To My Craft

Educating Reason. from Craft to Technology

In designing, developing and evaluating educational software supporting reasoning, three aspects are important. The first is the cognitive domain of practice, relating to the nature of reasoning and the idea of support. The second aspect relates to the professional and educational objectives and settings, in particular coupling reasoning software to educational modules. The third aspect relates...

Development of Interactive Multimedia Courseware (e-craft) for Craft Education

The e-CRAFT is specially designed for songket weaving course taught to certificate and diploma students from Fakulti Seni Kraf Tenunan in their first year study at Institut Kraf Negara, Malaysia (National Craft Institute). The courseware was developed in a web-based environment and overall development process was based on the Dick and Carey's process model and conceptual Instructional Design fr...

Dedicated to My Whole Family, Especially My Mother, My Husband and My Children

How many ways to craft a cofactor?

S tandard textbooks define enzymatic cofactors as low molecular weight structures that are separate from and can bind reversibly to their cognate protein. As with all established paradigms, change is almost guaranteed, and work over the last decade has forced us to expand our definition of cofactor to include structures that are derived from the protein itself. Early studies of ribonucleotide r...

To My Dear Parents , & To My Lovely Mahsa

Acknowledgement Although developing Aryan was my dissertation project, I had the advantage of having many people by my side without whom this wouldn't have been possible. Hereby, I would like to acknowledge each of their contributions in the process. Professor Cynthia Breazeal is the first person I owe my deepest appreciation to. She had a major role to get this project up and running. When I f...