As a form of grey literature, scientific laboratory notebooks are intended to meet two broad functions: to record daily in-house activities as well as to manage research results. A major goal of this scientific electronic notebook project is to provide high quality resource discovery and retrieval capabilities for primary data objects produced in a multidisciplinary, biotechnology research labo...

Pervasive context-aware computing technologies are essential enablers for next-generation applications for the digital workplace, consumer electronics, research, education, government. and health care. These enhanced technologies are expected to be in the mainstream in the next 5–10 years. Context-aware cognitive support requires activity and context information to be captured and, ever more of...

Research and practice have recognized the importance of informal learning—a specific type active learning—for higher education contexts. University students learn not only in formally organized courses, but also a self-directed intentional way from fellow students, through trial error, by reflection. However, there has been lack valid measures to operationalize students’ learning. In this study...

This study investigates students’ learning needs to prepare them for workplaces characterised by rapidly changing information and communication technology (ICT) requirements. Interviews enabled employers give their perspectives on the types extent of software used accounting graduates, required workplace ICT competencies which graduates met employers’ competency expectations. Overall, expectati...

Many senrice courses in statistics, in my experience, have degenerated into the presentation of a set of recipes. The prevailing situation extant in many courses was summed up recently by my son, himself a trainee engineer, when he said, "I lean the recipes to pass the exam but I don't really understand the material". In fact the rapidity with which the material in his course has been presented...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a strategy for supporting nurses to work with quality improvement (QI). DESIGN Post-intervention evaluation. Study participants and intervention: 240 nurses participated in a uniformly designed 4 day basic training course in applying a model for QI. Of these, 156 nurses from over 50 healthcare institutions constituted the generic education (GE) group while 84 nurses from...

Abstract A good command of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) among Czech engineers seems to be crucial importance since the engineering field has been developing rapidly and labour market is becoming increasingly international (Eurostat 2020). The authors this article, who supervise ESP courses offered students Faculty Mechanical Engineering (FST) at University West Bohemia (UWB) in Pilsen (C...

Presents information on short courses recommended by the APS society.

Background: Anxiety is a stimulus-bound phenomenon. Workplaces are complex stimuli which are especially prone to provoke anxiety. Workplace phobia is defined as a phobic anxiety reaction with symptoms of panic occurring when thinking of or approaching the workplace. People suffering from workplace phobia regularly avoid confrontation with the workplace. Method: This article reviews recent findi...

SUMMARY IBM's Microkernel, named Workplace OS microkernel 17], was the core component of Workplace OS, a portable successor of OS/2. The basic premise of Workplace OS work was: 1) IBM would adopt and improve the CMU Mach 3.0 microkernel for use on PDAs, the desktop, workstations, and massively parallel machines, and 2) that several operating system personalities would execute on the microkernel...