The phrase " va man kan marizan " on the fasting of the holy month of Ramadan in the verse of 185 of the Qur'anic Surah, followed by the phrase "Yaridullah Bekem Alisar va Yerido bekom alosr", is undoubtedly a major task of medical scientific assemblies. To conduct comprehensive and evidence-based studies, firstly, should determine the course of fasting in patients, and, second, patients who ma...

Community networks differ from regular networks by their organic growth patterns – there is no central planning body that would decide how the network is built. Instead, the network grows in a bottom-up fashion as more people express interest in participating in the community and connect with their neighbours. People who participate in community networks are usually volunteers with limited free...

Over the last century, many theoretical frameworks and technological solutions for personalized e-learning have emerged. The underlying models, however, are often based on the practice that domain experts develop an adaptation strategy to personalize content or parts of a learning platform, which leads to different problematic aspects decreasing the feasibility or utility of such approaches. Af...

I a relatively short amount of time, the term “evidencebased public health” has flooded dialogues on program planning, implementation, and evaluation. What is evidence-based public health? Abigail Adams reminded us that “we have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them” (1). In Evidence-Based Public Health, Brownson and colleagues provide not only a precise de...

This paper analyses academic change in higher education internationally but mainly in Europe. It examines one College in Ireland as it faces major change and examines whether best practice change that has been successful elsewhere might be appropriate in this particular setting, with it’s own culture and history. Research is ongoing, using qualitative inquiry and fourth generation evaluation wh...

This paper introduces a new vision module, called PAAV, developed for the cognitive architecture ACT-R. Unlike ACT-R’s default vision module that was originally developed for top-down perception only, PAAV was designed to model a wide range of tasks, such as visual search and scene viewing, where pre-attentive bottom-up processes are essential for the validity of a model. PAAV builds on attenti...

SPEP (Support to Palestinian Education Programme) is a project funded by the Italian Cooperation, managed by UNDP "United Nations Development Programmeand involving the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE), 24 public schools with different grades, 4 local Universities (3 in West Bank and 1 in Gaza Strip) and relative Districts and the University of Bologna. Its aim is ...

Two radically different views of manufacturing strategy are that it should be developed@om the ‘top down ’ by planned integration with corporate strategy, or alternatively, that it should be developed from the ‘bottom up ’ by focusing on improved performance by the elimination of waste. Using comparative, case-based research, this paper casts some light on these opposing views through quantitat...

Four experiments examined the relationship among massive practice, speed-up of memory retrieval, and the reduction of long-term memory interference. All experiments employed a multiday fact recognition procedure. Interference was varied by a fan manipulation: Concepts could appear in more than one fact (fan) or only one fact (no fan). We found that fact retrieval speeds up as a power function o...