The study was conducted to determine the effective factors in nutritional management knowledge and design a proper educational plan for broiler farmers in Garmsar Township. The used methodological approach was descriptive-correlation. Eighty-eight questionnaires were collected and analyzed of 98broiler farmers active in Garmsar. The content and face validity of the questionnaires and reliabilit...

Modernization theory predicts that rising education should increase assortative mating by education and decrease sorting by race. Recent research suggests that effects of educational expansion depend on contextual factors, such as economic development. Using log-linear and log-multiplicative models of male household heads ages 36 to 75 in the 1940 U.S. census data--the first U.S. census with ed...

Current e-learning standards have been designed to provide reusability of educational contents and interoperability between systems. Besides these features, content personalization is also necessary, although current standards do not fully support it. In this paper, the ADL SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) adaptation possibilities are studied and an extension to this standard is ...

In this paper, an educational software used to enhance the skills of children in the area of math is presented. This software has a tutor who guides the child in different activities. The tutor exhibits personality traits and emotions in its dialogue to create a sense of immersion in the student and catch his attention towards the game. We adapted an Emotional Extension of the Artificial Intell...

BACKGROUND Trunk flexion and axial extension are characteristic symptoms of chorea-acanthocytosis (ChAc). PHENOMENOLOGY SHOWN A 41-year-old male with ChAc (confirmed by VPS13A mutations) reported that his involuntary axial movements were significantly ameliorated by either folding his arms over his chest or putting his hands behind his head. EDUCATIONAL VALUE These apparent "sensory tricks"...

We propose a flexible architecture that is capable of function extension for a learner-adaptive self-learning environment. We have introduced the concept of a “courseware object”, which is a program module that is used to implement various educational functionalities, and, thus, the proposed architecture allows incremental function extensions while maintaining the existing functionalities. To i...

The authoring of online educational material for microelectronics design is costly and requires expertise that the educators may not have. In this paper, we address this issue – more specifically the case of online training – and propose a technique to reduce authoring costs by reusing the documentation content from a design database. An extension for the design database model is presented, in ...

The paper proposes a new way of introducing music to classes of 8 to 10 years old pupils, by adopting a recent educational tool for teaching Computer Science. Our proposal builds in fact on computational cards (or c-cards), a playful and intuitive mind-tool, that has been applied to a variety of Computer Science concepts. Here a simple extension to c-cards is presented, that enables pupils to b...

“Media Me” is a media interactive art work which comments on the bidirectional relationship between people and the media through the use of a realtime video mosaic. The elements of the video mosaic could be personal, cultural, historical, and educational. This research can be considered as a combination of creativity, art, and digital entertainment as well as an extension of personal media broa...

This paper describes the experiences made employing Cadence's Skill/IL Framework extension language for both educational and research purposes. While the language and its facilities were examined in detail in order to evaluate it and to create a comprehensive documentation, it was also used to develop tools simplifying the use of the Design Framework for beginning students. An introductory cour...