eLearning

Elearning is a general term relating to trainings delivered through a single computer, with the use of devices like CDROMs, mobile phones, digital television, Internet and wide area networks.
Elearning is also considered as an effective and efficient system of self-paced personal training. It’s available via the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, whenever you have the time and interest. The requirements are a computer with an Internet or broadband connection, running Windows and Internet Explorer Web browser.
An elearning course is divided into 9 or 10 lessons. Each lesson is divided into 3-6 topics that may have a …

Ross D. King,
Jem Rowland,
Stephen G. Oliver,
Michael Young,
Wayne Aubrey,
Emma Byrne,
Maria Liakata,
Magdalena Markham,
Pınar Pir,
Larisa N. Soldatova,
Andrew Sparkes,
Kenneth E. Whelan,
Amanda Clare
The basis of science is the hypothetico-deductive method and the recording of experiments in
sufficient detail to enable reproducibility. We report the development of Robot Scientist “Adam,”
which advances the automation of both. Adam has autonomously generated functional genomics
hypotheses about the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and experimentally tested these hypotheses
by using laboratory automation. We have confirmed Adam’s conclusions through manual
experiments. To describe Adam’s research, we have developed an ontology and logical language.
The resulting formalization involves over 10,000 different research units in a nested treelike
structure, 10 levels …

W. Y. Ching,
Lizhi Ouyang,
Paul Rulis,
and Hongzhi Yao1
Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri 64110, USA
Department of Physics and Mathematics, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee 37211, USA
Based on the most recently determined noncubic structure for
-Al2O3 by Menendez-Proupin and Gutierrez,
a comprehensive list of physical properties is investigated theoretically. These include lattice dynamics and
phonon spectra, elastic constants and bulk structural parameters, electronic structure and interatomic bonding,
optical properties, and x-ray absorption near-edge structure
XANES spectra. Compared to similar calcula-
tions of -Al2O3, we find a smaller lowest zone-center vibrational mode at 97.6 cm−1
, a lower heat capacity,
a smaller bulk modulus, and …