The present research aims to examine the effects of using culturally oriented texts in project-based classes on the views of EFL university students regarding their L1 culture. To this end, three experimental groups of intermediate EFL freshmen, assigned to classes A, B and C, participated in this study. Each of the classes were presented with reading passages focused on L1 culture, L2 culture,...

XP has one weakness when it comes to complex application domains or difficult situations at the customer’s organization: the customer role does not reflect the different interests, skills and forces with which we are confronted in development projects. We propose splitting the customer role into a user and a client role. The user role is concerned with domain knowledge; the client role defines ...

The perspective of the patient, also called the "patient voice", is an essential element in materials created for cancer supportive care. Identifying that voice, however, can be a challenge for researchers and developers. A multidisciplinary team at a health information company tasked with addressing this issue created a representational model they call the "cancer experience map". This map, de...

Game preservation is a critical issue for game studies. Access to historic materials forms a vital core to research and this field is no different. However, there are serious challenges to overcome for preservationists in terms of developing a strategic and inclusion programme to retain access to obsolete games. Emulation, as a strategy already applied by major developers and the gaming communi...

Knowledge about the relations between process steps or dependencies of materials, technologies, designs, tools and machines is mostly stored in the product developers mind. The same effect takes place when one talks about product related knowledge and the referring technological requirements It is lost if the person leaves the company. The following paper describes a knowledge management approa...

Abstract This article considers the main materials used to make aircraft, both fuselage and engines. First, problems that force developers introduce new in aircraft production are identified. We then present features of introduction heat-resistant titanium alloys, ways improving mechanical properties parts made methods manufacturing complex details. Other promising for aviation industry, such a...

developers choosing standard high-voltage power supplies, the specialized nature of highvoltage power calls for a power supply selection process that reflects the unique characteristics of the high-voltage power supply and its operation. High-voltage power supplies drive a broad range of applications across diverse segments, including semiconductor, scientific, medical, industrial, and more. De...

To arrive at relevant and reliable conclusions concerning the usability of a hypermedia educational e-book, developers have to apply a well-defined evaluation procedure as well as a set of clear, concrete and measurable quality criteria. Evaluating an educational tool involves not only testing the user interface but also the didactic method, the instructional materials and the interaction mecha...

In the fast improving society, people depend on online purchase of goods than spending time physically. So there are lots of resources emerged for this online buying and selling of materials. Efficient and attractive web sites would be the best to sell the goods to people. To know whether a web site is reaching the mind of the customers or not, a high speed analysis is done periodically by the ...

Software developers are an ideal channel for the distribution of Constraint Programming (CP) technology. Unfortunately, including even basic optimisation functionality in an application currently requires the use of an entirely separate paradigm with which most software developers are not familiar. We suggest an alternative interface to CP designed to overcome this barrier, and describe a proto...