ing and Engaging: Two Modes of Systems Thinking Education José-Rodrigo Córdoba-Pachón School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, United Kingdom, [email protected] T paper presents two modes of systems thinking education to help make sense of previous and future experiences in this field as well as in soft operational research in general. Using Abbott...

China has changed from the surviving stage to the developing stage. In developing stage, the demand for life quality has increased, more and more people are participating in sports, thus new challenges has presented themselves in the development of sports nutrition industry. This paper uses research methods such as literature research, field research, case study, comparative study and others, i...

Providing visitors with a valuable experience of the past has become a crucial mission for cultural heritage institutions. The experience of the past is one where visitors understand the museum’s communications about the meaning of artefacts and where visitors undertake an active role in interpretation and reflection on the past. Several studies promote technologies as a good way for museums to...

This research explores whether post-experience advertising alters information learned in a consumer's direct experience. An advertising misinformation effect was obtained for colour memory of a previously seen candy bar wrapper upon both visual and verbal misinformation. However, the misleading visual information produced more ‘remember’ judgements than misleading verbal information. This adver...

1 Radim Farana, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 15, Ostrava-Poruba, 708 00, Czech Republic, http://www.vsb.cz/~far10, [email protected] Abstract  The paper summarizes good experiences with motivating students for special activities, students’ research projects (donated by the Grant Agency of Czech Ministry of Education, Culture and Youth and by the Grant Agency of the Facu...

In SJIS volume 20 (2008), Mathiassen and Nielsen analyzed engaged scholarship in Scandinavian IS research. They conclude that the collaborative research practice and tradition for conducting action research projects might be jeopardized by a recent and general tendency to publish in compliance with traditional IS research publication channels: Investing a substantial amount of time in collabora...

Exergames offer exciting perspectives not only for recreational, but also for therapeutic use. Increasing numbers of older adults in many industrialized countries raise the need for affordable and reliable solutions to help people to stay healthy and fit at advanced ages. While games user research is vital to increasing the quality of game designs and improving game design processes, many resea...

Small and informal enterprises are preponderant in Africa’s manufacturing sector. Their growth is negligibly low except when young and small, but little is known beyond this. This paper reports the results of our field study of a metalworking cluster in Nairobi. As competition was intensified by the entry of new enterprises, the education level of entrepreneurs became important in determining e...

The Department of Health (DH) Accident and Emergency (A&E) simulation model was developed by Operational Research analysts within DH to inform the national policy team of significant barriers to the national target for 98% of all A&E attendances to be completed (discharged, transferred or admitted) within four hours of arrival in England by December 2004. This paper discusses why the model was ...

The language is the key instrument by which we assimilate the culture of our country. As culture is influenced by various factors related to history, traditions, etc. language is also affected by these phenomena. Their influence may differ from one region to another; this can produce specific regional language known as dialects. The dialect encloses lexical, syntactic or phonetic particularitie...