In this article, I discuss the assumptions of constructivism and how it can influence teaching practices in promoting critical thinking empowering students to become active engaged citizens. emphasise role significance constructivist education minimising possibility shaping with submissive, uthoritarian ideologically susceptible personalities. argue that be a powerful tool for dealing any manif...

User-Centered Programming by Demonstration is an approach that places the needs of people above algorithmic constraints and requirements. In this paper we present a user-centered programming by demonstration project for authoring interactive robotic locomotion style. The style in which a robot moves about a space, expressed through its motions, can be used for communication. For example, a robo...

tightly correlated with emission of 22 kHz calls (Figure 1D). This is expected as call emission is mechanistically linked with breathing [5,7]. Accordingly, rats maintained long uninterrupted exhalations to accommodate continuous emission of prolonged 22 kHz calls (Figure 1A bottom; Figure S2A). Thus, the observed changes in sniff-cycle duration following face-toface interactions were mirroring...

This is the first book on this subject in any language. This book consists of seven articles which describe and analyze images of Chinese women in a variety of genres, including folklore, poetry, fiction and drama, from early times to the present, in the works of both male and female writers. One of the main themes of this work is diversity; women in Chinese literature have a thousand faces and...

affiliative behavior Behavior that is supportive and brings individuals together. agonistic behavior Behavior that is aggressive, threatening, combative, and submissive. altruism Behavior that enhances the recipient’s reproduction while reducing the actor’s. musth Annual reproductive period in male elephants characterized by extreme aggressiveness and secretions from temporal glands. polyandry ...

Lemur social systems have the striking social feature, that adult females consistently evoke submissive behaviour of adult males. In the Alaotran gentle lemur, Hapalemur griseus alaotrensis, however, female dominance has not been studied yet. Here we conŽ rm female dominance over males on the basis of a 5-month Ž eld study of the social behaviour of four groups, in the Lake Alaotra marshland of...

The moral development is a classical topic, but still insufficiently investigated in the recent studies in Romania. Our study aimed to compare the results obtained by Piaget regarding the child’s moral development with the child’s moral development corresponding to the recent cultural Romanian setting. The research method is mixed, qualitative and quantitative. The clinical interview and the sh...