Despite significant research in open innovation, much less is known about why and how collective creativity emerges in open source scientific communities, as relatively little is known about organizing processes in such cyber-enabled Global Participatory Science (GPS) communities. One of the significant problems in understanding emergence of innovation involves how GPS communities govern and co...

Special Note: Chain retailers are very conscious of the need to carry only private-label models/styles that are easy and less expensive to produce so they can sell their private-label shoes at attractively lower prices than name brand athletic footwear. As a consequence of their efforts to order only models/styles that are simpler to produce, production run set-up costs for private-label pairs ...

Adaptation to customer needs is a key component of competitiveness in any service industry. In online HE (higher education), which is increasingly worldwide, this adaptation must include consideration of learning styles. Most research shows that learning style has little impact on learning outcomes in online education. Nevertheless, students with different learning styles prefer different learn...

sequential students have strong skills in working with written and verbal symbols. They tend to think abstractly and use conceptual “pictures” as they learn. They are able to grasp concepts and ideas vicariously. They prefer to learn through reading and listening and profit from orderly, rational presentations given by authorities. Abstract random students are tuned to nuances of mood and atmos...

UNLABELLED This study aims to investigate how teachers' motivation to teach is related to different teaching styles. A hundred and seventy six physical education teachers from five European countries participated in the study. Teachers' motivation was measured using an instrument developed by Roth et al., 2007 based on the Self-Determination Theory (Deci and Ryan, 1985) which was tested for sui...

The basic idea behind the use of 'Learning Styles' is that learners can be categorized into one or more 'styles' (e.g., Visual, Auditory, Converger) and that teaching students according to their style will result in improved learning. This idea has been repeatedly tested and there is currently no evidence to support it. Despite this, belief in the use of Learning Styles appears to be widespread...

Adaptivity in e-learning systems can be provided by efficient modeling of the learners. Learners are modeled based on their individual needs, differences and preferences. In this context, learning styles models are generally used for adaptivity purposes, as they model how the users learn in an effective way. Felder and Silverman learning styles model is the most widely used learning styles mode...

intreduction: nowadays, organizational eultcure plays an important role in the process of developing and reconstructing an organization. the selection of an appropriate leadership style by the manager has an significant impact on the development and establishment of a favorable oragnizational culture wich pares the ground for the organization to comete with others. metheds and materials: the is...

The present study was conducted to assess the types of coping styles among the spouses of patients with psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder and schizoaffective disorder. One hundred and sixteen (116 out of which 58 male and 58 female) spouses of diagnosed patients as per the DSM IV TR criteria with psychotic disorders were selected through purposive sampling. The C...