Intercultural communication is concerned with communication across cultures. Since cultures as well as languages differ from one another in significant ways, speakers conceptualize the world around them in different ways. These cultural conceptualizations form part of the collective cognition of a speech community or cultural group. This paper is an attempt to delineate some cultural schemas in...

There are many theories useful for framing collaborative-learning research and they may in principle be irreducible to a single theory. Collaborativelearning research explores questions involving numerous distinct—though interacting—phenomena at multiple levels of description. The useful approach may be to clearly distinguish levels such as individual, small-group and community units of analysi...

Cognitive networking deals with using cognition to the entire network protocol stack to achieve stackwide, as well as network-wide performance goals; unlike cognitive radios that apply cognition only at the physical layer to overcome the problem of spectrum scarcity. Adding cognition to the existing Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) with a cognitive networking approach brings about many benefits....

Purpose The aim of this article is to present a viewpoint from learning as individual and group cognition for the benefit organization scholarship. Design/methodology/approach Conceptual author. Findings results demonstrate that perspective intentionality important understanding how develops into organizational learning. Practical implications Organizations recognize agency by which have better...

comparison of the effect of concept mapping and nursing process on self-regulated learning, self-efficacy and cognitive strategies in nursing students     rezaei k [1] *, kouhestani h [2] , nejat n [3] , ebrahimi fakhar h [4]     received: 12 oct , 2011 accepted: 20 jan , 2012     abstract   background & aims : the success of nursing students depends on the understanding of complex concepts and...