IS TIMSS ADVANCED AN APPROPRIATE INSTRUMENT FOR EVALUATING MATHEMATICAL PERFORMANCE AT THE ADVANCED LEVEL OF NORWEGIAN UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL? AN ANALYSIS OF CURRICULUM DOCUMENTS AND ASSESSMENT ITEMS

Given that the results of international large-scale achievement studies attract a lot of attention and may affect educational policies, the primary aim of the present study is to discuss the appropriateness of the mathematics tests developed for the two cycles of TIMSS Advanced for evaluating the mathematical performance of Norwegian upper secondar

In the research of computer vision, artificial controllability of image synthesis is a significant and challenging task.At present, there are two available methods.One is to utilize a simple contour to determine the shape of the synthetic object.This method has a promising effect, but it can only control the shape information of the synthetic objec

Abstract Background Lung cancer is a leading cause of cancer mortality and may require high-dose thoracic radiation therapy (RT).However, RT significantly increases the risk of radiation-induced cardiac events, such as pericarditis, cardiomyopathy, and ischemic heart diseases.Despite evidence from clinical trials showing that higher RT doses are as

wetA, one of the conidiation center regulatory genes in many 0.75m filamentous fungi, plays an important role in promoting asexual spores (conidia) maturation.Our recent research has found that knocking out or overexpressing MrwetA (a homolog of wetA) in Monascus ruber M7 does not affect the development of its asexual spores like other fungi, but b