Purpose – Information and communication technologies have became pervasive in people’s lives and in this changing world education cannot remain anchored in old-fashioned models which ignore the evolution through which society is going. This paper seeks to present the gamble…

Since Robotics is the field concerned with the connection of perception to action, Artificial Intelligence must have a central role in Robotics if the connection is to be intelligent. Artificial Intelligence addresses the crucial questions of: what knowledge is required…

Mixing upper level undergraduates majoring in engineering with those majoring in biology, we have devised a course on biologically-inspired design (BID) that provides practical training in methods and techniques that facilitate the identification and translation of biological principles into solutions…

ABSTRACTApplication of renewal process most commonly requires the knowledge of the mean value function and the variance function. In this study, Xie's RS method (1) is adapted to the computation of the variance function for the both ordinary and stationary…

This paper is based on the analysis of job advertisements by Turkish furniture companies that appeared in main daily newspapers in Turkey between April 1998 and May 2002. During this period, a total of 204 advertisements for different positions in…

Web engineering methods provide a systematic approach to develop complex and high quality Web applications. Many of these methods provide, in some way, personalization support. However, none of the existing Web methodologies provide a tool which allow the modeling, automatic…

Trypanosoma cruzi isolates from 23 acute chagasic patients from localities of Western Venezuela (state
of Barinas) where Chagas’ disease is endemic were typed using ribosomal and mini-exon gene markers.
Results showed that isolates of the two major phylogenetic lineages, T.…

This paper presents a proposal enabling the modelling of manufacturing processes independently of the structure and composition of the industrial plant where these processes will ultimately be implemented. The rationale for the proposal is in the incorporation of knowledge, supported…

AIM: To discover whether nursing students believed that a post-registration cardiac module was meeting their needs.

METHOD: A descriptive qualitative approach was used in this study. Semi-structured interviews were recorded with a purposive sample of six registered nurses who…

Following the deaths of Victoria Climbié and of Peter Connelly (Baby P) the media has raged about social work competence, the public have expressed dismay and the government has responded with proposals designed to alter practice procedures. Altering procedures gives…