Forms of science capital mobilized in adolescents’ engineering projects

Function of Religious Capital in the Acceptance of Genetic Engineering

Religions and religious schools have always been one of the main and fundamental factors in the creation and development of civilizations or their destruction. With the establishment of a religious government in Iran; based on the values of the Islamic Revolution, more attention was paid for science and technology. Iran is now praised for its continued growth in scientific publications during t...

Projecting Projects: Choosing Software Engineering Projects

There is a wealth of literature about the incorporation of clients with real business problems in software engineering courses. There is, however, little by the way of direction in the selection of projects. In this paper we analyse six years of experiences of teaching software engineeering using a client based approach. We develop guidelines to aid in the identification of clients and projects...

Capital-Intensive Projects Induce More Effort Than Labor-Intensive Projects

Central governments often subsidize capital spending by local governments, instead of subsidizing operating expenses or labor-intensive projects. This paper offers one explanation, focusing on the incentive effects for local officials—a local official can more easily shift the cost of optimizing a project to his successor on a labor-intensive project than on a capital-intensive project.

Collaboration in Software Engineering Projects:

Coordination of engineering decisions is a central concern of software engineering. We present a theory in which coordination of engineering decisions is modeled as a distributed constraint satisfaction problem (DCSP). We derive six hypotheses, predicting how the distribution of decisions over developers and the density of constraints among decisions will affect development time, probability th...

Kids' Science Projects