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Using Grounded Theory to Extend Existing PCK Framework at the Secondary Level

Education Sciences, 2017
This paper addresses two critical issues in mathematics education, the need: (a) to understand the nature of educator’s subject matter knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge; and (b) to find ways to measure them.
Dragana Martinovic, Agida G. Manizade
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Designing a Belief Function-Based Accessibility Indicator to Improve Web Browsing for Disabled People [PDF]

, 2014
The purpose of this study is to provide an accessibility measure of web-pages, in order to draw disabled users to the pages that have been designed to be ac-cessible to them.
A. Martin, A.P. Dempster, G.. Brajnik, J. Abascal, M. Vigo, P. Smets   +5 more
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The Heroic Age of Probability: Kolmogorov, Doob, Lévy, Khinchin and Feller

Mathematics
We survey some of the main developments in probability theory during the so-called “heroic age”; that is, the period from the nineteen twenties to the early nineteen fifties.
Andrew J. Heunis
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Cognitive representations of disability behaviours in people with mobility limitations : consistency with theoretical constructs [PDF]

, 2008
Disability is conceptualised as behaviour by psychological theory and as a result of bodily impairment by medical models. However, how people with disabilities conceptualise those disabilities is unclear.
Bandura A, Bandura A, Bellamy N, Diane Dixon, Ewart C K, Fransella F, Johnston M, Johnston M, Kelly G A, Leventhal H, Marie Johnston, Martin J, Patrick D L, Pollard B, Toshima M T, Ware J E, World Health Organization, World Health Organization   +17 more
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A Mixed-Methods Approach Using Self-Report, Observational Time Series Data, and Content Analysis for Process Analysis of a Media Reception Phenomenon

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Due to the complexityof research objects, theoretical concepts, and stimuli in media research, researchers in psychology and communications presumably need sophisticated measures beyond self-report scales to answer research questions on media use ...
Michael Brill, Frank Schwab
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Development and validation of an instrument to measure the Micro-Learning Environment of Students (MLEM)

BMC Medical Education, 2023
Background There are multiple instruments to measure different learning environments but no valid and reliable instrument is present for measuring the micro-learning environment. This study aimed to develop and validate an instrument to measure the micro-
Zainab Akbar, Rehan Ahmed Khan, Humaira Fayyaz Khan, Rahila Yasmeen   +3 more
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Artificial Sequences and Complexity Measures [PDF]

, 2005
In this paper we exploit concepts of information theory to address the fundamental problem of identifying and defining the most suitable tools to extract, in a automatic and agnostic way, information from a generic string of characters.
, , , , , Andrea Baronchelli, Baronchelli A Caglioti E Loreto V Puglisi A, Bell T C, Cai H Kulkarni S Verdú S, Cavalli-Sforza L L, Chaitin G J, Chaitin G J, Cilibrasi R, El-Yaniv R, Emanuele Caglioti, Falcioni M Palatella L Pigolotti S Vulpiani A, Farach M Noordewier M Savari S Shepp L Wyner A Ziv J, Farris J S, Felsenstein J, Grassberger P, Juola P, Kaltchenko A, Khinchin A I, Kolmogorov A N, Kukushkina O V, Kullback S, Li M, Loewenstern D Hirsh H Yianilos P Noordewieret M, Londei A, Loreto V, Menconi G, Nevill-Manning C, Pierce J R, Renfrew C, Saitou N, Shannon C E, Shannon C E, Sinai Y G, Teahan W J, Thaper N, Vittorio Loreto, Welsh D, Wyner A D, Zurek W H   +43 more
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Optimization of Very Low-Dose Formulation of Vitamin D3 with Lyophilizate for Dry Powder Inhalation System by Simple Method Based on Time-of-Flight Theory

Pharmaceutics, 2021
It has been previously reported that active vitamin D3 (VD3) is a candidate drug that can repair alveolar damage in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at a very low dose.
Kahori Miyamoto, Misato Yanagisawa, Hiroaki Taga, Hiromichi Yamaji, Tomomi Akita, Chikamasa Yamashita   +5 more
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Organismic Supercategories: I. Proposals for a General Unified Theory of Systems- Classical, Quantum, and Complex Biological Systems.\ud \ud \ud [PDF]

, 1968
The representation of physical and complex biological systems in terms of organismic supercategories was introduced in 1968 by Baianu and Marinescu in the attached paper which was published in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, edited by Nicolas ...
Baianu, Prof. Dr. I.C., Marinescu, Dr. Mircea M.   +1 more
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A reexamination of information theory-based methods for DNA-binding site identification

BMC Bioinformatics, 2009
Background Searching for transcription factor binding sites in genome sequences is still an open problem in bioinformatics. Despite substantial progress, search methods based on information theory remain a standard in the field, even though the full ...
O'Neill Michael C, Erill Ivan
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