scholarly journals Development of Curriculum Design Support System Based on Word Embedding and Terminology Extraction

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 608 ◽  
Author(s):  
HoSung Woo ◽  
JaMee Kim ◽  
WonGyu Lee
Keyword(s):  
Programming Languages ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
The Body ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Terminology Extraction ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Term Extraction ◽  
Design Support System ◽  
Standardized Terminology ◽  
Technical Terms

The principles of computer skills have been included in primary and secondary educated since the early 2000s, and the reform of curricula is related to the development of IT. Therefore, curricula should reflect the latest technological trends and needs of society. The development of a curriculum involves the subjective judgment of a few experts or professors to extract knowledge from several similar documents. More objective extraction needs to be based on standardized terminology, and professional terminology can help build content frames for organizing curricula. The purpose of this study is to develop a smart system for extracting terms from the body of computer science (CS) knowledge and organizing knowledge areas. The extracted terms are composed of semantically similar knowledge areas, using the word2vec model. We analyzed a higher-education CS standards document and compiled a dictionary of technical terms with a hierarchical clustering structure. Based on the developed terminology dictionary, a specialized system is proposed to enhance the efficiency and objectivity of terminology extraction. The analysis of high school education courses in India and Israel using the technical term extraction system found that (1) technical terms for Software Development Fundamentals were extracted at a high rate in entry-level courses, (2) in advanced courses, the ratio of technical terms in the areas of Architecture and Organization, Programming Languages, and Software Engineering areas was high, and (3) electives that deal with advanced content had a high percentage of technical terms related to information systems.

Transforming the economics curriculum by integrating threshold concepts

2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (5) ◽  
pp. 492-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prashan Shayanka Mendis Karunaratne ◽  
Yvonne A Breyer ◽  
Leigh N Wood
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Student Experience ◽  
Threshold Concepts ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Course Structure ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Higher Education Economics ◽  
Survey Responses

Purpose – Economics is catering to a diverse student cohort. This cohort needs to be equipped with transformative concepts that students can integrate beyond university. When a curriculum is content-driven, threshold concepts are a useful tool in guiding curriculum re-design. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The evidence for this pedagogic need can be seen in the UK’s higher education economics curriculum framework which is formulated around the threshold concepts of economics. Through a literature review of the application of threshold concepts in economics, the researcher has systematically re-designed an entry-level economics course. This research has been applied to the course structure, the learning and teaching activities, as well as the assessments. At the end of the semester, students students were surveyed on the student experience of the curriculum design and the course activities. The course grades noted the achievement of the students’ learning outcomes. Findings – When comparing the survey responses and the student course results to the previous semesters, there is a significant improvement in student experience as well as student learning outcomes of the course curriculum. Practical implications – This research provides curriculum developers with a benchmark and the tools required to transform economics curricula. Social implications – An engaging, transformative and integrative entry-level economics course is often the only exposure most business graduates have to the economics way of thinking and practice. Originality/value – This is the first comprehensive study that applies a curriculum re-design based on threshold concepts across an entry-level economics course.

scholarly journals Degree of commitment of science books in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the basic stage in grades (4-6) of the Brunner spiral model in curriculum design in plant subjects.

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Barham Khalaf Qablan
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Stage ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Scientific Concepts ◽  
Basic Stage ◽  
Spiral Model

This study aimed at revealing the degree of commitment of science books in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in grades (4-6) in the basic Bruner spiral model in the design of the curriculum and to recognize the repetition of scientific concepts and how to move from one row to another. The results showed a wide horizontal breadth in the level of the treatment of different fields of knowledge and concepts at a high rate of mental level and developmental stage of the students. It was graduated from easy to composite and from general to private. All science books in the classes. The concept of integration has emerged so clearly that the content and experiences have been linked with appropriate activities in terms of clarifying and deepening the concepts and in terms of suitable for the development stage of the students and a high percentage of their environment as well as their transition from the tangible (in the lower grades) to the abstract (in the upper grades). In terms of continuity and continuity, the percentage was high. In the light of the results, a number of recommendations and proposals were presented to address the deficiencies in the curricula of the sciences and the various curricula in the Kingdom of Jordan.

scholarly journals Mindfulness-based self-care education for healthcare professional students in Japan

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Yusuke Takamiya ◽  
Shizuma Tsuchiya
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professional ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Care Program ◽  
The Body ◽  
University Education ◽  
High Rate ◽  
First Year ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
Care Education

[Background] Recent studies have consistently shown that medical students experience a high rate of psychological symptoms. In this situation, teaching mindfulness in medical school has the potential to prevent student burnout. However, there are few consistent educational programs in medical schools throughout Japan.[Method] Since 2015, Showa University (Tokyo) has practiced an intensive self-care program based on mindfulness for 600 first-year healthcare professional students in the schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, and rehabilitation. The target objectives of this program were as follows: understand the needs of self-care, enhance self-awareness, evaluate evidence of mindfulness for mental diseases, and practice formal/informal mindfulness-based activities. This program consisted of a 90-minute lecture, followed by consecutive reflective activities, including completing personal journals and portfolios. The students were required to plan how to make use of what they learned in this course. The students were asked to complete a questionnaire upon completion of the course.[Results] The questionnaire indicated that more than 90% of the students were satisfied with the program, and about 25% started regular mindfulness-based practices such as meditation and breathing methods aimed to reduce test anxiety. Descriptions from the e-portfolio showed that the participants understood evitable stressors and the importance of the body-mind relationship.[Conclusion] Mindfulness-based self-care education can encourage healthcare students to understand the necessity of self-care during the early stages of their professional training. This program for the first year students will be followed by a course on Professionalism for healthcare professional students during their subsequent years of university education.  

scholarly journals Effect of aqueous extract of Azadirachta indica on rifampicin- induced jaundice in rabbits

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-212
Author(s):  
Tunji Akande ◽  
Timothy Olugbenga Ogundeko ◽  
Solomon Oyewale Opajobi ◽  
Samaila Garba Yaura ◽  
Isiaiah Iorkyase Idyu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alkaline Phosphatase ◽  
Acid Phosphatase ◽  
Aqueous Extract ◽  
Azadirachta Indica ◽  
Total Bilirubin ◽  
Alanine Transaminase ◽  
The Body ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Conjugated Bilirubin

High rate of dependence on medicinal plants for maintenance of health care needs over the decades in communities all over the world especially in Africa and Asia needs adequate scientific verification and authentication. Liver related diseases have however become a global problem. Jaundice was established on 9 of a total population of 12 rabbits of mixed sex, weighing 1.50kg - 2.34kg using an overdose pretreatment of Rifampicin (300mg/ kg bw) P.O. After 3 days, the Animals were administered with various doses of aqueous extract of Azadirachta indica (600, 750, 900mg/kg bw) P.O for each group of rats – A, B, C and D (control ), after which the animals were bled via marginal ear vein at zero hour, 7th and 14th days and the blood used for the following assays: Alkaline Phosphatase, Acid Phosphatase, Total Bilirubin, Conjugated Bilirubin and Alanine Transaminase. Experimental animals exhibited lack of appetite, reduced activity, scratching of the body, emesis, yellow coloration of the sclera, light-colored stool and a little dark urine over time. There was also increase in the levels of the biochemical parameters as the day increased. Aqueous extract of Azadirachta indica (Neem) exhibited increasing elevated levels of Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP), Acid Phosphatase (AP), Total Bilirubin (T/Bil), Conjugated Bilirubin (Conj/Bil), and slightly in Alanine Transaminase (ALT), thus exerted elevated hepatotoxicity on Rifampicin-induced Rabbits. Therefore, the traditional use of Azadirachta indica in management of jaundice should be discontinued.

scholarly journals Effect of aqueous extract of Azadirachta indica on rifampicin- induced jaundice in rabbits

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-212
Author(s):  
Tunji Akande ◽  
Timothy Olugbenga Ogundeko ◽  
Solomon Oyewale Opajobi ◽  
Samaila Garba Yaura ◽  
Isiaiah Iorkyase Idyu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alkaline Phosphatase ◽  
Acid Phosphatase ◽  
Aqueous Extract ◽  
Azadirachta Indica ◽  
Total Bilirubin ◽  
Alanine Transaminase ◽  
The Body ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Conjugated Bilirubin

High rate of dependence on medicinal plants for maintenance of health care needs over the decades in communities all over the world especially in Africa and Asia needs adequate scientific verification and authentication. Liver related diseases have however become a global problem. Jaundice was established on 9 of a total population of 12 rabbits of mixed sex, weighing 1.50kg - 2.34kg using an overdose pretreatment of Rifampicin (300mg/ kg bw) P.O. After 3 days, the Animals were administered with various doses of aqueous extract of Azadirachta indica (600, 750, 900mg/kg bw) P.O for each group of rats – A, B, C and D (control ), after which the animals were bled via marginal ear vein at zero hour, 7th and 14th days and the blood used for the following assays: Alkaline Phosphatase, Acid Phosphatase, Total Bilirubin, Conjugated Bilirubin and Alanine Transaminase. Experimental animals exhibited lack of appetite, reduced activity, scratching of the body, emesis, yellow coloration of the sclera, light-colored stool and a little dark urine over time. There was also increase in the levels of the biochemical parameters as the day increased. Aqueous extract of Azadirachta indica (Neem) exhibited increasing elevated levels of Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP), Acid Phosphatase (AP), Total Bilirubin (T/Bil), Conjugated Bilirubin (Conj/Bil), and slightly in Alanine Transaminase (ALT), thus exerted elevated hepatotoxicity on Rifampicin-induced Rabbits. Therefore, the traditional use of Azadirachta indica in management of jaundice should be discontinued.

Transepithelial movement of calcium in crustaceans

1993 ◽  
Vol 184 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. S. Neufeld ◽  
J. N. Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Active Transport ◽  
Calcium Concentration ◽  
Cellular Mechanism ◽  
The Body ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Calcium Flux ◽  
Moult Cycle ◽  
Electrochemical Gradient ◽  
Low Concentration ◽  
Low Concentrations

The regulation of calcium in most crustaceans is especially challenging owing to the highly mineralized cuticle that must be recalcified after each moult, a process that often occurs in environments with low concentrations of calcium. The gill and carapace epithelia separate the major calcium-containing compartments of the body and therefore see large changes in the rate of calcium flux through the moult cycle. Large changes in the ultrastructure of these cells do not, however, correlate well with the periods of calcium movement and probably reflect other physiological events. Despite the challenges to regulating calcium levels at various acclimation salinities and moult stages, the calcium concentration in the blood is maintained relatively constant. There is a rapid increase to a high rate of calcium flux across both the gill and carapace epithelium shortly after the moult; on an area-specific basis these fluxes are among the highest reported for calcium-transporting epithelia. When in water with a very low concentration of calcium, the electrochemical gradient for calcium is directed outwards and net influx must occur by active transport. Evidence suggests that changes in the electrochemical gradient, permeability and active transport are all important in the ability of crustaceans to take up calcium from water with a low concentration of this ion. Although an enzyme transporter is presumably involved in the active transport of calcium across epithelia, very little is known about the cellular mechanism of the transepithelial movement of calcium in crustaceans.

scholarly journals Administration of aminoglycosides to hemodialysis patients immediately before dialysis: a new dosing modality.

1997 ◽  
Vol 41 (12) ◽  
pp. 2597-2601 ◽  
Author(s):  
H Matsuo ◽  
J Hayashi ◽  
K Ono ◽  
K Andoh ◽  
Y Andoh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus ◽  
Cellulose Triacetate ◽  
The Body ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Complete Disappearance ◽  
Time Curve ◽  
Once Daily ◽  
Ethylene Vinyl Alcohol ◽  
Concentration Time

We describe a new modality for administering aminoglycosides to hemodialysis (HD) patients, namely, a modification of the once-daily regimen which consists of administering the aminoglycosides over 60 min by drip infusion just before each HD session, with a preplanned peak concentration being reached at the beginning of the session and then with a rapidly decreasing concentration being achieved by the start of HD. The area under the concentration-time curve (AUC), i.e., the accumulation of the drug in the body, is thus minimized by this modality. Arbekacin (ABK) was given at a dose of 2 mg/kg of body weight to 10 HD patients infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) for 2 weeks (six sessions in total), resulting in the complete disappearance of MRSA in 5 patients. A high rate of elimination of ABK was attained for each patient while the patient was on HD (range, 0.20 to 0.42 h-1; mean 0.28 +/- 0.08 h-1) by using high-performance dialyzers provided with membranes made of either polymethylmethacrylate, cellulose triacetate (CTA), or ethylene vinyl alcohol. The best results were obtained with the CTA membrane, as revealed by the overall mass transfer coefficient (Ko). The AUC in the simulation model for the variation in the serum ABK concentration in this modality was calculated to be 40% of that of the conventional post-HD dosing modality, suggesting that a much higher dose could be administered to HD patients who receive HD thrice weekly (4 h per session), giving, e.g., 4 mg/kg initially and before the HD sessions, when there is an interval of 68 h from HD session to HD session, and giving 2 mg/kg before the other sessions.

Responsibility and Skills Requirements for Entry Level Analytics Professionals

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhong Luo
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Skill Requirements ◽  
The Right ◽  
Job Ads ◽  
Reporting Data

As companies continue to incorporate analytics into all aspects of their business, there is a growing demand for analytics professionals with the right mix of skills and experiences. This study examines the responsibilities and skill requirements for entry level analytics professionals by analyzing the job ads posted on three major job sites during a six-month period. The author's results show that companies expect entry level analytics professionals to work with a team and to contribute in early stages of analytics work. In terms of technical capabilities, companies stress the general abilities to work with data, including the use of database and spreadsheet tools for organizing, analyzing, and reporting data. Surprisingly, data mining, optimization, and other advanced analytical methods are not often listed as desired skills for entry level positions. The study can help universities and institutions in curriculum design as well as in working with the industry to define and guide the development of skill requirements.

Tick Defense Strategies in Bison: The Role of Grooming and Hair Coat

Behaviour ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 135 (6) ◽  
pp. 693-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mooring ◽  
William Samuel
Keyword(s):  
Body Surface ◽  
Cervus Elaphus ◽  
Attachment Site ◽  
The Body ◽  
Bison Bison ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Larval Feeding ◽  
Physical Barrier ◽  
Hair Coat ◽  
Winter Tick

AbstractGrooming behaviour, and its effectiveness in controlling infestation by the winter tick (Dermacentor albipictus), was studied for plains bison (Bison bison bison) in Elk Island National Park, Alberta, Canada from October 1995 through June 1996. Bison had few ticks (mean, 133 ticks per animal; 0.009 ticks per cm2), particularly in comparison with smaller sympatric cervids (moose, Alees alees; elk, Cervus elaphus; and white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus), suggesting that tick defense in bison is highly effective. Bison performed grooming or grooming-like behaviours (oral grooming, scratching, rubbing, and wallowing) at a high rate during October, when winter tick larvae were blood feeding, but groomed very little from November to April, when nymphal and adult ticks predominated. Grooming in October probably removed many larval ticks while they were still unattached and traversing the body surface in search of an attachment site. Because bison groomed at the highest rate during the larval feeding period, when they were subjected to the lowest intensity of tick stimulation, grooming in bison appears to be centrally programmed rather than stimulus driven. This might be the only time ticks are vulnerable to grooming activity because bison have an extremely thick hair coat (a morphological adaptation to extreme cold), which probably serves as a physical barrier to infestation by ticks. The tightly packed mat of primary hairs at the skin surface (the highest density of primary hairs among bovids) likely forced larval ticks to traverse much of the body surface on top of the hair coat, making them vulnerable to being removed through licking and other grooming activity. Little grooming throughout late autumn and winter (November-March) corresponded to the period of coldest temperatures and snow on the ground, and was probably due to the bison's 'thermal inertia' strategy of energy conservation in which physical activity is minimized during the times of greatest cold stress, when forage is least available and of poorest quality. Newly born bison calves, 2 months old or younger, delivered 15-20 times more oral grooming per hour and 6 times more episodes per bout than did adult cows. This result is in accordance with the prediction of the body size principle of the programmed grooming hypothesis, which maintains that smaller animals should groom more frequently in order to maintain fewer ticks. Programmed grooming, which removes most larval ticks before they can attach, and the physical barrier of the dense hair coat, are proposed as the major reasons that bison host few D. albipictus.

Ingestion Rates and Aspects of Water, Sodium and Energy Metabolism in Caged Swamp Buffalo, Bubalus Bubalis, From Isotope Dilution and Materials Balances.

1982 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 779 ◽  
Author(s):  
CK Williams ◽  
B Green
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass ◽  
Close Agreement ◽  
Bubalus Bubalis ◽  
The Body ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Evaporative Heat Loss ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Water Turnover ◽  
Daily Rate ◽  
Swamp Buffalo

Exchanges of DM, sodium, water and energy were estimated on caged swamp buffalo of body mass (W) 297 plus or minus 13 kg. Estimates of feed ingestion estimated from rates of 22Na and 3H turnover were in close agreement with estimates from weighing. Tritium equilibrated in 6 h and 22Na in 12 h. Tritium space was 78.9 plus or minus 1.6% of body mass at 6 h and 83.9 plus or minus 1.1% at 24 h. The body pool of exchangable Na was 40.56 plus or minus 1.79 mmol/kg W at 12 h, and 44.62 plus or minus 2.12 mmol/kg W at 24 h. The daily rate of water turnover was 34.72 plus or minus 2.33 litres or 326.1 plus or minus 17.2 ml/kg W0.82, about three times that expected on the basis of body size, reflecting adaptation to a tropical swamp habitat. It was due mainly to the high rate of imbibition, 30.78 plus or minus 2.15 litres daily or 289.1 plus or minus 16.3 ml/kg W0.82 daily. Daily rates of water loss were partitioned as: faecal, 9.99 plus or minus 0.761 (94.1 plus or minus 7.0 ml/kg W0.82); urinary, 10.39 plus or minus 0.76 litres (98.2 plus or minus 7.6 ml/kg W0.82); pulmocutaneous, 14.34 plus or minus 1.37 litres (133.8 plus or minus 8.9 ml/kg W0.82). Swamp buffalo are unlikely to be able to satisfy their water requirements from food alone during the dry season in northern Australia. The daily rate of Na turnover was 6.29 plus or minus 0.41 mmol/kg W0.75. Na in the faeces was low, 8.3 plus or minus 0.9 mmol/kg dry faeces, indicating very effective alimentary absorption of Na. Apparent digestible energy intake (DE) per day for maintenance was about 651 plus or minus 41 kJ/kg W0.75. Daily rates of evaporative heat loss were high, 481 plus or minus 33 kJ/kg W0.75, exceeding the non-evaporative component of the DE, 321 plus or minus 35 kJ/kg W0.75; evaporative processes may have contributed to the high maintenance DE.

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