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First Monday , Volume 7 , Number 8 - 5 August 2002

Intercultural Challenges in Networked Learning: Hard Technologies Meet Soft Skills by Mackie Chase, Leah Macfadyen, Kenneth Reeder and Jörg Roche This paper gives an account of themes that emerged from a preliminary analysis of a large corpus of electronic communications in an online, mediated course for intercultural learners. The goals were to test assumptions that electronic communication is...

Webology, Volume 1, Number 1, August, 2004

This paper explains web-based information retrieval as one of the main research interests of information professionals during the last decade, and introduces machine-oriented and human-oriented approaches in the designing process of Internet search tools and concerns with the second approach as a basis for the discussion. Then it defines the concept of webliography as a special type human-edite...

Journal of Insect Science 2016 Volume 16 Number 1 - Front Cover

National Vital Statistics Reports, Volume 59, Number 8, (August 26, 2011)

Objectives—This report presents final 2007 data on the 10 leading causes of death in the United States by age, race, sex, and Hispanic origin. Leading causes of infant, neonatal, and postneonatal death are also presented. This report supplements the Division of Vital Statistics’ annual report of final mortality statistics. Methods—Data in this report are based on information from all death cert...

Abstracts Volume 8 Number 3

Chemical reactors are often characterized by highly nonlinear behaviour. In such cases, the use of conventional control strategies where controllers have fixed parameters can result in poor performance. Knowledge about the static and dynamic properties is a necessary condition for the design of a controller. Unfortunately, measurements on the real system are not always feasible. The only way as...