An e-Learning platform together with its users may be seen as an Educational Network. Within such an Educational Network there are issues like: low reliability, unacceptable time response or bad resource management. The usual protocol between clients (users) and server (the e-Learning platform itself) is HTTP. This stateless protocol uses only request/response type interactions between clients ...

Background: due to the central role of textbooks in cultivating studentschr('39') personalities, their content needs to be evaluated. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to evaluate the content of social studies textbooks based on the character education approach. Method: the present research method is mixed, which was done by combining the methods of documentary studies, fuzzy delphi a...

This is the fifth gathering of this series of workshops in the interface of number theory and string theory. The first one was held at the Fields Institute in 2001. The subsequent workshops were all held at BIRS, and this one was the fourth BIRS workshop. The workshop met from May 8th to May 13th for five days. Altogether 40 mathematicians (number theorists and geometers) and physicists (string...

The main aim of required reading in schools is to educate the reading audience who is capable of aesthetic communicating with a literary work. Supposing that the freedom of choice substantially defines pupil relationship towards required reading, the author reflects upon the effectiveness of planning and realization of the current curriculum. As for the system of required reading in the Croatia...

this study examines the educational ideas of zoroastrianism based on gathas. for achieving this purpose, the conclusion method has been used; firstly, zoroaster has been introduced then the philosophical foundations of the religion have been formulized in the form of ideal human being and his/her features. finally, the implications of these foundations are presented in the form of educational c...

Compensation measures are a new method for handling impact on cultural heritage in land use planning. The idea with compensation measures can be understood as an extension of the polluter pays principle. Today, compensation measures are mainly used when natural environments are damaged by development, but it is also possible to use compensation measures when a project results in negative impact...

Natural motion of virtual characters is crucial in games and simulations. The quality of such motion strongly depends on the path the character walks and the animation of the character locomotion. Therefore, much work has been done on path planning and character animation. However, the combination of both fields has received less attention. Combining path planning and motion synthesis introduce...

Belief conflict patterns (BCPs) are knowledge structures representing the understander’s moral attitude toward problematic interpretations of the events in a story. These structures are used to model interest in stories by contrasting the understanding of stories to the system’s beliefs about the characters and what they have done. Once recognized, BCPs provide a framework for interpreting the ...

Identification of Problems faced by Graduates of Farhangian University Campuses in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province   J. Torkzaadeh, Ph.D.* M. Saadeghiaan Sooraki** R. Marzooghi, Ph.D.*** J. Jahaani, Ph.D.****   To improve any learning environment, its problems need to be identified. To do so at the Farhangian University campuses in the province of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province,...