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3D MODELING FOR LEATHERGOODS

Author(s): Alina Iovan-Dragomir,Alexandra Bodoga / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2021

Leather good products are intended to complete the outfit having an important aesthetic but also functional attributes. A distinct category of leather goods is represented by those products that are attached to the body. The positioning of these products in relation to the body involves a lot of design restrictions. One of the most significant restrictions is the ability not to affect the freedom of movement of the wearer. 3D modelling can be used for a good visualization of the model, on one hand, and adjusted it on different parts of the human body, on the other hand. Any product can be 3D modeled using specialized software and modeling techniques for video games. This paper presents the 3D modeling stages of a bum bag using modeling techniques for video games. The steps presented for creating the product in 3D represents a general "workflow". In order to complete the object, in working mode, multiple transition will be made from one program to another following specific steps for completion. They are used in different areas such as movies, games or 3D printers for toys. The program used are Zbrush > RizomUV > AutodeskMaya > SubstancePainter > Marmoset ToolBag3. In order to transform from 3D to 2D and pattern making was used MarvelousDesigner9 program. Using these programs can lead to student attractiveness and a better understanding of the steps of creating a leather good product. The objective of the paper was to present a creative and attractive way for students to improve their learning experience.

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A CASE STUDY ON MIGRATING THE LAB ACTIVITIES ONLINE - STUDENTS’ AND PROFESSORS’ PERSPECTIVES

Author(s): Maximilian Nicolae,Radu Nicolae Pietraru,Andrei-Cristian Barbu,Andrei Tivgă / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2021

The laboratory activities for an undergraduate course on digital design are normally developed around a physical platform. After the COVID19 prevention measures were established the activities had to move online, thus, the professors had to find some rapid solutions to preserve the initial goals of the laboratory. This article discusses the goals of such laboratory (in relation to the broad engineering domain), how are these goals fulfilled by a physical platform and what was the online solution that was developed to overcome the challenges. Furthermore, the opinions of students that were attending the both types of activities (physical and online) are presented.

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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE SOFTWARE USED IN THE LABOR MARKET VS THE EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE OF POSTUROLOGY USED IN THE TRAINING OF PHYSIOTHERAPY

Author(s): Catalin Ionite,Iustina Condurache / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2020

The technological and informational explosion had a negative impact on human health by reducing the time allocated to movement in the daily activity. The simple activities such as newspaper picking, shopping, paying bills, etc., can now be done by a simple click from the computer or mobile devices. The technological development of the 21st century offers daily comfort, but it increases the time spent in static positions, favours the appearance of sedentary and producing changes in the posture of individuals. A correct body posture is a sign of good psycho-physical balance of the individual. Modifying it decreases the body's ability to fight against gravity, to oppose external forces, to balance itself during movements such as, to perform them etc. The consequence of these changes leads to the appearance of pathologies / diseases in all the segments of the body. The study aimed to identify in three databases of virtual libraries the devices and software used in the analysis of the individual's posture by the labour market and research, and then the identified information was compared with the software used by students from the specialization of Physiotherapy (Balneology, physical therapy and medical rehabilitation), from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Iasi. After studying the specialized literature from three virtual libraries and identifying the devices and software used by the market specialists and comparing them with the devices and software used by the students within the specialization of Physiotherapy (Balneology, physical therapy and medical rehabilitation), we can say that the last class are using topical devices in posture analysis, but they do not depart from the classical methods of posture evaluation, while in the same time are making a comparison between the two generations.

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A comparison of online video conference platforms: Their contributions to education during COVID-19 pandemic

Author(s): Nadire Çavuş,Daniel Sekyere–Asiedu / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2021

OVID-19 has brought dramatic changes into the ways our day-to-day activities are carried out in recent times. Education was also affected. Online education was adopted as means to administer teaching and learning. There are numerous online video conference platforms currently available to assist in education. Nevertheless, with these platforms are various features with their inherent advantages and disadvantages. Choosing the suitable ones to meet the need of users could be a daunting task. This study utilized a comparative research method to compare features; maximum participants meeting recording duration, security, chat/screen sharing, meeting duration, archive meeting, trial versions, account creation to use and mobility, of seven online video conference platforms; Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, GoToMeeting, Cisco WebEx Meetings, Zoom Meetings, ClickMeetings and BigBlueButton. This study would aid learners, instructors and educational institutions to choose from the numerus platforms, to suit the specific needs and usage during this pandemic period and beyond.

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A Discriminative Ontology for Future Selves

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A Discriminative Ontology for Future Selves

Author(s): Juraj Odorčák / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2021

The article presents a critique of the commonly held assumption about the practical advantage of endurantism over perdurantism regarding the problem of future-directed self-concern of a person. The future-directed self-concern of a person crucially depends on the possibility of the right differentiation of diverging futures of distinct persons, therefore any theory of persistence that does not entail a special non-branching relation of a person to only their future self seems to be counterintuitive or unrealistic for practical purposes of personal persistence. I argue that this pragmatic rationale about future-directed self-concern is equally challenging for both theories of persistence. Moreover, I indicate, that both of these theories fall and stand on the practical feasibility of hidden ontological presuppositions about specific second-order notions of concerns of persons for their future.

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A factual comparison of foreign (English) language acquisition factors in case of “Cserey-Goga” Technological High School’s monolingual and bilingual students during the COVID-19 period

Author(s): Csilla-Ibolya Sólyom / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

This paper analyses the impact of online teaching on the process of foreign language – in my case English - acquisition as L2 or L3 and its factors for high school age students from two different language backgrounds. After providing a brief summary of the major language learning factors, transfer in language acquisition, and a short survey of the current Corona (COVID-19) pandemic, I examine the results of the questionnaire applied to two groups of high school students. The available data indicate that perhaps contrary to expectations the COVID-impact aspect was not the dominant element in the students’ response. I would highlight the comparison between two major groups of students: monolingual – in our case Romanian mother tongued students, and simultaneous bilingual – Hungarian mother tongued students who have already sequentially acquired the Romanian language as their first foreign language. In regards to the factors, I will briefly analyse motivation, attitude, cognitive style/personality, age, aptitude, teaching techniques and extensive use of digital media in English during the COVID-19 period. Literature suggests that those factors contribute more dominantly to second language acquisition and also present a varied dependence on behaviour towards the language, cognitive ability, and also the way they learn. I will consider the unusual circumstances presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, and attempt to define their impacting presence in second and third language acquisition processes.

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A FORMAÇÃO DE PROFESSORES DE PORTUGUÊS E OS DESAFIOS DA AULA EM TEMPOS DE COVID-19

Author(s): Eulália Leurquin,Maria João Marçalo / Language(s): Portuguese Issue: 2/2022

The Portuguese Language Teachers Training and the Challenges of the Classroom in Times of Covid-19. The trainee teacher must be aware that his/her practice involves observation skills, critical thinking and actions’ reorganization. We add to this position the fact that the Letters intern must be trained with the profile of a professor-researcher, aware of his/her role in society. Our main objective in this article is to discuss the initial training of mother tongue teachers in a pandemic context. That also involves preparation to go on remote classes if an emergency situation is decreed by the government. The goal of the data generation device was to become aware of the challenges interns and pre-service teachers experience when confronted with remote classes, considering that many just started teaching. Having in mind the objective above-mentioned we came up with five research questions: (a) Before the internship, did you already have experience in teaching Portuguese language? (b) Does the university, in pre-service training, enable the future teacher to use technology in Portuguese-speaking classroom? (c) What are the main challenges you faced during the internship? (d) How does didactic interaction take place in the internship classroom in times of a pandemic? (e) What are the advantages of remote class in an emergency situation? All this context is challenging concepts such as “didactic interaction”, “teaching and learning”, “teacher training” and “teacher action” and, besides, it also forces us to rethink the model of teacher training that we still have today.

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A FREQUENCY-DOMAIN MODEL FOR E-LEARNING

Author(s): Brandusa Raileanu / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2020

The characteristics of e-learning make it suitable to the Systems Theory approach. A system is an ensemble of entities which interact among themselves and with the exterior, in order to reach an objective. Clearly, e-learning integrates with this definition. The first trend in applying Systems Theory to e-learning was in lines of von Bertalanffy’s General Systems Theory. But being too general and descriptive, this approach did not develop concrete methods of being used to organizing and studying the e-learning process. The aim of this paper is to construct and apply a mathematical model for the e-learning process within the Systems and Control Theory, using both the state-space representation of systems and the frequency domain framework. This interdisciplinary approach between learning pedagogy, mathematics, statistics and engineering gives the possibility of following the evolution of the e-learning process, of evaluating, estimating, controlling, regulating and improving the results of the users of its tools. The paper introduces two linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, respectively continuous-time and discrete-time models. Their inputs correspond to different e-learning methods and the outputs are the various forms of examination and testing. Using Laplace transformation and z-transformation, one obtains the frequency-domain representation by transfer matrices of both models. Suitable programs are created, which are based on the Control Systems Toolbox of the Matlab software. This approach provides very simple methods of estimating the concrete results of different e-learning strategies and of choosing optimal policies. In the paper, this e-learning model is applied to the study of foreign languages, in which the state variables correspond to the four main skills, reading, writing, listening and speaking. Similar applications can be developed for various engineering courses. An example is provided, based upon a sampling and statistical study of the behaviour of a group of students from the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University Politehnica of Bucharest.

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A FUZZY MEASLES EPIDEMIC MODEL, GENERALIZED APPROACH IN A FUZZY ARITHMETIC FRAMEWORK

Author(s): Dragos Arotaritei,Andrei Gheorghita,Mariana Rotariu,Mihai Ilea / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2020

The epidemiological models modelled by a system of differential equation depending of time are useful to model the dynamic of the epidemic along with future prediction of the spread of disease. Also, the dynamic model help to better understand the equilibrium point(s) and when is the case the optimal strategy for vaccination (where the vaccination is possible and a vaccine exists) or treatments allow eventually with other measures (as social education in some cases). One of the most studied models that can apply for many diseases that are described by compartmental model is the SEIR model: malaria, Ebola, measles, etc. There are few proposals for simulation tools of epidemic models but all are for crisp cases. In this paper we propose an educational tool for simulation of fuzzy SEIR model applicable to measles dynamics where all the coefficients from model can be crisp numbers of fuzzy numbers (triangular, trapezoidal or Gaussian) with corresponding graph display of epidemic dynamics. Moreover, in the cases when two coefficients are in the same differential equation, a proposal to solve to problem is made in the fuzzy arithmetic network. An additional module is used to construct a more extended fuzzy epidemiologic model, with additional compartment, e.g. SEIRS, in a friendly manner by a user interface for builder model of differential equations. The tool has a library with predefined models and an option to select to parameters in order to have an asymptotic stable solution. The user can select the graphs to be displayed on the common window or in a separated window with zooming possibility to evaluate better the evolution of dynamic system.

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A HEALTHY FAMILY MODEL DURING PANDEMIC TIMES

Author(s): Simona Eftimie / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

This paper aims to identify the characteristics of a healthy family model for these times of profound social challenges. For this purpose we have tried to analyse some traits of family relationships that have stood the test of time and also demonstrated their value during pandemic: quality time spent together by family members, the role of working together for house holding, the relation with extended family, the self and re-discovering process etc. Other results are discussed here.

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A HyFlex learning measurement model based on students’ cognitive learning styles to create equitable learning

Author(s): Ridwan Daud Mahande,Nurul Mukhlisah Abdal / Language(s): English Issue: 5/2022

This article reports on a study that aims to develop and empirically test a measurement model of several constructs of cognitive learning styles, HyFlex learning modalities, and equitable learning with the assumptions of the indicators that build them. A total of 451 students from state universities and private universities in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, with previous online study experience, participated in the online survey. To investigate the interaction between cognitive learning style constructs and equitable HyFlex learning modalities, each used a set of indicators/items developed from Kirton's adaptationinnovation theory constructs, Felder-Silverman Learning Style with three HyFlex learning modalities, and equity pedagogy. Analysis of the measurement model was conducted using Smart-PLS software. The results of the measurement model analysis reveal the indicators that build the constructs of cognitive learning styles, HyFlex learning, and equity meet validity and reliability. The results of this study present alternative instruments to explain HyFlex learning constructs and indicators based on cognitive learning styles to create equitable learning in higher education.

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A hypertext, az online kommunikációs csatornák és a digitálismédia-platformok mint az oktatás új otthonai

Author(s): Zoltán Szűts / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 4/2020

The digital turn in pedagogy is based on both a communication and a text-centric revolution. This paper summarizes how an interactive text gives a new home to education. It, obeys the laws of the new networks, is inherently convergent, combines image, video, and sound while supports not only interactivity but also co-creation, and thus the user becomes a creator of content, that is, a prosumer. As a result of the integration of online communication and media processes into the subsystems of our world, educational institutions have begun to introduce and operate e-learning environments. Digital pedagogy is currently based on cloud-based, web 2.0 online communication and media platforms, and mobile applications. There are many ways to categorize these platforms. A valid approach is to divide based on access or the number of participants in learning. Considering all possible approaches, the author finally decided to group and examine the applications based on the communication functions they perform, while also addressing their elements based on hypertextuality.

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A Metagraph Model of Cyber Protection of an Information System

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A Metagraph Model of Cyber Protection of an Information System

Author(s): Emiliya Koleva,Evgeni Andreev,Mariya Nikolova / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The aim of this article is to present a developed metagraph model which serves to verify the minimum requirements for cyber security in web-based student information management systems. The model presents the correlation between cyber attacks and cyber defense of the system. The protection is based on a created model for cybersecurity 3-12 and is divided into 3 categories – software, server and information system users. The most common 9 cyber attacks on automated information systems have been selected. Twelve countermeasures to these attacks have been selected. The application of the metagraph model is used to check whether the system meets the requirements of the model 3-12. The developed information system has been tested in foreign language training of students at Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy. The developed metagraph model can be applied to other information systems.

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A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO CYBERSECURITY FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES

Author(s): Petrișor Pătrașcu / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2020

In today's society both people's everyday lives and organizations are surrounded by an increasingly digital world. The essential services in a society are provided through critical infrastructure. Their activity will in turn be increasingly dependent on digital technologies. ICT systems are designed and developed on the activity profile of the critical infrastructure sectors, such as the industrial, military, medical or financial sector. Therefore, the cyber security for critical infrastructure has become, as a multidimensional system, a strategic form of protection for a number of states and international organizations. Therefore, many states of the world, on the basis of certain criteria, have identified and designated their national critical infrastructures. Once they have been identified, there have been taken increased security measures, including in the area of cyber security. Cyber-attacks that target critical infrastructures also needs to be considered. Planned targets are analyzed to the smallest detail to find out the vulnerabilities of the attacks. Usually, the cyber-attackers target critical infrastructures in order to obtain the most valuable information and to affect the functionality of the services. In recent years, these types of attacks are characterized by complexity, persistence and advanced techniques, supported by key actors or state-sponsored actors. Cyber attackers are permanently looking to exploit any vulnerability, either it's technical, human or procedural. Therefore, considering these aspects, we can emphasize that establishing a strong security has long exceeded the exclusive assurance of a technical security. Thus, multidimensional is highlighted in several areas of interference based on a holistic approach to cyber security for critical infrastructures.

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A PERSONAL REFLECTION ON COVID-19 ONLINE TEACHING, LEARNING, AND ASSESSMENT WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR RESEARCH

Author(s): André du Plessis / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2022

COVID-19 had a severe impact on teaching and learning in schools and tertiary education institutions. Human Rights Watch (Impact of Covid-19 on Children’s Education in Africa, 2022) posits that due to the closure of many schools in African countries, a significant majority of learners were excluded from continuing their education as learning and teaching halted. The pandemic has also had its effect on the higher education sector within the South African context, however, data about non-attendance and drop-out seems not to be freely available as revealed by searching online. Nonetheless, it is reasonable to assume that there were drop-outs and non-attendance by students, however, not to the same extent as within schools as universities embarked on contingency plans to minimize dropouts. Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha South Africa where the author of this editorial resides, implemented contingency plans within weeks of the COVID pandemic outbreak to offer students ICT devices on loan, e.g. by debiting it against their student accounts while Wi-Fi data access was secured through collaboration with internet providers. It appears that the university sector was able to be more proactive than schools, which can probably be attributed to the fact that the majority of universities have their own ICT infrastructures. In addition, many modules incorporated the use of ICT in various ways, including the use of learning management systems such as Moodle or similar. This resulted in many universities being better prepared to embrace the opportunity to extend online teaching, learning, and assessment in various forms during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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A PERSPECTIVE OF STUDENTS ON FEEDBACK IN ONLINE EDUCATION

Author(s): Daniela Căprioară,Virgil Frunză / Language(s): English Issue: 01/2021

Feedback is undoubtedly a very important element in the general structure of the training and learning process, the peremptory proof of importance being the principle of feedback or reverse connection, listed in the current pedagogical or didactic literature. Efficient use of feedback in teaching-learning activity is conditioned by a series of variables, among which are found the elements of specificity, the functions of feedback, its forms and, last but not least, the concrete means by which it can be achieved. The pandemic context generates the problem of a paradigm shift in terms of feedback management, a rethinking and a repositioning of it in the general configuration of the training and learning process. In other words, they need to be reviewed. The main question that formed the basis of this study is: What is the students' perception of the feedback, both in terms of personal experience, but also that of the training specialist for the teaching profession? To formulate an answer to this question, a questionnaire was applied to a group of 80 students from the Pedagogy of Primary and Preschool Education program. Years 2 and 3 were selected, for two reasons: on the one hand, to have a psycho-pedagogical knowledge base that would allow them to formulate pertinent opinions and, on the other hand, to have a comparative reference, having in view that they have completed at least one semester of university studies in face-to-face education. The results show that students' perceptions of feedback in online education are relatively different.

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A PLATFORM TO PROMOTE A MORE ACTIVE LIFESTYLE BETWEEN STUDENTS

Author(s): Imad Alex Awada,Irina Mocanu / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2020

Due to the current lifestyle, people in general and adolescents in particular are not physically active enough which put at risk their health. Immediate actions are needed to promote a more active lifestyle. This paper introduces a platform that aims to encourage students to have a more active life. The platform suggests for each user to perform specific physical activities/exercises based on the physical activities that the user had during the day, the duration of the sleep and his/her profile (preferences, performance history) as well as some health parameters (heart rate, blood pressure, weight). All these tasks are realized through a game with an avatar that is controlled by the user through the execution of the different physical exercises/activities in real life (e.g. the avatar is placed in an environment to collect different objects; to do that, the user will have to jump and to run in real life). The exercises performed by the user are acquired using an RGB camera. Images are processed and the skeleton of the user is obtained using the OpenPose library. To increase motivation, the platform gives different rewards (e.g. more points) for executing physical tasks and suggests some collective physical activities based on the profile of each user. The platform is multilingual, it supports Romanian and English languages, with the possibility to extend it to other languages. The platform integrates a multimodal interface that enables the users to interact through voice and touch-based commands as well as touch-free gestures. During the execution of a physical exercise, the platform tracks the performance of the user. The platform sends visual and phonetic notifications to the users’ phones to suggest the execution of some physical activities/exercises.

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A Possible Contribution of Live Electronics to Modern Education / O posibilă contribuție a aplicațiilor electronice live la educația modernă

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A Possible Contribution of Live Electronics to Modern Education / O posibilă contribuție a aplicațiilor electronice live la educația modernă

Author(s): Mihai Popean / Language(s): English,Romanian Issue: 1/2021

Musical improvisation is as much a form of art as it is a form of education with great potential for transfer. Although associated usually with jazz music, improvisation has a long and unbroken history that can be traced throughout the entire music history. The classically-trained students do not receive education in improvisation, it is not part of the classical music curriculum, the educators themselves do not have such training and are not comfortable improvising and therefore teaching it. However, students can greatly benefit from this type of training by greatly enhancing their technique and performing skills and also by developing a set of other important skills such as creativity, calculated risk-taking, flexibility of mind, capacity to notice opportunities, greater awareness of their environment, intra- and interpersonal skills, enhanced communication abilities and more. One solution that would address teachers’ lack of improvisational skills and students’ need for such educational opportunity is for educators to learn basic visual programming in order to create applications for improvisation that involve live electronics and deploy them in classroom or other educational situations.

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A preferenciák és attitűdök változása a zongoraoktatásban a pandémia első évében

Author(s): Zoltán Zsigmond,Éva Pap Zsigmondné / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: Special/2022

Online education introduced in the spring of 2020 changed the methods of piano education fundamentally. At SZTE Vántus István Secondary School of Music and SZTE Béla Bartók Faculty of Arts, there is both attendance and online education. During the last year we have gained a lot of experience about which methods are useful, and which practices we needed to abandon for the interest of professional training: using digital tools and platforms; changes in the composition of curriculum, and the preferences of reporting; changes in course of lessons. Instead of demonstrative methods, verbal explanations and new forms of technical and musical processes gained a bigger role. The opportunities of using ICT tools and online communication in the higher piano education of the future. Overall it can be stated that there are effective solutions in digital and hybrid education, although their efficiency is not adequate. It is positive that the students’ improvement did not halt, they were able to show progress. This study is about our new opportunities, methods, rules and pedagogical aspects.

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A PROPOSAL FOR A SIMULATOR FOR RESPIRATORY CONTROL SYSTEM, TOWARD A LEARNING TOOL FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS

Author(s): Calin Corciovă,Andrei Gheorghita,Robert Fuior,Marius Turnea / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2020

There are only few non-commercial models that models the cardio-respiratory system that take into account the main interconnected units involved in respiration (“PNEUMA” and “Respilab”). The proposal for respiratory control presented in this paper follows the Tahrani’s model with options in GUI (Graphical User Interface) more suitable biomedical engineering students that have knowledge about modeling and simulation and numerical methods for differential equations. The obstructive diseases as hypercapnia and hypoxia are simulated by modeling the forces (stimulus) as consequences of the modification of values of inspiratory gas partial pressures. The parameters of models can be changed in an interactive mode. The user has the possibility to select which variable to be displayed and also parameters for integration of system of differential equations. The model has a PI integrator, and as sequel, a short tutorial about PID (Proportional-Integrative-Derivative) controllers is available in help section. The calculation of respiratory frequency has three predefined models: Otis’ equation, Mead’s equation and Widdicombe’s equation. A user defined option is possible give a by constructor module that afford the select a linear combination of the predefined models or to create a completely new model with the save option for future use. The implementation uses the Matlab/Simulink tool with transparent view of the model schemas and subschema’s avoiding the usage of .jar files from Java environment. The working version can provide a standalone working model directly from Matlab implementation using a suitable compiler. This educational software is constructed in a modular form; other modules including visualization of waveforms can be improved with no substantial effort in the future.

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