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An attitude control system for the BRITE and CanX-4&5 nanosatellites is developed. BRITE and CanX-4&5 are research satellites based on the Space Flight Laboratory''s Generic Nanosatellite Bus, devoted to the study of star brightness and formation flying, respectively. Novel low-cost testing procedures are developed and used to characterize satellite sensor and actuator performance. The algorithm governing the pointing of CanX-4&5 is enhanced based on preliminary simulation results. A linear-time invariant controller architecture, applicable to both BRITE and CanX-4&5, is designed based on simulation of several competing controllers. Testing information is combined with control laws and controller to simulate the attitude performance of the satellites throughout their missions.

Drawing extensively on first-hand accounts, this account of daily life in a 19th-century English village recreates a harsh world in which poverty and lack of opportunity are nevertheless relieved by a sense of community and tradition.

Présentation des principaux personnages mythologiques de toutes les cultures, des légendes grecques ou romaines aux histoires des peuples d''Amérique, d''Asie ou d''Afrique.

This case study examined the spread of ideas in a Gr. 5/6 classroom in which the teacher was attempting to foster a knowledge building community. The goal of the research was to explore the relationship between the social network of the classroom (in terms of face-to-face and computer-mediated interactions), the teacher''s role, and the spread of ideas. Further, the thesis examined how social network tools may help teachers better understand the pedagogical implications of Scardamalia and Bereiter''s (1991) Teacher A, B, C models. Analyses of videotaped lessons revealed the teacher used a complex mix of traditional instructional methods and knowledge building strategies while trying to shift the locus of control of learning to students. Critical teacher-driven processes included the class-wide adoption of knowledge building vocabulary and practices, and efforts to foster higher levels of student-student discourse. Analyses of online interactions provided strong evidence of highly interconnected student-student online networks, with the note reading network being especially dense. Longitudinal studies revealed these network established themselves early in the unit, and persisted during the course of the inquiry. There was evidence that idea improvement was present in addition to idea spread. In face-to-face classroom communication, the teacher''s role was more central, particularly in "Knowledge Building Talk" sessions. However, here too, the teacher made efforts to shift the locus of control. Overall the analyses suggest that social network tools are potentially useful for helping teachers make the difficult transition from "Teacher A" and "Teacher B" strategies, in which the locus of control is with the teacher, to "Teacher C" strategies, in which strategic cognitive processes are turned over to students. This dissertation proposes that movement toward Teacher C practices may be illustrated, in part, by a shift in classroom network topologies from that of a star-shaped network, centered on the teacher, to a highly interconnected student-student network. Finally, the thesis recounts a number of ways in which the use of social network tools uncovered discourse patterns of which the teacher was unaware, including gender differences in reading, building-on, and contribution patterns.

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A collection of work by Alan Garner including his two plays Holly from the Bongs, The Green Mist and the TV script To Kill a King.

An analytic matrix was created which adapted and merged Bereiter and Scardamalia''s (1996) levels of approach to knowledge with concepts from Bloom''s taxonomy (Krumme, 1998) and Egan''s (1997) concept of understandings. This instrument was used to examine the discourse between students as they worked on a problem-based learning task using a commercial computer simulation for evidence of the presence of the eight levels of approach to knowledge postulated by Bereiter and Scardamalia in 1996. There was a particular focus on the higher levels of approach to knowledge, levels 4 ("knowledge viewed from different perspectives"), 5 ("knowledge as personal artifacts"), and 6 ("knowledge as improvable personal artifacts"). In a study of 17 students from grades six to eight in three suburban schools, evidence was found that level 3 ("knowledge as representable") was necessary to group functioning and that level 4 was used consistently by these students. Evidence of levels 5 and 6 was also present, but less prominent than level 4.