An Investigation of User Comments on Facebook Pages of Trinidad and Tobago’s Indian Music Format Radio Stations     

Shaheed Nick Mohammed  Avinash Thombre 《Journal of Radio & Audio Media》2017,24(1):111-129

Starting in the 1990s, the Caribbean two-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago witnessed the establishment of several Indian-music format radio stations, most of which now stream their content on the World Wide Web or otherwise make their content available beyond the range of their terrestrial radio transmitters. The convergence of traditional terrestrial radio with audio streaming technology combined with the spread of high speed broadband connections has expanded the audience of a typical radio station from a few kilometers to a globally dispersed set of listeners who often include those physically displaced from their native cultural programming. The present investigation examines the Facebook comments of domestic and foreign listeners to Indian-music format radio stations from the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.  相似文献   

Special needs education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): a systems perspective     

Mohammed Arif  Eman Gaad 《Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs》2008,8(2):111-117

In order to obtain maximum benefits from the educational system, it is imperative that the system should work as a unified coherent unit. Gaad, Arif and Scott (2006) conducted the systems analysis of the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) general education system. They analysed three components of the system in order to assess the development, delivery and evaluation. This paper utilises the same framework to analyse the special needs education (SEN) system in the UAE. Data for the research were collected through observations and semi-structured interviews. Analysis of the data identifies some possibilities for improvement. In the area of development, more teaching and supplemental material specific to special needs education needs to be developed. Currently, teachers are working with what is known as the 'para curriculum'. It is based on the regular textbook; with chapters that are difficult being simplified or removed. In the area of delivery, more training would be beneficial to teachers. The monitoring and evaluation component's analysis points out that the evaluation instrument used currently needs to be modified for special needs education monitoring and additional resources in the area of special needs education would required.  相似文献   

Hyperhydration using different hydration agents does not affect the haematological markers of the athlete biological passport in euhydrated volunteers     

Ioanna Athanasiadou  Sven Christian Voss  Wesal El Saftawy  Mohammed Al-Maadheed  Georgia Valsami  Costas Georgakopoulos 《Journal of sports sciences》2020,38(16):1924-1932

ABSTRACT

Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) is an indirect approach, implemented by WADA, aimed at detecting blood manipulation based on abnormal changes in haematological markers. Cases report the use of hyperhydration as masking method during anti-doping urine sample collection which could potentially mask suspicious fluctuations on ABP profiles. This study investigated the hyperhydration effect on haemoglobin concentration, reticulocyte percentage and OFF-hr score (an algorithm based on haemoglobin concentration and reticulocyte percentage), with and without recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEPO) administration. A five-week clinical study performed; Baseline and rHuEPO Phase. Water and a sports drink were used as hyperhydration agents. To examine the hyperhydration effect on the normal ABP profile per volunteer, hyperhydration was implemented at 0, 24 and 48 hours during the baseline. During the rHuEPO phase, volunteers received Epoetin beta (3000 IU) with hyperhydration to be implemented at 0, 24 and 48 hours after drug administration. Blood and urine samples were collected and analysed according to WADA guidelines. No significant effect on ABP markers was observed due to hyperhydration at any time during the study. Pre- and post-hyperhydration data were not statistically different compared to individual baseline data. In conclusion, hyperhydration does not affect the ABP haematological markers under the examined conditions.  相似文献   

Access and equity in financing higher education: The case of Morocco     

Mohammed Bougroum  Aomar Ibourk 《Prospects》2011,41(1):115-134

This paper explores the higher education financing policy in Morocco in light of the central issue of equity. First, it surveys the current situation, using a critical approach to the present financing policy, and looking at the three dimensions of adequacy, efficiency, and equity. Second, it describes the principal policy challenges in financing higher education. Third, it presents several public policy proposals likely to bring changes to the financing policy in order to meet these challenges. The analysis shows that the sustainability and the equity of the current financing system are undermined by the dysfunctions introduced by the private/public split in the higher education system and the lack of a clear political strategy pertaining to the medium of instruction.  相似文献   

Proportional and combinatorial reasoning in two cultures     

Mohammed A. Kishta 《科学教学研究杂志》1979,16(5):439-443

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The administrative crisis in education in the Arab countries   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Mohammed A. El-Ghannam 《Prospects》1977,7(1):104-112

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Integrating External Knowledge to Supplement Training Data in Semi-Supervised Learning for Text Categorization     

Mohammed Benkhalifa  Abdelhak Mouradi  Houssaine Bouyakhf 《Information Retrieval》2001,4(2):91-113

Text Categorization (TC) is the automated assignment of text documents to predefined categories based on document contents. TC has been an application for many learning approaches, which prove effective. Nevertheless, TC provides many challenges to machine learning. In this paper, we suggest, for text categorization, the integration of external WordNet lexical information to supplement training data for a semi-supervised clustering algorithm which can learn from both training and test documents to classify new unseen documents. This algorithm is the Semi-Supervised Fuzzy c-Means (ssFCM). Our experiments use Reuters 21578 database and consist of binary classifications for categories selected from the 115 TOPICS classes of the Reuters collection. Using the Vector Space Model, each document is represented by its original feature vector augmented with external feature vector generated using WordNet. We verify experimentally that the integration of WordNet helps ssFCM improve its performance, effectively addresses the classification of documents into categories with few training documents and does not interfere with the use of training data.  相似文献   

基于需求和自我效能理论构建研究生英语分级教学新模式     

安静  茹克叶＆#;穆罕默德  许秀妍  高平 《中国地质教育》2014,(1):58-61

分级教学改革旨在解决公共研究生英语教学中存在的问题,改革无论学生英语水平如何、需求如何,都使用同一本教材、采用同一种教学模式、教授同一种课型的方式。本文采取针对硕士研究生的不同英语水平和不同主体关于英语学习的不同需求进行"有的放矢"、"因材施教"的教学新模式,目标是缩小研究生的英语语言知识与实际应用能力之间的差距,促进学生英语能力与其本领域的研究相结合。  相似文献   

Cognitive levels and linguistic abilities of elementary school children     

Mohammed A. Kishta 《科学教学研究杂志》1979,16(1):67-71

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Learning and study strategies correlate with medical students' performance in anatomical sciences          下载免费PDF全文

Mohammed K. Khalil  Shanna E. Williams  H. Gregory Hawkins 《Anatomical sciences education》2018,11(3):236-242

Much of the content delivered during medical students' preclinical years is assessed nationally by such testing as the United States Medical Licensing Examination^® (USMLE^®) Step 1 and Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination^® (COMPLEX‐USA^®) Step 1. Improvement of student study/learning strategies skills is associated with academic success in internal and external (USMLE Step 1) examinations. This research explores the strength of association between the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) scores and student performance in the anatomical sciences and USMLE Step 1 examinations. The LASSI inventory assesses learning and study strategies based on ten subscale measures. These subscales include three components of strategic learning: skill (Information processing, Selecting main ideas, and Test strategies), will (Anxiety, Attitude, and Motivation) and self‐regulation (Concentration, Time management, Self‐testing, and Study aid). During second year (M2) orientation, 180 students (Classes of 2016, 2017, and 2018) were administered the LASSI survey instrument. Pearson Product‐Moment correlation analyses identified significant associations between five of the ten LASSI subscales (Anxiety, Information processing, Motivation, Selecting main idea, and Test strategies) and students' performance in the anatomical sciences and USMLE Step 1 examinations. Identification of students lacking these skills within the anatomical sciences curriculum allows targeted interventions, which not only maximize academic achievement in an aspect of an institution's internal examinations, but in the external measure of success represented by USMLE Step 1 scores. Anat Sci Educ 11: 236–242. © 2017 American Association of Anatomists.  相似文献