658 research outputs found
Wenting, Li
No full textTese de Doutoramento em Didática das Línguas - Multilinguismo e Educação para a Cidadania Global em associação com a Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, apresentada à Universidade AbertaApós a entrada no novo século, o processo de democratização do ensino superior
acelerou, ao mesmo tempo que se estreitou a relação entre o ensino superior e o
desenvolvimento socioeconómico.
O crescente acesso ao ensino superior na China conduziu a uma mudança fundamental
nas oportunidades de emprego dos detentores de um grau universitário, nomeadamente
com cursos de línguas estrangeiras, que enfrentam uma pressão crescente no mercado
de trabalho. A sociedade chinesa tem demonstrado particular preocupação com grupos
especiais, criando por exemplo escolas de formação profissional de línguas estrangeiras.
Na base da sua própria experiência no ensino de português na China, a autora pretende
contribuir para a evolução profissional na área da educação e ensino desta língua. Neste
contexto, deixa algumas sugestões para a reforma dos cursos de Língua Portuguesa nos
Institutos de Línguas Estrangeiras de Formação Profissional, área da sua especialização
académica.After the entry into the new century, the process of democratization of higher education
accelerated, and the relationship between higher education and socio-economic
development became even closer.
Increasing access to higher education in China has led to a fundamental change in the
job opportunities of college graduates, notably of the foreign language courses, which
face increasing pressure on the labor market. Chinese society has been particularly
concerned about special groups, for example by setting up vocational training schools for
foreign languages.
Based on her own experience in teaching Portuguese in China, the author intends to
contribute to the professional development of the Portuguese language education and
teaching. In this context, she gives some suggestions for the reform of Portuguese
Language courses at the Foreign Language Institutes of Vocational Training, her area of
academic specialization.N/
Impacts of Human Energy-Related Behaviours on the Energy Efficiency of Adaptive Building Façade: A Review
No full textAmid growing imperatives for heightened building energy efficiency and occupant comfort, adaptive façades have garnered significant attention and research efforts aimed at refining their structure and techniques to achieve energy savings. However, studies frequently overlook the consideration of human factors that impact the energy performance of adaptive façades, with limited discussions on potential solutions. In this review study, an investigation is undertaken to firstly delineate the challenges posed by occupant disruptive behaviour to the expectation of adaptive façade operations. Secondly, this study focuses on reviewing gamification design and implementation techniques aimed at enhancing operational efficiency and fostering increased user engagement. Findings from this review indicate that occupant-oriented adaptivity is crucial for the effective operation of adaptive façades, underscoring the importance of incorporating occupant- empowered control when automation systems are involved. Furthermore, the review highlights the necessity for gamification implementation methods to align with the unique characteristics of the building type and its occupants. Particularly, achieving a balance between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation appears as crucial. This study serves as a foundational resource for researchers and practitioners seeking to leverage the gamification for enhancing data communication and collection by promoting users’ engagement and positive behavioural change within the context of building adaptive façades-users interaction. © 2024, Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe
Derivation and application of hydraulic equation for variable-rate contour-controlled sprinklers
No full textThe variable-rate contour-controlled sprinkler (VRCS) for precision irrigation can throw water on a given shaped area and the flow rate is also varied with the throw distance of the sprinkler for the purpose of high uniformity irrigation. Much of past research work were concentrated on the mechanical availability of variable-rate application and the design of VRCS main construction without considering the theoretical operation principles of VRCS. This study aimed to develop the mathematic models describing the relationship between hydraulic parameters of VRCS and these models will be the theoretical guidance for the design of VRCS. The hydraulic operational equation that describes the internal connection of flow rate, rotating speed and throw distance of VRCS was derived using mathematical theory of limitation and double integral. The derived operational equation indicates that the flow rate of VRCS is proportional to the product of rotating speed and square throw distance. The square wetted area sprinklers were used to illustrate the application of the operational equation of VRCS. The theoretical throw distance equation for the square wetted area sprinkler was built. With the operational equation and theoretical throw distance equation, the theoretical flow rate and rotating speed equations of the square wetted area sprinkler were derived. These results of this study provide fundamental principles for the design of VRCS
Nao he sheng zhi qi guan biao da ji yin BRE zai xiao shu cheng xian wei xi bao zhong de gong neng yan jiu
No full textShi, Wenting.Thesis Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2016.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 136-159).Abstracts also in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on 04, January, 2017).Shi, Wenting
Gamification Approaches and Assessment Methodologies for Occupants’ Energy Behavior Change in Buildings: A Systematic Review
No full textWith the trend of achieving both energy efficiency in buildings and occupants’ comfort, gamification strategies have started to be developed and applied as incentive mechanisms to increase social interaction and facilitate human energy behavior transformation. In this article, 306 published papers are reviewed, and 21 studies are identified to determine the challenges and potential for the development of gamification strategies to improve building energy efficiency. Specifically, this work reviews the implementation techniques of gamification and methods to assess the impact of gamification mechanisms on human energy behavior changes. This analysis demonstrates that, firstly, the choice of an optimal gamification implementation method should be inherently attuned
to the distinct characteristics of the building type and its occupants. Secondly, it is imperative to strike a judicious balance between extrinsic and intrinsic motivations, in which customization of gamification design elements are based on users’ unique personality traits and preferences, to properly tailor gamification mechanisms. Thirdly, integrating a fusion of quantification of energy
savings and qualitative interpretation of user behaviors to improve the energy efficiency in buildings is essential for a more holistic understanding of the impact of gamification on users’ energy related behavior change. The findings indicate that gamification techniques can enable the effective reduction of energy consumption in buildings
Evaluation model development for sprinkler irrigation uniformity based on catch-can data
No full textA new evaluation method with accompanying software was developed to precisely calculate uniformity from catch-can test data, assuming sprinkler distribution data to be a continuous variable. Two interpolation steps are required to compute unknown water application depths at grid distribution points from radial distribution of catch-cans' data: using both radial and peripheral interpolations. Interpolation by cubic splines was used to give more accurately interpolated values. This method has higher accuracy theoretically compared with conventional methods to analyze catch-can data. Water application depths were calculated at each grid point and uniformity coefficients were computed from the grid distribution maps of water application depths. This has value in assessing application uniformity of sprinkle irrigation designs
What is common may be as important as what is different: examining the general factor shared by dispositional shame and guilt using bi-factor models
No full textPrevious research on shame and guilt has tended to focus on their unique associations with other variables. It has become commonplace to eliminate the substantial shared variance with shame when examining guilt, and to eliminate shared variance with guilt when examining shame. What previous research has typically not done is to examine the variance shared by shame and guilt. In a series of three studies, we addressed this issue by employing bi-factor models to examine the general factor shared by shame and guilt, and its relationship to several important personality traits and two broad liability factors of psychopathology (i.e., externalizing and internalizing psychopathology). As hypothesized, the general factor shared by shame and guilt was strongly and positively associated with personality traits associated with moral emotions (empathy, agreeableness and conscientiousness), and strongly but inversely associated with both self-reported and informant-reported externalizing psychopathology. The general factor was also associated with self-consciousness, but not with self-criticism, vulnerable narcissism or neuroticism. The implications of these findings are discussed regarding the conceptualization of shame and guilt.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2020-08-01The student, Wenting Mu, accepted the attached license on 2018-04-13 at 09:14.The student, Wenting Mu, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2018-04-13 at 09:24.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-04-17 at 17:21.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12229 on 2018-09-27 at 11:15:30Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-27T16:27:59Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Parallel session 8 : Teaching and learning innovations
No full textPresented Titles: Pros and Cons of Online Learning: Some Evidence from Chinese Primary School Students [Authors: Wenting Chen; Ada Hiu-kan Wong; Liutan Ying] More Self-directed Learning and Better Employability? How Home-returning Graduate Students Go Through Synchronous Online Courses and Future Career Planning during COVID-19 Lockdowns in Taiwan? [Author: Louise Yi-ning Tsai] Levelling the Playing Field: COVID-19, Educational Inequalities and the Transition to Online and Hybrid Teaching and Learning among Rural-based Tertiary Students in Ghana [Authors: Kwaku Abrefa Busia; Alice Amegah] ELT Online: Conducting a Language Class Online under the Shadow of COVID-19 [Author: Bosco Li
Efficient checkpoint and recovery scheme in a fast in-memory database
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2014.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-62).Multicore in-memory databases for modern machines can support extraordinarily high transaction rates for online transaction processing workloads. A potential weakness of such databases, however, is recovery from crash failures. We show that techniques for disk-based persistence can be ecient enough to keep up with current systems' huge memory sizes and fast transaction rates, be smart enough to avoid additional contention, and provide fast recovery. This thesis presents SiloR, a persistence system built for a very fast multicore database system called Silo. We show that naive logging and checkpoints make normal-case execution slower, but that careful design of the persistence system allows us to keep up with many workloads without negative impact on runtime performance. We design the checkpoint and logging system to utilize multicore's resources to its fullest extent, both during runtime and during recovery. Parallelism allows the system to recover fast. Experiments show that a large database (~~ 50 GB) can be recovered in under five minutes.by Wenting Zheng.M. Eng
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