701 research outputs found
The State of Social Studies in Illinois: An Analysis of Educator Preparedness for Inquiry and Inclusion
No full textDrawing on data from 1550 completed questionnaires collected over four years, The State of Social Studies in Illinois: Analyses of Educator Preparedness for Inquiry and Inclusion, examined K-12 Social Studies teachers in Illinois’ perceptions, preparedness, and challenges
related to inquiry-based and inclusive teaching and learning practice in K-12 Social Studies. The authors hope that findings and implications shared in the report can better equip educators, and those charged with supporting them, with the necessary data and potential methods to create transformative classrooms that promote critical thinking, civic engagement, and justice-centered Social Studies teaching and learning.ISB
Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford
No full textJames A. J. Wilson, Michael A. Fraser, Luis Martinez-Uribe, Paul Jeffreys, Meriel Patrick, Asif Akram and Tahir Mansoori describe the approaches taken, findings, and issues encountered while developing research data management services and infrastructure at the University of Oxford
AGV guidance system: an application of simple active contour for visual tracking
No full textIn this paper, a simple active contour based visualtracking algorithm is presented for outdoor AGV application which is currently under development at the USM robotic research group (URRG) lab. The presented algorithm is computationally low cost and able to track road boundaries in an image sequence and can easily be implemented on available low cost hardware. The proposed algorithm used an active shape modeling using the B-spline deformable template and recursive curve fitting method to track the current orientation of the road
Embedding spanning subgraphs into large dense graphs
No full textIn this thesis we are going to present some results on embedding spanning subgraphs into large dense graphs. Spanning Trees Bollob'as conjectured that if is a graph on vertices, for some , and is a bounded degree tree on vertices, then is a subgraph of . The problem was solved in the affirmative by Koml'os, S'ark"ozy and Szemer'edi for large graphs. They then strengthened their result, and showed that the maximum degree of need not be bounded: there exists a constant such that is a subgraph of if , and is large. Both proofs are based on the Regularity Lemma-Blow-up Lemma Method. Recently, using other methods, it was shown that bounded degree trees embed into graphs with minimum degree , where is a constant depending on the maximum degree of . Here we show that in general is sufficient for every . We also show that this bound is tight for the two extreme values of i.e. when and when . Powers of Hamiltonian Cycles In 1962 P'osa conjectured that if then contains the square of a Hamiltonian cycle. Later, in 1974, Seymour generalized this conjecture: if then contains the th power of a Hamiltonian cycle. In 1998 the conjecture was proved by Koml'os, S'ark"ozy and Szemer'edi for large graphs using the Regularity Lemma. We present a ``deregularised" proof of the P'osa-Seymour conjecture which results in a much lower threshold value for , the size of the graph for which the conjecture is true. We hope that the tools used in this proof will push down the threshold value for to around 100 at which point we will be able to verify the conjecture for every .Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Asif Jamshe
Prediction of particle concentration profiles in binary-solid liquid fluidized bed
No full textA simple mixing rule is presented here to predict the concentration profile of individual particle species in a binary-solid liquid fluidized bed from the information about the total solid concentration in the bed. Using the experimental data available in the literature, the applicability of this approach is demonstrated for the presence of different size particles in the bed. For the case of binary-solid fluidized bed showing layer inversion behavior, this simple mixing rule is capable of predicting the concentration of two species from the total solid concentration data of the bed.Corresponding Author:
Dr. Mohammad Asif, Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University,
P.O. Box 800, Riyadh-11421, Saudi Arabia.
Email: [email protected]
Reckless Photos
No full textPhotos for Reckless by Craig Lucas, directed by Frank A. Barnhart on May 18-21, 2011 in Nestor Hall Auditorium.
Cast:
Rachel - Meggie Thrash
Tom/Tom Jr./Man - TJ. Gaddis
Lloyd - Eric Boso
Pooty/Reporter/Talk Show Host - Sara Wilson
Roy/First Doctor/Sixth Doctor - Eric Bounds
Trish/Woman Patient - Randi Luker
Sue/Third Doctor/Fifth Doctor/Prize Lady - Megan Jones
Tim/Fourth Doctor/Derelict/Receptionist - Aaron McNulty
Second Doctor/Derelict - Asif Malik
Crew
Director - Frank A. Barnhart
Production Crew - Meggie Thrash, T.J. Gaddis, Eric Boso, Sara Wilson, Eric Bounds, Randi Luker, Megan Jones, Aaron McNulty, Asif Malik
Sign Language Instruction - Daniel Littl
Curricularizing Social Movements: The Election of Chicago’s First Black Mayor as Content, Pedagogy, and Futurities
No full textThe election of Harold Washington, Chicago’s first Black mayor, was monumental in its ability to galvanize masses of people in a city governed historically by machine-style politics. However, social movement organizing was the mechanism that led to Washington’s victory. Using surveillance data collected by the Chicago Police Department, and other historical artifacts, the author of this article calls for the curricularization of social movements from the past. As the paper details social movements of the past can offer curricular insight through content and pedagogy, reconceptualizing the ways in which educational spaces might be better bound to the communities and legacies of resistance that contextualize them.
Semantic Question Classification Datasets
No full textThis is the datasets used in the following paper:Can Taxonomy Help? Improving Semantic Question Matching using Question TaxonomyPaper: http://aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1042If you use the dataset please cite the following paper:@InProceedings{C18-1042,
author = "Gupta, Deepak
and Pujari, Rajkumar
and Ekbal, Asif
and Bhattacharyya, Pushpak
and Maitra, Anutosh
and Jain, Tom
and Sengupta, Shubhashis",
title = "Can Taxonomy Help? Improving Semantic Question Matching using Question Taxonomy",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
year = "2018",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
pages = "499--513",
location = "Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA",
url = "http://aclweb.org/anthology/C18-1042"
}
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Winter in America: Exploring Epistemologies of Youth Activism in the 21st Century
No full textThis descriptive case study (Merriam, 1998) examined the relationship between agency (Solorzano & Delgado-Bernal, 2001) and Paulo Freire’s (1970) popular education approach (problem posing pedagogy) in a year-long, out-of-school, Fellowship program for young adults. Five recent high school graduates completed a full-time, paid program that engaged them in critical study of their community and action related to their findings. The author of this study also served as the executive director of the sponsoring organization.
Participant-created artifacts collected during the Fellowship and three follow up interviews with the organization’s second administrator served as data into the exploration of: (a) how the youth of the research setting made sense of their lived experiences using Freire’s problem posing pedagogy, (b) how the youth of the research setting negotiated their agentic identities in the real world, and (c) how the adult-facilitators of the research setting created and facilitated spaces of agency development.
Findings from the study illuminate the relationship between societal structures and agency. The author defines contours as the localized converging points between the structures of society and agency. Contours enable and constrain agency and change over time through peoples’ actions. Additionally, this study presents a six-pillar framework for teaching and learning, a pedagogy of risk, that emerged from the administrators’ experiences. Exploring the shifting agentic identities of the youth engaged in this study reveals that the youth of the research setting entered the Fellowship with agency from their previous experiences, and the Fellowship served as a context that supported their agentic development and transformation through praxis.
Implications of this research include: (a) youth and popular education contexts can serve as vital catalysts to transforming the world; (b) teaching and research are political acts grounded in praxis; and (c) there is a need to provide structural supports for popular education projects in and out of schools
Winter in America: Exploring Epistemologies of Youth Activism in the 21st Century
No full textThis descriptive case study (Merriam, 1998) examined the relationship between agency (Solorzano & Delgado-Bernal, 2001) and Paulo Freire’s (1970) popular education approach (problem posing pedagogy) in a year-long, out-of-school, Fellowship program for young adults. Five recent high school graduates completed a full-time, paid program that engaged them in critical study of their community and action related to their findings. The author of this study also served as the executive director of the sponsoring organization.
Participant-created artifacts collected during the Fellowship and three follow up interviews with the organization’s second administrator served as data into the exploration of: (a) how the youth of the research setting made sense of their lived experiences using Freire’s problem posing pedagogy, (b) how the youth of the research setting negotiated their agentic identities in the real world, and (c) how the adult-facilitators of the research setting created and facilitated spaces of agency development.
Findings from the study illuminate the relationship between societal structures and agency. The author defines contours as the localized converging points between the structures of society and agency. Contours enable and constrain agency and change over time through peoples’ actions. Additionally, this study presents a six-pillar framework for teaching and learning, a pedagogy of risk, that emerged from the administrators’ experiences. Exploring the shifting agentic identities of the youth engaged in this study reveals that the youth of the research setting entered the Fellowship with agency from their previous experiences, and the Fellowship served as a context that supported their agentic development and transformation through praxis.
Implications of this research include: (a) youth and popular education contexts can serve as vital catalysts to transforming the world; (b) teaching and research are political acts grounded in praxis; and (c) there is a need to provide structural supports for popular education projects in and out of schools
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