In our paper we are presenting a socio-cultural model of the student as the main actor of a virtual learning environment. The model is part of a larger project DANTE – Socio-Cultural Models implemented through multi-agent architecture for e-learning – that has as main objective the development of a model for the virtual education system, student centred, that facilitates the learning through co...

iran’s culture is changing, and by these changes preference of fit body usually thin body is growing up among women. paying too much attention to fitness is the result of a consumer society, and to reach fitness and to have acceptable body size, women try different ways such as body building, aerobic, etc. so the current study aims to explore the social factors related with women’s tendency tow...

Global information technology offshore outsourcing and globally distributed information systems development have become increasingly prevalent and diversified, thus demand great academic efforts to address a wide variety of issues. Although some studies have begun to synthesize relevant theoretical and empirical research of the complex phenomena, there is a lack of synthesized efforts to provid...

the article discusses a trial undertaken in a lis education program to help prepare students from different cultural backgrounds to work in virtual, multicultural work places.  the focus of the trial was developing teamwork, which may now involve global, multicultural and virtual components, for which students need to be prepared, given work place changes of recent years. the trial took place i...

one of the big concerns of big cities is facing with the increase of fossil fuel vehicles in the roads. the cars intensify greenhouse gas emission in civic centers. one approach to reduce the emission is replacing the cars by plug-in electric vehicles (pevs). in spite of reducing the emission, pevs have some adverse effect on electric distribution networks. technical challenges such as load and...