Constructivism is a major intellectual influence on the development of modern learning technology. This paper first reviews the main tenets of the constructivist approach. The application of constructivism to the Information and Computing Sciences (ICS) is then critically discussed. It is argued that constructivism provides a set of ideas that should have a deeper and more widespread impact on ...

Montgomery’s algorithm [8], hereafter denoted Mn(·, ·), is a process for computing Mn(A,B) = ABN mod n where N is a constant factor depending only on n. Usually, AB mod n is obtained by Mn(Mn(A,B), N −2 mod n) but in this article, we introduce an alternative approach consisting in pre-integrating N into cryptographic keys so that a single Mn(·, ·) will replace directly each modular multiplicati...

 Nowadays, underground water is the main source of drinking water that contamination to organic pollutants such as MTBE is an important issue. One of the suitable methods for these types of pollutants is the advanced oxidation methods. Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are involved in the production of highly reactive hydroxyl radicals that oxidize organic matter such as MTBE and even le...

In this study, highly ordered mesoporous silica material (SBA-15) functionalized with Diethyl 2 - (9 -fluorenyl) malonate as a flourophore is reported. The anchoring of flourophores to the hydroxyl group on SBA-15 surface was done with post synthesis method. The obtained materials were characterized by small and wide angle X-ray diffraction, N2 adsorption–desorption, Fourier transform infrared ...