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NHC Node Health Check
(2015-05-18)
Why NHC?
Currently no standard -- Most sites use custom, home-grown scripts
Often site-specific
Usually lacking portability
Unreliable execution, reporting, parent performance
Need a simple, robust ...
Categorizing Students' Difficulties with Mathematical Proofs: Developing a Model of the Structure of Proof Construction
(2015-08-14)
Studies have shown that proof construction is a challenging task for students at all levels. The purposes of my study were to examine students' difficulties with proof construction and to explore a practical method to help ...
Cyberinfrastructure user support
(2015-06)
Cyberinfrastructure User Support Presentation for the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research & Education Facilitators Virtual Residency Workshop 2015 hosted at the University of Oklahoma (OU) and made available live via ...
Southeast U.S. Cold Season Severe Thunderstorm Environments and Their Depictions Using Multiple Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterization Schemes
(2015-12-18)
The primary motivations of this dissertation are to identify meteorological characteristics of the southeastern United States cold season tornado environment and to improve numerical modeling of such environments focused ...
NURTURING PROMOTES THE EVOLUTION OF LEARNING IN CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS
(2015-08-14)
An agent may interact with its environment and learn complex tasks based on evaluative
feedback through a process known as reinforcement learning. Reinforcement
learning requires exploration of unfamiliar situations, ...
Experiences of Early Childhood Educators Who Use Constructivist Approaches in an Era of High-Stakes Accountability
(2015-08)
Over the past thirty years, American education has moved toward a system of increased accountability. High-stakes accountability is characterized by the reliance of high-stakes testing, or assessments that lead to significant ...
Lock-In and Team Effects: Recruiting and Success in College Football Athletics
(Journal of Sports Economics, 2015-04-07)
How important is recruiting to a football program’s success? While prior research has attempted to answer this question, we utilize an extensive panel set covering 13 years of games along with a two-stage least squares ...
Teacher-Child Interactions in Infant and Toddler Classrooms: A Qualitative Study Examining the Nature of Care
(2015-05)
The purpose of this study was to describe and explore the nature of infants’, toddlers’, and caregivers’ lived experiences in group care settings. Multi-case qualitative research was conducted with three infant and/or ...
Achieved availability importance measure for enhancing reliability-centered maintenance decisions
(Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: Journal of Risk and Reliability, 2015-02-01)
An effective defense strategy requires aircraft, among other weapons systems, to be available and ready for use when circumstances deem necessary. This article offers a set of importance measures to identify the critical ...