The Woman Who Helps

Who Helps When the Tutor Is Asleep?

While many computer tutoring systems have long been delivered as desktop applications, these systems have only recently begun to appear on mobile devices. In this work we apply principles of mobile human computer interaction and mobile learning to the design and development of an intelligent tutoring system delivered on a personal digital assistant (PDA). More specifically, we focus on the chan...

WHO helps countries prepare for bioterror attacks.

for bioterror attacks In the wake of the 11 September suicide attacks on the US World Trade Center and the Pentagon, anxiety has mounted over the possibility of a deliberate release of deadly germs as weapons of mass destruction. Such a bioterrorist attack with, say, smallpox virus or anthrax bacteria deployed over densely populated areas could kill hundreds of thousands of people. At this writ...

How Peg Helps the Hobbyist Who Works with Wood

Who helps whom? Investigating the development of adolescent prosocial relationships.

We investigated adolescent prosocial relations by examining social networks based on the question "Who helps you (e.g., with homework, with repairing a flat [bicycle] tire, or when you are feeling down?)." The effects of individual characteristics (academic achievement, symptoms of depressive mood, and peer status) on receiving help and giving help were examined, and we investigated the contrib...

Sister Kenny. The woman who challenged the doctors