As Web technologies change and multiply fast, their comprehension, assessment, selection and adoption are likely to be increasingly difficult, accidental and sub-optimal. Most often, needs are both important elements in technology assessment/selection and drivers of technology proliferation and evolution. We believe a need-oriented organization of Web technologies, as presented in this paper, i...

Physicians may fail to recognize child abuse for a number of reasons,1 including a lack of training and experience. Many physicians received little training during medical school or residency;2 such training increases pediatric residents’ self-rating of competency in evaluating child maltreatment.3 Pediatricians and pediatric residents who received child abuse education expressed more confidenc...

Although medical education is a broad field of research and practice, it has come to be dominated by issues of assessment. Reasons for this emphasis range from the focus on accountability for educational outcomes to the established relationship between assessment and student motivation. Researchers in the domain, especially in North America, have largely focused on methodologies taken from psyc...

An analysis was conducted to examine the market visibility of small aircraft as a transportation mode in competition with automobile and scheduled commercial air travel by estimating the pool of users that would potentially switch on-demand air travel due to cost/time saving. These new aircraft greatly increase the practicality of regional aircraft as a transportation mode that can avoid the co...

the objective of the present study is to identify similarity and dissimilarity in the perception of the taxpayers regarding the returns and assessment aspects under vat in assam and to locate the issues of similarity and differences in the perception. the study is based on the primary data collected from the taxpayers of tinsukia town of assam by the means of questionnaire. it is found that the...