The National Adult Learning Survey and the 1970 British Cohort Study have pointed to considerable differences by level of educational qualification in attitude to and participation in adult or ‘lifelong’ learning. They suggest that graduates are more likely than other groups to engage in adult learning, generally, and to be motivated to do so by the intrinsic interest of the subject matter. How...

The Internet lies at the heart of today’s social, educational and business worlds. Computer networking technology has hitherto provided the infrastructure to facilitate inter-personal pan-global communication on an unprecedented scale. The next logical development for such communicative pathways is the extension of access to this global mesh from individual static workstations to a multiplicity...

This paper presents a new methodology based on AHP and ANP (Saaty, 1980, 1996) to estimate the value and transfer fees of professional football players. The paper extends the AHP multicriteria methodology proposed by Moreno-Jiménez et al. (2010) for estimating the value of these sportsmen. The new approach multiplicatively combines the (intrinsic) value of the player (estimated by means of AHP ...

Electoral systems are complex entities composed of a set of phases that form a process to which performance parameters can be associated. One of the key points of every electoral system is represented by the electoral formula that can be characterized by a wide spectrum of properties that, according to Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem and other theoretical results, cannot be all satisfied at the s...

The lattice Boltzmann (LB) method is used to study the kinetics of domain growth of a binary fluid in a number of geometries modeling porous media. Unlike the traditional methods which solve the Cahn-Hilliard equation, the LB method correctly simulates fluid properties, phase segregation, interface dynamics and wetting. Our results, based on lattice sizes of up to 4096× 4096, do not show eviden...

We derive an exact nonlinear nonlocal macroscopic equation for the time evolution of the conserved order parameter rsr, td of a microscopic model binary alloy undergoing phase segregation: a d-dimensional lattice gas evolving via Kawasaki exchange dynamics, satisfying detailed balance for a Hamiltonian with a long range pair potential gdJsgjxjd. The macroscopic evolution is on the spatial scale...

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