SMQ / VOL. XII / NO. 1 / SPRING 2006 ABSTRACT Partnership development for national social marketing campaigns is a much copied, but poorly researched, area of practice. As part of the development of Phase II of the Centers for Disease Control’s National Bone Health Campaign, several needs-assessment and market analysis activities were conducted to develop partnership strategies that were respon...

Computer animation has been a popular research topic since 1970s, when the first parametric facial model is proposed[0]. In the recent few years, a lot of techniques are proposed to model and animate faces like physical modelling, motion capture, mesh deformation etc. However, most of them require burden work of artists and assistance of expensive model. Rigging is one kind of the most popular ...

In the 1960s the isolated tropical forest enclave of Quintana Roo was targeted by the Mexican Government to serve as the cornerstone for launching what is now considered to be one of Mexico’s most successful economic development strategies – Planned Tourism Development (PTD). This paper commences with a brief review of the role of state-driven PTD in Mexico’s national economic development agend...

Across two years, we examined the effects of teachers’ attempts to implement computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) communities in classrooms in two high schools on students’ knowledge building, strategic learning, and perceptions of the classroom environment. In year one, 429 (fall) and 317 (spring) students in the classes of 8 teachers and in year two, 946 students in the classes of...

The current study investigated the impact of vegetation canopy on outdoor thermal environment in cold winter and spring, a less-explored aspect its climate effects. Firstly, we conducted on-site observations meteorology parameters campus hot summer region. Then ENVI-met microclimate simulation model was utilized to simulate air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed direction, solar radiati...

This paper reports on the detection of nano-scale chemical variations in photosensitive polymers and biological variations in ovarian cancerous tumor cells that have been accomplished for the first time using scanning thermal probes that we have developed. A probe of 250 μm length, 50 μm width, and 3 μm thickness has a measured spring constant of 0.082 N/m. Lateral spatial resolution of <50 nm,...

Hot stamping process is a high non-linear process showing the effect on thermal, mechanical and metallurgical phenomena as they relate to each other. In order to carry out this coupled numerical simulation, fundamental thermal properties such as interfacial heat transfer coefficient and convection heat transfer coefficient as well as crucial mechanics properties were first investigated. Hot sta...