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Using performance assessment in secondary school mathematics: an empirical study in a Singapore classroom
No full textThis article reports an exploratory study on using performance assessment in mathematics instruction in a high-performing secondary school in Singapore. An intact mathematics class participated in the study, and received chapter-based performance tasks as intervention during regular mathematics lessons for about one and a half school years. The performance tasks used included authentic and/or open-ended tasks. The students’ academic achievements and attitudes in mathematics were compared with a comparison class that did not receive the intervention. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected, mainly through questionnaire surveys, performance task tests, conventional school exams, and interviews with students and teachers. The results suggest that the students receiving the intervention performed significantly better than their counterparts in solving conventional exam problems, and in general they also showed more positive changes in attitudes towards mathematics and mathematics learning. The students from the experimental class also expressed positive views about the benefits of using performance tasks in promoting their ability in higher order thinking, though no statistically significant difference was detected between the two classes of students in solving unconventional tasks before and after intervention. Overall, the results appear to support teachers’ using contextualised problems in real life situations and open-ended investigations in students’ learning of mathematic
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Embedding the Past and the Future into Speech Perception- CNS 2024 Poster
No full textPoster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 2024.
Authors: Hua Fan, Dr. Ling Liu, Lei Zhang, Yuting Men
Development of a rotor model for the numerical simulation of helicopter exterior flow-fields
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 84-85).A numerical methodology is developed to model the effect of a rotor on the surrounding flow-field. The model calculates the time-averaged aerodynamic forces exerted on the air by the fan blades within the blade-swept region, and permits the user to specify blade properties such as cross-sectional profile and orientation at a particular radial and azimuthal location. The calculated forces are included as source terms within the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations for an incompressible fluid, which are solved by the commercial CFD solver, FLUENT. The effects of turbulence are incorporated through the use of Launder and Spalding's k-g turbulence model. This method is selected as being the most efficient use of the resources available, giving the economic advantages of a steady simulation, while allowing radial and azimuthal variations of rotor characteristics. In order to validate the accuracy of the numerical model for both aligned and non-aligned inflow conditions, results are compared with experimental data reported for an axial flow fan. Agreement between experimental and numerical results is excellent to good. Fan static pressure rise is closely predicted by the numerical solution, while fan power consumption and fan static efficiency are under and over-predicted respectively. This error may be attributed to frictional losses not accounted for in the numerical model. These include physical rotational instabilities, leading to increased mechanical losses, and tip effects due to the clearance between the fan blade tips and the fan casing. Trends are nevertheless consistently predicted by the numerical model for inflow angles up to 45°, and for the range of blade pitch settings used. The adverse effect of off-axis inflow on the fan static pressure rise is numerically predicted, while fan power consumption is found to remain independent of inflow angle, as had been experimentally observed. The rotor model is finally integrated with the fuselage of the CIRSTEL (Combined Infra-Red Suppression and Tail rotor Elimination) prototype in an analysis of the helicopter exterior flow-field. No experimental data for this configuration was available for validation purposes. However, the model is used in the simulation of several common helicopter flight conditions. Results are presented graphically, and generally indicate good agreement with physically observed phenomena
In the global race over 5G, liberalisation and regulatory independence are key
No full textA global race over 5G is raging, but there has been little systematic exploration of the telecom sector with a global perspective. Rabah Arezki, Vianney Dequiedt, Rachel Yuting Fan, and Carlo Maria Rossotto use a novel ranking in the adoption of telecom technology standards around the world, documenting the complementarity between telecom liberalisation and regulatory independence in driving a sustained pace of technology adoption. They also show a positive and economically significant effect of telecom adoption on stock returns, pointing to significant spillovers of telecom to the rest of the economy
Human milk oligosaccharides: Maternal determinants and effects on infant gut microbiome, and infant cognitive and behavioral development during early life
No full textSubmission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01The student, Yuting (Grace) Fan, accepted the attached license on 2025-04-30 at 11:29.The student, Yuting (Grace) Fan, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2025-04-30 at 11:36.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2025-04-30 at 15:52.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #22113 on 2025-10-19 at 19:54:48Human milk (HM) is the recommended feeding method for infants by various global health organizations. According to the World Health Organization, in 2024, 48% of infants under 6 months worldwide were exclusively breastfed. HM provides all required nutrients as well as numerous bioactive compounds to infants during critical windows of postnatal development. HM is also considered unique for its high oligosaccharide content. Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are resistant to infant digestive enzymes and can work as prebiotics to exert beneficial effects to infants. HMO profiles differ by individual mothers. One of the biggest drivers for HMO composition is maternal secretor status, where secretor mothers have an active 2-fucosyltransferase (FUT2) gene and the capacity to produce α1,2-fucosylated HMOs. This dissertation utilized biological and questionnaire data collected from a longitudinal birth cohort study, Synergistic Theory and Research on Nutrition and Obesity Group (STRONG) kids 2 (SKP2). The SKP2 cohort recruited from the central Illinois area had an initial cohort of 468 mothers in their third trimester of pregnancy. HM samples were collected at 6 weeks postpartum; Demographic data were collected via self-reported questionnaires, and infant stool samples were collected by research staff during home visits at various timepoints in the first four years of life. Analyses suggested that maternal genetics, body weight status, pregnancy complications, and dietary characteristics were associated with HMO composition. Given the variations in HMO compositions, infants get different HMO profile exposures, thus, we explored infant outcomes related to HMO exposure. HMO composition was significantly associated with infant behavioral outcomes, including temperament traits and eating behaviors, from infancy to 4-year-old. Additionally, associations were found between HMO composition and infant microbiota composition, including microbiota alpha- and beta-diversity and individual genus-level relative abundances. Lastly, we explored the potential for characteristics of the microbiota composition (diversity and taxa) as a mediator between HMO and infant temperament traits and eating behaviors. However, we only found the positive association between DFS-LNH and enjoyment of food at 12 months being mediated by microbiota alpha diversity at 12 months. In summary, the findings in this research demonstrated that the HMO composition of human breast milk is affected by various maternal factors, including genetics, weight status and dietary intake. Exposure to different HMOs is associated with neurocognitive and behavioral development in infants and children, with infant microbiome being the potential mediating factor. The present study highlighted the vital role of HMO in early development, encouraging further investigation and targeted interventions to optimize infant nutrition
Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection
No full textAs long as there have been fans, there has been fan fiction. There seems to be a fundamental human need to tell additional stories about the characters after the book, series, play or movie is over. But developments in information technology and copyright law have put these fan stories at risk of collision with the content owners’ intellectual property rights. Fan fiction has long been a nearly invisible form of outsider art, but over the past decade it has grown exponentially in volume and in legal importance. Because of its nature, authorship, and underground status, fan fiction stands at an intersection of key issues regarding property, sexuality, and gender. In Fan Fiction and Copyright, author Aaron Schwabach examines various types of fan-created content and asks whether and to what extent they are protected from liability for copyright infringement. Professor Schwabach discusses examples of original and fan works from a wide range of media, genres, and cultures. From Sherlock Holmes to Harry Potter, fictional characters, their authors, and their fans are sympathetically yet realistically assessed. Fan Fiction and Copyright looks closely at examples of three categories of disputes between authors and their fans: Disputes over the fans’ use of copyrighted characters, disputes over online publication of fiction resembling copyright work, and in the case of J.K. Rowling and a fansite webmaster, a dispute over the compiling of a reference work detailing an author's fictional universe. Offering more thorough coverage of many such controversies than has ever been available elsewhere, and discussing fan works from the United States, Brazil, China, India, Russia, and elsewhere, Fan Fiction and Copyright advances the understanding of fan fiction as transformative use and points the way toward a safe harbor\u9d for fan fiction
Learning of algorithms: a theoretical model with focus on cognitive development
No full textTaking a broad perspective on algorithm in mathematics, the author presents a theoretical model about the learning and teaching of algorithm with focus on students’ cognitive development. The model consists of three cognitive levels: 1. Knowledge and Skills, 2. Understanding and Comprehension, and 3. Evaluation and Construction. The model suggests that teaching and learning of algorithm does not simply mean routine learning, memorization, or lead to a low level of cognition. The paper also discusses different teaching strategies and activities that can be used to support students’ cognitive development at different cognitive levels
The author in the postinternet age: Fan works, authorial function, and the archive
No full textFifty years since Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the author, there still exists difficulty in framing the nature of interaction between commercial (professional) creators and fan (transformative) authors. In the postinternet age, the visibility of unsanctioned (or tacitly sanctioned) derivative fictional works has only increased, as have the number of commercial creators with experience in creating derivative works for a fan audience. It has therefore become necessary to interrogate whether the author has truly died in the Barthian sense, and if not, what role the construct of the author plays in today's popular mediascape. In an analysis of the Foucauldian author function (that is, the role discursively constructed authors play relative to their work) assessing both Euro-American and Japanese histories of fan practice, a move to a more open-source style of fan practice is evident. The author in an open-source fandom functions as a heuristic device through which fans may access and search the database, as well as a means of decentralizing commercial authority over media content
Computational aerodynamic study of automotive cooling fan in blocked conditions
No full textIn this paper, a CFD study of two types of axial-flow automotive cooling fans was conducted to investigate the effects of upstream and downstream blockage on aerodynamic performance of each fan. The realizable k-ε turbulence model was applied and simulations were performed to represent an automotive engine bay and quantify performance changes as a function of blockage distance. Modeling was performed for two fan designs: one optimized for a low flow rate, high-pressure operation; and a second optimized for high flow rate, low-pressure operation. The results show that the pressure loss caused by engine blockage increases at higher vehicle speed, and decreasing blockage distance. A new relation between blockage to fan proximity and fan performance was established. It is determined that the pressure change follows a quadratic type dependence, but the coefficients may vary, depending on fan type. The fan efficiency can be improved by taking advantage of larger blockage distances at higher speeds of the vehicle. The blockage condition causes an increase in the reverse flow near the fan interface, and a dramatic increase in radial flow
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