Browsing by Subject "Methodology"
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Comment faire de l’exposé oral un vrai moment d’apprentissage?
(2017)How can oral presentations lead to a true moment of learning ?It is definite that oral presentations - routinely adopted in French as a Foreign Language, French for Academic Purposes and French for Specific Purposes courses ...
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Construction imitating ants: Resource-unconstrained scheduling with artificial ants
(2009-05)The paper presents a methodology to arrive at critical path calculations in construction networks by imitating the natural selection processes utilized by real-life ants in search of shortest paths to a food source, and ...
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Developing the evidence base for cancer chemoprevention: Use of meta-analysis
(2011)Meta-analysis is a quantitative approach for systematically combining the results of previous studies in order to arrive at conclusions about the body of research. It answers a specific research question, includes an ...
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Diagnostic and therapeutic management of cancer of an unknown primary
(2003)Metastatic Cancer of Unknown Primary Site (CUP) accounts for approximately 3% of all malignant neoplasms and is therefore one of the 10 most frequent cancer diagnoses in man. Patients with CUP present with metastatic disease ...
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An efficient methodology for simulating earthquake-induced 3D pounding of buildings
(2014)The current paper presents an efficient methodology for numerically simulating in three dimensions adjacent buildings that may experience pounding during strong earthquakes. In particular, a new approach to the numerical ...
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Evaluation of thermal discomfort in Athens territory and its effect on the daily number of recorded patients at hospitals' emergency rooms
(2008)Previous research has shown that temperature and humidity affect human health. However, only a few studies have examined the association of a biometeorological index, which combines several meteorological parameters and ...
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Conference Object Open Access
Exploring the state of the art: surveying the Research landscape
(University of Cyprus, 2007)This paper presents a high level review of the fields and techniques that researchers and practitioners can draw upon to extend learning technology state of the art. The paper begins by describing some of the disciplines ...
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Flexible agent dialogue strategies and societal communication protocols
(2004)We propose an argumentation-based framework for representing communication theories of agents that can take into account dialogue strategies and society protocols in a way that facilitates their modular development and ...
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Max-product algorithms for the generalized multiple-fault diagnosis problem
(2007)In this paper, we study the application of the max-product algorithm (MPA) to the generalized multiple-fault diagnosis (GMFD) problem, which consists of components (to be diagnosed) and alarms/connections that can be ...
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A methodology for e-learning scenario development: The UNITE approach
(Academic Conferences Limited, 2007)In the framework of the FP6 project UNITE a number of e-Learning scenarios have been developed, covering different educational contexts, pedagogical concepts and subjects (environmental education, ICT, language learning, ...
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Mixed-effects poisson regression models for meta-analysis of follow-up studies with constant or varying durations
(2009)We present a framework for meta-analysis of follow-up studies with constant or varying duration using the binary nature of the data directly. We use a generalized linear mixed model framework with the Poisson likelihood ...
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Probabilistic approaches to fault detection in networked discrete event systems
(2005)In this paper, we consider distributed systems that can be modeled as finite state machines with known behavior under fault-free conditions, and we study the detection of a general class of faults that manifest themselves ...
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Rare Cancers Europe (RCE) methodological recommendations for clinical studies in rare cancers: A European consensus position paper
(2015)While they account for one-fifth of new cancer cases, rare cancers are difficult to study. A higher than average degree of uncertainty should be accommodated for clinical as well as for population-based decision making. ...
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Review of Keywords in qualitative methods: A vocabulary of research concepts
(Sage Publications, 2010)Reviews the book, Keywords in qualitative methods: A vocabulary of research concepts by Michael Bloor & Fiona Wood (see record rid]2006-13100-000/rid]). This is a book which appears to fill a gap in existing literature in ...
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Risk factors affecting the incidence of infection after orthopaedic surgery: The role of chemoprophylaxis
(2012)The incidence of surgical site infection and urinary tract infection following orthopaedic procedures has diminished in recent years due to modern antimicrobial prophylaxis. We conducted a case-control study (100 cases, ...
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Survival benefits with diverse chemotherapy regimens for ovarian cancer: Meta-analysis of multiple treatments
(2006)Background: Numerous randomized trials have compared different chemotherapy regimens in women with ovarian cancer. Although ovarian cancer survival has improved in recent years, the magnitude of these incremental benefits ...
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Doctoral Thesis
Teachers as learners and curriculum designers in the context of modeling-centered scientific inquiry
(S.N., 2012)