The expansion of MOOCs (massive open online courses) is very much associated with instructors interested in the craft teaching, innovating, and experimenting different methods to improve expand students’ learning experience. Erasmus+ project MOONLITE has worked create cross-institutional scenarios new educational pathways for migrants refugees, devising, among other things, two Spanish language...

Choosing a career within the military has many positive and negative factors associated with it. For instance, many recruits join as young adults when they are beginning to shape their own values, beliefs and attitudes about their self, world and others. The armed forces (AF) culture socialises these young adults, leading them to adopt military values and ideals as their own which they will pro...

“We are without allies amongst the Iraqi populace, including those who have benefited from the ouster of Saddam. . . . Across Baghdad, Latifiyah, Mahmudiyah, Salman Pak, Baqubah, Balad, Taji, Baiji, Ramadi, and just about everywhere else you can name, the people absolutely hate us. . . . The Iraqi people have not bought into what the Americans are selling, and no amount of military activity is ...

On the verge of the Constitutionalist Revolution in Iran, the three social forces existing in the socio-political arena were competing with each other and at the same time, struggling with the Monarchy to increase their share of power: independent intellectuals, traditional followers of religion, and merchants. This rivalry set the scene for a discursive battle in which, each social force was t...

We demonstrate how the use of a multicomputer can greatly accelerate the speed of a pedestrian movement simulator based on the social forces model. Our objective is to develop a simulator that updates the position of every pedestrian in real time; that is, 30 times a second. We have achieved this goal through the use of multiple processors. We describe the design of our parallel pedestrian move...