Physics faculty, experts in evidence-based research, often rely on anecdotal experience to guide their teaching practices. Adoption of research-based instructional strategies is surprisingly low, despite the large body of physics education research (PER) and strong dissemination effort of PER researchers and innovators. Evidence-based PER has validated specific non-traditional teaching practice...

A major characteristic of our global interactive climate-energy system is the large uncertainty that exists with respect to both future environmental requirements and the means available for fulfilling these. Potentially, a key technology for leading the transition from the current fossil fuel-dominated energy system to a more sustainable one is carbon dioxide capture and storage. Uncertainties...

existence of pressure on industries for successful competition, gives redundant importance to ability of percepting future. withal, manufacturing sector is one of the important economic pillars of each country. in line with this, the purpose of this study is presenting a model of key factors affecting the future of manufacturing in islamic republic of iran. this research is an applied research ...

Hungary launched her first Technology Foresight Programme (TEP) in 1997. This was a holistic foresight programme, based on panel activities and a large-scale Delphi survey, with a strong emphasis on socio-economic needs. The paper discusses why a foresight exercise is relevant to a transition country, then describes what was done (organisation, methods and results), and how the process evolved ...

dimension in depth, he suggests that an appreciation of Nazi health initiatives can help us "better understand how fascism triumphed in the first place" (p. 278). Indeed, future studies of the public reception of Nazi health initiatives may find that they made fascism more attractive-but, granted the sensitivity of health enthusiasts to public opinion and their ambivalence about potentially unp...