Muddy Points (MP) is a strategy to elicit and address individual students' doubts. While this can be effectively implemented in small classes, it is a challenge to do so in a large class. In this paper we propose ...
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Muddy Points (MP) is a strategy to elicit and address individual students' doubts. While this can be effectively implemented in small classes, it is a challenge to do so in a large class. In this paper we propose LAMP, a framework for Large-scale Addressing of Muddy Points, as a mechanism for instructors to ensure that every individual student's doubts are addressed even in large classes. LAMP has three phases: Collection, Addressal, and Closure. In the collection phase, MPs are systematically collected through four different modes. In the addressal phase, MPs are categorized into six categories and addressed accordingly. In the closure phase, the discussions on MPs are summarized. We investigated the effectiveness of LAMP in an introductory computer science course having 450 students. We found that 68% of students confirmed they were able to pose their questions and 57% of students confirmed that there was closure to their questions.
Educational technology (ET) research encompasses a wide range of areas, including the development of technology tools for learning and teaching, pedagogies for technology enhanced learning, and use of ICT-based materi...
Educational technology (ET) research encompasses a wide range of areas, including the development of technology tools for learning and teaching, pedagogies for technology enhanced learning, and use of ICT-based materials or tools for learning. The interdisciplinary nature of ET leads to a wide variation in the focus and quality of research articles. Hence there is a need for guidelines for planning, conducting and reporting ET research studies. Such guidelines are also useful to instructors, as they are often well-positioned to carry out applied ET research studies. This article is a mini-tutorial that provides guidelines and templates to conduct ET research studies. The emphasis of this tutorial is on criteria that reviewers use to evaluate research papers and how the criteria can be met. This tutorial is designed to be used with an accompanying set of templates that we have created. The templates offer scaffolds to the researcher during various stages of research, so that reviewers. criteria are effectively addressed.
We present compressive sensing techniques to overcome the challenge of sampling the fourdimensional (4D) mutual intensity function, thus recovering complete information about the second-order statistical properties of...
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DC faults may cause severe disruptions in continuity of service to vital loads in a shipboard integrated power system, hence detection, isolation, and protection against such faults must be incorporated in both medium...
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This paper presents the design and implementation of highly-miniaturized, low-power CMOS signal conditioning schemes intended for use in a totally implantable biomedical sensor platform. Due to the thrust for the deve...
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(纸本)9781479930074
This paper presents the design and implementation of highly-miniaturized, low-power CMOS signal conditioning schemes intended for use in a totally implantable biomedical sensor platform. Due to the thrust for the development implantable biomedical sensing systems for health management and disease prevention, there exists a need for signal processing schemes which occupy very little on-chip real estate and consume negligible amounts of power. In light of this, this paper presents both a CMOS current-to-frequency converter and voltage-tofrequency converter which have been designed primarily for use in implantable biosensing platforms and applications. Such designs can be implemented in stand-alone single sensor designs, or in tandem to create multi-analyte architectures. The versatility of employing current-to-frequency as well as voltageto- frequency signal transduction schemes presents an avenue for the integration with any electrochemical sensing element which has been fabricated in an amperometric or voltammetric fashion. Furthermore, we demonstrate the efficacy of both these circuit designs by integrating them together with high performance electrochemical implantable glucose and pH sensors. The low power consumption and miniature size of the amperometric and voltammetric signal processing units (0.25 mm2 and 18 IlW / 0.045 mm2 and 122 IlW, respectively) presents an ideal design for signal processing in implantable continuous metabolic monitoring devices.
This paper presents a new Rössler chaotic system using exponential nonlinearity and its application to two-channel synchronization. The proposed chaotic system exhibits a chaotic attractor that resembles the orig...
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(纸本)9781467362481
This paper presents a new Rössler chaotic system using exponential nonlinearity and its application to two-channel synchronization. The proposed chaotic system exhibits a chaotic attractor that resembles the original Rössler system with only six-term in three-dimensional ordinary equation systems using the exponential nonlinearity. Chaotic dynamics are described in terms of equilibria, Jacobian matrix, time domain waveforms, chaotic attractors, and bifurcation diagram. The circuit implementation is relatively compact and simple sine the exponential nonlinearity can be achieved by an inherent nonlinearity of single diode. An application to a two-channel secure communication are also demonstrated, showing a fast, low-error and robust synchronization processes.
Nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals are three-dimensional fluids that possess long-range orientational ordering and can support both topological defects and chiral superstructures. Implications of this ordering re...
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Nematic and cholesteric liquid crystals are three-dimensional fluids that possess long-range orientational ordering and can support both topological defects and chiral superstructures. Implications of this ordering remain unexplored even for simple dynamic processes such as the ones found in so-called “fall experiments,” or motion of a spherical inclusion under the effects of gravity. Here we show that elastic and surface anchoring interactions prompt periodic dynamics of colloidal microparticles in confined cholesterics when gravity acts along the helical axis. We explore elastic interactions between colloidal microparticles and confining surfaces as well as with an aligned ground-state helical structure of cholesterics for different sizes of spheres relative to the cholesteric pitch, demonstrating unexpected departures from Stokes-like behavior at very low Reynolds numbers. We characterize metastable localization of microspheres under the effects of elastic and surface anchoring periodic potential landscapes seen by moving spheres, demonstrating the important roles played by anchoring memory, confinement, and topological defect transformation. These experimental findings are consistent with the results of numerical modeling performed through minimizing the total free energy due to colloidal inclusions at different locations along the helical axis and with respect to the confining substrates. A potential application emerging from this work is colloidal sorting based on particle shapes and sizes.
Using nanorobots for medical diagnostics and treatment has been an intriguing idea since the concept of nanotechnology was introduced. This study investigated the control mechanism for locomotion of nanorobots in bloo...
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Using nanorobots for medical diagnostics and treatment has been an intriguing idea since the concept of nanotechnology was introduced. This study investigated the control mechanism for locomotion of nanorobots in blood vessel repair application. Each nanorobot operating as artificial platelets has only essential characteristics for self-assembling into a mass at the injured blood vessel wall to reduce blood loss. This follows the idea of the early stage nanorobots that could be realized in the near future based on examples seen in biological systems and current development in nanotechnology. Canonical Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) that are inspired by social insects was employed for controlling the nanorobots as they are similar in the way that individuals have simple characteristics but can robustly work in dynamic environment. In simulation, this study used Herschel-Bulkley fluid model to simulate non-Newtonian blood flow in a rigid tube. The performance of canonical PSO-based control mechanism was demonstrated and investigated to provide guidelines for the realization of nanorobots in the future.
Branched nanowire (NW) heterostructures have recently been attracted considerable attention for solar water splitting and clean hydrogen production due to their unique properties such as nanoscale integration of diffe...
Branched nanowire (NW) heterostructures have recently been attracted considerable attention for solar water splitting and clean hydrogen production due to their unique properties such as nanoscale integration of different functional materials, greatly enhanced junction and surface area, enhanced gas evolution efficiency, broadband light absorption, etc. Moreover, branched NWs can be fabricated using facile and scalable fabrication methods such as hydrothermal or solvothermal growth methods. In this presentation, we show branched NWs of different compositions for core (or trunk) and branch NWs which were fabricated with facile and low-cost synthesis methods using cheap, non-toxic, and earth abundant materials including Si, CuO, Cu2O, ZnO, TiO2, and Fe2O3. The branched NW structures and the heterostructures' interfaces are investigated in detail using different characterization techniques such as SEM/HRSEM, TEM/HRTEM, STEM/HRSETM, etc. The photoelectrochemical (PEC) performances including photocurrent turn-on potential, photocurrent, solar conversion efficiency, and incident photon-to-current efficiency (IPCE) are studied systematically and optimized, based on different core and branch NW dimensions, for each specific branched NW heterostructure to provide efficient water splitting in a neutral medium. The electrode stability of different branched NWs is also investigated and long-term stability of over one day or several hours using a thin passivation layer or robust branched NWs are presented. The achieved results pave the way for accomplishing spontaneous overall solar water splitting for clean, efficient, cost-effective and durable solar hydrogen generation at large scales.
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