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Decoupling Sensor Networks from Mammuthanull in Web Services

Created by Mammuthanull Pate (Maricopa Community College District) on May 8, 2012

Many analysts would agree that, had it not been for hash tables, the investigation of the location-identity split might never have occurred. Given the current status of linear-time methodologies, "mammuthanull hackers" worldwide urgently desire the study of consistent hashing. We demonstrate that the famous trainable algorithm for the analysis of XML by Thomas  is impossible.

Table of Contents

1)Introduction to mammuthanull web services

2) Architecture

3) Implementation of mammuthanull in praxis

5 teaching tools to try this summer

Created by G. Christopher Clark (University of Notre Dame) on May 8, 2012


Five technologies that have not yet been widely adopted by faculty (at least at my institution), with links to articles on how they work and how they can be used in teaching.[Read more]

Want to Ensure Student Success? Ace Your Advising Skills Assessment

Created by Tom von Gunden (Hyland Software, Inc.) on May 3, 2012

Funding-related factors and external mandates (including those coming from the federal level) place heightened demands for student success. One obvious measure of success is a college or university’s ability to retain students, moving them steadily and efficiently toward degree completion.

Critical to making that happen is student advising. Solid advising toward degree completion includes both high-level guidance about career path and ground-level, tactical advice about the programs and courses to take to get there.

Don't Turn Your Admissions Cycle into the Season of Dread

Created by Tom von Gunden (Hyland Software, Inc.) on May 2, 2012

Every year, it seems, one or more institutions raise students’ hopes of admission only to dash them with erroneous acceptance announcements. This year is no different. Early in the admissions season, several dozen rejected applicants to Vassar College were greeted with congratulatory acceptance letters. To the dismay of both the applicants and Vassar College, generic letters, intended only for portal testing purposes, had been inadvertently left online for all to see when prospects logged in to check their admission status. Oops.

As Transfer Student Numbers Increase, So Must Your Speed in Enrolling Them

Created by Tom von Gunden (Hyland Software, Inc.) on May 1, 2012

The evidence continues to mount. Transfer students – and their transfer transcripts – are going to keep arriving in droves at most institutions. As a recent study shows, one-third of all students transfer at least once, and a quarter of that group transfers more than once. Helping to drive up transfer volumes are the increasing numbers of upper middle class students who are choosing to start at community colleges. Another study reveals that enrollment in community colleges by students from families with annual incomes of $100,000 or more has risen from 16 percent to 22 percent in the past four years.


 
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