Despite the explosion of empirical research on online learning effectiveness over the last decade, development and acceptance of theoretical frameworks unique to the online learning environment are still relatively lacking. While there are several emerging models [1, 2, 3], one that has attracted some of the most attention is the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework developed by Garrison, Ander...

carbon monoxide (co) poisoning, though with different sources, is one of the most deadly emergencies in all countries. co can threaten men's life by several paths especially cardiac complications, which can mimic other cardiac problems such as myocardial infarction. the objective of this study was to determine ecg findings and serum troponin i levels in co poisoned patients. in this analytical ...

Community of Inquiry (CoI) model is a framework with socio-constructivist roots, which describes an online learning community on three interdependent components: cognitive presence, social presence and teaching presence. Content analysis is widely used to examine transcripts of computer mediated conversations between students in a community of inquiry. However, there are no dedicated support to...

Creativity has been recognized as vital to organization success. With the rise of the new creative class (Florida, 2002), scholars and organization practitioners have been seeking ways of changing organizational settings to better facilitate creativity production in organizations. Online work communities (OWC), a new type of organization, have been emerging around creative works in the last dec...

Isaac Levi (1980) targets an implicit tension in C.S. Peirce’s epistemology, one that exists between the need to always be open-minded and aware of our propensity to make mistakes so that we do not “block the road of inquiry,” and the need to treat certain beliefs as infallible and to doubt only in a genuine way so that inquiry can proceed in the first place. Attempts at alleviating this tensio...

conclusion a high rate of mrsa in both community- and hospital-acquired infections were observed. background staphylococcus aureus (s.aureus) is an importantpathogen in human infections.some strains of s.aureusare methicillin-resistant (mrsa) andcause hospital- and community-acquired infections in children. the aims of this study were to determine nasalcarriage rate of s. aureus and susceptibil...

Loblolly pine (Pin1r.s tae(/(i L.) seedlings were grown in co~npetition with native weeds using soil and seed bank collected from recently chopped and burned areas near Appornattox, Virginia. One-year-old seedlings were planted and weeds allowed to germinate from the native seed bank while being exposed to COz (ambient and elevated approximately 700 ppm) and water (water stressed and well water...

I N recent years Irish transportation problems have attracted considerable public interest and controversy. The principal reason for this has been the rapid rise in car ownership levels which expresses itself most clearly in high density metropolitan areas where the problem of urban traffic congestion—particularly in the Dublin conurbation—has attained critical proportions. In addition, the Hou...

M any teachers have uttered the following statement, or at least something similar: “I do not know exactly how to define inquiry, but I know it when I see it.” This intuitive understanding may work for onlookers, but something greater is needed from those who lead instruction in our classrooms. For many years, publications such as the National Science Education Standards (NRC 1996) and The Scie...