Active-learning environments have been slowly but increasingly integrated into the political science curricula. Students and professors fun in active-learning processes. However, we still need evidence to support nexus between learning playing ensure students learn more, or at least same, with methodologies than traditional ones. This article tests effect of game-based on knowledge acquisition ...

The present paper addresses the question: why do some children of short stature develop psychologically well while others have problems? Based on the work of Wallander and Varni, a model is presented to illustrate risk as well as resistance factors that are important for children of short stature. It is suggested that important risk factors for the psychological adjustment of children of short ...

This paper presents a multi-modal automotive dictation editor (codenamed ECOR) used to compose and correct text messages while driving. The goals are to keep driver's distraction minimal while achieving good task completion rates and times as well as acceptance by users. We report test results for a set of 28 English novice users using the system while driving a standard lanechange-test (LCT) c...

Mobile phones have emerged as truly pervasive and affordable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) platform in the last decade. Large penetration of cellular networks and availability of advanced hardware platforms have inspired multiple innovative research opportunities in mobile computing domain. However, most of the research challenges have focused on typical scenarios existing in t...

introduction: music can elicit powerful emotional responses, the neural correlates of which have not been properly understood. an important aspect about the quality of any musical piece is its ability to elicit a sense of excitement in the listeners. in this study, we investigated the neural correlates of boredom evoked by music in human subjects. methods: we used eeg recording in nine subjects...