The Psychological Impact of Disability and Illness on Medical Treatment Decision making As the world goes through remarkably rapid technological and demographic changes against a backdrop of …
Cooperative Collection Management in the Consortia Environment: The VIVA Pilot Projects
Introduction The history of cooperative collection development is a tapestry interwoven with the strong fibers of a shared belief in the theoretical value and promise of cooperation and a rather …
Clinical beta radiation dosimetry for brachytherapy in terms of absorbed dose to water: ISO new work item proposal for international standardization.
PURPOSE Beta radiation has found increasing interest in intravascular brachytherapy for successfully overcoming the severe problem of restenosis after interventional treatment of arterial stenosis. …
Revisiting the Goals and the Nature of Mathematics for All in the Context of a National Curriculum.
A movement of educational change has been developed in Portugal, aiming at giving the schools a larger autonomy in curricular decisions. In reconceiving the view about the curriculum, the concept of …
SAN DIEGO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER: AN OVERVIEW
Access to high-performance computers is essential for scientists and engineers at universities and research institutions throughout the U.S. It provides them with the ability to use the most advanced …
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Quest of Visual Literacy: Deconstructing Visual Images of Indigenous People.
This paper introduces five concepts that guide teachers’ and students’ critical inquiry in the understanding of media and visual representation. In a step-by-step process, the paper illustrates how …
Adult Education Research Trends in Canadian Universities: An Update to the 1993 (Ottawa) CASAE Reports.
In 1993, adult education (AE) researchers from 12 Canadian universities were asked to report on research trends at their respective institutions at the annual conference of the Canadian Association …
Informal Learning in Community: The Role of Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity
This paper, representing a subset of data from a larger study, provides a preliminary social analysis of a specific site of informal learning with welfare mothers in a job readiness program and the …
The Menace of the Language of Social Media on English as a Second Language Learners
Abstract: Social media is a prominent medium of communication and used by all generations. Besides being used as a tool of communication, institutions have integrated social media such as Twitter, …
AFTER THE REVOLUTIONS OF GESTALT AND ACTION CONTROL THEORIES: IS THERE A PSYCHOPHYSICS OF TASK-RELATED STRUCTURAL REPRESENTATIONS? A DISCUSSION BASED UPON EVIDENCE FROM VISUAL CATEGORIZATION
A reanalysis of claims of Gestalt psychology reveals that the actual core of its theoretical program is a language-like representational system for perception. The effectiveness of this system resides …
The Islamic Architectural Heritage of Pakistan, Funerary Memorial Architecture . By Shaikh Khurshid Hasan. pp. 209. Royal Book Company, Karachi, 2001.
Each one of the twenty ®ve temples at the site is brie ̄y and clearly explained, highlighting its salient features. The penultimate chapter is devoted to the three museums in Khajuraho: the …
Palestine and Palestinians: A Broken Trust: Herbert Samuel, Zionism and the Palestinians
A Broken Trust: Herbert Samuel, Zionism and the Palestinians, by Sahar Huneida. London and New York: LB. Tauris, 2001. xvii + 237 pages. Notes to 299. Appends. to 325. Bibl. to p. 334. Index to p. …