different factors determine language teachers’ degree of success in their teaching practices. among these factors, teachers’ own learning experience can play a pivotal role since it affects teachers’ attitudes toward aspects of the knowledge they are to teach. educators and researchers may have paid less attention to an indispensable component of teachers’ learning experience: learning strategi...

In positioning the design school versus the business school, the management game as an educational module in the last semester of the architectural bachelor in Delft is illustrative for the possible synthesis between real estate and architecture. The explicit approach of design, as applied in Delft and many other institutes for architecture, and the implementation in a typical real estate proc...

Given the growing interest in systemic design, there is a demand for designerly approaches that can aid practitioners catalyzing social systems change. The purpose of this research to develop an initial portfolio acknowledges structures as key leverage point influencing systems. This article presents learnings from experimentation with host shaping and identifies four design principles guide do...

The testing of embedded cores (or Virtual Components [VCs], as the VSI Alliance calls them) in an environment where the system-chip is composed of multiple cores from different authors, requires that the chosen test strategy and methodology allow for the identification of the failing core (VC), as well as determining that the manufactured chip is of sufficient quality to ship to a customer. Thi...

Fundamental to research at the Institute of Design is generation of a carefully constructed, robust question. This question emerges from the faculty developed research agenda with its five domains of interest matrixed against three research foci. Central to the development of particular research from this matrix is the generation of research questions. The question-based approach provides two s...

In the trend of internationalization, enterprises in Taiwan are confronted with global competition and pressure, which manifest the importance of improvement in competitiveness in all respects. The government has spared no effort to promote e-Business projects and introduce digital operations into various industries, so as to enhance working efficiency. This study investigates the IC component ...

Background: Outsourcing is considered as one of the tools for organizational development and promotion of productivity by managers. In recent years, outsourcing of healthcare services has become significant. The aim of this study was to identify the most important factors influencing the decision making of outsourcing healthcare services.    Methods: This study is a combined study. F...

the main aim of this study is to recognize and prioritize the effective factors of a sme’s excellence. the research population consists of experts or activists in ceramic and tile industry selected via purposeful conjecture based on judgmental sampling .the required data of this study were collected by two methods of library studies and survey studies.  in order to identify strengths and weakne...