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This paper reports on a collaboration between three authors; two mathematicians in a Swedish university and a UK-based mathematics educator. The focus of the enquiry was the evaluation of the experience of Swedish first-year undergraduate engineers required, in their mathematics class, to learn to use the programming language Matlab . Students were interviewed and their responses compared with the intentions and expectations of lecturers. Students discerned a lack of clarity in course planning but also had many very sensible suggestions to make, the implementation of which would, they claimed, facilitate their learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article considers the stationary linear Boltzmann equation in a convex bounded domain with C¹-boundary, and at the ingoing boundary, either with given indata, diffuse reflection or a combination of both. First, a unique weak L¹-solution is constructed in the case with combined indata, and boundedness of its higher moments is established. Then under some restrictions on the collision operator, the existence of a weak L¹-solution is proved for the case of pure diffuse reflection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]