Succeeding as a student in the STEM fields with an invisible disability : a college handbook for science, technology, engineering, and math students with autism, ADD, affective disorders, or learning difficulties and their families / / Christy Oslund

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956179903321
• Autore: Oslund Christy
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2013
• ISBN: 9781299471832; 1299471838; 9780857008176; 085700817X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (162 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.9; 378.19827
• Soggetti: Learning disabled - Education (Higher); College students with disabilities
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Succeeding as a Student in the STEM Fields with an Invisible Disability: A College Handbook for Science,Technology, Engineering, and Math Students with Autism, ADD, Affective Disorders, or Learning Difficulties and their Families; Introduction; 1 The Importance of Self-Reliance; Changes in Legal Status and Rights; Real Life Example of the Difference Independence Makes; Practical Considerations for Self-Reliance; College and Regional Universities as a Transition; 2 Necessary Life Skills for University; Medication; Personal Hygiene; Laundry; Meal Preparation; Transportation; Shopping; 3 What Students Need to Know Before Class StartsAn Appropriate Level of Aid; Finding Textbooks; Note-Taking Supplies and Technology; Service Providers; The Good News; 4 Successful Study; How to Read a Textbook; Learning from Lectures; Study Aids and Preparing for Exams; Taking Tests; 5 Professors' and Students' Classroom Behavior; When is Behavior Beyond Tolerable?; Professors' Expectations; Faculty can be Disabled Too; 6 Work Study Jobs, Resumes, and Class Study Groups; ; Job Experience for a Resume; Preparing for Work Study Opportunities; Writing a Resume; Class Study Groups; Professional and Social Groups7 Life isn't Fair and Other Truths; Difficult versus Impossible; How to Choose a Career; The Unfairness-and Reality-of Mandatory Classes; Choosing your School = "More Fairness"; The Difference between Unfair and Potentially Illegal; 8 When a Parent Should be Involved; Reasons for "The Call"; The Importance of Class Attendance; Encouraging Polite, Professional Communication; The Importance of Housing Staff to Families; Glossary; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The STEM fields attract many students with autism and related disabilities who are highly intelligent, but who, upon entering higher education, may find that they struggle with independent living and a different way of learning. Full of practical advice, this is a useful handbook that students and parents can refer to throughout the college years.

Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management : 14th International Joint Conference, IC3K 2022, Valletta, Malta, October 24–26, 2022, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Frans Coenen, Ana Fred, David Aveiro, Jan Dietz, Jorge Bernardino, Elio Masciari, Joaquim Filipe

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910746069703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023
• ISBN: 3-031-43471-4
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2023.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 pages)
• Collana: Communications in Computer and Information Science, , 1865-0937 ; ; 1842
• Disciplina: 006.3
• Soggetti: Information storage and retrieval systems; Information Storage and Retrieval
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval -- Electrocardiogram Two-Dimensional Motifs: A Study Directed at Cardio Vascular Disease ; Classification -- Degree Centrality Definition, and Its Computation for Homogeneous Multilayer Networks Using Heuristics-Based Algorithms -- A Dual-Stage Noise Training Scheme for Breast Ultrasound Image Classification -- A General-Purpose Multi-Stage Multi-Group Machine Learning Framework for Knowledge Discovery and Decision Support -- Comparative Assessment of Deep end-to-end, Deep Hybrid and Deep Ensemble Learning Architectures for Breast Cancer Histological Classification -- Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development -- CIE: A Cloud-Based Information Extraction System for Named Entity Recognition in AWS, Azure, and Medical Domain -- From Natural Language Texts to RDF Triples: A Novel Approach to Generating e-Commerce Knowledge Graphs -- Situational Question Answering over Commonsense Knowledge Using Memory Nets -- Archives Metadata Text Information Extraction into CIDOC-CRM -- Evolution of Computational Ontologies: Assessing Development Processes Using Metrics -- System to Correct Toxic Expression with BERT and to Determine the Effect of the Attention Value -- Knowledge Management and Information Systems -- Machine Learning Decision Support for Production Planning and Control Based on Simulation-Generated Data. -- FAIRification of CRIS: A Review -- Measuring Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Trajectory in the Training Environment -- DroNit Project: Improving Drone Usage for Civil Defense Applications -- Innovation Processes and Information Technologies: A Study of Boutique Hotels in Valletta, Malta. .
• Sommario/riassunto: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2022, held in Valletta, Malta, during October 24–26, 2022. The 14 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval; Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development; and Knowledge Management and Information Systems.