Differentiating Modes of Inquiry

An Inquiry into Modes of Existence

Investigating Modes of Student Inquiry in Second Life as Part of a Blended Approach

This article discusses activities carried out in the virtual world of Second Life (SL) as part of a compulsory class in the first year of an undergraduate programme. The paper identifies the contribution of SL to the students’ learning environment and an Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) approach to programme design. The reasons for taking an IBL approach are explained in relation to institutional a...

Research Paradigms in Organizational Learning and Performance: Competing Modes of Inquiry

The debate over whether a dominant paradigm is appropriate for the rapidly evolving organizational learning (OL) research has resulted in significant discord among researchers in the field. This critical issue paper compares and contrasts the strengths and weaknesses of three widely used research paradigms in OL research: positivism, interpretivism, and critical science. It argues that in many ...

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In many parallel applications, network latency causes a dramatic loss in processor utilization. This paper examines software controlled access pipelining (SCAP) as a technique for hiding network latency. An analytic model of SCAP brieey describes basic operation techniques and performance improvements. Results are quantiied with benchmarks on the Cray-T3E. The benchmarks used are Jacobi-iterati...

Probiotics: Challenging the Traditional Modes of Action

A trial was conducted to evaluate the performance of broiler birds which supplemented with a commercial inactivated probiotic. Four hundred and fifty day old broiler chickens were allocated into 3 treatments with 6 replicates each. Each replicate was placed on clean wood shavings in floor pens receiving feed and water ad libitum. In treatment 1, feed was supplemented with 500 g/ton of a heat-in...