EurekAlert (03/18/10) De Waard, Inge
Peruvian and Belgian researchers have developed an open source mobile learning application that enables health-care workers to connect to the free learning platform Moodle with their iPhone or iPod. The application was tested by health-care workers engaged in 20 clinics throughout Peru. The three-month pilot program used multimedia, three-dimensional animations, group [...]
Finding all the permutations for any given set of items has always been an area of interest for programmers. A very simple algorithm for finding all the permutations, the Bell Algorithm and its C coding has already been presented.
Here the recursive code in C, for finding all the possible permutations has been given :
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USA Today (03/22/10) P. 1B; Swartz, Jon
Silicon Valley Loses Foreign Talent. Meanwhile, the Silicon Valley Index shows that fewer foreign students are pursuing engineering and science degrees in the region. The annual study found that foreign students received 16.6 percent of all degrees awarded in science and engineering programs from local colleges and universities in 2007, [...]
University College London (03/11/10) Brierley, Craig
University College London (UCL) researchers have created a computer algorithm that can convert brain activity into visual images. UCL professor Eleanor Maguire led the study, which built on her previous research that demonstrated how spatial memories are recorded in regular patterns. “What is more interesting is to look at ‘episodic’ [...]
The n queens puzzle is the problem of placing n queens on an n×n chessboard such that none of them are able to capture any other using the standard chess queen’s moves. The queens must be placed in such a way that no two queens attack each other. Thus, a solution requires that no two [...]
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