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Writing Administrative Textual Genres in Scholarly and Professional Contexts in Spain

Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2023
Textual genres in the field of Administration can be difficult to write for both university students and public administration employees, since they call for specific linguistic characteristics, which vary according to the genre and the recipient.
Sara Pistola, Iria da Cunha
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Best Practices in Synchronous Conferencing Moderation

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2006
Practical guidelines are offered for the use of online synchronous conferencing software by session administrators and moderators. The configuration of the software prior to conferencing sessions is discussed, and the planning and implementation of ...
Lynn Anderson, Barb Fyvie, Brenda Koritko, Kathy McCarthy, Sonia Murillo Paz, Mary Rizzuto, Remi Tremblay, Urel Sawyers   +7 more
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Genome sequence-based species delimitation with confidence intervals and improved distance functions

BMC Bioinformatics, 2013
For the last 25 years species delimitation in prokaryotes (Archaea and Bacteria) was to a large extent based on DNA-DNA hybridization (DDH), a tedious lab procedure designed in the early 1970s that served its purpose astonishingly well in the absence of ...
Jan P. Meier-Kolthoff, Alexander F. Auch, H. Klenk, M. Göker   +3 more
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Challenges and contexts in establishing adaptive learning in higher education: findings from a Delphi study

International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2020
Higher education institutions are increasingly interested in using adaptive learning as an innovative data-driven approach to teaching. The actual use of adaptive learning in courses remains, however, low.
Victoria Mirata, Franziska Hirt, Per Bergamin, Christo van der Westhuizen   +3 more
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Integration of Multiple Data Sources for predicting the Engagement of Students in Practical Activities [PDF]

International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, 2014
This work presents the integration of an automatic assessment system for virtual/remote laboratories and the institutional Learning Management System (LMS), in order to analyze the students’ progress and their collaborative learning in virtual/remote ...
Llanos Tobarra, Salvador Ros, Roberto Hernández, Antonio Robles-Gómez, Agustín C. Caminero, Rafael Pastor   +5 more
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Academic Performance in Distance Education: Quizzes as a Moderator Variable and Students’ Perception and Expectation through Linguistic Analysis

Online Learning, 2022
This study sheds light on the relation between assessment modalities and student behavior through linguistics styles, and academic performance. First, we examine the effect of assessment modalities (self-evaluation quizzes and summative quizzes) on ...
Laura Parte, Lucía Mellado
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Individual Crafting, Collaborative Crafting, and Job Satisfaction: The Mediator Role of Engagement

Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 2019
Most theories of job crafting understand the term to refer to an individual activity, and only a few studies have focused on collaborative job crafting. The present study has two aims.
Marta Llorente-Alonso, Gabriela Topa
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Economic Optimization of a Thermal Solar Power Plant That Operates With a HRB Cycle by Improving the Operation Schedule

SolarPACES Conference Proceedings, 2023
In this paper, two solutions are proposed to increase the sales revenue of a pre-sized solar thermal power plant (STPP) that operates with a Hybrid Rankine Brayton cycle (HRB) by changing the reference operating parameters.
Antonio J. Subires, Antonio Rovira
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Evaluation of Learners’ Satisfaction with Open Flexible and Distance Learning Services at the University of Lagos Distance Learning Institute

West African Journal of Open and Flexible Learning
The prospects of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) as the best way to acquire formal education, especially having to work and learn simultaneously have led to curiosity in investigating the challenges that come with this great opportunity.
Adenike Oladipo, Esther O. Oladele, Oladipupo Ajeyalemi, Folashade Afolabi, Peter O. Olayiwola, Johnson A. Adewara, Andrew Akala, Uchenna Udeani   +7 more
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Mash: fast genome and metagenome distance estimation using MinHash

Genome Biology, 2015
Mash extends the MinHash dimensionality-reduction technique to include a pairwise mutation distance and P value significance test, enabling the efficient clustering and search of massive sequence collections.
Brian D. Ondov, Todd J. Treangen, P. Melsted, Adam B. Mallonee, N. Bergman, S. Koren, A. Phillippy   +6 more
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