This paper discusses the major issues that impinge on the widespread adoption of remote controlled laboratories in science and engineering education. This discussion largely emerges from the work of the PEARL project and is illustrated with examples and evaluation data from the project. Firstly the rationale for wanting to offer students remote experiments is outlined. The paper deliberately av...

This editorial questions the implications of the capability approach for health economics. Two specific issues are considered: the evaluative space of capablities (as opposed to health or utility) and the decision-making principle of maximisation. The paper argues that the capability approach can provide a richer evaluative space enabling improved evaluation of many interventions. It also argue...

extended abstract 1. statement of the problem in the era prior to the contemporary arabic literature, long, epic poems, which are considered to be the first sparks of epic poetry, were composed. one of these poems, or maybe the very first one of them, is the long, renowned ode of “ozrie” composed by sheikh kazem al-ozri. the poet owes his fame, to a large extent, to this poem. in terms of liter...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Voice assimilation in French: It applies to nonwords just like to words Recent studies on voice assimilation in French have addressed several important issues. Firstly, is this assimilation process gradient or categorical? Recent analyses of how distributions of voicing ratio change with ass...

People can discriminate real words from nonwords even when the latter are orthographically and phonologically word-like, presumably because words activate specific lexical and/or semantic information. We investigated the neural correlates of this identification process using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Participants performed a visual lexical decision task under c...

We present results on the existence of long arithmetic progressions in Thue-Morse word and a class generalised words. Our arguments are inspired by van der Waerden's proof for arbitrary monochromatic any finite colouring (positive) integers.