Teachers’ epistemological and pedagogical beliefs and their attitude about ICT are identified as the second-order barrier for the integration of ICT into classrooms. In this paper, we report the findings obtained from our recent survey and conducted among Singaporean and Taiwanese pre-service teachers (N=108). The results indicate that the teachers’ epistemological beliefs were generally relati...

This paper presents an implementation of predictive functional control for imagebased satellite attitude control. The approach considers Low Earth Orbit small satellites equipped with an on-board camera for interactive Earth observation. The control goal is to keep a target on the Earth surface in the satellite’s camera field of view during orbiting of the satellite above the target. The contro...

Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) are poised to constitute a specific category within persuasive systems, in particular through their ability to support affective dialogue. One possible approach consists in using ECA as virtual coaches or personal assistants and to make persuasion part of a dialogue game implementing specific argumentation or negotiation features. In this paper, we explore a...

Change has become a normal occurrence within organizations and especially municipalities, due to the rapid society and economic changes. In a competitive global economy, organizations are forced to stay abreast with environmental changes in order to survive. Employee readiness for change can be a determining factor of successful change. To recognize antecedents of change readiness, the present ...

the present study tries to find out the role and procedure of gender attitudes in genesis of women’s body image among women under cosmetic surgery in shiraz. research method in this investigation has been qualitative through grounded theory. based on purposive sampling 24 women who had the experience of cosmetic surgery during the year 2008 in shiraz were selected for an in depth interview. to ...

palestinian contemporary writer, dr. samira azzam is one of the pioneers in short story- writing at arabic and palestinian literature. the present article deals with a survey on attitude of this writer toward human-by content analysis- and to achieve this objective, rather than documentation and criticism of arab expert critiques’ comments about works of samira azzam, writer’s approach toward h...