This study investigated how instructional strategies can support learners’ knowledge acquisition and metacomprehension of complex systems in a computer-based training environment, and how individual characteristics interact with these manipulations. Incorporating diagrams into the training facilitated performance on measures of integrative knowledge (i.e., the integration and application of tas...

In the United States, charitable contributions can be deducted from taxable income making the price of giving inversely related to the marginal tax rate. The existing literature documents that charitable giving is very responsive to tax subsidies, but often ignores the spillover effects of such policies. This paper investigates the spillover effects of charitable subsidies on religious particip...

The goal of the modern education system is to prepare students to be able to adapt to ever-changing life situations. They must be able to acquire required knowledge independently; apply such knowledge in practice to solve various problems by using modern technologies; think critically and creatively; competently use information; be communicative, work in a team; and develop their own moral valu...

An understanding of volatility in stock markets is important for determining the cost of capital and for assessing investment and leverage decisions as volatility is synonymous with risk. Substantial changes in volatility of financial markets are capable of having significant negative effects on risk averse investors. Using daily returns from 1992 to 2002, we investigate volatility co-movement ...

BACKGROUND Although empirical studies have reported on substance use in children in India, multivariable statistical models examining risk factors in children seeking treatment for substance use are largely lacking. The goal of this study was to test a conceptual model predicting age of first use, duration of use of any psychoactive substance, and primary substance of choice from child and fami...

When interacting with an interactive system to achieve a goal, a user utilizes his or her existing knowledge and constructs new knowledge consciously or unconsciously. Throughout the active process of knowledge exchange, accumulation and generation, the user’s mental models of the target system are built and constantly modified over time in order to obtain a desirable result. According to Drisc...

business related decisions become more perplexing as societies advance. environmental ambiguities which stem from new business models intensify the above mentioned complexity so far as many of the affecting variables and their interrelationships are non linear and complicated. in this circumstances data analysis and knowledge extraction is not practical via traditional methods. this research co...

epistemology or the theory of knowledge is seeking the nature of knowledge and justifying the belief. the theory of knowledge is the central part of the philosophical studies; because if the philosophy is seeking the truth. the main question is how we can reach the truth and justify the believes. the present paper, therefore. aims to study the concept of information from the viewpoint of episte...