The concept of cognitive styles is frequently applied in the field of educational systems research (Chou, Chan & Lin, 2003). Roberts and Newton (2001) suggested that although the concept of cognitive styles is a useful starting point, it is unable to account for many finds in the literature, and that any model of strategy usage that is reduced itself to mechanisms governing strategy selection i...

Light and darkness are the main time cues synchronising all biological clocks to the external environment. This little understood evolutionary phenomenon is called circadian entrainment. A new study illuminates our understanding of how modern light- and lifestyles compromise circadian entrainment and impact our biological clocks.

Context: A common way to represent product lines is with variability modeling. Yet, there aredifferent ways to extract and organize relevant characteristics of variability. Comprehensibilityof these models and the ease of creating models are important for the efficiency of anyvariability management approach.Objective: The goal of this paper is to investigate the comprehensib...

The present study examines the effect of Individual Learning Style on modeling functional requirements. To-date, there is no evidence that individual cognitive learning styles are related to modeling ability in novice systems analysts. The results of this study indicate that in teaching functional requirement techniques, novices with abstract learning styles perform as well as those with concre...

Family has a crucial role in maintaining the physical, social and mental health of the children. Most of the mental and anxiety problems of children reflect the complex interpersonal situations among family members, especially parents. In other words, anxiety problems of the children are correlated with deficit relationships of family members and improper childrearing styles. The parental child...

OBJECTIVES Information on the learning styles of medical students are lacking in medical colleges in Nepal. Learning styles may be associated with student understanding and may predict success in examination. The present study was carried out to obtain information on learning styles and preferences for teaching of fourth semester medical students and note the association, if any, between respon...

1 School Children 2 3 4 5 6 7 Abstract 8 Next to available data about actual Internet use of young children at home, most research especially 9 focuses on the threats and opportunities about active Internet usage. Limited empirical research 10 focuses on the role and impact of parents in this context. In the present study, Internet parenting 11 styles are defined and operationalized to study th...