Virtual Interactive Student-Oriented Learning Environment (VISOLE) is a pedagogical approach to integrating constructivist online game-based learning (COGBLe) into formal teaching in school education. This paper reports a qualitative case study on the implementation of VISOLE (in secondary Geography education) in which we probed into the impeding phenomena emerging from the course of students’ ...

This investigation explores the role innovations play in the healthcare system within the UK. Discussions include the debate surrounding the definition of the term innovation, as well as the importance of innovations on patients and the current barriers that halt innovations being implemented. The study concludes by suggesting that the term ‘innovation’ is overused and therefore it is unsurpris...

Faced with social problems such as rapidly aging society, the solutions have been expected in sports medicine. Humans became widely distributed on the earth from their birth by acquiring abilities to walk in an upright position and to adapt themselves to various natural environments. However, seeking a ‘comfortable environment’ in modern civilization has deteriorated these genetic characteristi...

We have investigated the role of temperature in the degradation of GaN High-Electron-Mobility-Transistors (HEMTs) under high-power DC stress. We have identified two degradation mechanisms that take place in a sequential manner: the gate leakage current increases first, followed by a decrease in the drain current. Building on this observation, we demonstrate a new scheme to extract the activatio...

Optimal timing [1;2] has long been recognized as an important criterion for decision-making in the absense of uncertainty. Since the late Seventies, competition in the aviation industry in an effort to secure landing rights, nonscheduled flights and new gateways opens up a new chapter on the techniques of selling activities. Firms whose selling activities confront with unexpected difficulties m...

Abstract—The distribution networks are often exposed to harmful incidents which can halt the electricity supply of the customer. In this context, we studied a real case of a critical zone of the Tunisian network which is currently characterized by the dysfunction of its plan of protection. In this paper, we were interested in the harmonization of the protection plan settings in order to ensure ...

Energy is the basic necessity for the economic development of a country. Many functions necessary to present-day living grind to halt when the supply of energy stops. It is practically impossible to estimate the actual magnitude of the role that energy has played in building up present-day civilization. In this modern world, the dependence on electricity is so much that it has become a PART & P...

Protoplanets accrete material from their natal protostellar disks until they are sufficiently massive to open a gap in the face of the disk's viscosity that arises from the magneto-rotational instability (MRI). By computing the ionization structure within observationally well-constrained disk models, we demonstrate that poorly ionized, low viscosity " dead zones " stretch out to 12 AU within ty...

Recent scientifi c studies confi rm that human-induced climate change is leading to increases in atmospheric and ocean temperatures. Studies conducted in 2005 also note that there will be a delay in climate impacts as a result of thermal inertia. Therefore, even if our society were to halt greenhouse gas emissions today, we have already committed to substantial warming and sea-level rise in fut...

The Himalayan mountain forest ecosystem has been degrading since the British ruled the area in the 1850s. Local understanding of the patterns and processes of degradation is desperately required to devise management strategies to halt this degradation and provide long-term sustainability. This work comprises a satellite image based study in combination with national expert validation to generat...