One of the new major directions in research on web-based educational systems is the notion of adaptability: the educational system adapts itself to the learning profile, preferences and ability of the student. In this paper, we look into the issues of providing adaptability with respect to learning pathways. We explore the state of the art with respective to deriving the most apt learning pathw...

the higher national council of medical sciences planning (hncmsp) in iran compile and approve educational programs by using expert academic staff, considering the country , s needs and studying the background of establishment of each major in other countries. since the employment of graduates in occupations related to their majors is of utmost importance in educational planning, this survey has...

1. Abstract Researchers in the area of educational software have always shown a great deal of interest for the automatic synthesis of learning curricula. During the recent years, with the extensive use of metadata and the emergence of the Semantic Web, this vision is gradually turning into a reality. A number of systems for curricula synthesis have been proposed. These systems are based on stro...

The aims of this study are to assess the awareness and intention to use maternity services. This was a multicentric study involving 800 women. Educational status was the best predictor of awareness of birth preparedness (P = 0.0029), but not a good predictor of intention to attend four antenatal clinic sessions (P = 0.449). Parity was a better predictor of knowledge of severe vaginal bleeding a...

in recent decades, persian language dialects are also changing along with the language itself. so, recording the social characteristics of these dialects is of great importance. the results of these studies can be used in social and educational policies, language planning and comparative studies of dialectology. the writers of this article study the social characteristics of family and gender e...

This article examines the extent to which the status of women is related to awareness, knowledge, and practice of family planning in India. It uses both macro-level data for the states of India and date from household surveys and field studies to assess the extent of interaction between the women's status indicators and family planning indicators. Results show a definite statistical relations...

BACKGROUND Despite of a growing body of research on vocational and educational difficulties for students with traumatic brain injury (TBI), only limited empirical studies specifically examined how school transition services facilitate later employment outcomes. OBJECTIVE This exploratory, prospective longitudinal study examined the prevalence of employment and characteristics of transition pl...

Deductive planning provides a rigorous approach for planning, such that the capabilities and limitations of the planning systems can be clearly deened. However, most of the deductive planners suuer from the frame problem and they are linear planners. This report presents a novel nonlinear deductive planning framework: constraint logic planning. Procedurally speaking, nonlinear planning is an ac...

abstract this paper proposes an approach to find an optimum structure for educational levels of human forces. to this end, a linear programming (lp) model integrated with a social accounting matrix (sam) was employed. the integrated model was employed using the sam of golestan province of iran. it was demonstrated that when unemployment is the result of inconsistency between supply and demand f...