Interactive Digital Television (iDTV) has facilitated and expanded the communication and interaction in activities of knowledge acquisitions, entertainment, and recreation in the distance learning field. This new way of teaching and learning has been called t-Learning. In this context, the Learning Objects (LOs) have an important role in assisting in the electronic courses’ development. Due the...

The processing and analysis of the Mizar library has been performed using the infrastructure of the University of Bialystok High Performance Computing Center. In the current Mizar language, direct linking to statements formulated as compound conditions is prohibited. This particular language feature has often been considered by the users as an unnecessary disruption of the natural course of pro...

Following several recent approaches, working memory is argued to consist of a subset of representations that are within the scope of active processing and a larger set of recently activated, but non-attended representations. A response-signal speed-accuracy tradeoff (SAT) and complementary reaction time variant of a probe recognition task were used to measure the retrieval of categorized materi...

At 24 hours after administration of a single dose of 3-4 mg. of l-hydroxy-2-acetylaminofluorene-1-C14 (1-hydroxy-AAF-l-C14) intraperitoneally to rats, 75 per cent of the dose had been excreted in the urine and feces. About 5 per cent of the injected radioactivity was present in the gastrointestinal contents, and only 1-2 per cent re mained in the tissues of the rat. Radioactivity equivalent to ...

Some philosophers, for example David Lewis, have argued for the need to introduce de se contents or centered contents, i.e. contents of thought and speech the correctness of believing which depends not only on the possible world one inhabits, but also on the location one occupies. Independently, philosophers like Robert Stalnaker (and also David Lewis) have developed the conversational score mo...

The goal of the present studies was to determine the exogenous and endogenous reserves of lead, cadmium, arsenic, copper, and zinc. Examinations were carried out in 2006 (N=19), 2007 (N=20), and 2008 (N=20). Hair samples were collected from the back part of the Limousine cattle pastured in the vicinity of the Glogow copper smelter. The cows, aged 4 to 5 years, were reared on green pastures. In ...

Two cases of botulism in horses are described in the article. In the first case two horses died, one survived and recovered after four weeks. Botulotoxin type B was detected using a mouse bioassay in the gastrointestinal content of both dead horses; Clostridium botulinum bacteria were cultivated from one of them. In the second case two horses were affected. One of them was euthanized because of...

BACKGROUND Internet can serve in opening the door to a brand new world of high quality medical information. However, the chaotic size of data available in the WWW is often misleading. We sought to provide the world medical community with a web portal that may be used as a clearinghouse providing the outlet for dissemination of high quality WWW educational products. METHODS Directories of the ...

After going through Unit 3, it is expected that learners will be able to Understand (adult) educational theories and practices in different contexts, Apply creatively their understanding of (adult) educational practices to support the empowerment of group of adult learners – linguistically, socially, economically, culturally and politically, and Understand the role of adult education in social ...

In recent years, several researches have emphasized a scarce interest of some targets of users in Cultural Heritage (CH). For instance both young people and the elderly have been classified as groups that are not attracted by museums and galleries (Botti, 2000; Mason & McCarthy, 2006). Moreover, the Article 12 of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of CH for Society highligh...