The task of finding suitable commercial thermoelectric coolers (TECs) and determining their configurations in the cooling system designs can be a difficult and cumbersome iterative process due to the varieties of prod...
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The task of finding suitable commercial thermoelectric coolers (TECs) and determining their configurations in the cooling system designs can be a difficult and cumbersome iterative process due to the varieties of product ranges available from different vendors. This paper presents the development of a computer-aided tool, which is interactive and platform-independent, to assist the designers in the search for appropriate TECs from different manufacturers. Based on the user design specifications, the software can estimate the required heat load, determine the TEC requirements, search for appropriate TECs from various vendors, and analyze the thermal performances of the cooling system designs using different selected TECs. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
An online programming examination was used to assess undergraduates who had learned java for two terms. The advantages are that the students are assessed on what they have to do in practice, rather than on their theor...
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An online programming examination was used to assess undergraduates who had learned java for two terms. The advantages are that the students are assessed on what they have to do in practice, rather than on their theoretical knowledge, and that the marking load on the examiner is drastically reduced. The style of question used and the results of the examination are analyzed.
We present four java projects suggested by our student that were developed in java CS1/CS2 course. What is in interest of our students who start programming? The answer might be different from teachers or textbook app...
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(纸本)9781605580784
We present four java projects suggested by our student that were developed in java CS1/CS2 course. What is in interest of our students who start programming? The answer might be different from teachers or textbook approaches. Some topics include drawing, games, colors, measuring time, etc. Question can be raised if we can just monitor a process of studying by watching the development of projects. Can we as teachers learn what major interests of our students are when learning to program. We share our finding of interesting examples.
The purpose of this paper is to share our experience with a pedagogical pattern - spiral model in teaching diverse concepts (structural, object-oriented, visual) of an introductory Computer Science (CS) course in java...
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The widely used and highly Popular java programming language is proved to be a great tool for developing platform independent applications. Everyday users mostly encounter them when using portable devices (mobile phon...
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(纸本)9783540705390
The widely used and highly Popular java programming language is proved to be a great tool for developing platform independent applications. Everyday users mostly encounter them when using portable devices (mobile phones, PDAs, etc). However, the ordinary java applications are inaccessible for the blind in general. Even the most used screen readers can only be enabled to handle GUI elements of a java application by an additional adaptation package (e.g. access bridge for Jaws). Even with this, only a portion of existing java programs that use swing classes may be imide partially accessible for the blind. The solution offered eliminates the need of any screen reader.
This paper presents a capstone course given to CIS seniors involving projects which utilize programming, database design, requirements analysis, use cases, object modeling, project management, and written and oral com...
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This paper presents a capstone course given to CIS seniors involving projects which utilize programming, database design, requirements analysis, use cases, object modeling, project management, and written and oral communication skills in an active learning environment. The learning objectives for this course correspond with most of the learning units described for the upper level courses in the IS 2002 model curriculum. The course content and capstone project are based on an object-oriented methodology that centers on component-based design. Project elements emphasize both creative and critical thinking processes and are designed to utilize and challenge the technical, managerial, and communication skills of students, who also engage in reflective analysis by constructing project workbooks and journals.
This paper presents a capstone course given to CIS seniors involving projects which utilize programming, database design, requirements analysis, use cases, object modeling, project management, and written and oral com...
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This paper presents a capstone course given to CIS seniors involving projects which utilize programming, database design, requirements analysis, use cases, object modeling, project management, and written and oral communication skills in an active learning environment. The learning objectives for this course correspond with most of the learning units described for the upper level courses in the IS 2002 model curriculum. The course content and capstone project are based on an object-oriented methodology that centers on component-based design. Project elements emphasize both creative and critical thinking processes and are designed to utilize and challenge the technical, managerial, and communication skills of students, who also engage in reflective analysis by constructing project workbooks and journals.
The increase in the numbers enrolling in university computer courses makes huge demands on resources, and maintaining standards of teaching and tutorial support is almost impossible without a massive increase in staff...
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The increase in the numbers enrolling in university computer courses makes huge demands on resources, and maintaining standards of teaching and tutorial support is almost impossible without a massive increase in staff. To overcome this situation, the authors have developed RoboProf, an automated learning environment which, as well as generating and assessing programming exercises, provides ongoing assistance and feedback to students without extra demands on lecturer and tutors' time. This system also contains a technique for detecting plagiarism, an increasing problem in computing courses worldwide. For this research, RoboProf was used to teach java programming to a class containing nearly 300 students in the first year of a computing degree. Use of the system by students was monitored and recorded on log files in order to investigate the extent to which usage patterns influence achieved programming skill. An analysis shows that students who complete the set of RoboProf exercises perform significantly better than those who do not. The timeliness in which these exercises are completed relative to other students is significant: early solvers get higher marks, and students solving the problems with fewer attempts get higher marks. Not surprisingly, plagiarists achieve a lower score than those who do their own work. Other factors that were found to influence programming performance included entry standards and gender. Entry qualifications impacted positively on performance, and males performed significantly better than females. There was a significant positive correlation between the score achieved in the RoboProf course and the performance in a subsequent computing course administered in the traditional manner.
Hypertension and arrhythmia are chronic diseases, which can be effectively prevented and controlled only if the physiological parameters of the patient are constantly monitored, along with the full support of the heal...
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Hypertension and arrhythmia are chronic diseases, which can be effectively prevented and controlled only if the physiological parameters of the patient are constantly monitored, along with the full support of the health education and professional medical care. In this paper, a role-based intelligent mobile care system with alert mechanism in chronic care environment is proposed and implemented. The roles in our system include patients, physicians, nurses, and healthcare providers. Each of the roles represents a person that uses a mobile device such as a mobile phone to communicate with the server setup in the care center such that he or she can go around without restrictions. For commercial mobile phones with Bluetooth communication capability attached to chronic patients, we have developed physiological signal recognition algorithms that were implemented and built-in in the mobile phone without affecting its original communication functions. It is thus possible to integrate several front-end mobile care devices with Bluetooth communication capability to extract patients' various physiological parameters [such as blood Pressure, pulse, saturation of haemoglobin (SPO2), and electrocardiogram (ECG)], to monitor multiple physiological signals without space limit, and to upload important or abnormal physiological information to healthcare center for storage and analysis or transmit the information to physicians and healthcare providers for further processing. Thus, the physiological signal extraction devices only have to deal with signal extraction and wireless transmission. Since they do not have to do signal processing, their form factor can be further reduced to reach the goal of microminiaturization and power saving. An alert management mechanism has been included in back-end healthcare center to initiate various strategies for automatic emergency alerts after receiving emergency messages or after automatically recognizing emergency messages. Within the time interva
The computing curriculum includes many programming courses that introduce students to fundamental programming concepts. This paper provides a course design for an advanced programming class in java that incorporates c...
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The computing curriculum includes many programming courses that introduce students to fundamental programming concepts. This paper provides a course design for an advanced programming class in java that incorporates curriculum that reflects current industry need, particularly in the area of web database applications. Included in this paper are a listing of topics covered, course objectives, and recommended software resources.
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