Response: A Quest and a Wager

Response to Reviewer Elizabeth Wager

The effect of web quest and team-based learning on students’ selfregulation

Introduction: In this study, the authors aimed to examine theeffects of cooperative learning methods using Web Quest andteam-based learning on students’ self-direction, self-regulation,and academic achievement.Methods: This is a comparative study of students taking a course inmental health and psychiatric disorders. In two consecutive years,a group of students were trained using the Web Quest a...

Advancing MIM electronics: amorphous metal electrodes.

Effectively controlling quantum mechanical tunneling through an ultrathin dielectric represents a fundamental materials challenge in the quest for high-performance metal-insulatormetal (MIM) diodes. Such diodes are the basis for alternative approaches to conventional thin-fi lm transistor technologies for large-area information displays, [ 1 , 2 ] various types of hot electron transistors, [ 2–...

Immortality in the Great Religions and Myths of Iran, Mesopotamia, Sumer, and Greece

In every mythological story, a quest for immortality and eternality depicts man’s inner fervor for unity with gods and the supreme power. Man seeks full immersion in life and longs for immortality at the same time. In other words, he wants to live both in time and in eternity. The desire for eternity in man shows his ceaseless struggle with time, and even more so an intense fight with death to ...

Abbas Kiarostami, Family Film and the Techno-cultural Processes of Transcultural Viewing

In this paper Abbas Kiarostami's films for children are discussed from the perspective of a cognitive studies approach. The crux of the argument is that the visual elements of film are essentially metonymic. Where is My Friend’s Home? has a quest-script instantiated by means of four components drawn on Brown and Babbington. Transcultural viewing is enabled by techno-cu...