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Designing effective animated icons for children
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Information Technology is an essential part of the National Curriculum in the UK, yet despite the growth of IT in schools that this has generated, there is evidence that children are not to be taken into consideration enough when designing aspects of educational software. The functionality available in education software packages tends to be made available through static icons, yet there are problems with their implementation as they can at times cause confusion for the user in terms of the functionality that they are aiming to represent. In order to make icons in educational software more effective, and to meet the needs of children, of the use of animated icons has been suggested. Animating the function of the icon aims to provide a clarification of its meaning and demonstrate its capabilities, as well as explaining to the user the method of use. However, there is little information available on how to support the design of effective animated icons. Focusing on a target age group of 11 to 12 year olds, this thesis argues that some form of support mechanism should be developed for the design of animated icons to ensure that consideration is being given to the types of object that children find useful and accessible. A set of dimensions where guidance on visual aspects of the icon may be useful are developed through analysis of relevant literature and it is highlighted that they do not provide any insight into what types of object may be helpful in designing the animated icons. This thesis then argues that animated icon design can be usefully informed by psychological theories of learning and that using such theories as a base may provide an understanding of how children identify icon functionality. The thesis introduces and critiques Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology theory, Vygotsky’s Sociocultural theory and Leontjev’s Activity Theory, identifying aspects of the theories which may be of relevance to the design of animated icons. By investigating the relationships between the dimensions of animated icons and the concepts from the theories of learning, insights are developed into the impact of visual factors on a child’s identification and understanding of icon functionality. The thesis goes on to report a practical study where the sample is a group of 11 to 12 year old children. The practical study consists of three phases. The first phase gathers data related to the children’s familiarity with computers and the types of software packages that they use. The second phase looks at their use and recognition of static icon functionality. The last phase involves using the findings from phases 1 and 2 to create and evaluate a set of animated icons, the development of which is based on the relationships between the concepts from theories of learning and the identified dimensions of animated icons. The analysis of the evidence from the practical study leads to a small set of design principles being proposed that are aimed to provide advice/guidance on how to design animated icons effectively for this target age group, with an emphasis on the types of object that might be used. The principles are underpinned by the concepts from the theories of learning and presented in a manner that aims to be understandable by, and accessible to, designers
The route based emergency message dissemination scheme using multihop wireless network for VANETs: The route based emergency message dissemination scheme using multihop wireless network for VANETs: R. Kaur et al.
No full textThe route based emergency message dissemination scheme using multihop wireless network for VANETs: The route based emergency message dissemination scheme using multihop wireless network for VANETs: R. Kaur et al
PENGEMBANGAN BUKU SAKU DIGITAL BERBASIS KEARIFAN LOKAL KABUPATEN KAUR PADA MATERI EKOSISTEM KELAS X MAN KAUR
No full textABSTRAK
Telah dilakukan penelitian pengembangan buku saku digital
berbasis kearifan lokal kabupaten Kaur pada mata pelajaran biologi .
Media pembelajaran Biologi di MAN Kaur pada materi ekosistem
berupa buku paket dan LKS belum terdapat media pembelajaran
digital yang mendukung pembelajaran mengaitkan dengan kehidupan
nyata dan alam sekitar. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui cara
pengembangan buku saku digital berbasis kearifan lokal kabupaten
Kaur pada materi biologi, mengetahui kelayakan buku saku digital
berbasis kearifan lokal kabupaten Kaur pada materi biologi,
mengetahui respon pendidik dan peserta didik terhadap buku saku
digital berbasis kearifan lokal kabupaten Kaur pada materi biologi.
Penelitian ini telah dilakukan di MAN Kaur, kecamatan kaur
selatan, kabupaten Kaur, Bengkulu. Jenis penelitian R&D (research
and development) metode pengembangan dari Borg and Gall dengan 7
tahapan yang sudah disederhanakan. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam
penelitian ini ialah angket para ahli (media, materi, bahasa, dan
budaya), angket tanggapan (pendidik dan peserta didik), dan
dokumentasi.
Berdasarkan hasil penelitian kelayakan buku saku digital
berbasis kearifan lokal kabupaten Kaur pada mata pelajaran biologi
mendapatkan presentase rata-rata validator ahli media sebesar 88%,
ahli materi 88%, ahli bahasa 89%, dan ahli budaya sebesar 91%
sehingga memiliki kriteria “sangat layak”. Sedangkan untuk respon
pendidik sebesar 90% dan respon peserta didik sebesar 89% dengan
kriteria “sangat baik”. Berdasarkan penilaian oleh ahli media, materi,
bahasa, ahli budaya dan respon pendidik dan peserta didik maka
disimpulkan bahwa media buku saku digital berbasis kearifan lokal
kabupaten Kaur pada mata pelajaran biologi sangat layak dan menarik
digunakan sebagai media pembelajaran .
Kata Kunci: Buku saku digital, Ekosistem, Kearifan Lokal
Kabupaten Kaur
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ABSTRACT
Research has been carried out on the development of a digital
pocket book based on the local wisdom of Kaur district in biology
subjects. Biology learning media at MAN Kaur on ecosystem material
in the form of textbooks and worksheets, there is no electronic
learning media that supports learning to relate to real life and the
natural environment. This research aims to find out how to develop a
digital pocket book based on Kaur district's local wisdom on biology
material, find out the feasibility of a digital pocket book based on
Kaur district's local wisdom on biology material, find out the response
of educators and students to the digital pocket book based on Kaur
district's local wisdom on material biology.
This research was conducted in MAN Kaur, South Kaur
subdistrict, Kaur district, Bengkulu. Type of research R&D (research
and development) development method from Borg and Gall with 7
simplified stages. This research uses expert questionnaire research
instruments (media, materials, language and culture), response
questionnaires (educators and students), and documentation.
Based on the results of research on the feasibility of a digital
pocket book based on local wisdom, Kaur District in biology subjects
received an average percentage of media expert validators of 88%,
material experts 88%, language experts 89%, and cultural experts 91%
so that it has the criteria "very feasible ”. Meanwhile, the teacher
response was 90% and the student response was 89% with the criteria
"very good". Based on assessments by media, material, language,
cultural experts and responses from educators and students, it was
concluded that the digital pocket book media based on local wisdom
in Kaur district in biology subjects was very suitable and interesting to
use as a learning medium.
Keywords: Digital Pocket Book, Ecosystem, Local Wisdom Of Kaur
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A Study of New Topologies on R.
No full textM.Sc (Mathematics and Computing) Thesis.The present dissertation entitled, “A Study of New Topologies on R” comprises
certain investigations carried out by me at School of Mathematics, Thapar University,
Patiala, under the supervision of Dr. Jatinderdeep Kaur, Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics, Thapar University, Patiala.
The aim of this work is to find new topologies with this new set of basis B−
and B+. The topologies generated from this new set of basis are different from standard, lower limit, upper limit and k-topologies. We compared well known topologies
with new topologies on R.
The whole work is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 is introduction which
includes brief account of definitions and their examples which will be required for
the later chapters. In chapter 2, we have studied some main theorems which guarantees how topology can be generated from given base and vice-versa. The aim of chapter 3 is to study well known topologies on R and their topological properties.
In chapter 4, we introduced new topologies on real line and compared them with
well known topologies on R.
At the end of this dissertation, we have bibliography of research papers and
books cited in the dissertation
ANALISIS PENDAPATAN USAHA PETERNAKAN SAPI KAUR YANG DIPELIHARA SECARA EKSTENSIF DI KECAMATAN PADANG GUCI HULU KABUPATEN KAUR
No full textSapi Kaur merupakan sapi lokal yang ada di Kabupaten Kaur dan keberadaannya
tersebar di 15 Kecamatan, salah satunya di Kecamatan Padang Guci Hulu Kabupaten Kaur.
Sapi Kaur hidup dan berkembang biak di daerah Kecamatan Padang Guci Hulu Kabupaten
Kaur dan umumnya dimiliki oleh petani pedesaan sejak dahulu hingga sekarang. Sapi kaur
memiliki bentuk badan yang kecil, padat, dan kompak dengan pundak pada jantan
berpunuk, sedangkan pada betina tidak memiliki punuk namun bagian pundaknya tidak
rata sedikit menonjol dibanding sapi Bali betina. Sapi kaur memiliki warna yang bervariasi
yaitu putih, abu-abu, bahkan ditemukan pula warna bulu merah bata dan hitam. Sapi ini
termasuk tipe sapi potong berukuran kecil namun memiliki kontribusi yang cukup besar
bagi pemenuhan kebutuhan daging dan sebagai penghasilan tambahan bagi para peternak
di daerah tersebut.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui besarnya usaha peternakan sapi Kaur
yang dipelihara secara ekstensif di kecamatan Padang Guci Hulu Kabupaten Kaur.
Penelitian ini telah dilaksanakan pada bulan Oktober-November 2019. Responden dari
penelitian ini adalah 30 orang peternak sapi Bali yang memiliki skala kecil yaitu 1-5 ekor
sebanyak 10 responden, skala sedang 6-10 ekor sebanyak 10 responden, dan skala besar
11-23 ekor sebanyak 10 responden. Variabel yang diamati pada penelitian ini meliputi
biaya tetap, biaya variabel, biaya produksi, penerimaan, pendapatan, BEP (Break Even
Point), dan R/C. Data yang diperoleh dari hasil penelitian ditabulasi dalam bentuk tabel
dan diolah secara matematis kemudian dianalisis secara deskriptif.
Berdasarkan hasil penelitian yang telah di lakukan di Kecamatan Padang Guci Hulu
Kabupaten Kaur dapat ditarik kesimpulan bahwa rata-rata pendapatan peternak sapi Kaur
pada berbagai skala kepemilikan yaitu pada skala 1-5 ekor rata-rata pendapatan per tahun
adalah sebesar Rp 6.039.130, pada skala kepemlikan 6-10 ekor rata-rata pendapatannya
adalah sebesar Rp 17.139.662 per tahun, dan pada skala kepemilikan 11-23 ekor rata�ratanya adalah sebesar Rp 44.616.184 per tahun. Berdasarkan BEP capaian titik impas
produksi pada skala kepemilikan 1-5 ekor adalah 0,425 ekor dengan harga yang harus
dicapai sebesar Rp 4.698.336, pada skala kepemilikan 6-10 capaian titik impas produksi
yaitu 0,428ekor dengan harga yang harus dicapai sebesar Rp Rp 4.698.525, pada skala
kepemilikan 11-23 ekor capaian tititk impas produksi yaitu 0,554 ekor dengan harga yang
harus dicapai sebesar Rp 6.089.205.
Dan Berdasarkan R/C secara keseluruhan usaha ternak sapi Kaur yang dilakukan
oleh peternak cukup menguntungkan melihat R/C yang berada diatas 1, yang mana pada
skala kepemilikan 1-5 ekor yaitu 1.500, pada skala kepemilikan 6-10 ekor yaitu 1.995, dan
pada skala kepemilikan 11-23 ekor yaitu sebesar 2.717
Laser-induced forward transfer techniques for printing functional materials and photonic devices
No full textThe subject of this thesis is to study the Laser-Induced Forward Transfer (LIFT) technique using a time-resolved method in order to gain a better insight into the dynamics of the transfer process and to use the technique for rapid prototyping of photonic devices and printing piezoelectric materials for energy harvesting applications. A nanosecond shadowgraphy technique was used to study the triazene polymer (TP)-dynamic release layer (DRL) assisted LIFT technique for solid-phase ceramic materials namely gadolinium gallium oxide (Gd-Ga-O) and ytterbium doped yttrium aluminium oxide (Yb:YAG). The dependence of the distance travelled by the shockwave and the ejected donor material, their velocities and the quality of the ejected donor pixel on the laser fluence, the thickness of the TP-DRL and donor film thickness was studied and is discussed. Segmented channel waveguides, X-couplers and mode-filters based on titanium (Ti) indiffused lithium niobate (LN) have been fabricated using the LIFT technique. The segment separation was found to be the key factor in determining mode profiles of waveguides. The corrugations due to the segmented nature of the deposits was observed to introduce non-adiabatic behavior in the mode filters which was further confirmed by theoretical modeling. Forward transfer of donor films with patterns to be transferred machined into them prior to LIFT have been investigated. This technique allows debris-free printing of thicker and fragile donors films with extremely smooth and uniform edges in intact and solid-phase without the need of any sacrificial layer. Results of debris-free printing of micro-pellets of zinc oxide (ZnO) with extremely good quality edges from donor films pre-machined using focused ion beam (FIB) are presented. Printing and post-transfer characterization of both lead zirconate titanate (PZT) and non-lead based ZnO piezoelectric materials for energy harvesting applications using the LIFT and TP-DRL assisted LIFT techniques have been studied and discussed
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The microbiological transformation of 14$,19-dihydroxy-ent-kaur-15-ene by Gibberella fujikuroi
No full textThe biotransformation by the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi of the diterpene ent-14,15,15,1616,14,14,14,16,14,7-trihydroxy-kaur-15-en-19-oic acid, ent-6,14-tetrahydroxy-kaur-16-en-19-oic acid and ent-15-epoxy-6,14-hydroxy-15-epoxy-GA$ was the sole gibberellin obtained in this incubation.This work has been supported by the DGICYT, Ministry of Education and Science, Spain, grant PR87-255. We thank Dr. J. R. Hanson (University of Sussex, U.K.) for cultures of G. fujikuroi.Peer reviewe
Perceived Parental Encouragement and Self-Concept in Relation to Adjustment in Adolescents
No full textParental encouragement, self concept and adjustment are important aspects of
adolescent are life and are related with each other. Present study researched up on the
contribution of parental encouragement and self concept towards the adjustment of
adolescents. 184 adolescents in the age range of 16 to 18 were tested on Parental
Encouragement Scale, Adjustment Inventory, and the Self disclosure scale. Analysis
of the result revealed that parental encouragement is related to emotional adjustment
(r= -.29**, p < 0.01) and have a positive correlation with overall self concept of the
adolescents (r=.26**, p < 0.01). Self- Concept was found to have a negative
correlation with overall adjustment ( r= -.36**, p < 0.01) with emotional adjustment
(r= -.35**, p < 0.01) with social adjustment problems ( r=-.28**, p < 0.01) and
educational adjustment problems (r-.16*=p < 0.05). The self concept is negatively
related to adjustment because higher score indicates adjustment problems, thus the
correlation is negative. Adolescent with Low self concept had more difficulties with
adjustment than those who had high self concept. Similarly adolescent who perceived
low parental encouragement had adjustment problems
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