The effect of Twitter on college student engagement and grades

Despite the widespread use of social media by students and its increased use by instructors, very little empirical evidence is available concerning the impact of social media use on student learning and engagement. This paper describes our semester‐long experimental study to determine if using Twitter – the microblogging and social networking platform most amenable to ongoing, public dialogue – for educationally relevant purposes can impact college student engagement and grades. A total of 125 students taking a first year seminar course for pre‐health professional majors participated in this study (70 in the experimental group and 55 in the control group). With the experimental group, Twitter was used for various types of academic and co‐curricular discussions. Engagement was quantified by using a 19‐item scale based on the National Survey of Student Engagement. To assess differences in engagement and grades, we used mixed effects analysis of variance (ANOVA) models, with class sections nested within treatment groups. We also conducted content analyses of samples of Twitter exchanges. The ANOVA results showed that the experimental group had a significantly greater increase in engagement than the control group, as well as higher semester grade point averages. Analyses of Twitter communications showed that students and faculty were both highly engaged in the learning process in ways that transcended traditional classroom activities. This study provides experimental evidence that Twitter can be used as an educational tool to help engage students and to mobilize faculty into a more active and participatory role.     

Patterns for multigrid equidistributed functions: Application to general parabolas and length estimation

We show that for some special functions (called k-multigrid equidistributed functions), we can compute the limit of the frequency of patterns in the discretization of their graph, when the resolution tends to zero. This result is applied to parabolas. We deduce also that local length estimators almost never converge to the length for the parabolas.     

基于订货阈值的供应商延期支付策略设计

针对完全信息下以供应商为核心企业的二级供应链库存系统,将全单位延期支付与部分延期支付两种手段相结合,并在考虑延期支付期限与订货量相关的条件下,设计了基于供应商视角和订货阈值的延期支付策略,从而得出此策略能使系统利润达到帕累托最优.最后,通过数值算例对相关结论进行了验证和灵敏度分析.     

一种高效的新闻网页噪声过滤方法

网页噪声过滤是网页预处理中关键的一步,其处理结果对后续处理的效率和准确性都有很大的影响。本文基于文本块字符数的统计规律,在总结了新闻网页特点的基础上设计了一种高效的新闻网页噪声过滤算法。该算法不仅完成了新闻正文的提取,也实现了新闻标题和报道时间的提取。试验证明,该算法有很高的处理速度,同时其提取的准确率也有了进一步的提高。     

基于HSI空间模糊聚类的彩色图像分割新方法

模糊C均值(FCM)被广泛应用于彩色图像分割中,但传统的模糊C均值由于没有考虑空间信息,因此对噪声特别敏感。针对此问题,提出了一种在HIS颜色空间结合像素邻域空间信息的模糊聚类新方法。实验结果表明,此方法对高噪声图像有较好的处理结果。     

基于像素链的直线绘制算法

针对直线生成算法在直线斜率大于0.5时的低效率问题,提出一种基于像素链的直线绘制算法。将直线看做是由许多条平行像素链或对角像素链拼接而成,提出并利用逆向生成直线的类Bresenham算法,将斜率在0.5~1的直线绘制转换为斜率在0~0.5的直线绘制,一次判断生成一条像素链。仿真实验表明,基于像素链的算法生成的直线与Bresenham算法生成直线一致,且计算量显著减少。该算法只有加法和乘法两种整数运算,适合硬件实现,其绘制速度是Bresenham算法的4倍。     

505E调速器在U-GB151CO2压缩机上的应用

川化股份有限公司化肥厂二化尿素装置为日产2460T尿素的大型化肥装置,其CO2压缩机采用日本三菱3V-7B型两缸四段压缩机,由抽汽注汽冷凝式透平驱动.该透平的转速控制由505E控制器实现,并与ProTech 203相结合实现压缩机的两级超速保护.Woodward 505E数字控制器适用于具有一次可调整的纯抽汽、抽补结合或纯补汽型式透平的控制,可现场编程组态,使标准的设计能适用于各种不同的控制场合.文中介绍了505E控制器在UGB151 CO2压缩机上的调速应用,并例举调速系统出现的故障,进行分析排除.     

我国农业机械化评价指标体系设置研究

农业机械化指标体系的准确设置和正确运用将有助于评价标准的统一性 ,便于使用同一的计量尺度计算和分析农业机械化的作用效果 ,评价农业机械化发展水平。本文通过对农业机械化评价指标体系的属性、功能以及量化标准的理论研究与分析 ,提出了构建我国农业机械化评价指标体系框架的初步设想     

Mathematics for Architecture: Some European Experiences

Orietta Pedemonte studies how mathematics in taught in faculties or schools of architecture in Belgium, Portugal, France, Switzerland and Spain, comparing course organizations, subjects offered and entrance requirements. Which and how much mathematics for architecture? What kind of teaching? Is it better to have information on many aspects, or a deeper insight into only a few? Is it better to privilege a historical-philosophical overview, or to focus aspects of application that are current today? These are some of the questions that are raised by whoever deals with teaching mathematics in a faculty or school of architecture.     

基于内容的网页特征提取

文章主要研究基于内容的中文网页的特征提取技术,具体介绍了分词词典的建造方法,网页正文、标记信息和超链信息的特征提取。通过对旅游类网页的实验结果显示,文中的方法和应用效果良好。