Abstract This essay charts the German eighteenth-century physician and writer Johann Georg Zimmermann’s monumental work on solitude. The draws but also challenges recent historiography two counts. First, it situates discourse solitude in context of early modern cultura animi tradition, which philosophy provided a cure for soul perceived as diseased perturbed by passion desire. Placed this conte...

Purpose Technology-enhanced learning (TEL), undoubtedly, creates a big difference in higher education students' knowledge and growth, which helps them become globally competitive the job market eventually. The present study aims to investigate effect of various factors, i.e. informational quality, compatibility, resource availability, subjective norms, subject interest, institutional branding s...

This paper presents a detailed comparison of the relative importance of allowing concurrent writers versus the choice of the underlying consistency model. Our comparison is based on singleand multiple-writerversions of a lazy release consistent (LRC) protocol, and a single-writer sequentially consistent protocol, all implemented in the CVM software distributed shared memory system. We find that...

To build an argument and particularly an argument presented as a monologue a writer must assemble and marshal a battery of supports for a claim. Some of those supports will be arranged in convergent structures, some as linked; some will be expressed, some will be left implicit; sometimes a support will need further support of its own and sometimes, not. This paper explores the factors which lea...