An analysis of the influence of motivation on the ZPD is being carried out. To investigate the impact of motivational factors on the ZPD the inclusion of a motivation differentiator layer into the Ecolab [11] is proposed. The mechanisms and values to measure the motivational states of the learners and scaffold the motivational strategies to adjust them to individual pupils are outlined. The mai...

Vol. XLIII (November 2006), 1– 1 © 2006, American Marketing Association ISSN: 0022-2437 (print), 1547-7193 (electronic) *Ashwani Monga is an assistant professor, Department of Marketing, College of Business, University of Texas at San Antonio (e-mail: ashwani. [email protected]). Michael J. Houston is Ecolab-Pierson M. Grieve Chair in International Marketing, Department of Marketing, Carlson Schoo...

Disinfectant efficacy testing is an essential part of a facility contamination control strategy. Pharmaceutical and healthcare products facilities must know that the they are using can achieve effective levels microbial kill across range surface types. The problem faced by microbiologists production managers various national international standards use different methodologies. In addition, thes...

This paper focuses the prototyping stage of the design cycle of ubiquitous music (ubimus) ecosystems. We present three case studies of prototype deployments for creative musical activities. The first case exemplifies a ubimus system for synchronous musical interaction using a hybrid Java-JavaScript development platform, mow3s-ecolab. The second case study makes use of the HTML5 Web Audio librar...

Two of the key objectives of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) are: 1) to protect and enhance the status of aquatic ecosystems (and terrestrial ecosystems and wetlands directly dependent on aquatic ecosystems) and 2) to provide for sufficient supply of good quality surface water and groundwater as needed for sustainable, balanced and equitable water use. These requirements, together ...

The COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic has spurred the development of highly effective quantitative methods for assessing adaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2) virus. In order assess humoral component response, various detecting immunoglobulins A, M, G are widely used. ELISPOT seems be most accessible and method level T cells ...

In order to study the ecological water environment in Erhai Lake, different monitoring sections were set to research the change of hydrodynamics and water quality. According to the measured data, MIKE21 Ecolab, the water quality simulation software developed by DHI, is applied to simulate the water quality in Erhai Lake. The hydrodynamics model coupled with water quality is established by MIKE2...

In previous work I examined an information based complexity measure of networks with weighted links. The measure was compared with that obtained from by randomly shuffling the original network, forming an Erdös-Rényi random network preserving the original link weight distribution. It was found that real world networks almost invariably had higher complexity than their shuffled counterparts, whe...

1 Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Division of Evolutionary Biology, Zoological Institute, Mendelssohnstr. 4, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany, 2 Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NR, United Kingdom, 3 Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4RY, United Kingdom...