On services research and education

Research Directions on Semantic Web and Education

Educational systems are gradually incorporating semantic web technologies aiming to provide a more adaptable, personalized and intelligent learning environment. In fact, there is a signiûcant interest within the AIED community about the evolution of e-learning in this direction. This is driven by the hope that the use of Semantic Web (SW) technologies in educational systems can help the accompl...

Ethnography, education and on-line research

Research on and in Medical Education

Dr. George Lister of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center delivered the Lee E. Farr Lecture on Student Research Day on May 9, 2011. This day focused on the dissertation work of Yale School of Medicine MD students, whose research opportunities for prospective physicians were recently examined and critiqued by Yale's Committee to Promote Student Interest in Careers as Physician Sci...

Bhaskar\'s Views on Transcendental-Critical Research in Education

Bhaskar's Views on Transcendental-Critical Research in Education M. Poorkarimi, Ph.D. A.R. Saadeghzaadeh, Ph.D. K. Baagheri, Ph.D. M. Mehrmohammadi, Ph.D. To explain Bhaskar's views on the very essence of transcendental-critical research and the way it can be conducted in the field of education a deductive approach is taken. This type of research assumes a structured uni...

on semihypergroups and hypergroups

in this thesis, first the notion of weak mutual associativity (w.m.a.) and the necessary and sufficient condition for a $(l,gamma)$-associated hypersemigroup $(h, ast)$ derived from some family of $lesssim$-preordered semigroups to be a hypergroup, are given. second, by proving the fact that the concrete categories, semihypergroups and hypergroups have not free objects we will introduce t...