For a long time the fields of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and educational technology worked independently of each other. Poor usability in software for children reduced the software’s effectiveness. Gradually, the two fields began to merge and the role of children in the design process changed. Children went from complete exclusion from the design process to becoming legitimate members of ...

background: one of the causative factors in development of dental caries is microorganisms. two species of mutans streptococci including streptococcus mutans and streptococcus sobrinus are associated with dental caries in human beings. the aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of s. mutans and s. sobrinus in saliva of children with different caries activity and ability to form biof...

He was the most popular of the 19 century English novelists, the quintessential Victorian author one who is fondly remembered and read even today, by innumerable readers around the globe. Here is a small personal tribute to Charles Dickens, my favourite social novelist. In his novels, Dickens depicted the disorder, squalor, blight, decay, and the human misery of a modern industrial city.It was ...

The present study was an attempt to find out whether there were any exclusive strategies regarding illustration in the rendition of children‟s illustrated books. Further, it investigated whether the existing intersemiotic models were sufficiently responsive to the demands of Iranian translators and children. Cases of  the study included three children‟s illustrated story books for age groups B ...

a cross-sectional study with children's and parents' self-completed questionnaires was carried out to evaluate parents' ideas on children's risk-takjng behaviours and children's risky activities after school hours by age (7 and 9 years) and sex. nine elementary schools were randomly selected and 476 puphs aged seven and nine years and 471 parents were studied. most pare...

participation can be defined as a decision making process influencing on life. this term has been used and discussed more or jess by other scholars but recently it has got new versions of application. one of the recent versions can be called children's social participation which came to existence in recent decades following children rights convention. this fact can be brought into account ...