The objective of this workshop was to discuss current techniques, tools and environments for learning object-oriented concepts and to share ideas and experiences about the usage of computer support to teach the basic concepts of object technology. Workshop participants presented current and ongoing research. This was the sixth workshop in a series of workshops on learning object-

Innovation is the lifeblood of successful businesses. From high tech to low tech, from multinational to start-up, innovation has become every firm’s imperative as the pace of change accelerates. The challenges of this imperative increasingly require leaders to manage uncertainty and pursue learning and innovation across the boundaries of firms. A new mindset is required to understand the dynami...

Make more knowledge even in less time every day. You may not always spend your time and money to go abroad and get the experience and knowledge by yourself. Reading is a good alternative to do in getting this desirable knowledge and experience. You may gain many things from experiencing directly, but of course it will spend much money. So here, by reading computer support for cooperative work, ...

In the structure of the Integral Irrigation Advisory Service (Servicio Integral de Asesoramiento al Regante, SIAR) of Castilla-La Mancha, with the principal objective of helping farmers to get a efficient and rational use of means of production, and specially water, fertilizers and energy, providing a suit scientific and technical support to optimise management, it is fundamental to broach the ...

Methods As the result of patient safety sensitization presentations given about the APPS partnership between Gondar Hospital and Leicester Hospital, the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) was inspired to begin an extensive pilot program of its own. Technical support was given to the FMOH to clarify specific short and long term patient safety priorities. Existing FMOH infrastructure and partners ...

This essay discusses the e¤ect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years. Furthermore, the recent increase in inequality is most likely due to an acceleration in skill bias. In contrast to twentieth century developments, most technical change during the nin...

The paper investigates how top R&D; investors differ in the production impact of their inputs and in their rate of technical change. We use the EUIndustrial R&D; Investment Scoreboard and perform a quantile estimation of an augmented Cobb-Douglass production function for a panel of morethan 1,000 companies, covering the period 2002-2010. The results for the pooled sample are contraste...

The use of Group Support Systems has been researched repeatedly using many task-type. For brainstorming tasks the process support of the system have been restricted to ensuring member anonymity and allowing the simultaneous entry of ideas. Little work has been done investigating other process improvements for idea-generating groups. In this paper is investigated the effect on idea quality and q...