing even when their capabilities are beyond those scores. When enquired on this, the students stated that the exposure to both 2D and 3D CAD software to develop the five skills should have been acquired at the 1st Year itself, which became the need of the study
Urban Porosity. A Morphological Key Category for the Optimization of the CAS’s Environmental and Energy Performance.
No full textAlthough there are a lot researches onmorphological studies of the city form, very scarce efforts havebeen applied to systemically comprehend and evaluate urbanmorphology using reliable metrics able to describe the formalproperties of the city. More researches are needed in thisdirection for better understand the city form’s characteristicsand its performances. This paper illustrates Porosity seen inIMM as fundamental morphological characteristic of urbansystems, integration of two basic components of urban space:Volumes and Voids. It aims to highlight the role of Porosity inthe relationship between urban morphology andenvironmental-energy performances with objectiveconsiderations and evaluations of its characteristics based onvalues and indicators. Hence IMM as systemic methodologypresents some key findings in this process to describe itobjectively. This paper aims to presents an innovative way toestimate Porosity as a Key Category and anticipates its role infinding a correct balance between level of Compactness,Complexity, and Connectivity in the urban system (CAS).Actually in IMM balancing these determinants (resulting fromthe interaction of the Key categories) is considered thefoundation of a best performing CAS (sustainable urban form)and any of them would not be sufficient on its own to achievethe result
Phases of Development: A Cultural, Societal and Environmental Overview of Abu Dhabi’s Urban Morphology
No full textInstant cities are on the rise. With a global trend thathas stretched from the Far East to the Middle East, these emergentcities have challenged the world through their instant urbangrowth and their spectacular economic impact on a global scale.Cities like Shanghai and Dubai have been instrumental in thegrowth of other emergent cities - the craze of ‘Dubaization’ [1] orDubai-mania has been on the rise through out the morepolitically stable countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council(GCC) in the Middle East. The GCC came together in 1981uniting the countries of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates(UAE), Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait. In recentyears, cities of the GCC, primarily, Doha, Riyadh, Abu Dhabiand Manama have each adapted to the notion of instant urbangrowth, and much like Dubai, they have become part of the racefor urban and architectural development. This paper willexamine the city of Abu Dhabi as a case study considering itsuniqueness and rich history, though considered short incomparison with other major cities around the world. Abu Dhabi hasan opportunity to document and analyze its architectural andurban evolution in order to fully understand its past, presentand potential future as a modernized metropolis. Instant citiesnow have the challenge to meet the needs of environmentalsustainability in order to become even smarter cities and thusmust face the challenge of adapting their existing urbanfabric to accommodate sustainable urban and architecturaldevelopment.This paper provides an overview of the urban morphology ofAbu Dhabi, an influential instant Arab gulf city, and the processof their instantaneous urban growth. An overview of their urbanhistory may call upon the question of their future adaptability andcurrent progress for future changes to the city. The current researchidentifies the unique historical phases of urban development ofAbu Dhabi up to present day that each correspond to and containtheir distinctive cultural, societal and environmental factorsthat have helped shaped the city – these factors have been takeninto consideration when defining the stages of urbandevelopment through the defined phases.The continuous development of the city of Abu Dhabi, to agreat extent, considers its ongoing growing economy anddistinctive environment contained as part of each definedperiod provided in the following overview
Reachability and Safety Games with Strategy Improvement
No full textThis paper is about two-player infinite stochastic games with imperfect information. We first study on determinacy (optimal value) and optimal (-optimal) strategies in reachability games. The main concern here is to give simple expressions of a value of the game. We provide an alternative prove in showing the existence of memoryless mixed -optimal strategy for Player  I in any reachability games. We then investigate the existence of optimal (-optimal) strategies for each player in a duality of reachability games, namely a safety game. The result of safety game is exactly a dual problem of reachability
Factors Influencing Information-seeking Behavior in Continuing Education of Nurses in Japan
Get PDFThe effects of the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the continuous education of nurses have been identified, but no study has examined the information-seeking behavior of nurses who are using ICT. This study quantitatively and descriptively analyzed factors that influence clinical nurses’ information-seeking behavior. Information-seeking behavior of 324 nurses was observed and scored; the scores were subsequently compared between levels of the following categories: “individual characteristics,†“continuing education factors,†and “environmental factors of Internet usage.†Information-seeking behavior significantly differed with respect to qualification, institution where basic education was received, job ranking, a form of employment, membership to academic associations, and the environment in which ICT was used. It is necessary to create environments that facilitate information seeking for nurses in various departments, and to implement adequate information literacy education in order to support information-seeking behavior
The Impact of Health Education on Parenting Self- Efficacy among Early-married Women
Get PDFAdolescent-marriage has a strong correlation withpoor outcomes on women’s health, such as experiencingpsychological stress and lack of ability in taking care of theirchildren. This study aimed to investigate the impact of healtheducation on young mothers’ knowledge and attitude ofparenting, and also to identify the effect on parenting self-efficacy(PSE). Design: a quasi-experimental and nonequivalent pre-testand post-test control group design was conducted. Setting: Therespondents were recruited from data in the mother and babycohort book in a community health center in Temanggung,Central Java, Indonesia. Subjects were allocated in one of thegroups using cluster random sampling, with the village as therandom unit. Participants: 37 and 31 young mothers participatedin intervention group and control group respectively.Intervention: Health education about parenting was givenindividually for subjects in the intervention group. Measurementsand findings: PSE was measured pre and post-test usingMaternal Self-Efficacy Questionnaire. Data analysis wasconducted using independent samples t-test. The results showedthat the improvement score of PSE in the intervention group washigher than in the control group (p=0.000). The difference ofparenting knowledge post-test between the intervention andcontrol group was 0.000 (p0.05). Keyconclusions: the improvement score of PSE and knowledge aboutparenting in the intervention group was higher than the controlgroup. There is no difference in score changing of parentingattitude in both groups. There is a correlation between familysupport and mother’s occupation with PSE. Implications forpractice: nurses and midwives need to give parenting healtheducation for early-married women in a structured way toimprove their PSE