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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: 11Citation - Scopus: 13Assessing Team Work in Engineering Projects(Tempus Publications, 2015) Mishra, Deepti; Ostrovska, Sofiya; Hacaloglu, Tuna; Mathematics; Computer Engineering; Information Systems EngineeringTeam work is considered a valuable teaching technique in higher education. However, the assessment of an individual's work in teams has proved to be a challenging task. Consequently, self-and peer-evaluations are becoming increasingly popular for the assessment of individuals in a team work, though it is essential to determine whether students can judge their own as well as their peer's performance effectively. Self-and peer-evaluations have been applied in different disciplines and their authenticity with regard to teacher's assessment has been evaluated in the literature but this issue has not been investigated in the field of engineering education so far. In this study, a peer-and self-assessment procedure is applied to the evaluation of a project work conducted in teams of 3 or 4 students. The participants were engineering students taking two similar courses related with database design and development. It is found that a majority of the students were unable to assess themselves as objectively as their instructor. Further, it is observed that successful students tend to under-estimate, whereas unsuccessful students tend to over-estimate, their own performance. The paper also establishes that the results of self-assessments are independent from the gender factor.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 On the Lupas q-transform of Unbounded Functions(Walter de Gruyter Gmbh, 2023) Ostrovska, Sofiya; Turan, MehmetThe Lupa , s q-transform comes out naturally in the study of the Lupa , s q-analogue of the Bernstein operator. It is closely related to the Heine q-distribution which has a numerous application in q-boson operator calculus and to the Valiron method of summation for divergent series. In this paper, the Lupa , s q-transform (lambda(q)f)(z), q is an element of (0, 1), of unbounded functions is considered in distinction to the previous researches, where only the case f is an element of C[0, 1] have been investigated. First, the condition for a function to possess the Lupa , s q-transform is presented. Also, results concerning the connection between growth rate of the function f (t) as t -> 1(-) and the growth of its Lupa , s q-transform (lambda(q)f)(z) as z -> infinity are established. (c) 2023 Mathematical Institute Slovak Academy of SciencesArticle On the Image of the Limit Q-Durrmeyer Operator(Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science, 2026) Ostrovska, Sofiya; Turan, MehmetThe focus of this work is on the properties of the q-Durrmeyer operators Mn,q, n E N, and M infinity,q introduced, for q E (0, 1), by V. Gupta and H. Wang. First, it is shown that, for each f E C[0, 1], the sequence {Mn,q f}nEN converges to M infinity,q f uniformly on [0, 1] with a rate not slower than Cq, fqn, which refines the previously available result by V. Gupta and H. Wang, and implies the possibility of an analytic continuation for M infinity,q f into a neighbourhood of [0, 1]. Further investigation shows that M infinity,q f admits an analytic continuation as an entire function regardless of f E C[0, 1]. Finally, the growth estimates for these functions are received and applied to describe the point spectrum of M infinity,q. The paper also addresses the significant differences between the properties of M infinity,q and the previously (c) 2025 Elsevier Inc. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.Article The Inversion Results for the Limit q-bernstein Operator(Springer Basel Ag, 2018) Ostrovska, SofiyaThe limit q-Bernstein operator B-q appears as a limit for a sequence of the q-Bernstein or for a sequence of the q-Meyer-Konig and Zeller operators in the case 0 < q < 1. Lately, various features of this operator have been investigated from several angles. It has been proved that the smoothness of f is an element of C[0, 1] affects the possibility for an analytic continuation of its image B-q f. This work aims to investigate the reciprocal: to what extent the smoothness of f can be retrieved from the analytical properties of B-q f.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: 1On the q-moment Determinacy of Probability Distributions(Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Soc, 2020) Ostrovska, Sofiya; Turan, MehmetGiven 0Article Citation - WoS: 9Citation - Scopus: 9The Approximation of Logarithmic Function by q-bernstein Polynomials in the Case q > 1(Springer, 2007) Ostrovska, SofiyaSince in the case q > 1, q-Bernstein polynomials are not positive linear operators on C[ 0, 1], the study of their approximation properties is essentially more difficult than that for 0 < q < 1. Despite the intensive research conducted in the area lately, the problem of describing the class of functions in C[ 0, 1] uniformly approximated by their q-Bernstein polynomials ( q > 1) remains open. It is known that the approximation occurs for functions admitting an analytic continuation into a disc {z : | z| < R}, R > 1. For functions without such an assumption, no general results on approximation are available. In this paper, it is shown that the function f ( x) = ln( x + a), a > 0, is uniformly approximated by its q-Bernstein polynomials ( q > 1) on the interval [ 0, 1] if and only if a >= 1.
