This paper reports the findings of a study undertaken in four Nova Scotia public schools of twelfth grade students' information seeking strategies when they use the Internet as an information source. Various Nova Scotia Department of Education curriculum documents hold…

This theoretical paper utilizes cybernetic-based approaches (Bopry, 1999; Wiener, 1954) and communications theory (Habermas, 1984,1990; Krippendorff, 1994) to advance knowledge of constructivist learning. I argue that past educational research literature on constructivist learning is partly responsible for limiting how educational…

Este artículo estudia una panorámica de la villa de Belmonte (Cuenca), obra del pintor flamenco Anton Van den Wyngaerde. El análisis de la pieza nos permite profundizar en alguno de los problemas que afectan al conocimiento de su producción. Interesa…

There is no doubt that  practice has determined theory, but theory has typically taken over the leading role and at times has been disconnected from practice. In this respect education and linguistics reflect the priorities of society. The results of this…

The studies examine the dimensions and their levels of service quality that have significant effect on customer satisfaction in organized retailing. The results illustrated that the dimensions of service quality such as tangible, reliability, responsiveness, competence, credibility, accessibility, and customer…

Parmenides expelled nonbeing from the realm of knowledge and forbade us to think or talk about it. But still there has been a long tradition of nay-sayings throughout the history of Western and Eastern philosophy. Are those philosophers talking about…

CCD quiere seguir mejorando. Por ello, hemos iniciado el proceso de inclusión de nuestra revista en ISI Web of Knowledge, “la plataforma integrada basada en la Web que ofrece a todos los profesionales de la investigación científica y académica la…

A chreia attested in later sources shows enough points of similitarity with Lucian’s ironic tract on rhetorical education to suggest that he is assuming his readers’ knowledge of a particular school exercise.

Enzymes that catalyze carbon-carbon bond formation can be exploited as biocatalyst for synthetic organic chemistry. However, natural enzymes frequently do not possess the required properties or specificities to catalyze industrially useful transformations. This mini-review describes recent work using knowledge-guided site-specific…

Undergraduates use a wide range of information resources for academic and nonacademic purposes, including web sites that range from credible, peer reviewed, online journal sites, to biased and inaccurate promotional web sites. Students are taught basic critical appraisal skills, but…