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Mostafa Hasrati 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2013,14(3):455-465
This article reports the results of a mixed methodology analysis of the assumptions of academic staff and Masters students in an Iranian university regarding various aspects of the assessment of the Masters degree thesis, including the main objective for writing the thesis, the role of the students, supervisors and advisors in writing the proposal, conducting the project, writing the thesis, and asking/answering questions in the viva. Assuming that the Masters degree oral exams are important historical moments to investigate these issues, qualitative observations were made of 32 Masters vivas in an Iranian university, leading to 18 core categories. These were then drawn upon to develop two questionnaires, which were completed by 57 academic staff and 101 Masters students in various disciplines in the same institution. The results indicate lack of consistency and transparency with regard to roles, responsibilities, and obligations of various stakeholders in handling various aspects of the Masters thesis. 相似文献
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Sohrab Enayati Seyed Ali Asghar Akbari Mousavi Seyed Mohammad Ebrahimi Majid Belbasi Mostafa Sultan Bayazidi 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》2011,348(10):2813-2822
In this study, the hot backward extrusion of Ti–6Al–4V alloy is considered by finite element analysis and experiments. The effects of reduction and initial billet temperature on the force required for extrusion, on the maximum strain produced and on the formation of surface cracks are discussed. The simulation results show that the increase of temperature at high reduction is considerable and that can be reached 150 °C in the billet and punch interface. Moreover, the maximum strain is predicted at the interface of billet and punch. The study shows that the temperature rise and plastic deformation may induce surface cracks. 相似文献
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Mehdi Javanmard AmirAli H. Talasaz Mohsen Nemat-Gorgani Fabian Pease Mostafa Ronaghi Ronald W. Davis 《Biomicrofluidics》2007,1(4)
Currently, microbiological techniques such as culture enrichment and various plating techniques are used for detection of pathogens. These expensive and time consuming methods can take several days. Described below is the design, fabrication, and testing of a rapid and inexpensive sensor, involving the use of microelectrodes in a microchannel, which can be used to detect single bacterial cells electrically (label-free format) in real time. As a proof of principle, we have successfully demonstrated real-time detection of target yeast cells by measuring instantaneous changes in ionic impedance. We have also demonstrated the selectivity of our sensors in responding to target cells while remaining irresponsive to nontarget cells. Using this technique, it can be possible to multiplex an array of these sensors onto a chip and probe a complex mixture for various types of bacterial cells. 相似文献
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Javad Mohiti Mostafa Behjati Mohammad H. Soltani Ali Babaei 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2004,19(1):113-117
Measurement of cardiac markers is an index of care standard in the assessment and diagnosis of cardiovascualr disease. Two
of the major cardiac markers are Creatine Kinase isoenzyme CK-MB and Troponin T, which are extensively used in the diagnosis
of heart disease. The release of Troponin T and creatine kinase isoenzyme (CK-MB) was investigated in 50 coronary artery bypass
surgery patients. Measurement of plasma samples was carried out at five different time points, namely before surgery, 1,6,12,24
hours after surgery. The results indicated that CK-MB level were increased by a factor more than four times compared with
the upper limit of baseline (befor surgery). Troponin T concentration showed more than six fold over the upper limit of baseline
(before surgert) at 1,6,12,24 hours after surgery. In order to assess the significance of the length of the surgical procedure
on the release of Troponin T and CK-MB, the surgery patient were divided into two groups according to the length of the surgical
procedure: group I was selected on the basis that the surgical procedure they underwent lasted above 90 minutes and group
II with a surgical procedure below 90 minutes. Both Troponin T and CK-MB showed a significant increase in-group I compared
to group II. To investigate the likelihood that this effect is party due to myocardial infarction during surgery, the patients
were divided into two groups: Group A with some sings of myocardial infarction on Q wave of ECG and group B without any change.
The results showed approximately a two-fold increase of these markers in-group A compared to group B. Since these markers
reach into blood following damage to myocardial their increase in patients with time course surgery of more than 90 minutes
and those with a probability of MI during operation, indicating that these patient fall into a high risk group of repeat (MI)
after surgery. 相似文献
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Tarek Mostafa 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》2010,7(1):567-589
This paper analyses the mechanisms of stratification and inequalities in educational achievements. The main objective is to
determine how stratification leads to unequal educational outcomes and how inequalities are channelled through student characteristics,
school characteristics and peer effects. This analysis is undertaken in five countries differentiated by their schooling systems.
The countries are Japan, Finland, Germany, Italy and the UK, and the dataset used is PISA 2003. The analysis consists of a
multilevel econometric model used to explain variations in performance scores. The explanatory variables are student, school
and peer characteristics. The institutional context of each education system is used to interpret the results and to describe
how inequalities arise. In the last section, policy implications, based on the regression results, are derived. 相似文献
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Mostafa Karbasioun Harm Biemans Martin Mulder 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2013,19(4):307-318
Abstract This study was designed to investigate changes in farming and to look at how farmers adapt to diverse changes in and around their farms in the province of Esfahan, Iran. It is part of a larger project aimed at developing a job competency profile for agricultural extension instructors (AEIs). One hundred and two farmers who had previously followed extension courses in the province of Esfahan were interviewed. The findings demonstrate that a large number of farmers in the target group who are older, married, have low education levels, are smallholders and lack adequate job diversity on their farms. The study revealed that these farmers have experienced sluggish internal and external agricultural change, and they are generally more positive about internal changes than external ones. Respondents designated ‘extension courses’, ‘individual farm visits by official extension agents’ and ‘trial and error’, respectively as their three main learning strategies (LS) to help them adapt to the various changes. The results also indicate that older and more poorly educated farmers have more problems in adopting different LS. 相似文献
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This article presents the implementation of the constructive alignment theory (CAT) in a power system analysis course through a consensus-based course design process. The consensus-based design process involves both the instructor and graduate-level students and it aims to develop the CAT framework in a holistic manner with the goal of including different perceptions. The considerations required to implement this approach are described in detail. To examine the effect of this approach, three different course evaluations were conducted by querying the students during different stages of the course. These evaluations show that most of the students find a benefit for their learning in the implementation of CAT within the new course design. These observations are supported by a comparison of the students’ performance in the new course and the previous one. Finally, the revised two-factor study process questionnaire (R-SPQ-2F) is utilised to identify the students’ learning approach towards the course. The aim is to correlate the students’ approach with their final grade to assess if students adopting a deep learning approach are rewarded with higher marks and vice versa, that is, to check if the CAT implementation was successful. Meanwhile, some of the R-SPQ-2F limitations, which affect the quality of the results, are identified and discussed. Additionally, to facilitate the practical usage of R-SPQ-2F, an algorithm was developed by the authors to rank the students’ approach towards the course. The results of the new ranking algorithm demonstrate positive correlation with the students’ final grade, which is an indication of the effective CAT implementation. 相似文献
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Gene ontology (GO) consists of three structured controlled vocabularies, i.e., GO domains, developed for describing attributes of gene products, and its annotation is crucial to provide a common gateway to access different model organism databases. This paper explores an effective application of text categorization methods to this highly practical problem in biology. As a first step, we attempt to tackle the automatic GO annotation task posed in the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) 2004 Genomics Track. Given a pair of genes and an article reference where the genes appear, the task simulates assigning GO domain codes. We approach the problem with careful consideration of the specialized terminology and pay special attention to various forms of gene synonyms, so as to exhaustively locate the occurrences of the target gene. We extract the words around the spotted gene occurrences and used them to represent the gene for GO domain code annotation. We regard the task as a text categorization problem and adopt a variant of kNN with supervised term weighting schemes, making our method among the top-performing systems in the TREC official evaluation. Furthermore, we investigate different feature selection policies in conjunction with the treatment of terms associated with negative instances. Our experiments reveal that round-robin feature space allocation with eliminating negative terms substantially improves performance as GO terms become specific. 相似文献