It is well documented that students of all ages tend to rely on inefficient study strategies. In a departure from the accustomed reactive strategy-training approach found in university settings, this took novel focusing at an earlier stage their education. The aim was evaluate efficacy early preparatory and applied instructional training interventions secondary school-age student learner behavi...

Fig (Ficus carica L.) is a perishable fruit and it needs to use new techniques in order to increase shelf life of this product. In present study, atmospheric cold plasma as a non-thermal treatment was utilized for preserving fresh fig quality. Dielectric barrier discharge plasma was applied to fruits in two steps. Durations of first treatments were 1 and 5 minutes. Based on this step results, m...

Assisted dying legislation is available to support adult deaths in multiple international jurisdictions. In Canada, a parliamentary committee has recommended extending Medical Assistance Dying (MAID) include ‘competent mature minors’. Even though such policy change would affect young people, date formal discussions about MAID for minors have excluded them. No empirical studies elicited youth pe...

There has been a decline in the number of public schools South Africa offering information technology as subject, yet it holds special significance higher level computational courses especially at tertiary level. Learners doing programming (IT) have difficulties during initial stages learning how to design and develop programs due abstract nature subject demands on use data structures establish...

We continue the study of two recently introduced bin packing type problems, called with clustering, and online delays. A input consists items sizes not larger than 1, goal is to partition or pack them into bins, where total size every valid cannotexceed 1. In also have colors associated them. globally optimal solution can combine different while a clustered only monochromatic bins. The compare ...

Purpose Building on the theoretical paradigms of consumer free-riding and cognitive dissonance, this study aims to evaluate whether consumers’ effort when making a purchase decision impacts upon relationship between habits postpurchase dissonance. Design/methodology/approach To explore cross-channel free-riding, efforts framework was conceptualized empirically tested sample 518 Italian consumer...

The sustainable development of farming is an agenda with strong normative undertones, yet beyond the call to combine enhanced agricultural output better environmental outcomes, this normativity rarely unpacked or analysed respect different worldviews and value systems. practices approach a values-explicit framework for analysing social practices; here it applied agriculture provide critique sus...

A multitude of legislation impacts the use samples and data for research in South Africa (SA). With coming into effect Protection Personal Information Act No. 4 2013 (POPIA) July 2021, recent attention has been given to safeguarding participants’ personal information. The protection privacy is essential, but it not only risk at stake sharing Other rights interests that must also be considered s...

Grit—the ability to maintain effort and interest for long-term goals—is argued be an important individual factor achievement, especially in the face of obstacles. However, little research has examined possible fluctuations how challenges may trigger changes interest. In this study, we measured a teacher’s grit at beginning online course during COVID-19 pandemic, focused on throughout course. ca...

Objectives: Despite numerous studies conducted to explore the manifestations of aphasia in different languages of the world, language-specific patterns of aphasic patients in Kalhori as a southern dialect of Kurdish spoken in part of Kermanshah Province, Iran, remains largely unpacked. The present study aims at investigating language deficits of a forty-year-old Kurdish-Persian aphasic woman, h...