A concept map consists of nodes representing concepts and links representing the relationships between the concepts. To examine the influence of concept mapping on learning from texts, we varied the support strategies. Eighty students either learned by constructing concept maps on their own, by correcting an incorrect worked-out map, or by studying a correct worked-out map. A control group did ...

Cleaner Production is a comparatively new approach to dealing with environmental concerns and grasping the opportunities arising from those challenges. It aims at avoiding the generation of waste and emissions, by making more efficient use of materials and energy, through modifications in the production processes, input materials, operating practices and/or products and services. Although Clean...

Irregular practitioners (‘quacks’) specialising in male sexual problems succeeded in nineteenth-century New Zealand by taking advantage of the growing population of unattached men who were ignorant of their own sexual physiology. The irregulars also profited from the regular practitioners’ acceptance of ill-defined or imaginary male sexual disorders and the side effects of conventional venereal...

Abstract—Due to their environment and way of life, people today experience various diseases. So, it is critical identify issues at an early stage. However, challenging for a doctor make exact diagnosis based only on symptoms. Accurate problem the most task complete. The key resolving this foresee illness using data mining. amount in medical sciences expanding quickly every year. Early patient t...

The overall theme of this current issue is encapsulated in the title of the first paper by Patrick Cadell, former Keeper of the Records of Scotland. ‘Building on the Past, Investing in the Future through Genealogy and Local History Services’ is the title of Mr Cadell’s keynote address to the Glasgow meeting of the new IFLA Section on Genealogy and Local History. The paper points out that, while...

In recent years, theory-building in motor neuroscience and our understanding of the synergistic control of the redundant human motor system has significantly profited from the emergence of a range of different mathematical approaches to analyze the structure of movement variability. Approaches such as the Uncontrolled Manifold method or the Noise-Tolerance-Covariance decomposition method allow ...

Many individuals with tinnitus have abnormal oscillatory brain activity. Led by this finding, we have developed a way to normalize such pathological activity by neurofeedback techniques (Weisz et al. (2005). PLoS Med., 2: e153). This is achieved mainly through enhancement of tau activity, i.e., oscillatory activity produced in perisylvian regions within the alpha frequency range (8-12 Hz) and c...

Due to the flexibilisation of labour and the trend towards the 'activating welfare state' social policies show an increasing interconnection of work and welfare issues. The Netherlands are no exception. It is generally believed that the Dutch welfare state is successfully activating its unemployed labour potential (often referred to as 'the Dutch Miracle'), and that flexible and part-time work ...

Memory plasticity, or the ability to improve one's memory performance through instruction and training, is known to decline during adulthood. However, direct comparisons among middle childhood, adulthood, and old age are lacking. The authors examined memory plasticity in an age-comparative multisession training study. One hundred and eight participants ages 9-10, 11-12, 20-25, and 65-78 years l...