Information systems are becoming more and more complicated. First, most of today's information systems are networked stand-alone systems without networking no longer make sense. Second, information systems are growing significantly in size. They include countless resources (such as computing and storage units) and communication facilities, which may be allocated over networks. Third, the territ...

earlier self efficacy studies have been blamed for their methodological weakness and their mere reliance on self-report, survey, and correlational techniques for data collection. the purpose of this study; therefore, was to assess the impact of feuerstein’s theory of mediation on efl teachers’ sense of efficacy through direct observation rather than self reports and to use experimental techniqu...

human voyage to the world of ultra sense is a matter of discourses which was widely discussed between nations and the various schools of philosophy, language and many people including leaders of religions and thoughts branches confessed doing such voyages and left some literary reports of their mystical and dreamy travel. the oldest and newest of these reports are shown in this paper and them b...

studies addressing such concepts as place, sense of place, place attachment, place identity, place dependence, rootedness, genius loci, topophilia, and place-making can be found in count-less disciplinary and applied fields devoted to the design, planning, stewardship, and restoration of places that vary in kind and scale from homes, neighborhoods, and cities to parks, and ecosystems. this arti...

The main issues about relation between climate and relief in the Romanian geomorphological literature follow three directions of research: the description of Pleistocene glacial and Pleistocene-Holocene periglacial landforms in the Carpathians; the direct analysis of climate?s role in landform development; the integration of separate works and findings in a synthetic morphodynamic system applic...

There is a growing demand for more detailed knowledge about soils, their functions, and connections with human activities environmental services. In Brazil, where soil survey mapping have been scarce since the 1990s, there remarkable sense of urgency. Recently, national program was created (PronaSolos) to attend massive information. PronaSolos an effort return systematic territory, which requir...