Trends - the future belongs to hybrid thermosets

Epoxy Sol-Gel Hybrid Thermosets

Sol-gel methodologies are advantageous in the preparation of hybrid materials in front of the conventional addition of nanoparticles, because of the fine dispersion of the inorganic phase that can be reached in epoxy matrices. In addition, the use of organoalkoxysilanes as coupling agents allows covalent linkage between organic and inorganic phases, which is the key point in the improvement of ...

Alternatives to antibiotics: future trends

The need for new antibiotics is greater than ever due to the emergence of multidrug resistant pathogens. The value and importance of antibiotics cannot be overestimated, and they must not be considered as commodities. Antibiotic have revolutionised the field of medicine and we are reliant on them to treat infectious diseases. Since the introduction of penicillin in 1943, there has been a misman...

The Future Belongs to the Curious: Towards Automatic Understanding and Recognition of Curiosity in Children

Curiosity plays a crucial role in learning and education of children. Given its complex nature, it is extremely challenging to automatically understand and recognize it. In this paper, we discuss the contexts under which curiosity can be elicited and provide an associated taxonomy. We present an initial empirical study of curiosity that includes the analysis of cooccurring emotions and the vale...

The Language Belongs to the People!

Future Trends

The new generation of technology-savvy students currently enrolled in and entering college possesses unprecedented IT skill levels. They think about and use technology radically differently from earlier student cohorts. As a consequence, we expected to find that such students would demand greater use of technology in teaching and learning in the classroom. They did not. What we found was a mode...