scholarly journals Classroom Flip in a Senior-level Engineering Course and Comparison to Previous Version

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Laman ◽  
Mary Lynn Brannon ◽  
Irene Mena
Keyword(s):  
Previous Version ◽  
Classroom Flip

An Improved Set-based Reasoner for the Description Logic 𝒟ℒD4,׆

2021 ◽  
Vol 178 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-346
Author(s):  
Domenico Cantone ◽  
Marianna Nicolosi-Asmundo ◽  
Daniele Francesco Santamaria
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Set Theory ◽  
Description Logic ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Query Answering ◽  
Conjunctive Query ◽  
Classification Problems ◽  
Previous Version ◽  
Decidable Fragment ◽  
Stratified Set

We present a KE-tableau-based implementation of a reasoner for a decidable fragment of (stratified) set theory expressing the description logic 𝒟ℒ〈4LQSR,×〉(D) (𝒟ℒD4,×, for short). Our application solves the main TBox and ABox reasoning problems for 𝒟ℒD4,×. In particular, it solves the consistency and the classification problems for 𝒟ℒD4,×-knowledge bases represented in set-theoretic terms, and a generalization of the Conjunctive Query Answering problem in which conjunctive queries with variables of three sorts are admitted. The reasoner, which extends and improves a previous version, is implemented in C++. It supports 𝒟ℒD4,×-knowledge bases serialized in the OWL/XML format and it admits also rules expressed in SWRL (Semantic Web Rule Language).

QUALX2.0: a qualitative phase analysis software using the freely available database POW_COD

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 598-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Altomare ◽  
Nicola Corriero ◽  
Corrado Cuocci ◽  
Aurelia Falcicchio ◽  
Anna Moliterni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase Analysis ◽  
Powder Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Data ◽  
Phase Identification ◽  
Powder Diffraction Data ◽  
Structure Information ◽  
Previous Version ◽  
Experimental Diffraction Pattern ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Qualitative Phase

QUALX2.0is the new version ofQUALX, a computer program for qualitative phase analysis by powder diffraction data. The previous version ofQUALXwas able to carry out phase identification by querying the PDF-2 commercial database. The main novelty ofQUALX2.0is the possibility of querying also a freely available database, POW_COD. POW_COD has been built up by starting from the structure information contained in the Crystallography Open Database (COD). The latter is a growing collection of diffraction data, freely downloadable from the web, corresponding to inorganic, metal–organic, organic and mineral structures.QUALX2.0retains the main capabilities of the previous version: (a) automatically estimating and subtracting the background; (b) locating the experimental diffraction peaks; (c) searching the database for single-phase pattern(s) best matching to the experimental powder diffraction data; (d) taking into account suitable restraints in the search; (e) performing a semi-quantitative analysis; (f) enabling the change of default choices and strategiesviaa user-friendly graphic interface. The advances ofQUALX2.0with respect toQUALXinclude (i) a wider variety of types of importable ASCII file containing the experimental diffraction pattern and (ii) new search–match options. The program, written in Fortran and C++, runs on PCs under the Windows operating system. The POW_COD database is exported in SQLite3 format.

scholarly journals Principles of Document Design

EDIS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricky Telg ◽  
Ashley McLeod-Morin
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Document Design ◽  
Previous Version ◽  
File Formats ◽  
Graphic File ◽  
Process Elements

This publication on the principles of document design is the second of a five-part series on document design. This series also covers the document design process, elements of document design, graphic file formats, and brochure and newsletter design. Updates previous version: Telg, Ricky. 2012. “Principles of Document Design”. EDIS 2012 (7). https://journals.flvc.org/edis/article/view/119919.

scholarly journals A global eddying hindcast ocean simulation with OFES2

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3319-3336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hideharu Sasaki ◽  
Shinichiro Kida ◽  
Ryo Furue ◽  
Hidenori Aiki ◽  
Nobumasa Komori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Circulation ◽  
Circulation Model ◽  
Ocean General Circulation Model ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Sea Surface Salinity ◽  
Tidal Mixing ◽  
Surface Salinity ◽  
Previous Version ◽  
Spatiotemporal Scales ◽  
The Kuroshio

Abstract. A quasi-global eddying ocean hindcast simulation using a new version of our model, called OFES2 (Ocean General Circulation Model for the Earth Simulator version 2), was conducted to overcome several issues with unrealistic properties in its previous version, OFES. This paper describes the model and the simulated oceanic fields in OFES2 compared with OFES and also observed data. OFES2 includes a sea-ice model and a tidal mixing scheme, is forced by a newly created surface atmospheric dataset called JRA55-do, and simulated the oceanic fields from 1958 to 2016. We found several improvements in OFES2 over OFES: smaller biases in the global sea surface temperature and sea surface salinity as well as the water mass properties in the Indonesian and Arabian seas. The time series of the Niño3.4 and Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) indexes are somewhat better in OFES2 than in OFES. Unlike the previous version, OFES2 reproduces more realistic anomalously low sea surface temperatures during a positive IOD event. One possible cause of these improvements in El Niño and IOD events is the replacement of the atmospheric dataset. On the other hand, several issues remained unrealistic, such as the pathways of the Kuroshio and Gulf Stream and the unrealistic spreading of salty Mediterranean overflow. Given the worldwide use of the previous version and the improvements presented here, the output from OFES2 will be useful in studying various oceanic phenomena with broad spatiotemporal scales.

Lacking consonance?

English Today ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-59
Author(s):  
KEITH DAVIDSON
Keyword(s):  
Clear Distinction ◽  
Consonant Clusters ◽  
Writing System ◽  
Previous Version ◽  
Proper Form

Puzzled by Michael Bulley's ‘Consonantal beginnings’, in ET80 (Oct 04) who does admit to some difficulty in discussing initial consonant clusters in English, when he says: ‘The conventions of writing can mislead us about speech.’ While the restoration of the phonetic symbols in the ‘full and proper form’ of the article (ET80) now elucidates some of the puzzles in the previous version (ET79), difficulties remain in maintaining a clear distinction between the sound systems of English and the writing system.

Lessons learned from quality management system ISO 9001:2015 certification: practices and barrier identification from Brazilian industrial companies

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luís César Ferreira Motta Barbosa ◽  
Otávio José de Oliveira ◽  
Marcio Cardoso Machado ◽  
Ana Clara Tomaz Morais ◽  
Patrícia Maria Bozola ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Quality Management System ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Iso 9001 ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Previous Version ◽  
Industrial Companies

PurposeThis study used a qualitative approach on five case studies in Brazilian industrial companies. The research used interviews, document analysis and on-site visits to collect and analyze data. The companies were selected based on the following criteria: operating in the industrial sector, updating their quality management system (QMS) process to ISO 9001: 2015 and agreeing to participate in this study.Design/methodology/approachThis article aims to investigate the strategies of industrial companies adopted for ISO-9001:2015 certification in light of the six major advances concerning the previous version. Thus, QMS of other organizations can incorporate identified lessons learned, whether certified or not.FindingsThe main finding of the research is the systematization of a set of lessons learned in the experiences of implementing the six significant advances of ISO 9001 concerning the previous version by industrial companies in the State of São Paulo in Brazil. These lessons can and should be used by other organizations to improve their QMSs.Practical implicationsThe practices identified in this empirical research can serve as benchmarking to assist quality managers from other companies in QMS certification based on ISO 9001: 2015 or even those not certified but interested in updating their QMSs. Therefore, lessons learned can significantly minimize efforts to improve your projects, processes, products and services. These findings can also help industrial companies improve their production efficiency and effectiveness through quality improvement.Originality/valueThe main novelty of the research is the consolidation of theoretical and practical analysis of the main changes in the latest version of the ISO 9001 standards. The efforts to fulfill those changes result in lessons learned. The “lessons learned” will form a new block of knowledge that will subsidize theoretical (new research) and practical (formulation of a new ISO 9001 standard and helps quality managers improve their systems).

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