Hinting is an important tutoring tactic in one-on-one tutoring, used when the tutor needs to respond to an unexpected answer from the student. To issue a follow-up hint that is pedagogically helpful and conversationally smooth, the tutor needs to suit the hinting strategy to the student’s need while making the strategy fit the high level tutoring plan and the tutoring context. This paper descri...

The concept of source water protection for potable water—embodied in AWWA's Utility Management Standard G300, Source Water Protection, and originally highlighted the 1996 amendments to Safe Drinking Act (SDWA)—is making a comeback. Yet so many challenges provision healthy drinking are out control utility operators. Per- polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) group persistent, bioaccumulative toxins ...

In the last years, the alignment issue was addressed in several researches and numerous methods, techniques and tools were proposed. Indeed, the business and IT performance are tightly coupled, and enterprises cannot be competitive if their business and IT strategies are not aligned. This paper proposes a literature review useful for evaluating different alignment approaches, with the aim of di...

AQ1 We introduce the distinction between a strategic (or motivational) level of behaviour, where different motivations compete with each other for the control of the behaviour of the organism, and a tactical (or cognitive) level, where the organism executes the activities aimed at reaching the goal decided at the strategic level. To illustrate and operationalise this distinction we describe thr...

preset study is conducted to evaluate strategic alignment between business and it in the view of organizational managers. present study has used luftman’s model on strategic alignment maturity and gartlen & shenks’ factors to promote alignment in order to evaluate alignment. research statistical population consists of managers at high education planning and research institute. no sampling is co...