own face, although children do not develop self-recognition before the age of about 18 months. Self-face recognition is clearly a high-level ability and might be an important component of self-awareness1. The question of how the brain responds to the sight of one’s own face has recently been tackled by Kircher and colleagues2. They used computerized morphing procedures to blend a photograph of ...

This paper considers three questions: (1) what is the role of financial markets in development, (2) why do some economies have such poorly developed financial markets, and (3) can government policy be used to promote financial market development? With respect to the first question, we formalize the widely-held notion that financial markets promote entrepreneurship, specialization, and learning-...

E-learning by doing is an important e-learning process, that provides several advantages but that requires a high interactivity degree, not always supported in e-learning contexts. In this paper, we propose to exploit a formal approach (based on Computational Logic) to define, verify and support the e-learning by doing paradigm. To this end, we introduce the SCIFF formal frameworks, its feature...

The solar photovoltaic (PV) industry in the United States has been the recipient of billions of dollars of subsidies at the federal and state level, often motivated by environmental externalities and dynamic spillovers from learning-by-doing in the installation of the technology. This paper investigates cost reductions due to learning-bydoing (LBD) using comprehensive data on all solar PV insta...

People live currently in a dynamic world where technology is at the center of everything. Organizations implement sophisticated information technologies in their businesses to achieve competitive advantage, and also to achieve their objective goals. Currently, information technologies aid organisation success as they support business processes and operational functions. This has placed a challe...

  One of the most problematic areas in foreign language learning is collocation. It is often seen as arbitrary and an overwhelming obstacle to the achievement of nativelike fluency. Current second language (L2) instruction research has encouraged the use of collaborative output tasks in L2 classrooms. This study examined the effects of two types of output tasks (editing and cloze) on the learni...

This research addresses the influence of leadership and communication on learning within an organisation by direct mutual interactions in dyads. is done combination with multilevel organizational as alternative route, which includes feed forward feedback learning. The results show that effective (triggered active team leader, and/or natural, informal communication), leads to a faster process or...