Thesis (Ph. D.)--Auburn University, 2007. / "August 4, 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-90).

Thesis (M.Ed.)--Regis University, Denver, Colo., 2006. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 31, 2007). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2006. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Sept. 12, 2006). Advisor: James G. Henderson. Keywords: urban education; autobiography; existential philosophy; cyberculture; curriculum studies; currere; high-quality teacher; veteran teacher; pedagogical tact. Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-380).

Animation is a powerful teaching tool. Ideas can be expressed through animation using only a fraction of the time needed with conventional teaching methods [John Halas 1987]. In short, a picture is worth a thousand words. However, educational budgets rarely allow for the expensive time-consuming task that animation entails. This thesis tackles the challenge of creating substantial quality educational animation using limited time, labor and money resources. A National Science Foundation sponsored planetarium show on lightning will be used as a demonstration project to document the techniques employed and results achieved. Anyone interested in reducing costs can reference this thesis for insight on what or what not to implement in their own production process.

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As WWW service grow up rapidly and becomes the most popular information system on the internet, web site owner invest heavily to improve the performance of web server. And, because of the 'Server Farm' architecture comes real, web server performance breaks the limit of single server, which directly cause server performance improvement. All these factors raise the cost of website performance measurement program to catch up server performance. Besides, because of dynamic webpage and database linkage are applied widely in production environment. HTTP requests (for example, sessions) with state and identifications increase rapidly. Traditional Web Benchmarking methods are out of date and not supporting these new transaction models. Also, traditional benchmarking methodologies only provide the max/average values for overview, which can not properly describe the performance of the websites with massive dynamic webpages. All these problems shows the traditional benchmarking methodologies are not sufficient for today's technologies. In this paper, we have designed and implemented a configurable and cost-effective website performance measurement program against these problems. We introduced the concept of 'workload', and pre-design detailed HTTP request table, where time, contains, and HTTP commands to use can be assigned. Also we use configurable and replaceable design of open modules and divide the major modules into workload generator, load generator and report generator. These modules can be even separated into three independent programs, which makes this benchmark program become more flexible and adaptive to fit new technologies without adjusting the kernel. We also introduced the concept of 'Virtual User' to describe a real user behavior. We could keep the HTTP state and identification by automatic reply via cookie and assigning user identification in the same process. To increase the efficiency, each load generator can do self-diagnostics and quantify the measurements, and properly reassign the workloads by the value returned by the system. These makes every load generator do everything it could, and not been halted by the low-speed machine. And we can also prevent the mis-measurement by overloading. From the result of the experience, our design can describe the web server performance and load changes by time. We can also compare it to request category and URL, to show the root of causes and time basis to administrator. Overall, our web benchmarking methodology shows the strength to traditional web benchmarking methods.

Animation is a powerful teaching tool. Ideas can be expressed through animation using only a fraction of the time needed with conventional teaching methods [John Halas 1987]. In short, a picture is worth a thousand words. However, educational budgets rarely allow for the expensive time-consuming task that animation entails. This thesis tackles the challenge of creating substantial quality educational animation using limited time, labor and money resources. A National Science Foundation sponsored planetarium show on lightning will be used as a demonstration project to document the techniques employed and results achieved. Anyone interested in reducing costs can reference this thesis for insight on what or what not to implement in their own production process.

Thesis (PhD(Education Management and Policy Studies))--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Abstract in English. Includes bibliographical references.

Ce mémoire fait un survol du problème de la non-participation effective des élèves aux cours d’Éducation Physique et Santé (ÉP.S) après la neuvième année du niveau secondaire en Ontario. Il est composé de cinq chapitres. Le premier chapitre de ce mémoire présente la nature de l’ÉP.S, son importance dans chaque province et territoire du Canada, et le programme-cadre de l’ÉP.S. en Ontario. Il termine par l’énonciation de la préoccupation des enseignantes et des enseignants d’ÉP.S au regard de la non-participation des élèves aux cours d’ÉP.S après la classe de 9e année du secondaire. Le deuxième chapitre, quant à lui, synthétise le cadre théorique explicatif du phénomène de la non-participation des élèves aux cours d’ÉP.S après la classe de 9e année du secondaire. Il présente la théorie de la motivation. Le chapitre trois expose les principaux facteurs inhibiteurs et motivationnels à la participation des élèves aux cours d’éducation physique et santé, et ce, tels que ces facteurs se présentent dans la recherche. Le chapitre quatre est relatif aux suggestions à l’endroit du personnel politique des curriculums et des enseignants en vue d’espérer voir s’augmenter la participation des élèves aux cours d’éducation physique et santé. Enfin, le chapitre cinq qui conclue le travail reprend les grandes lignes de la recherche et énonce des pistes de recherche pour le futur.

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