The focus on knowledge has shifted during the last decades. Nowadays, lifelong learning and the ability to work with knowledge belong to the key skills of our society. This is reflected by authors using terms like knowledge society (e.g., Nonaka, 1994) or knowledge age (e.g., Bereiter, 2002). The quantity of information, which is generated and also accessible due to the new information and comm...

Phenomenal increases in food prices in 2007 and 2008 caused governments around the globe to panic. During the chaos which ensued, most developing countries responded to the crisis with a convoluted array of policies intended to stabilize domestic markets, placate consumers and other stakeholders, protect the vulnerable and, occasionally, address long-term food security concerns. However, there ...

The demographic situation of the youth in the Arab region indicates that the future of Arab societies depends on the attitude and performance of this generation, particularly with regard to the objectives of the transition towards the knowledge society. Arab countries have a huge balance of youth that must be invested in and empowered through education to participate and progress towards the kn...

I had the opportunity to participate in the recent 70th Congress of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (KSPRS) as a guest and President of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) in Seoul in November 2012. The purpose of the meeting was to bring common themes and ideas together between both societies. A specific leadership meeting occurred on Friday, November 9, 2...

in the netherlands, serious soil investigations were started in the mid-1800s and in the mid-1900s with university courses and the establishment of research institutes soil science rapidly expanded. the dutch and western european society have changed dramatically in the past century from and early industrial society with a dominantly rural and agricultural character to a post-industrial society...

in this article despite of emphasis on the role of political cultural and religious factors to making political behavior and decision of society we try to explaining the relation between social and economical dissatisfaction and voting to political factions in iran.(in this article our concern is about voting to second khordad faction under the leadership of khatamy). in this theory we want to ...

This paper describes the development of a variety of computer-based assessment opportunities, both formative and summative, that are available to a large first year biology class at The University of Sydney. These materials include: weekly quizzes; a mock exam; quiz sections in tutorials; and special self-assessment modules (SAMs). The weekly quiz is password protected and secure but the remain...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are expected to have a great potential to reduce the GHG emissions across society, however limited data on actual reductions have been published so far. Based on available data on real GHG emission reductions realized by different ICT solutions, this paper explores the possible reductions globally within a 2030 timeframe. An average of the future...

The aim in this study was to investigate the emergence of immediate imitation, deferred imitation and synchronic imitation in human infants through the second year. A longitudinal study was conducted of eighty-six infants at three monthly intervals from 12through to 24-months-of-age. At each session the infants were assessed for immediate, deferred and synchronic imitation. Immediate and deferr...

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