This study describes three collegiate programs that have a high interest in creating engaging learning environments outside of the classroom. The three settings in this study are a three-year degree granting college focusing on internship-based learning, a nationally recognized service-learning program at a private university, and a small private college emphasizing work and service. Research w...

a bstra ct   background: all health professionals are responsible for facilitating  mpowerment among people with diabetes. however, research suggests that health professionals do not have the knowledge and skills to help people with diabetes become   emp owered. as a result, many iranian people with diabetes do not become empowered. the aim of the study was to explore and understand how i mpowe...

Generally, as ELT teachers, we are concerned with the use of the Internet to enhance language learning. Many of its features and functions have been utilized to foster collaborative learning. Many studies have reported such a learning to be desirable. Obviously, the Internet provides ample and exciting opportunities for learners to engage reality by using English with people from other countrie...

This paper reflects upon a case study where exploration, play and empowerment in interactive therapy sessions with audio and visual stimuli resulted in achievement, self-esteem and a shared pride between a young adult with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD), his mother and the special teacher that conducted the sessions. Following the gift to the mother of a video recording that...

The culturally widespread verbal count list (“one, two, three...”), deployed in accord with what Gelman & Gallistel (1978) call the “counting principles,” represents the positive integers1. The counting principles provide an account of how the count list encodes the successor function; i.e. if a numeral “n” refers to cardinal value n and “p” immediately follows “n” in the count list then “p” re...

This paper uses a unique data set of monthly new vehicle sales by detailed model from 19782007, and implements a new identification strategy to estimate the effect of the price of gasoline on consumer demand for fuel economy. We control for unobserved vehicle and consumer characteristics by using within model-year changes in the price of gasoline and vehicle sales. We find a significant demand ...

A method is suggested for the calculation of the DeWitt-Seeley-Gilkey (DWSG) coefficients for the operator √ −∇2 + V (x) basing on a generalization of the pseudodifferential operator technique. The lowest DWSG coefficients for the operator √ −∇2 + V (x) are calculated by using the method proposed. It is shown that the method admits a generalization to the case of operators of the type (−∇2 + V ...

Introduction This paper examines the way in which one can best design digital technology for the developing world. We start out by examining technology-driven design, such as is used in developed ‘western’ economies, where new technologies are created at an ever increasing pace. From there we look at sustainable design, wherein we work with the existing infrastructure and create solutions for t...