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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: 4Citation - Scopus: 4On the Powers of the Kummer Distribution(Academic Publication Council, 2017) Ostrovska, Sofiya; Turan, Mehmet; MathematicsThe Kummer distribution is a probability distribution, whose density is given by f (x) = cx (alpha-1)(1 + delta x)(-gamma) e(-beta x), X > 0, where alpha, beta, delta > 0, gamma is an element of R and C is a normalizing constant. In this paper, the distributions of random variable X-P, p > 0, where X has the Kummer distribution, are considered with the conditions being IFR/DFR, some properties of moments depending on the parameters and the moment-(in) determinacy. In the case of moment-indeterminacy, exemplary Stieltjes classes are constructed.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 4Constructing Stieltjes Classes for M-Indeterminate Absolutely Continuous Probability Distributions(Impa, 2014) Ostrovska, Sofiya; MathematicsIf P is a moment-indeterminate probability distribution, then it is desirable to present explicitly other distributions possessing the same moments as P. In this paper, a method to construct an infinite family of probability densities - called the Stieltjes class - all with the same moments is presented. The method is applicable for densities with support (0, infinity) which satisfy the lower bound: f(x) >= A exp{-ax(alpha)} for some A > 0, a > 0 and some alpha is an element of(0, 1/2):Article On Quasi-Weibull Distribution(Univ Miskolc inst Math, 2025) Ostrovska, Sofiya; Turan, MehmetExponential distribution together with a variety of its transformations is permanently used both in probability theory and related fields. The most popular one is the power transformation yielding the Weibull distribution. In this paper, the power distribution of exponential random variable is supplemented by a logarithmic factor leading to a new distribution called quasi-Weibull. This is a three-parameter distribution, where one parameter is inherited from the underlying exponential distribution, and the others originate from the transformation. The properties of the quasi-Weibull distribution are studied. Specifically, the impact of the parameters on the analyticity of characteristic function, the existence of the moment generating function, the moment-determinacy/indeterminacy and the behaviour of the hazard function are investigated.Article Dvoretzky-Type Theorem for Locally Finite Subsets of a Hilbert Space(Annales Inst Fourier, 2025) Catrina, Florin; Ostrovska, Sofiya; Ostrovskii, Mikhail I.The main result of the paper: Given any epsilon > 0, every locally finite subset of l(2) admits a (1 + epsilon)-bilipschitz embedding into an arbitrary infinite-dimensional Banach space. The result is based on two results which are of independent interest: (1) A direct sum of two finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces contains a sub-sum of a controlled dimension which is epsilon-close to a direct sum with respect to a 1-unconditional basis in a two-dimensional space. (2) For any finite-dimensional Banach space Y and its direct sum X with itself with respect to a 1-unconditional basis in a two-dimensional space, there exists a (1 + epsilon)-bilipschitz embedding of Y into X which on a small ball coincides with the identity map onto the first summand and on the complement of a large ball coincides with the identity map onto the second summand.
