The DULP vision is providing an innovative perspective for rethinking learning processes, to become, among the others, ubiquitous and focused on persons in their daily activities, according to the new dynamic reality that we face every day. The challenge we present in this work is to bring the DIEL system further into exploring DULP implication, with a specific effort on mobile learning and in ...

Given its reputation for innovative broadcast communications, it is not surprising that the BBC has adopted a considered approach to e-learning. This case study concentrates on the production of an online course on 'Editorial Policy' and demonstrates their comprehensive approach to e-learning. However those involved in e-learning at the BBC emphasise that they have developed their thinking over...

This article provides an overview of health promotion and disease and injury prevention concepts. It provides an emergency medicine perspective and reviews approaches that can be used in the emergency department. It discusses examples of innovative emergency medicine-based preventive activities including prevention in the prehospital setting. This article ends with a discussion of the importanc...

Talents are the most important factor of all in the efforts to establish an innovative country. In universities and colleges, the bases for talent cultivation, the turnover of teachers in an explicit or recessive way calls for our urgent attention. This article aims at analyzing the complex causes of college teachers’ turnover from the perspective of institutional economics including Limitation...

Microalgae represent a sustainable energy source because of their high biomass productivity and ability to remove air and water born pollutants. This paper reviews the current status of production and conversion of microalgae, including the advantages of microalgae biodiesel, high density cultivation of microalgae, high-lipid content microalgae selection and metabolic control, and innovative ha...

The Advisory Research and Evaluation Team (ARET) addressees program evaluation and applied research. OLLI's program evaluation function uses surveys and systematic studies to assess how well the organization is meeting its goals in providing innovative approaches and emerging methods in older adult learning, addressing member satisfaction, and supporting member community. OLLI?s research progra...

Natural products have been fundamental in the development of new therapeutic agents predicated on the inhibition of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90). This Perspective describes the influential role of the benzoquinone ansamycin geldanamycin and the resorcylic acid macrolactone radicicol not only in driving forward drug discovery programs but also in inspiring organic chemists to develop innovative...

Starting from an ontology draft which reflects the intended modeling perspective, the ontology engineer can be supported by suggesting similar already existing sub-ontologies and ways for integrating them with the existing draft ontology. Our approach combines syntactic, linguistic, structural and logical methods into an innovative modelingperspective aware solution for detecting matchings betw...

To address complexity of modeling the world’s processes, over the years in different scientific disciplines separation assumptions have been made to isolate parts of processes, and in some disciplines they have turned out quite useful. It can be questioned whether such assumptions are adequate to address complexity of integrated human mental and social processes and their interactions. In this ...

Collaborative networked organizations are complex entities whose proper understanding, design, implementation, and management require the integration of different modeling perspectives. A comprehensive modeling framework is therefore proposed as a first step towards the elaboration of a reference model for collaborative networks. Modeling tools and theories developed in other disciplines are al...