Globally, large-scale national initiatives are being implemented towards promoting the level and quality of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) use in school education. However, despite these efforts, the current level of ICT uptake from schools remains low. A wide range of factors have been identified as barriers, including lack of teachers’ ICT Competences and lack of ICT infrast...

We compared animal and vegetation responses of a 13 600-ha area under holistic grazing management (HGM) with similar continuous (CGM) in Patagonian station. Limitations were dry 2012−2016 experimental period, poorer soils, native guanacos (Lama guanicoe) the HGM area. Forage standing crop this before experience was lower remained so during study: (194 ± 31 vs. 244±33 kg matter.ha−1 CGM). Six mo...

User experience practitioners have benefitted from the availability of usability measures that are short, generalizable, and easy to interpret, such as the System Usability Scale. However, such generalizable instruments fail to address many of the key characteristics of software applications that can be used across a range of mobile devices. Our response is development of MUX, a mobile user exp...

At The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a two-credit gene ral education course entitled “ Tomorrow ’ s Leaders ” was developed to promote intraand interpersonal competencies in university students. The course was piloted in four classes of students in the 2010/11 academic year. Pre-test and posttest data utilizing the Chinese Positive Youth Development Scale (CPYDS) were collected from 50 stud...

There is general consensus that context can be a rich source of information about an object’s identity, location and scale. However, the issue of how to formalize contextual influences is still largely open. Here we introduce a simple probabilistic framework for modeling the relationship between context and object properties. We represent global context information in terms of the spatial layou...

Adolescents learn health behaviors in a sociocultural context of community, family, and peers. Although many adolescents engage in behaviors that protect and promote health, others engage in behaviors that threaten or compromise their health. The purpose of this review article is to provide an overview of health-risk behaviors and the morbidities and mortalities of adolescence that are related ...

Results In total, 107 patients responded with 79% reporting foot pain caused by their SLE. Half (51%) of the patients had discussed foot pain with their general practitioner or rheumatologist, and a third (33%) had difficulty with basic foot care. Respondents reported there was no significant difference in the frequency with which their hands and feet were examined. However, only 33% had been s...

The southern portion of New Zealand’s South Island is a productive area for mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) despite a notable lack of permanent or semi-permanent wetlands. Most broods are reared in pastures that may or may not be flooded with ephemeral water. In recent years, there has been an increased conversion from continuous to sporadic grazing that has resulted in a functional change in the...