Virtual computer laboratories have been an excellent technological solution to the problem of providing students with hands-on experimentation in information technology fields such as information security in a cost effective and secure manner. A virtual computer laboratory was utilized in this work as a collaborative environment for student learning with the goal of measuring its effect on stud...

Public concern over the use of laboratory animals has increased in recent years. Laboratory animal procedures involving unrelieved pain and distress (e.g., the footpad injection of rodents with Freund's adjuvant), which were routine in the past, now require strong justification. Moral concern is reflected in the existing legislation on animal experimentation in the United States (CFR 1992) and ...