conclusions according to the results of this study, administration of vitamin e to rats counteracts the negative effects of pb on learning and memory. to more precisely extrapolate these findings to humans, future clinical studies are warranted. results the results showed that pb caused impairment in acquisition and retrieval processes in passive avoidance learning. vitamin e reversed learning ...

Lifelong Learning is a complex environment where strategic planning, coordination and collaboration between partners are needed. Lifelong learners form a rather diverse student population with a variety of backgrounds, evolving needs and varying accessibility requirements. Making lifelong learning happen in practice requires learners becoming more aware of their own studying and thinking proces...

The EC FP7/FIRE STREP project NOVI Network Innovation over Virtualized Infrastructures explores efficient approaches to compose virtualized e-Infrastructures towards a holistic Future Internet (FI) cloud service. Resources belonging to various levels, i.e. networking, storage and processing are in principle managed by separate yet inter-working providers. In this ecosystem NOVI aspires to devel...

Cloud computing technology is an emerging new computing paradigm for delivering computing services. Although it still in its early stage, it has changed the way how many applications are developed and accessed. This computing approach relies on a number of existing technologies, such as Web2.0, virtualization, Service oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, etc.
 Cloud computing is growing r...

Global networking, digital knowledge media, and novel e-learning technologies challenge a fundamental renovation of contemporary universities as these factors strongly affect the way educational institutions create and impart knowledge. Universities need to co-operate and aggregate their learning resources and core competencies to reduce costs, and to be able to rapidly respond to changing cond...