HAS TEMPUS HAD ANY IMPACT ON THE TRANSITION PROCESS WITHIN THE BENEFICIARY COUNTRIES?

The TEMPUS/PHARE Multilateral Programme was initiated in 1990 by the European Communities with a view to improving training by means of the structural reform of the higher education systems in the central and eastern European countries. The results are now widely visible. The question to be asked is whether or not these results are limited solely to the educational field or whether the improvement of training has not also had an impact on society and the economy. In the particular case of the central and eastern European countries that are currently moving from one social system to another, the task is one of finding out in what respects and to what extent the changes in the higher education systems have contributed to this transition.     

试论篮球运动的节奏

现代篮球运动寓竞技化、智谋化、技艺化于一体,节奏正是这一趋势的最好体现.能否正确而深刻理解篮球运动的节奏并且运用节奏变化来争取比赛的主动权,是一个球队实力的反映,也是一个球队是否成熟的标志.运用文献资料、录像观察、逻辑分析等方法,对篮球运动节奏的表现形式、影响因素及节奏的运用等方面进行分析研究,为篮球运动训练中的节奏训练提供理论参考.     

提高农村中学女生体育达标成绩的探讨

运用文献资料、调查访问、实验对比等方法就如何提高农村中学女生体育达标成绩的问题进行了探讨.认为加强学生的思想教育工作,安排适当的健美操内容,采用多样的教学方法等有利于体育达标成绩的提高.     

Interactions entre Pairs et Constructions Cognitives: Des Travaux Expérimentaux de Laboratoire au Terrain Pédagogique

European Journal of Psychology of Education -     

Exploring Race Differences in Correlates of Seniors’ Satisfaction with Undergraduate Education

This study employed multiple linear regression and decision tree analysis to examine the correlates of overall satisfaction with undergraduate education for white, Asian American, Latino and African American seniors enrolled at 17 doctoral/research universities. Satisfaction with the overall quality of instruction and social involvement were the strongest predictors of overall satisfaction for all seniors. The predictive importance of other measures of the academic experience, social integration and performance varied both within and across race groups. Findings argue for adopting a variety of institutional strategies to address the needs of different segments of the undergraduate population.     

Das MINERVA-Projekt: Datenbankselektion für Peer-to-Peer-Websuche

Zusammenfassung In diesem Artikel wird MINERVA pr?sentiert, eine prototypische Implementierung einer verteilten Suchmaschine basierend auf einer Peer-to-Peer (P2P)-Architektur. MINERVA setzt auf die in der P2P-Welt verbreitete Technik verteilter Hash-Tabellen auf und benutzt diese zum Aufbau eines verteilten Verzeichnisses. Peers in unserem Ansatz entsprechen v?llig autonomen Benutzern mit ihren lokalen Suchm"oglichkeiten, die bereit sind, ihr lokales Wissen und ihre lokalen Suchm?glichkeiten im Rahmen einer Kollaboration zur Verfügung zu stellen. Wir formalisieren unsere Systemarchitektur und beschreiben das zentrale Problem einer effizienten Suche nach vielversprechenden Peers für eine konkrete Anfrage innerhalb des Verbundes. Wir greifen dabei auf existierende Methoden zurück and passen diese an unseren Systemkontext an. Wir pr?sentieren Experimente auf realen Daten, die verschiedene dieser Ans?tze vergleichen. Diese Experimente zeigen, dass die Qualit?t der Ans?tze variiert und untermauern damit die Wichtigkeit und den Einfluss einer leistungsstarken Methode zur Auswahl guter Datenbanken. Unsere Experimente deuten an, dass eine geringe Anzahl sorgf?ltig ausgew?hlter Datenbanken typischerweise bereits einen Gro?teil aller relevanten Ergebnisse des Gesamtsystems liefert.

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This paper presents the MINERVA project that protoypes a distributed search engine based on P2P techniques. MINERVA is layered on top of a Chord-style overlay network and uses a powerful crawling, indexing, and search engine on every autonomous peer. We formalize our system model and identify the problem of efficiently selecting promising peers for a query as a pivotal issue. We revisit existing approaches to the database selection problem and adapt them to our system environment. Measurements are performed to compare different selection strategies using real-world data. The experiments show significant performance differences between the strategies and prove the importance of a judicious peer selection strategy. The experiments also present first evidence that a small number of carefully selected peers already provide the vast majority of all relevant results.

CR Subject Classification H.4,H.3.3,H3.4