The furniture company: deductive databases and the scheduling problem     

Alexander P.   《International Journal of Information Management》2003,23(6):523-536

In this paper we address the possibility of utilizing a deductive database solution to assist a furniture company to solve its delivery scheduling problems. We first present the company's current approach to scheduling furniture deliveries using their present computing facilities. Then, we discuss their search for an off-the-self solution, resulting in the proposed solution employing the capabilities of a deductive database application. An evaluation of the current state of commercially available deductive database is conducted and presented to assess the possibilities and availability of the technology to focus on an alternative for the furniture company.  相似文献   

Predictors and outcomes of low-income fathers’ reading with their toddlers     

Elisabeth Duursma  Barbara Alexander Pan  Helen Raikes 《Early childhood research quarterly》2008

Most studies of parent–child bookreading have focused on mothers reading to their children. Though the role of fathers in children's lives is widely emphasized, we know almost nothing about father–child bookreading, particularly among low-income families. The present study was designed to examine how often low-income fathers report reading to their children and what the predictors and effects of paternal bookreading are. The fathers in this study were participants in the national evaluation of Early Head Start (EHS) and were recruited via mothers enrolled in the EHS study. Participating fathers were interviewed at home and their children's cognitive and language development were assessed using standardized measures from ages 2 to 5. Results demonstrated a wide variety in frequency of bookreading among fathers. Fathers were more likely to read to their children frequently if they spoke English at home, if they had a high school education, and if their children had better language skills. Fathers’ bookreading predicted children's cognitive outcome. Paternal bookreading did predict children's language outcomes but only for children whose fathers had at least a high school education.  相似文献   

Students’ experience of online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: A province-wide survey study     

Lixiang Yan  Alexander Whitelock-Wainwright  Quanlong Guan  Gangxin Wen  Dragan Gašević  Guanliang Chen 《British journal of educational technology : journal of the Council for Educational Technology》2021,52(5):2038-2057

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Can Scientific Practices Put Norms Back into Nature?     

Bird  Alexander 《Metascience》2004,13(1):106-108

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Many Voices: Building a Biblioblogosphere in Ireland     

Michelle Dalton  Alexander Kouker  Martin O'Connor 《New Review of Academic Librarianship》2016,22(2-3):148-159

ABSTRACT

Blogging has been associated with the Library and Information Science (LIS) community for some time now. Libfocus.com is an online blog that was founded in 2011. Its goal was to create a communal communication space for LIS professionals in Ireland and beyond, to share and discuss issues and ideas. The content of the blog is curated by an editorial team and features guest bloggers from across all sectors and experience levels. Using a qualitative methodological approach, open-ended surveys were conducted with twelve previous guest bloggers, in order to explore how and why Irish-based LIS professionals choose to communicate through blogging. It is hoped that this evidence will provide a greater understanding of both the value and effectiveness of blogging as an outreach and communication tool within the profession, helping both libraries and librarians to be more strategic in their use of it as a medium.  相似文献   

Book review     

Sibylle Hielscher  Elaine Rivers  Gerhard Mittelstädt  Alexander N. Charters  T. Neville Postlethwaite 《International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue internationale l'éducation》1993,39(5):443-452

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Autonomy and control: a university funding formula as an instrument of public policy     

Alexander L. Darling  Martin D. England  Daniel W. Lang  Rosanne Lopers-Sweetman 《Higher Education》1989,18(5):559-583

Formulas are used in many jurisdictions to allocate public funds among universities which may then have considerable autonomy in the internal allocation of those funds. This paper provides first an overview of formula funding as it affects university education. This is followed by an exposition on the balance between autonomy and accountability in the Province of Ontario. Formula funding in Ontario is used as a case study to evaluate how effective formula-funding has been in encouraging autonomous universities to work towards the attainment of public policy objectives. The analysis shows that four mechanisms have in fact been used - namely formula funding, designated extraformula grants, incentive funding, and controls - and that some objectives are better supported by different mechanisms. The paper concludes with a discussion of the evolution and an evaluation of formula funding in Ontario against the objectives given for its introduction.  相似文献   

“Once More About the Quadratic Trinomial…”: On the Formation of Methodological Skills     

Alexander Karp 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2007,10(4-6):405-414

This article discusses certain aspects of mathematics teacher education in Russia. To be able successfully to teach through problems, a teacher must know how to select the necessary assignments, to construct mathematical tasks according to methodological principles, and to organize work on these assignments in the classroom; in short, as they say in Russia, the teacher must possess certain well-defined methodological skills. This article analyzes examples of work with pre-service and in-service teachers leading to the formation of such skills. As the author tries to show, substantive and deep mathematical activity can take place in the context of tidying even the most routine school-level topics, such as the quadratic trinomial.  相似文献   

Book reviews     

George Alexander  Mark Holmes  Giuliana Colalillo  Edward N. Herberg 《Interchange》1978,10(1):82-90

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The use of public learning diaries in blended learning     

Matthias Nückles  Kirsten Berthold  Alexander Renkl 《Learning, Media and Technology》2004,29(1):49-66

Learning diaries—as we employ them—are students’ written reflections of their learning experiences and outcomes over the course of university seminars. The writing of such diaries is ‘tutored’ by a computer program: eHELp supports the writing of sophisticated learning diaries through a modelling and scaffolding of the phases of planning, production and revision. In addition, the learning diaries get published—by uploading them in a cooperation platform—so that the learners can read and discuss their peers’ diaries. The main function of such public learning diaries is to enrich traditional university courses (Blended Learning) with additional elaborative, organisational, critical reasoning, and metacognitive activities in order to foster a deeper processing and better retention of the contents to be learnt. We would like to present the educational rationale of our approach and report the findings of corresponding empirical studies.  相似文献