Control Engineering: Principles and History
What is Control?
It is the action or effect of deciding on the development of a process or system. It can also be understood as a way to manipulate certain variables to make them, or other variables, act in the desired way.
What is Control Engineering?
It is an interdisciplinary approach to control systems and devices. It combines areas such as electrical, electronic, mechanical, chemical, process engineering, and mathematical theory, among others.
Subdisciplines (by Type of Control)
- Open-loop control
- Closed-
Educational Multimedia: Design, Development, and Implementation
Education
Education is a process aimed at promoting the integral, harmonious, and complete development of human beings within their natural, social, cultural, and living contexts. It fosters responsible and committed individuals within society.
Innovation
Innovation is an intentional, controlled change and improvement in a specific aspect of a system that meets certain developmental needs.
Image Types
Illustrations
Presentations can be illustrated with photographic or drawn images.
Layout and Graphics
Such
Group Decision Support Systems: Features and Benefits
Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS)
A Group Decision Support System (GDSS) is a computer-based interactive system that facilitates the solution of unstructured problems by a set of decision-makers working together as a group.
Components of a GDSS
- Hardware
- Software
- Human Resources
- Procedures
Minimum Hardware Requirements
- An I/O device.
- A processor to perform the necessary processes and generate results useful to decision-makers.
- A communication line between the I/O device and the processor, enabling interactive
Language Interdependence and Pedagogy in Immersion Education
Language Interdependence in Bilingual Education
The interdependence principle applies to languages that have little in common (e.g., Japanese/English) as well as to languages that have common roots. For example, Cummins et al. (1984) found support for moderate cross-lingual relationships (between L1 and English) in studies involving Japanese and Vietnamese students. However, as pointed out by Genesee (1987), cross-lingual relationships are stronger for similar languages compared to dissimilar languages.
Read MoreUnderstanding Bias in Assessments and Social Service Planning
Understanding Bias in Assessments
Biases are factors and effects that can distort the validity of an internal or external evaluation. There are different types:
- Instrumentation bias: Occurs when the assessment instrument itself introduces differences between the subjects involved. For example, the language used in the test can have different levels of difficulty for some subjects and others. In open questionnaires, bias may arise from the evaluator’s interpretation of the responses.
- Non-reactive program
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Essentials
What is Pattern Recognition?
Pattern recognition (PR) is a process of recognizing patterns in data. The different stages of pattern recognition are:
- Preprocessing: The input data is preprocessed to remove noise and irrelevant information and to normalize it.
- Feature extraction: The relevant features are extracted from the preprocessed data. This step is crucial, as the quality of the features extracted directly impacts the algorithm’s performance.
- Feature selection: A subset of the extracted features