A rationale and description of a language for exploratory and educational programming in a compositional style is presented. By ‘compositional’ a functional programming style is meant where the computation is a hierarchy of function compositions and applications. One of the datatypes of the language is that of the geometrical figures that can be obtained by simple rules of spatial correlation, ...

The aim of this study is to identify the factors predicting social and educational mobility in persons living in extreme poverty in Mexico by analyzing a broad set of personal, familial, educational and social variables. A total of 913 adults were interviewed, 65.2 percent of whom were women, with an average age of 43.71 years. A regression analysis has identified depression, religiosity, locus...

background: outstanding leadership is one of the important and vital concepts in management and educational leadership debates especially in educational organizations such as universities. thus, effective educational leadership and adopting an appropriate tool to assess leadership in education are crucial in these institutions. the present study was conducted to develop an instrument for measur...

background and purpose: learning style is the processing of information and comprehension. if teachers present contents in a style that matches a student’s preferred learning style, academic performance and success will improve. if content retention improves it will result in an increase in the test scores. it is also important to determine if students, as a group, fit into a particular style o...

Studies of doctor-patient communication generally advocate a partnership communication style. However, in Southeast Asian settings, we often see a more one-way style with little input from the patient. We investigated factors underlying the use of a one-way consultation style by doctors in a Southeast Asian setting. We conducted a qualitative study based on principles of grounded theory. Twenty...

Many educational organizations are motivated to create and share instructional videos, but there are no guidelines about the presentation styles. In practice, the presentation style of video lectures ranges from simple video capturing of classroom teaching, up to highly elaborate authoring of video presentations that include closeups and video-cuts of instructors, slides, animations, and intera...