Norwegian e-Infrastructure for Life Sciences (NeLS)

Infrastructure and Faculty Member Readiness for E-learning Implementation: The Case of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences

Introduction: Education is a key element for society development. Introducing new methods of education, information and communication technology have influenced learning and teaching procedures. The aim of this study is to evaluate the infrastructures and faculty members’ preparedness of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences for implementing e-learning. Methods: In this descriptive study, a 5-...

On Software Infrastructure for Computational Earth Sciences

Simulation software are build with three layers: the user interface, the mathematical models and the numerical methods. The mathematical layer provides abstraction from the numerical techniques and their implementation, the user interface provides abstraction from mathematical models. Each of the layer has a particular terminology being used, requires special skills fro the user to work within ...

Infrastructure for E-commerce

Infrastructure for e-Testing

The characteristics of the society in which we live, where knowledge and the ways of its use are the most important in everyday life, brings new challenges for higher education. The extensive use of technology in learning and working is forcing its use in the assessment process. A lot of software packages exist in the market to realize automated assessment. In this article we analyze different ...

E-BioSci: an Europe-based platform for E-publishing and information integration in the life sciences

Just as the emerging field of genomics is changing the way in which molecular biologists plan, execute and interpret their research, so is the transition from traditional to electronic publishing technologies changing the ways in which the results of this research is disseminated to and used by other scientists. Paper is turning out to be an inadequate medium for the flood of new data that ofte...