The advancement of information and communications technology (ICT) has revolutionized the way governments deliver public services, thereby fostering the development of egovernment in general and attracting increasing interests in ubiquitous government. While egovernment encourages online services which can substitute or complement conventional offline services, the presence of digital divide ca...

The software process research community has concentrated a large measure of its eeort on the problem of how to \computerize" the software process. In particular, the notion of a process-centered environment has emerged, dominating software environment research for the past several years. Among the many beneets touted for process-centered environments are the ability to automate various aspects ...

Approach Increase Student Achievement? teaching styles (teacher-centered instruction versus student-centered instruction) and examined whether teaching. I believe that student-centered learning arose in reaction to this scenario. Students who went It's a blend of both Teacher-and Student-centered approaches. Others argue that learner-centered is idealistic, unrealistic, and irresponsible. While...

On 24 October 1999, Fernando de la Rua of the opposition Alliance for Jobs, Justice, and Education was elected president of Argentina, defeating Eduardo Duhalde of the incumbent Justicialista (or Peronist) Party (PJ) by a margin of 49 percent to 38 percent. Former economics minister Domingo Cavallo, running on the center-right Action for the Republic party ticket, finished third with 10 percent...

Research on school leadership has shown that a principal's influence student achievement is indirect and significant. A sample of principals who earned the highest (distinguished) rating Vanderbilt Assessment Leadership in Education (VAL-ED) measure responded to open-ended questions during an in-person interview. Principals this study identified specific actions related VAL-ED-defined key proce...

This paper describes a new conceptual approach of e-government application development in which end users such as government managers, responsible officials and citizens at different levels can engage in effective service delivery, particularly in the agricultural sector. This approach provides end-user specific customizable provisions in which responsible government officials can design public...

background: the concept of family- centered care in neonatal intensive care unit has changed drastically in protracted years and has been used in various contexts differently. since we require clarity in our understanding, we aimed to analyze this concept. methods: this study was done on the basis of developmental approach of rodgers’s concept analysis. we reviewed the existing literature in sc...

In recent years, a criticism of “indigenous knowledge” has been that this idea makes sense only in terms of acquaintance (or familiarity) type and practical (or skills-type) knowledge (knowledge-how). Understood in terms of theoretical knowledge (or knowledge-that), however, it faces the arguably insurmountable problems of relativism and superstition. The educational implications of this would ...