Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Chinese Students Outperform in Mathematics -- Chapter 2 Review of the Literature: Factors contributing to Achievement Gap -- Chapter 3 Research Methodology: Exploring Research Questions -- Chapter 4 Document Analysis of Australian Mathematics Curricula and Assessment -- Chapter 5 Document Analysis of Chinese Mathematics Curricula and Assessment -- Chapter 6 A …
Part I Statistical Interpretation of Test/Exam Results -- 1 On Average: How good are they? -- 2 On Percentage: How much are there? -- 3 On Standard Deviation: How different are they? -- 4 On Difference: Is that big enough? -- 5 On Correlation: What is between them? -- 6 On Regression: How much does it depend? -- 7 On Multiple Regression: What is the future? -- 8 On Ranking: Who is the fairest o…
Long Papers -- Short Papers -- Extended Abstracts for Posters and Demos -- Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Response -- Surveillance, Border Protection, and Transportation Systems.Intelligence and security informatics (ISI) can be broadly defined as the study of the development and use of advanced information technologies and systems for national and international security-related applic…
Foundational Topics in Medical Informatics -- Knowledge Management, Data Mining, and Text Mining in Medical Informatics -- Mapping Medical Informatics Research -- Bioinformatics Challenges and Opportunities -- Managing Information Security and Privacy in Healthcare Data Mining -- Ethical and Social Challenges of Electronic Health Information -- Information and Knowledge Management -- Medical Co…
Acknowledgements -- Matching Visibility and Performance: A Standing Challenge for World-Class Universities -- Section I: Global Reflection -- Excellence Strategies and the Creation of World-Class Universities -- Towards World-Class Systems: World-Class Universities in High Participation Systems of Higher Education -- World-Class Universities in an Age of Slow Growth -- The Role of Universities …
Recent Advances in Purification and Special Treatment of Water and Water Quality Monitoring -- Advances in Drinking Water Treatment in the United States -- Depositional Characteristics of Lake Sediments in Canada as Determined by Pb-210 and Cs-137 -- Biosensors for Water Quality Monitoring -- Rapid Detection of Bacteria in Drinking Water -- Utilization of Mobile Analytical Tests in Wastewater T…
Multidisciplinary Economics: The Birth of a New Economics Faculty in the Netherlands -- Opening Address -- Historical Mistakes Rectified -- Tjalling C. Koopmans: An Inspiring Example -- Styles of Research in Economics at Cowles -- Multidisciplinary Economics at Utrecht University -- Origins and Development of Multidisciplinary Economics at Utrecht University -- Multidisciplinary Economic Resear…
Using SVG and X3D in Generic Web Applications -- SVG and X3D in the Context of the XML Family and the Semantic Web -- The Foundations of SVG -- X3D Fundamentals -- SVG as the Visual Interface to Web Services -- X3D Graphics, Java and the Semantic Web -- Distributed User Interfaces: Toward SVG 1.2 -- Publishing Paradigms for X3D -- Applying SVG and X3D to Specific Problems -- Visualizing Complex…
Map-based mobile services -- Portrayal and Generalisation of Point Maps for Mobile Information Services -- Activity and Context — A Conceptual Framework for Mobile Geoservices -- Effectiveness and efficiency of tourism maps in the World Wide Web and their potential for mobile map services -- The Cognitive Reality of Schematic Maps -- Adaptive Visualisation of Landmarks using an MRDB -- Ego ce…
Learning and Fuzzy Systems -- Evolutionary Computation -- Intelligent Agents and Systems -- Intelligent Information Retrieval -- Support Vector Machine -- Swarm Intelligence -- Data Mining -- Pattern Recognition -- Applications.