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Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 1Personal Response Systems Through the Prism of Students' Experiences(Wiley, 2020) Mishra, Deepti; Chew, Esyin; Ostrovska, Sofiya; Wong, JojoPersonal response systems (PRSs) today offer an opportunity to the field of education in terms of improving teaching and learning outcomes through active engagement in classrooms. The present paper investigates students' attitudes to different types of PRSs, namely, Socrative and Clickers. Both qualitative and quantitative data are gathered and classified. The performed thematic analysis reveals major categories within the framework of this study, namely educational efficacy, psychological aspects, technology-related issues, and administrative issues. It has been found that Socrative fares better in the "educational efficacy" and "administrative issues," whereas Clickers outperforms Socrative in the "technological-related issues." It is worth pointing out that both Socrative and Clickers are tantamount in "psychological aspects" yielding no negative experiences. The results of this study reveal that two main factors, cost and technological infrastructure, are determinative in the incorporation and appreciation of such systems in an educational setting.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 2On the q-bernstein Polynomials of Piecewise Linear Functions in the Case q > 1(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2013) Kaskaloglu, Kerem; Ostrovska, SofiyaThe aim of this paper is to present new results related to the approximation of continuous functions by their q-Bernstein polynomials in the case q > 1. The first part of the paper is devoted to the behavior of the q-Bernstein polynomials of piecewise linear functions. This study naturally leads to the notion of truncated q-Bernstein polynomials introduced in the paper. The second part deals with the asymptotic estimates for the norms of the m-truncated q-Bernstein polynomials, in the case where both n and q vary. The results of the paper are illustrated by numerical examples. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 14Citation - Scopus: 14On Relations Between Transportation Cost Spaces and l1<(Academic Press inc Elsevier Science, 2020) Ostrovska, Sofiya; Ostrovskii, Mikhail I.The present paper deals with some structural properties of transportation cost spaces, also known as Arens-Eells spaces, Lipschitz-free spaces and Wasserstein spaces. The main results of this work are: (1) A necessary and sufficient condition on an infinite metric space M, under which the transportation cost space on M contains an isometric copy of l(1). The obtained condition is applied to answer the open questions asked by Cuth and Johanis (2017) concerning several specific metric spaces. (2) The description of the transportation cost space of a weighted finite graph G as the quotient l(1) (E(G))/Z(G), where E(G) is the edge set and Z(G) is the cycle space of G. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 7On the q-bernstein Polynomials of Unbounded Functions With q > 1(Hindawi Ltd, 2013) Ostrovska, Sofiya; Ozban, Ahmet YasarThe aim of this paper is to present new results related to the q-Bernstein polynomials B-n,B-q (f;x) of unbounded functions in the case q > 1 and to illustrate those results using numerical examples. As a model, the behavior of polynomials B-n,B-q (f;x) is examined both theoretically and numerically in detail for functions on [0, 1] satisfying f(x) similar to Kx(-alpha) as x -> 0(+), where alpha > 0 and K not equal 0 are real numbers.Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 2Functions Whose Smoothness Is Not Improved Under the Limit q-bernstein Operator(Springer, 2012) Ostrovska, SofiyaThe limit q-Bernstein operator B-q emerges naturally as a modification of the Szasz-Mirakyan operator related to the Euler probability distribution. At the same time, this operator serves as the limit for a sequence of the q-Bernstein polynomials with 0 < q < 1. Over the past years, the limit q-Bernstein operator has been studied widely from different perspectives. Its approximation, spectral, and functional-analytic properties, probabilistic interpretation, the behavior of iterates, and the impact on the analytic characteristics of functions have been examined. It has been proved that under a certain regularity condition, B-q improves the smoothness of a function which does not satisfy the Holder condition. The purpose of this paper is to exhibit 'exceptional' functions whose smoothness is not improved under the limit q-Bernstein operator. MSC: 26A15; 26A16; 41A36Article Fedja’s Proof of Deepti’s Inequality(Tubitak Scientific & Technological Research Council Turkey, 2018) Ostrovska, Sofiya; Turan, MehmetThe paper aims to present, in a systematic way, an elegant proof of Deepti’s inequality. Both the inequalityand various ideas concerning the issue were discussed on the Mathoverflow website by a number of users, but none haveappeared in the literature thus far. In this work, suggestions pertaining to users ‘Deepti’ and ‘fedja’ are traced, whencethe title. The results or the paper are new, and the proof is divided into a series of statements, many of which are ofinterest in themselves.Article Citation - WoS: 11Citation - Scopus: 13Exploring and Expanding Students' Success in Software Testing(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2017) Mishra, Deepti; Ostrovska, Sofiya; Hacaloglu, TunaPurpose - Testing is one of the indispensable activities in software development and is being adopted as an independent course by software engineering (SE) departments at universities worldwide. The purpose of this paper is to carry out an investigation of the performance of learners about testing, given the tendencies in the industry and motivation caused by the unavailability of similar studies in software testing field. Design/methodology/approach - This study is based on the data collected over three years (between 2012 and 2014) from students taking the software testing course. The course is included in the second year of undergraduate curriculum for the bachelor of engineering (SE). Findings - It has been observed that, from the performance perspective, automated testing outperforms structural and functional testing techniques, and that a strong correlation exists among these three approaches. Moreover, a strong programming background does help toward further success in structural and automated testing, but has no effect on functional testing. The results of different teaching styles within the course are also presented together with an analysis exploring the relationship between students' gender and success in the software testing course, revealing that there is no difference in terms of performance between male and female students in the course. Moreover, it is advisable to introduce teaching concepts one at a time because students find it difficult to grasp the ideas otherwise. Research limitations/implications - These findings are based on the analysis conducted using three years of data collected while teaching a course in testing. Obviously, there are some limitations to this study. For example, student's strength in programming is calculated using the score of C programming courses taken in previous year/semester. Such scores may not reflect their current level of programming knowledge. Furthermore, attempt was made to ensure that the exercises given for different testing techniques have similar difficulty level to guarantee that the difference in success between these testing techniques is due to the inherent complexity of the technique itself and not because of different exercises. Still, there is small probability that a certain degree of change in success may be due to the difference in the difficulty levels of the exercises. As such, it is obviously premature to consider the present results as final since there is a lack of similar type of studies, with which the authors can compare the results. Therefore, more work needs to be done in different settings to draw sound conclusions in this respect. Originality/value - Although there are few studies (see e.g. Chan et al., 2005; Garousi and Zhi, 2013; Ng et al., 2004) exploring the preference of testers over distinct software testing techniques in the industry, there appears to be no paper comparing the preferences and performances of learners in terms of different testing techniques.Article Citation - WoS: 15Citation - Scopus: 14Generalized Transportation Cost Spaces(Springer Basel Ag, 2019) Ostrovska, Sofiya; Ostrovskii, Mikhail I.The paper is devoted to the geometry of transportation cost spaces and their generalizations introduced by Melleray et al. (Fundam Math 199(2):177-194, 2008). Transportation cost spaces are also known as Arens-Eells, Lipschitz-free, or Wasserstein 1 spaces. In this work, the existence of metric spaces with the following properties is proved: (1) uniformly discrete metric spaces such that transportation cost spaces on them do not contain isometric copies of l(1), this result answers a question raised by Cuth and Johanis (Proc Am Math Soc 145(8):3409-3421, 2017); (2) locally finite metric spaces which admit isometric embeddings only into Banach spaces containing isometric copies of l(1); (3) metric spaces for which the double-point norm is not a norm. In addition, it is proved that the double-point norm spaces corresponding to trees are close to l(infinity)(d) of the corresponding dimension, and that for all finite metric spaces M, except a very special class, the infimum of all seminorms for which the embedding of M into the corresponding seminormed space is isometric, is not a seminorm.Article Citation - WoS: 71Citation - Scopus: 74On the Lupas q-analogue of the Bernstein Operator(Rocky Mt Math Consortium, 2006) Ostrovska, SofiyaLet R-n(f,q;x) : C[0, 1] -> C[0, 1] be q-analogues of the Bernstein operators defined by Lupas in 1987. If q = 1, then R-n (f, 1; x) are classical Bernstein polynomials. For q not equal 1, the operators R-n (f, q; x) are rational functions rather than polynomials. The paper deals with convergence properties of the sequence {R-n (f, q; x)}. It is proved that {R-n (f, q(n); x)} converges uniformly to f(x) for any f(x) is an element of C[0, 1] if and only if q(n) -> 1. In the case q > 0, q not equal 1 being fixed the sequence I R. (f, q; x) I converges uniformly to f(x) is an element of C[0, 1] if and only if f(x) is linear.Article How Analytic Properties of Functions Influence Their Images Under the Limit q-Stancu Operator(Springer Basel AG, 2026) Gurel, Ovgu; Ostrovska, Sofiya; Turan, MehmetIn the study of various q-versions of the Bernstein polynomials, a significant attention is paid to their limit operators. The present work focuses on the impact of the limit q-Stancu operator Sq infinity,alpha on the analytic properties of functions when 0 < q < 1 and alpha > 0. It is shown that for every f is an element of C[0, 1], the function S-q,(alpha infinity)fadmits an analytic continuation into the disk {z : z+alpha/(1-q) < 1+ alpha/(1-q)}. In addition, it is proved that the more derivatives f has at x = 1, the wider this disk becomes. Further, if f is infinitely differentiable at x = 1, then the function S-q,(alpha infinity)fis entire. Finally, some growth estimates for (S-q,(alpha infinity)f)(z) are obtained.
