The Impact of Treadle Pump Irrigation Technology Adoption on Poverty in Ghana     

Adetola Adeoti  Boubacar Barry  Regassa Namara  Abdul Kamara 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2013,19(4):357-369

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A knowledge-based semantic framework for query expansion     

Jamal Abdul Nasir  Iraklis Varlamis  Samreen Ishfaq 《Information processing & management》2019,56(5):1605-1617

Searching for relevant material that satisfies the information need of a user, within a large document collection is a critical activity for web search engines. Query Expansion techniques are widely used by search engines for the disambiguation of user’s information need and for improving the information retrieval (IR) performance. Knowledge-based, corpus-based and relevance feedback, are the main QE techniques, that employ different approaches for expanding the user query with synonyms of the search terms (word synonymy) in order to bring more relevant documents and for filtering documents that contain search terms but with a different meaning (also known as word polysemy problem) than the user intended. This work, surveys existing query expansion techniques, highlights their strengths and limitations and introduces a new method that combines the power of knowledge-based or corpus-based techniques with that of relevance feedback. Experimental evaluation on three information retrieval benchmark datasets shows that the application of knowledge or corpus-based query expansion techniques on the results of the relevance feedback step improves the information retrieval performance, with knowledge-based techniques providing significantly better results than their simple relevance feedback alternatives in all sets.  相似文献   

Determinants of Malaysian adult learners＇ distance learning     

Erlane K. Ghani Jamaliah Said Noraini Mohd Nasir 《美中教育评论》2008,5(5):17-26

This study attempts to identify the factors perceived to be important in choosing an Institution of Higher Learning （IHL） for distance learning. One thousand five hundred questionnaires were distributed to the first year students in the social sciences distance learning programs and 980 valid responses were received of Malaysian public university. The results show that the top three factors influencing their preferred institution are qualification recognition IHL, future career advancement, and personal satisfaction. The results of this study provide insights to the IHL, employers and academics on the nature and relative importance of the factors perceived important for adult learners in the selection of their preferred IHL.  相似文献   

Evaluating research performance of research institutes within Malaysian universities: an alternative assessment framework     

Ta  Goh Choo  Halim  Sharina Abdul  Azman  Norzaini  Komoo  Ibrahim  Mokhtar  Mazlin 《Tertiary Education and Management》2021,27(4):331-349

Tertiary Education and Management - Evaluation of research performance has significantly increased in importance, particularly in many emerging higher education systems. In Malaysia, the Malaysian...  相似文献   

The videoconferencing learning environment: Technology, interaction and learning intersect     

K. G. Saw  Omar Majid  N. Abdul Ghani  H. Atan  R. M. Idrus  Z. A. Rahman  K. E. Tan 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2008,39(3):475-485

This paper is a study on the interaction patterns of distance learners enrolled in the Mathematics and Physics programmes of Universiti Sains Malaysia in the videoconferencing learning environment (VCLE). Interaction patterns are analysed in six randomly chosen videoconferencing sessions within one academic year. The findings show there are more interactions in the graphics display mode than the video display mode. The graphics display mode, which involves the simultaneous interaction of the teacher, students and course materials, shows greater student engagement in the VCLE. The focus on a three-component interaction in distance learning differs from previous studies which looked at distinct types of two-component interactions. The types of communicative interaction, in particular the explanatory and cognitive types which are dominant in the graphics display mode, are discussed within the construct of learning. The higher number of teacher-initiated interactions may also imply that the teacher plays a crucial role in creating and maintaining a community of inquiry focused on exploring and developing content as well as giving feedback on concepts, ideas or solutions.  相似文献   

Training reading and phoneme awareness skills in children with Down syndrome     

Kristina Goetz  Charles Hulme  Sophie Brigstocke  Julia M. Carroll  Louise Nasir  M. Snowling 《Reading and writing》2008,21(4):395-412

The authors report a short-term reading intervention study involving 15 children with Down syndrome (DS) who attended mainstream schools. The intervention programme taught children phoneme segmentation and blending skills in the context of learning letter-sounds and working with words in books. The children were taught by their learning support assistants, who received special training for this purpose. Compared to a waiting group, a group of eight children with DS improved significantly on measures of early literacy skills (letter-sound knowledge, Early Word Recognition) following eight weeks of intervention. The waiting group started to make progress once they received the intervention. Both groups maintained progress on the literacy measures five months after the intervention had finished. The results suggest that children with DS can benefit from structured, phonics-based reading intervention.  相似文献   

基于信息通信技术的开放与远程学习——在“2008世界开放与远程教育论坛”上的主题报告     

阿布杜拉·罕  怀章翠 《开放教育研究》2008,14(6):21-24

非常感谢中国联合国教科文组织全国委员会的盛情邀请,对于联合国教科文组织每位成员细致人微的工作,我都赞叹不已。在此,非常感谢你们如此出色的工作,同时与这样的团队及成员合作我感到非常愉快,而且常受益匪浅。我已有七八年的时间没有从事开放与远程学习领域的工作,但我确信这个领域已经取得了长足的发展,因此站在这里我感到有些不安,报告中的不妥之处还请大家谅解。  相似文献   

An assessment of the academic and social integration as perceived by the students in the University of Papua New Guinea     

Muhammad Abdul Mannan 《Higher Education》2001,41(3):283-298

This study assesses the current and ideal levelsof academic and social integration within the University of PapuaNew Guinea as perceived by the students. In order to reducestudent attrition through developing an appropriate attritionpolicy and improving services, a comprehensive picture of thecurrent and ideal academic and social integration climate in theUniversity of Papua New Guinea was necessary. Previousattrition/retention research has not adequately described thevarying degrees of group differences in students' integrationprocess. Using the Tinto model and research instruments thatoperationalised the model, an institutional academic and socialintegration assessment instrument was developed for measuring theperceived current and ideal integration climate. Respondent'sperceived ideal ratings for 24 items representing five dimensionsof academic and social integration were higher than for thecurrent ratings. Significant differences were found between thecurrent and ideal perceptions of student groups in respect of a)students' informal contact with faculty; b) faculty concern forstudents' development and teaching and c) extra curricularactivities. Differences were found between the perceived ratingsof student groups on the basis of year of studies. Implicationsfor policy directives and discriminatory service delivery arealso discussed.  相似文献   

Successful immunological treatment of gallbladder cancer in India―Case report     

KHAN Jamal A.  YAQIN Sharmin 《Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B》2006,(9)

INTRODUCTION In cancer patients, tumor immunity is generally impaired. However, tumor immunity may occur in-vivo as circulating tumor-specific antibodies, with cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) having been identi- fied in cancer patients (Disis et al., 1997; Albert et al., 1998) suggesting that effective anti-tumor responses may be elicited through immunotherapeutic strategies. In recent years, a number of clinical trials have proved the safety and feasibility of using human dendritic cell…  相似文献   

A Theoretical Study the Effect of Openings in Infill Wall Panels on the Behavior of Structures     

Umary Jamal * 《东南大学学报》1998,(1)

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