The paper draws on recent studies on the patterns of ICT adoption and use in higher education institutions in the Western Cape to show that technology adoption is on the rise at universities. A recent study on ICT, education, and change in higher education is also used to outline the conceptions, meanings, and implications of ICT – from the perspectives of different academics, managers, and IT ...

1 Brahm Prakash 2 This paper reviews the development of information and communication technology (ICT) in the recent past and focuses on the pattern of its growth in Asian countries 3. It tries to assess ICT's development potential for developing countries of the region where the bulk of the world's poor reside and to capture some of the challenges ICT now faces there. Developments in ICT have ...

The paper presents a comparison of case studies about innovative ICT-supported pedagogical practices in two educational systems, namely Finland and Hong Kong. The two systems were selected for this in-depth comparison for three main reasons. First, Finland and Hong Kong performed well in several international comparative studies of educational achievement. Second, the case studies collected via...

PURPOSE To determine if the treatment planning computed tomography scan (CT) from an initial intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) treatment can be used for repeat courses of SRS. METHODS AND MATERIALS Twenty-five patients with 40 brain metastases that received multiple courses of SRS were retrospectively studied. Magnetic resonance scans from repeat SRS (rMR) courses were registered t...

This paper investigated the ICT effect on tourism industry in Iran economic growth over 1350-1390 period using co-integration and error correction methodology. As economic growth and ICT implication on society variables used in empirical analysis was integrated of one, employed Granger causality test. This study examines how the ICT and Internet gradually change the tourism industry structure i...

T he coupling of electron and proton transfer reactions is central to a broad range of biological and chemical processes, including photosynthesis, respiration, and various solar energy devices. Elucidation of the fundamental physical principles underlying proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions (1–5), in which both electrons and protons are transferred, is critical for a complete und...

introduction information and communication technology (ict) is now one of the criteria for measuring the economic and industrial development, in a way that it has had significant effects on different aspects of socio-cultural, economic and political life of people and human communities. in this study, the authors have tried to investigate the economic, social and physical effects of ict centers...

BACKGROUND Widespread adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) is a key strategy to meet the challenges facing health systems internationally of increasing demands, rising costs, limited resources and workforce shortages. Despite the rapid increase in ICT investment, uptake and acceptance has been slow and the benefits fewer than expected. Absent from the research literature...