The occasion of the diamond jubilee for the Journal of Marketing affords an opportunity to chronicle its editorial and literary history in pursuit of an ideal, namely, the advancement of science and practice in marketing. This ideal has been expressed in different ways, variously manifested in over 3000 published articles during the past 60 years, and most recently embodied in the Journal of Ma...

Carine Sebaaly, Sahar Kassem, Elena Grishina , Hussein Kanaan, Alaa Sweidan, M. Said Chmit, Hussein M. Kanaan* Laboratory of Biotechnology of Natural Substances and Health Products, Faculty of Pharmacy, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon, Laboratory of the Medical Analyses Center, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Hadath, Lebanon, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine STATE SCI...

We describe the design and evaluation of an affective pedagogical agent persona for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. The goal of our research was to develop an agent embodying a persona of a caring mentor interested in the learner’s progress. The agent’s behaviour is guided by a set of rules that are triggered by the states of the session history. Four agents were integrated with EER-Tutor for a f...

1Department of Health Behaviour and Education; 2Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. 3Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Received: 26/03/02; accepted: 16/03/03 ABSTRACT We studied patterns of antenatal care in lowversus high-risk pre...