Die leichte Wiederverwendbarkeit elektronischer Lernobjekte gilt als Vorteil gegenüber traditionellen Formaten. Wir untersuchen im Kontext eines Projektes zur Erstellung elektronischer Assessments quantitativ, ob und in welchem Maße Lernobjektwiederverwendung Realität ist.

In assessing the veridicality of utterances, we normally seem to assess the satisfaction of conditions that the speaker had been concerned to get right in making the utterance. However, the debate about assessor-relativism about epistemic modals, predicates of taste, gradable adjectives and conditionals has been largely driven by cases in which seemingly felicitous assessments of utterances are...

In recent years, patients, advocates, researchers, regulators, and other stakeholders have highlighted the importance of engaging patients more directly in medical product development and the regulatory review process. A key focus of these efforts has been advancing the science of patient input: identifying rigorous, systematic approaches to incorporating patient perspectives in medical product...

Evolving information and communication technologies (ICTs) have yielded new terms like “information society,” “digital divide,” and “e-readiness” which have attracted many scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. Therefore, in recent years numerous attempts have been done to develop e-readiness and digital divide models oriented toward certain objectives. In this research, these models are in...

More than 6400 amphibian species are known worldwide, with more than 50 new species being described in just the fi rst half of 2008 (AmphibiaWeb 2008). Many of these species are threatened or declining and more than 150 may have recently become extinct (IUCN 2006). Such rates of species loss are far greater than the historic background extinction rate for amphibians (e.g. McCallum 2007; Roelant...

Testing must characterize cognitive lapses and mood changes in healthy individuals faced with relevant operational stressors, including chemical exposures and interactions with other stressors, and should be based on understanding effects of final common pathways in brain physiology (e.g. hypoor hyperglycemia, and hypoxia, oxidative stress, and inflammation). Stressors may affect a common hiera...

This paper illustrates the ease with which Bayesian nonlinear state-space models can now be used for practical sheries stock assessment. Sampling from the joint posterior density is accomplished using Gibbs sampling via BUGS, a freely available software package. By taking advantage of the model representation as a directed acyclic graph, BUGS automates the hitherto tedious calculation of the fu...

IT businesses today cannot survive without software process improvement. Efficient and cost-effective development processes are vital for being competitive. Before process improvement can be initiated a measure of the current set of processes needs to be established. An assessment is one approach to measuring processes to identify where to start the process improvement initiative. Assessments p...

Vegetation indices (VI), such as greenness (GVI), perpendicular (PVI), transformed soil adjusted (TSAVI), and normalized difference (NDVI), measure the photosynthetic size of plant canopies and portend yields. A set of equations, called spectral components analysis (SCA), that interrelates VI or cumulative seasonal VI (Y'.VI), leaf area index (L), fractional photosynthetically active radiation ...