There are few documented experiences on the massive development of learning objects using well-defined quality standards, this article presents a case of study for the development of 184 learning objects produced to support 13 undergraduate courses, each of the learning objects has in its development well defined quality parameters and was created in the context of a quality management process....

The Earth Radiation Budget at the top of the atmosphere quantifies how the Earth gains energy from the Sun and loses energy to space. It is of fundamental importance for climate and climate change. In this paper, the current state-of-the-art of the satellite measurements of the Earth Radiation Budget is reviewed. Combining all available measurements, the most likely value of the Total Solar Irr...

Truck art has a long and illustrious tradition in South Asia. It is, above all, one of Pakistan's most popular globally recognized forms. The visual representation the cultures four regions is cause for this form's appeal. As result, truck evolved into means expressing many cultural ideas via appealing quality its images. Such images emphasize significance location or place from where vehicle c...

In the last half century Ibrahim Madkour revolutionised the study of Arabic logic by making available a modern edition of the text of the Logic section of Ibn Sı̄nā’s Šifā’. Ibn Sı̄nā’s account of logic in the Šifā’ is much fuller than any of his other surviving accounts; it runs to some two thousand pages. It is also — in my view — more radical and more independent of Aristotle than his other ac...

tablishing the bases of migration. The uneven ratio of population and resource access is usually pointed to as the main driver of migration, variously understood in terms of opportunity or income.1 However, recent studies argue that environmental change may be more fundamental to the acceleration of migration today. The concept of “environmental refugees,” pioneered by El-Hinnawi and extended b...