Culture and tradition have long been the domains of social science, particularly social/cultural anthropology various forms heritage studies. However, many environmental scientists whose research addresses management, conservation, restoration are also interested in traditional ecological knowledge, indigenous local knowledge (hereafter TEK), not least because policymakers international institu...

This longitudinal ERP study investigated changes in children's ability to map novel words to novel objects during the dynamic period of vocabulary growth between 20 and 24 months. During this four-month period the children on average tripled their productive vocabulary, an increase which was coupled with changes in the N400 effect to pseudoword-referent associations. Moreover, productive vocabu...

In recent years, intelligent conversational agents have been used with some level of effectiveness as dynamic support for collaborative learning in online chat. The classroom discourse community offers insights from analysis of effective classroom discussion facilitation practices that might productively inspire the design of such facilitator agents. In this paper, we evaluate one such conversa...

The workplace is getting increasingly globalized, virtualized and networked. At the same time, work itself has become discrete, autonomous and complex. In a fast changing world, the individual knowledge worker and his interactions becomes the new locus of value creation. Management promote – not dictate lateral technologies to enable interaction among peers – the core of knowledge creation. To ...

Copyright © This paper examines the separate productive impacts of direct and indirect exporting to further our understanding of the mechanisms underlying learning-by-exporting effects by utilizing a method that allows us to check the robustness of the results to the selection on unobservables. We found that the productivity effects of exporting are mainly associated with direct exporting, indi...

The purpose of the present study was to identify any significant relationship between critical thinking ability, L2 vocabulary knowledge, and L2 vocabulary learning strategies of Iranian EFL learners. To this aim, the productive vocabulary levels test was administered to measure the learner’s L2 vocabulary knowledge and observe homogeneity in terms of vocabulary knowledge. At the second stage, ...

II. Global priorities for national action plans on employment ..................................................... 2 Promoting decent work as a productive factor ........................................................................ 2 Knowledge creation and dissemination................................................................................... 3 Promoting entrepreneurship and privat...