In an increasingly connected world where solving complex problems is not possible by solitary experts, educators and learners need opportunities to develop ways of thinking that allow them to engage with the dynamic and complex situations that arise in the world. The development of graduate attributes has been suggested as one way in which students can be prepared as active agents of social goo...

Experts have better information about the appropriate quality of treatment or surplus from trade than their customers. Providing both diagnosis and treatment, this leaves scope for fraud. In a credence good set-up, we experimentally investigate how intensity of price competition and the level of customer information about past expert behavior in uence an expert's incentive to defraud his custom...

The transition to digital in the TV broadcasting industry is already gradually being performed while the complete digital switchover seems now possible to be accomplished within the near future. This article describes and analyses this phenomenon and the role of MPEG-21 may play in it. MPEG-21 is the ISO/IEC standard currently under development in MPEG (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11). Unlike preceding...

in this research, to considering the theoretical background of the research andmodel of organizational justice, ten items were designed; then, thirty-two variableswere extracted. finally, the matching variables with model of organizational justicewere performed. the proposed model was designed according to the extractionvariables and their matching. to structural and conceptual validation, the ...

Food webs of habitats as diverse as lakes or desert valleys are known to exhibit common "food-web patterns", but the detailed mechanisms generating these structures have remained unclear. By employing a stochastic, dynamical model, we show that many aspects of the structure of predatory food webs can be understood as the traces of an evolutionary history where newly evolving species avoid direc...