This paper addresses future pedestrian accident scenarios involving next decade of small electric vehicles (SEVs) employed primarily in urban areas in 2025. The methodology used to predict the most relevant accident scenarios in 2025, in terms of speeds, impact locations, vehicle designs and inner-city boundaries, includes four main steps and as an example, the first three steps are shown for p...

This paper outlines the current state of learning, the problems arising and research needed by developers and educators using Virtual Worlds as an intelligent learning environment. Artificially intelligent avatars are required for virtual on-line problem and case based learning. However, the use of AI requires extra supportive frameworks, models and both staff and student goals. Natural simulat...

Executive Summary For academic librarians seeking to demonstrate the value of their libraries to their parent institutions, it is important to understand not only the current climate. We must also know what will be valued in the future so that we can begin to take appropriate action now. This document presents 26 possible scenarios based on an implications assessment of current trends, which ma...

Jeroen Huisman is professor at the University of Bath, UK. E-mail: [email protected]. Harry de Boer is senior research associate at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]. Paulo Charles Pimentel Bótas is research officer at the University of Bath, UK. E-mail: [email protected]. For those interested, the full scenarios can be found in Higher Education Quar...

based on iran by 2025 defined vision, we must to receive the first grade of science position in south western asian region. thus we need to have a comprehensive evaluation program.a comprehensive who health research system analysis (hrsa)- based evaluation system was developed to evaluate the hrs in iran. this article has explored the results of the five-year evaluation (2003-2008) and aims to ...

This paper examines the causality between concentration in banking industry and economic growth by using data across 15 countries named in "Iran outlook in 2025", over the period 2004-2011. Our aim is to assess whether the economy grows more or less rapidly in areas where the banking sector is more concentrated. The topic is motivated by the fact that the causality between concentration in bank...