scholarly journals Summer Research Placements – State-of-the-Art Science by pre-University Students

MRS Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (56) ◽  
pp. 3715-3720 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Sporea ◽  
S. Lygo-Baker

ABSTRACTSummer research placements are an effective training and research tool. Over three years, our group has hosted nine pre-university students over periods of four to six weeks. Apart from student training and skills acquisition, the placements have produced several peer-reviewed technical publications. Our approach relies on careful pre-planning of activities, frequent student interaction, coupled with independent and group learning. We explore the advantages and disadvantages of this manner of running summer placements.

Author(s):  
Hibah Khalid Aladsani

Student interaction is a pivotal element in any educational environment. Accordingly, employing technologies to increase these educational interactions has attracted both instructors’ and students’ attention. This qualitative paper investigated the means of employing Telegram, a social network site (SNS), to increase students’ educational interactions and explore their perceptions of using it as an interactional medium in a university course. A thematic analysis was applied to assess data collected from the posts of 77 university students in three Telegram groups created for this course and the students’ reflection papers required at the end of the course. This study’s findings identified several instructional activities that can be employed on Telegram to enhance students’ interactions, as well as presented how students interact with their instructor and each other on Telegram. The findings also highlighted the students’ perceptions of Telegram as a technology to enhance their course interactions, including the advantages and disadvantages of using Telegram in this course. Implications of this study can allow university instructors and policymakers to reconsider their teaching methods and even encourage using Telegram or similar SNSs to aid students’ learning.


Author(s):  
Margarita A. Pisarevskaya

The article condemns the problem of the attitude of university students to distance learning in the conditions of the spread of coronavirus. It describes the results of a study, the main purpose of which is to show how the attitude of students to the conditions for obtaining education in a distance format is changing. The article indicates that distance learning has become a forced form of student training due to the pandemic and the widespread lockdown in April 2020. Neither teachers nor students had been prepared for distance learning, this caused a negative attitude to the educational process, which could not but affect its results. The article gives the concept of distance learning, briefly describes its history, discusses the advantages and disadvantages. The results of a survey of students in May 2020 and in May 2021 are presented in order to clarify the changes in their attitude to distance learning. The analysis of the questionnaire showed that for many students, adaptation to distance learning was quite difficult. The majority of the surveyed students preferred traditional contact training and with great problems and reluctance studied in a distance format, which has both subjective and objective reasons. In May 2021, a repeated survey of students was conducted, which showed significant changes over the past year in relation to remote technologies. Despite the fact that the value of daily contact with teachers and classmates remains high for students, they do not deny the opportunity to study remotely. The results of the study show that the development of distance learning skills by students affects the attitude to it. The article describes the conditions for the effectiveness of distance learning in the modern realities of education.


2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (SI-2) ◽  
pp. 168-174
Author(s):  
Cangül KESKİN ◽  
Ali KELEŞ

The aim of this review was to provide an overview of the applications of digital dentistry technologies in endodontics, such as digital two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) imaging techniques, computer aided diagnosis (CAD) and improvement of artificial intelligence (AI) models, computer-controlled access cavity designs and 3-D printing applications. Advantages and disadvantages of these newly introduced technologies were discussed briefly with their indications. Apart from therapeutical or rehabilitative procedures, the use of digital technologies adapted for student training and research simulations were also presented.


2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (04) ◽  
pp. 376-380 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Capodanno ◽  
D. J. Angiolillo

SummaryDespite the clinical benefit associated with the combined use of aspirin and clopidogrel in patients with acute coronary syndrome or those undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, a considerable interindividual variability in response to these drugs have been consistently reported. There is a growing interest on applying platelet functional tests with the goal of identifying patients at increased risk of recurrent ischaemic events and potentially tailoring antiplatelet treatment regimens.This manuscript will review the state of the art on the most commonly available platelet functional tests, describing their advantages and disadvantages and exploring their applicability in clinical practice.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (15) ◽  
pp. 5248
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Pawlicka ◽  
Marek Pawlicki ◽  
Rafał Kozik ◽  
Ryszard S. Choraś

This paper discusses the valuable role recommender systems may play in cybersecurity. First, a comprehensive presentation of recommender system types is presented, as well as their advantages and disadvantages, possible applications and security concerns. Then, the paper collects and presents the state of the art concerning the use of recommender systems in cybersecurity; both the existing solutions and future ideas are presented. The contribution of this paper is two-fold: to date, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no work collecting the applications of recommenders for cybersecurity. Moreover, this paper attempts to complete a comprehensive survey of recommender types, after noticing that other works usually mention two–three types at once and neglect the others.


2001 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor V. Andrianov ◽  
Jan Awrejcewicz

In this review article, we present in some detail new trends in application of asymptotic techniques to mechanical problems. First we consider the various methods which allows for the possibility of extending the perturbation series application space and hence omiting their local character. While applying the asymptotic methods very often the following situation appears: an existence of the asymptotics ε → 0 implies an existence of the asymptotics ε → ∞ (or, in a more general sense, ε → a and ε → b). Therefore, an idea of constructing a single solution valid for a whole interval of parameter ε changes is very attractive. In other words, we discuss a problem of asymptotically equivalent function constructions possessing for ε → a and ε → b a known asymptotic behavior. The defined problems are very important from the point of view of both theoretical and applied sciences. In this work, we review the state-of-the-art, by presenting the existing methods and by pointing out their advantages and disadvantages, as well as the fields of their applications. In addition, some new methods are also proposed. The methods are demonstrated on a wide variety of static and dynamic solid mechanics problems and some others involving fluid mechanics. This review article contains 340 references.


Author(s):  
Arvid Bell ◽  
Alexander Bollfrass

Abstract Current wargaming techniques are effective training and research instruments for military scenarios with fixed tools and boundaries on the problem. Control cells composed of officiants adjudicating and evaluating moves enforce these boundaries. Real-world crises, however, unfold in several dimensions in a chaotic context, a condition requiring decision-making under deep uncertainty. In this article, we assess how pedagogical exercises can be designed to effectively capture this level of complexity and describe a new framework for developing deeply immersive exercises. We propose a method for designing crisis environments that are dynamic, deep, and decentralized (3D). These obviate the need for a control cell and enhance the usefulness of exercises in preparing military and policy practitioners by better replicating real-world decision-making dynamics. This paper presents the application of this 3D method, which integrates findings from wargame and negotiation simulation design into immersive crisis exercises. We share observations from the research, design, and execution of “Red Horizon,” an immersive crisis exercise held three times at Harvard University with senior civilian and military participants from multiple countries. It further explores connections to contemporary trends in international relations scholarship.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 177-182
Author(s):  
Elena Dubrovskaya

The article considers the phenomenon of gamification in education, studies various electronic resources creating educational quizzes, presents a comparative analysis of their advantages and disadvantages in order to teach foreign languages to University students. To prove the efficiency, the results of a comparative experiment of the use of electronic resources for creating quizzes are given.


This paper provides a general note on the state of the art in the application of nondestructive testing techniques (NDT) for the detection of defects or deteriorations in metallic and nonmetallic oil and gas pipes. The advantages and disadvantages of each technique will be pointed out.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Belén Bravo Avalos ◽  
José Luis López Salazar ◽  
Luis Antonio Velasco Matveev ◽  
María Fernanda Miranda

Se considera comida rápida a toda clase de comida preparada de manera rápida, cómoda y por lo general barata y de amplia comercialización. El presente artículo contribuye con definiciones, características, ventajas y desventajas del producto, así como sus consecuencias en la salud en las personas. El objetivo fue identificar cual es la comida rápida de mayor consumo y a partir de este obtuvo el valor nutricional de la comida rápida que resultó consumida en mayor cantidad, así como también se conocieron cuáles son los factores que influyen en su consumo. La metodología que se empleó fue el enfoque cuantitativo y cualitativo, se aplicó encuestas a los estudiantes de Facultad de Ciencias Pecuarias de la Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo, periodo académico abril – agosto 2018, también se analizó los productos de mayor consumo en el laboratorio de la Facultad de Ciencias Pecuarias. El resultado obtenido demostró un alto porcentaje de estudiantes que consumen comida rápida a pesar de estar conscientes que es de mala calidad y que afecta a la salud. It is considered fast food to all kinds of food prepared in a fast, comfortable way and in general cheap and of extensive marketing. The present article contributes with definitions, characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of this product, such as its consequences related to people´s health. The aim was to identify which is the most consumed fast food and obtained its nutritional value that turns out to be mainly eaten, as well as knowing which are the factors that influence on its consumption. The methodology used is the quantitative and qualitative approach, surveys were applied to 108 students of the Career of Agroindustries of the Escuela Superior Politécnica de Chimborazo, during the academic period April - August, 2018, also the most consumed food were analyzed in the laboratory of the Animal Ground Sciences Faculty. Obtained results demonstrate a high percentage of students who consume fast food in spite of being conscious about its poor quality and health issues. Palabras claves: Comercialización, comida rápida, valor nutricional, impacto. Keywords: Marketing, fast food, nutritional value, impact.


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